Setting boundaries on how you interact with the AI, especially around sharing personal information, would be best. I don’t see anything wrong with how people spend their time so long as they set healthy limits.

Make sure you understand how AI works, too, it’s not a substitute for therapy because it’s designed to be agreeable and validating, but won’t give you feedback or suggestions.

Indigenous people of north america. Tokenized parts of tales and folklore are often misrepresented and not told by the people who grew up learning the stories.

This is an interesting read:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494421001225?via=ihub

Does the cafe not have a bin?

I’m not sure if it’s a thing by you, but it’s common where I live to carry your own thermos.

A group tried something like that with Lojban: https://mw.lojban.org/index.php?title=Lojban&setlang=en-CA

I thought it was interesting and uplifting to see people come together to support this guy in a fairly simple way. He just told people about his mug if they asked and didn’t belabor it from there. Even shared candy when he got it.

I worked at a restaurant, where there’s a lot of food waste, so I was happy to help someone out while he found his footing. He didn’t come back on his own, I told him to see me when I’m working.

It’s weird to spin that into a “parasitic” relationship.

For the couple months I knew him the mug was either in his hand or clipped to his bag.

I didn’t see his dates and I didn’t ask, but he came by for dinner once and ate his portion from the mug.

As far as I saw, it was a great conversation starter, he made a lot of friends and ate reasonably well.

The world doesn’t make sense so if you need to dress like an elf king to figure it out, have at 'er.

My groceries aren’t interesting, but I had a friend who only ate what went into a mug.

He carried around a ceramic mug, either collecting free stuff or telling people about his mug to see if they’d put food in it. Free samples, a few grapes, and occasional hand outs all went into the mug. I filled it with soup when he came by.

A lot of the time, asking local businesses what they can do/order for you helps a lot. Just because they don’t have it doesn’t mean they can’t get it. Some local grocers offer delivery services. If you have the time, seed money and patience, you can grow a lot of food in a small amount of space.

My cat has a special diet, too. I asked if I could use pet food from an independent brand - since it was a food allergy, just a matter of excluding chicken and grain - and the vet said it was fine.

AWS is harder to avoid, but if you have to use a service, there are other companies who will put the effort in to take part of the pie from amazon.