Fun fact: in Germany most toilets have a built in 'inspection plate' so you can look at your shit before you flush it. In other places I often found it hard to judge the quality because you can't even see it well or it gets flushed instantly

I observe the complete opposite with some of my non-tech friends.

While we are sharing anecdotes and personal opinion:

I think most people don't care too much if its "AI" or not, they just want their problems solved...

I don't know about you but this has been the case for my entire career. Mgmt never gave a shit about beautiful code or tech debt or maintainability or how enlightened I felt writing code.

So a 20 pound monkey can also throw around some weight. To be fair I only use it for personal stuff its probably different if you need enterprise scale l.

I mostly agree with you, I also read zero hedge, al jazeera and other media whose stance I don't broadly agree with.

To me NYT is actually pretty conservative, but YMMV

Personally I prefer the ones that make it clear where they stand as opposed to subtly influencing you while masquerading as "neutral".

hell by that metric basically noone who ever wrote something publicly of any substance is qualified

also ever visited twitter? the stuff she wrote is pretty tame even by 2022 cancel culture standards