Seeing this… this is what really old people must feel like when they begin any kind of serious cognitive decline. The world starts looking strange, familiar but somehow wrong, and everyone just acts like this is normal. Things used to make sense, but now everything seems stupid and devoid of meaning and context.
It’s not about accepting phsycal labor as life’s purpose, although I can easily imagine some profit-driven CEO twisting the philosophy into something soul-crushing.
We wait for employees to quit, get injured, or transfer to a another location so we don’t have to fire them and look like a business trying to downsize. We just fail to hire replacements and offload the work to the poor suckers who are stuck by circumstances. 🤡
It ain’t AI, that’s just an accelerant. Conservatives have been hammering away at education for decades. The devaluation of expertise and intelligence as a primary goal goes back decades.
Trump is the guy who says out loud, finally, what we’ve known all along. They love the uneducated. They didn’t have to ban the books, in the end. They just had to tell us they were worthless and that our opinions were equally as valid.
Good because you’re first
I mean it’s not like my parents were gonna teach me anything useful either, so why not
The abandonment of facts began long before AI.
But it’s certainly exacerbating that problem.
The parents sued, calling it a “secret gender transition plan” and arguing the school violated their constitutional rights by withholding information about their child’s gender identity. Their petition said the district had “secretly driven a wedge into the parent-child relationship” and unlawfully “usurp[ed] the parent’s role.”
“Siri, how can I make my child resent me forever”
I was assisting a customer the other day for about 20 minutes. Elderly woman, her husband in tow. He had advanced Parkinson’s, I learned. She had a very self-depreciating and gentle demeanor. I frequently assist older customers through complex ordering processes and find that my patience goes a long way to alleviate their technology anxieties.
At the end she praised Trump for what I presume she felt was a reasonable, low price or sales tax on her order. She asked me if I was a supporter and I gently told her I thought he was the worst person alive and ought to be in prison. Her counter to this was that he’d opened the Strait. I reminded her that he was the one responsible for its closure in the first place.
She elected to drop the subject.
Today, in light of this, I am reminded of one woman’s utter ignorance and disregard for reality, and wonder if any of this will reach her under the rock she surely lives under. I can only wish her well- Parkinson’s is a cruel disease and watching her husband deteriorate must be truly painful.
A gentle, loving soul, a very good dog. Thanks for giving him a home. My heart breaks for you
God fucking damn it
“Hey babe, do you think you could make dinner tonight? I’m exhausted, and I could use a break.”
or this, you know. Whichever. I’m no comedy expert
“In this moment of political darkness," Mamdani said, “New York will be the light.”
JFC that was the right thing to say
Inclusion and respect aren’t erasure, NANCY