It should be watermarked. Credit for answers should go to what generated the answers. If it’s not you, well, now it’s not so easy to be a lying sack of shit.

Fair. I work with people such that email plays a very small role. But I never engage with it on a tiny phone screen, only when I’m sitting down with a PC or work computer.

Craigslist is a pita.

A guy was offloading a box of woodworking magazines. Read: full woodworking plans, multiple per mag. $10. Great.

The contact info is an email. Ridiculous, but ok, I’ll try it.

I use the junk proton mail and the guy responds like he’s on Facebook: yes it’s still available, when would you like to pick it up? Not what I asked, I gave 3 different t days I could be there in the afternoon already and never asked if it was available. He could’ve just said that works or doesn’t. More email. Fantastic.

I repeat what I said and add two more days a week later if he’s keen on waiting. He says tomorrow afternoon would be great, and names a time. But not a place. Great. More email.

I’m not going to futz with email on a tiny phone screen. I ask where while I’m at my PC. I get nothing. Next day rolls around. I try again. Nothing. The time comes and goes. Late evening I check on a lark. I get an oh sorry and he gives the address in an email time stamped hours after agreed upon pickup time.

This is Craigslist. It needs a texting platform to deal with people like this.

I’ve had similar email loops that go nowhere regarding chickens and then an armoire. Woodworking guy was that last. All trapped in email hell.

Craigslist is only under attack from itself. It needs a fast, easy way to text between users or it’s going to remain in the mud. It has the name recognition, and yet.

Then they should have goatees.

Star Trek isn’t a good analogy for the Trump admin. Mamdani admin, sure.

Star Trek is a universe that evolved past money. The prime directive is non-interference.

These headlines keep rolling out such that it’s pretty clear the FCC doesn’t want us to have any electronics they can have a hand in. Routers, drones, now roomba. The only reason PC components aren’t on the list is data centers.

One theory is that your brain doesn’t want or need it. The intensity is such that it nopes out. Another is that the body is busy with physical survival, a bad car crash (sans TBI) being the classic scenario in which memory loss is common, and all resources are thus diverted.

Memory is not a video recorder. In addition, it’s a fickle bitch at times.

Emotion can enhance memory. You’ve clearly read that data. Emotion can also nudge memory into something inaccurate or distort the fuck out of memory, cognitive dissonance and personal biases being what they are. Worse, false memories are real.

Take a deep dive into the false memory data. It begins with Elizabeth Loftus back in the 90s and marches forward from there. How do you tell the difference between a false memory and a real memory? Short answer: you can’t. Sure, people and documentation around someone can prove a memory false but that won’t necessarily make the memory feel false to the person holding onto it.

Attention is a key component to encoding a memory in the first place. How focused is your attention if your car is airborne and you’re waiting for it to finish crashing? Maybe focused. Maybe not.

There are Masters Degrees in cognitive science devoted to memory studies and they still don’t have it figured out. But there’s plenty to read on the topic.

It’s not like he could pull up songs whenever he liked. He had to take advantage of those random opportunities to dance.

Yep. Social security is terrible. Grandma is why everything is terrible right now. Not Musk or Altman or Theil. Grandma and her entitlement to money she worked for, for years.

Oh yeah. As a woman I cringe at the 1950s legally enforced housewifery/entrapment in favor of lesser men in the workplace. GI Bill, great in theory, created a generation of mean or “thin” moms and grandmas who couldn’t achieve the financial freedom to simply leave. Among other bullshit for other groups.

The idea though, it galvanized people to seek the better, here and elsewhere.

It’s not about unification, it’s an ethos of long history. They continue. I can’t imagine that long history doesn’t add a forceful momentum to the idea: our turn.

Are you sure it’s a teenager and not an AI bot? 51% AI now, including Reddit.

The CEOs are making this argument, the CEOs. There are corporate admins who are not Altman. They have made comments that we can now have “perfect” art, without human error. If you load up on podcasts looking at AI from various perspectives you’ll come across it.

These same CEOs say the youngest generations are too fast paced to read, they’d rather have AI to do it for them.

Regular people though? Probably not, but good luck sorting them out from the other 50% of comments on social media made by AI.

China is old. Really old. They’ve been around. 250 years is nothing.

We had a good run because we were based on freedom and so many other ideals. That document, the constitution, is a fascinating read, and kinda awesome such that it was inspirational, globally.

It only took about 200 yrs for that idealism to die. About 50 yrs for the fullness of the corruption to leech in and destroy it.

Meanwhile, China keeps moving on.

What a sack of idiots.

They undermine science with words. The entire funded push with the anti vaccine movement was to create doubt regarding a well established bit of science. A pivot point. Climate change. Suddenly scientists either don’t know what they’re talking about or, and this is my favorite, are paid off by “big wind” or “big solar” (a common argument among repubs going back 2 decades…I think Limbaugh started it.)

Republicans disparage teachers, working to undermine basic education for decades. Some states now teach Bible as scientific truth instead of science.

Then, they get into office this andmin and terrorize colleges, defunding those who won’t toady up regarding politics and fake science.

Then they harass and threaten scientists who are not born here at the border. Those scientists then flee, they do have other options across the globe, and never return. New scientist prospects take a fuck that approach to the notion of coming here. Given how politically biased the admin wants their idea of science, how much fake science they want, who would, even without the immigration thing?

Meanwhile, home grown scientists are in short supply due to education costs alongside the un affordability of everything else. Given the fuckery regarding student loans across the last decade, few are going to do that either. Even then, why would those scientists stay here?

Add in a dumb ass billionaire clicking “end” on a bunch of science based programs because he didn’t understand them. Enter screwworm, to name the most publicized fallout item.

And now the maga admin thinks it can have science in this environment? Even more delusional, they think they can have a golden age of science?

Clearly we’ve failed hard on education.

That was my first thought.

So, the only way an unemployed person counts as unemployed is while he’s submitting applications?

While what you say is true it is also true that this administration is a train wreck, talks often of deregulation, and gives no fucks about working class citizens.

It’s difficult to trust in coincidence with these self serving leeches.

Algorithm selects for copypasta behavior and presentations among creators. Algorithm also demonetizes creators for copypasta behavior and presentations.

And enough regulation that we can eat fruits and veggies without fear of explosive diarrhea. And the capacity to afford said fruits and vegetables.