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Prof. Catherine Flick

A friend of mine lives in NZ and saw this poster, I mean teens can be picky but this is probably going a bit far

@CatherineFlick @aleen Seems like quite a modest proposal to me.

@CatherineFlick Have you seen the current NZ government? It wouldn't surprise me to hear this was a Winston Peters initiative.

@CatherineFlick most of the teens I know are vegetarians. They will never eat the newborns.

@CatherineFlick
Grammar can be deadly.
This can not be rectified by an Oxford comma.

@GlennMG @CatherineFlick
Defect of the modern English language, overloading the preposition "to". For example "feeding newborns til teens" and "feeding newborns tae teens" makes a clear distinction.

@CatherineFlick Think of all those starving atheist teens, not knowing how to eat babies.

@CatherineFlick This poster reminds me of an example of ambiguous language that was used in an AI course I did (20 years ago) - as an example of how you could say the wrong thing to a computer with unintended consequences.

"If the baby doesn't like the banana, mash it up."

@CatherineFlick
Our new government is redesigning our school lunch program. It was far too *woke*
The new way will save the country millions, it won't be *woke food* and it will encourage more nutritious eating of our children.

Ministry of Health, Children and Anti Wokeness.

@CatherineFlick seems like a modest enough proposal to me

@CatherineFlick

They'd all be happier on a vegetarian diet.

@skua @CatherineFlick newborns are generally vegetarians but for the odd sip of dairy, so teens should dig in

@CatherineFlick Does this mean that the orcs we saw in LOTR were real?

@CatherineFlick They're just so tender! Tube feeding - is that like a sausage?

@CatherineFlick

Wait, didn't I just rewatch that episiode of Doctor Who?

@CatherineFlick
Like this gem I found at the local hospital: "Do not eat or drink patients, only after consulting with hospital staff".

@CatherineFlick an excellent entry in the “yes, you do need an editor” pantheon.

@CatherineFlick After last tries to find something that 6-yo will eat, tube feeding is a litlle tempting.

@CatherineFlick it took me waaay to long to figure out what they actually meant by this

@pixel @CatherineFlick

Breast may be best but 144 months+ is probably going too far.

@CatherineFlick
But 9 months to prepare 1 maybe 2 meals? Is it really worth the effort?

@SNerd yeah I mean it’s not exactly the most energy efficient food

@CatherineFlick not gonna lie, I'm curious what the advice would be. Cooking instructions, perhaps, or getting the teens more involved in prep somehow.