Why are Jap Bars Called That?

[dvd8n]

I did a Google search for Westfield Jap Bars.  Google helpfully corrected that to Westfield Japanese Bars.  I told Google that, no, I meant Westfield Jap Bar.  

 

Notheless, Google helpfully gave me a load of pictures of nice Japanese people sitting at bars 🫣

[mega ade]

40 minutes ago, dvd8n said:

I did a Google search for Westfield Jap Bars.  Google helpfully corrected that to Westfield Japanese Bars.  I told Google that, no, I meant Westfield Jap Bar.  

 

Notheless, Google helpfully gave me a load of pictures of nice Japanese people sitting at bars 🫣

Googles crap ai totally misleading told me the clutch cover on my fireblade engine was bolted directly to the flywheel and not the crankcase 🤔

[dvd8n]

Well I was just trying to get the diameter of the bar without the bother of getting off the sofa.  I didn't expect to be in danger of being cancelled.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

Honestly, I don’t know.

 

i never quite dared ask, in the old factory days. I’ve got a sneaking suspicion it means exactly what Google thinks.

 

From memory, they did kind of start appearing at (very) roughly the time there was a lot of exporting, by the old factory, of Westfields to Japan going on, in the nineties.

[mega ade]

And last week google told me the battery in my van was under the drivers seat and not in the engine bay so I replied it is in the engine bay im looking at it right now the Google reply was your totally wrong you can't be its not .at that point I gave up thought Ai was friendly 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

2 hours ago, mega ade said:

thought Ai was friendly 

Has Hollywood taught you nothing! 🤣

 

[mega ade]

Funny enough that was my immediate thought.

[Flying Carrot Steve]

9 hours ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) said:

Has Hollywood taught you nothing! 🤣

 

 

Been telling people for at least a decade, they never listen. The danger is real, many experts agree...... (I've highlighted my favourite bits in bold 😂)

 

The recent high-profile warning that artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction came from a short, stark statement published by the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) in May 2023. 

The statement, signed by dozens of top experts and tech leaders, including the CEOs of OpenAI (Sam Altman), Google DeepMind (Demis Hassabis), and Anthropic (Dario Amodei), read: 

"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war". 

More recently, the controversial "AI 2027" paper and a new book by AI researchers Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, titled If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (published in September 2025 in search results, implying a very recent release), have reiterated this extreme risk. Yudkowsky has notably stated, "I think we're not ready, I think we don't know what we're doing, and I think we're all going to die". (Lovely 😂)

These warnings are part of an ongoing debate about the potential for future AI systems to surpass human intelligence and pursue goals that are misaligned with human values, a scenario known as an existential risk from artificial general intelligence (AGI) or artificial superintelligence (ASI). 

[Flying Carrot Steve]

Did some digging. There may be some mileage in this although it is a stretch....

 

 

 

.... but it seems a bit of a coincidence that JAP bars (from what I've seen) are usually spelt with capitals. Could it be something to do with John Aley? JA Products maybe? It's as good an answer as any I reckon.