The number of adults I know who ask ChatGPT for recipes is non-zero.

Teenagers use it like it’s a search engine. They don’t understand the difference.

AI is the only “product” that I’ve ever seen where the sales pitch is, “We made it and now you should want it, but you have to figure out why you want it.”

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It was fine to have my landline listed, because I didn’t have it with me in my pocket all day.

I would not want my cell number to be published. Mostly because I already get enough spam messages.

I just assumed this was the situation as soon as Dementia Don started talking about Greenland. I’d bet dollars to donuts he didn’t know where Greenland was before Putin put the idea into his addled little brain.

Anyone who thinks I’m a bot can bite my shiny metal ass.

As it turns out, there are tens of thousands of WWII veterans who are still alive. World War II has not actually passed out of living memory.

How did we get to a place where “Hitler was bad” is no longer the default in mainstream US politics?

This is not okay. This is not normal.

Mostly because he sees everything as transactional.

When you’re a drag to be around, nobody hangs out with you unless they want something from you. And that just reinforces the worldview that everything is transactional.

Has there ever been a year when Louder than Life wasn’t muddy as fuck?

Remember that time he wore a tan suit? What about the time he asked for spicy mustard? Fox played those up for days.

My brain automatically read that in Richard Ayoade’s voice.

I think you’re right.

I grew up in the '80s, and I heard more about “homosexuals” in church than anywhere else. (I also knew far more about abortion than anyone else in my kindergarten class. As an adult, I would say my understanding was not age-appropriate.)

The good news is that the final straw for me losing my faith was going to university and actually meeting openly gay people. They were nothing like I had been taught they would be. And the whole evangelical house of cards came crashing down for me.

I hope other kids in these sorts of households have similar revelations.

Since only Congress has the power to declare war, people who care about accurate language (especially journalists!) use other terms to describe troop deployments outside officially declared wars.

The US military has had names for nearly all of their operations since the mid-1960s, and these traditionally have been used by the press. Operation Power Pack in 1965 (invasion of the Dominican Republic) was the first one I found in my cursory search.

Major ones I remember from my life include Operation Desert Shield/Storm/Strike (1990s), Operation Enduring Freedom (“war on terror” in Afghanistan after 9/11), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (“war on terror” expands inexplicably to Iraq).

This type of framing is not new, and it’s not a conspiracy. It’s a bunch of language nerds making sure that they use accurate terminology.

Let’s be real; C-suite positions are rarely filled by anyone who brings actual value to the company. They’re figureheads, but they’re also largely interchangeable.

And with so many CEOs, CTOs, etc., doing so much of their jobs with LLMs, that basically proves that you don’t need actual intelligence in those positions.

I did it for almost 10 years. Most of the work we did was fine, but some was utterly opposed to my personal values. I started making donations to my favorite charities (mostly Planned Parenthood and ACLU) every time I had a new work project that I felt was working against their goals.

When my husband and I were financially stable enough, I noped out of that job and found something that paid less but was affirming instead of soul-crushing.

My uncle was a factory worker and a daily regular at his favorite local bar for more than 30 years.

My mom wouldn’t allow me to go inside the bar (because drinking alcohol is a sin, you know). But in the '80s and '90s, before cell phones, I knew exactly where to find him after school if I needed anything.

Unfortunately, 30+ years of excessive drinking caused a lot of really serious health problems that caught up to him when he was in his 50s. The owners and staff sent a huge flower arrangement and all came to his funeral.

Agree. This is part of the shared lexicon in our home.

I also always access .world through my VPN.

I’m still here at .world because every time I think I’ve identified a better instance to go to where people seem to like it, I see someone else who recommends blocking it.

I definitely see the appeal of (and need for) blocking individuals, but I think that instances are too big and varied to neatly paint everyone with the same brush.

Rigging elections is terrible.

But one party has quietly been working for decades to ensure that they can retain control of Congress with or without a majority of the votes in the country or even in a state.

And now it looks like that won’t be enough, so they’re actively trying to change election maps by any means possible before the midterms.

Democrats can’t sit on their hands and wait for this to happen. If they don’t fight back now, they might not get another opportunity.