This was a fun book. Solid narrator on the audiobook. (Ray Porter)

I came here to say Dungeons & Dragons. People of all ages and walks of life play.

Yes. That is the Theil model for social engineering. To do it via suggestion in AI.

Bot responses so trends are assumed where there are none. Movements even.

Suggest one answer or idea over another with ChatBots.

No longer do you have to search through enshittified Google, just tap the AI at the top to find the answer for you.

But why did the AI choose that answer, for you?

Adult doesn’t necessarily mean smart, mature, or emotionally healthy.

Trevor Noah interviewed the writer of The Anxious Generation on his podcast recently, if you prefer that to reading.

Either way. The author makes the point that part of the brain rewire of the latest generation is a predilection for authoritarian type people in charge.

Don’t cops have jurisdictional boundaries?

AI. Probably.

I admit, my skepticism regarding these companies has me leaving a black sticker on my selfie cam for a couple years now.

Medically, 51 isn’t old.

Not me. That’s is above my pay grade.

The main point is someone has to decide.

Organ transplant.

There’s a board who decides which patients qualify for the list. If you are someone who sat in a chair gaming, from teens to 30s, pickling your liver with alcohol for the duration, thus killing it, you won’t make that waiting list. Two reasons. You can’t be trusted to care for the new liver. You’re not a useful member of society.

Organ transplants happen when someone young and healthy dies, is in a position that those organs can be preserved, and the family, in the midst of their horror, shock, and grief, both allows the conversation and then agrees to the donation.

As such, if that sit in a chair gaming and pickling themself individual has a billionaire dad, maybe they go black market? Otherwise it’s hospice care.

Books, games, music should be willable, but they are not. That we allowed ourselves to reach this particular spot is just sad.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the west coast didn’t try to peel off, together. Texas is sticking around, for now.

This reads like another one of those echo chamber headline rags, saying what they want you to hear to keep you calm and hopeful.

There’s an upward trend across both this platform and Reddit, in this direction, again. I feel these crap headlines induce complacency.

Doesn’t Elon have billions in unfettered SpaceX government contracts now?

Isn’t 1/3 of their music fake? How is this surprising?

They’re cutting Medicaid, there’s no real paid maternity leave of substance in this country, and they want to force pregnancy on people?

It would be cute if abortion bans or restrictions were only legal in states with full health care, paid maternity leave, state funded day care, and a living minimum wage.

I’m not for bans, or restrictions, but I do believe these crappy states should go all in on “pro life” ideology and fight for all of it. As is, they simply prove this stance on abortion isn’t really about life or supporting the lives of babies.

If you want to support life, then support life. Otherwise, you’re just a hypocrite out to control reproduction and women along with it.

This is the Peter Thiel world. Trump will die in his sleep of old age and one too many chicken nuggets, and Thiel’s puppet, Vance, will take over.

At which point all privacy will be off the table.

It’s like the goal is to bleed culture from humanity. Corporate is so keep on the $$$ they’re willing to sacrifice culture to it.

I’ll bet corporate gets to keep their copyrights.

Why do they think this is about them? Francis was popular. The Catholic Church is going to go with a choice that maintains or increases their membership, regardless of what MAGA thinks. High odds they looked at their short list and picked the most appealing guy, to that end, after Francis.

And yet, MAGA thinks this is about them which is delusional at best.

No. Switching government subsidies from working class to corporate from 1981-2021 did.