I don’t pay enough attention to obvious AI inserts (only because I don’t read much), so thanks for talking about that.

It’s like they created a very good phone tree and are trying to shove it into everything that never had or needed a phone tree in the first place.

It’s death by a thousand cuts.

I’m seeing more people take public transit (I always have), more people at WinCo (low price store in pnw), I can’t imagine how turbulent/abundant the seas have been with streaming.

Our apartment has hook ups for washers and dryers, and I was putting that off/we’ve been content to use the communal washer/dryer space, but uhhh, I’m gonna get on that soon.

With all the money I’ll be saving with making changes I’ll be… right back to where I was at the start of this administration 😔

Oh I’m positive. The flipside is I watch a lot of reality TV with them as they enjoy our riffing it together; I do not care one iota for most reality TV, including what they make me watch, but I do it for them, and there’s always time later to turn it back to my tastes. It’s a balancing act.

But also I still keep track of external factors if it’s not enough. I returned two shopping carts to the corral and held the door open at Red Robin for some sort of school visit and by my calculations those were enough points to get me a Heat rewatch with them.

My spouse does this too. I’m down to MST3K roast a show or movie if it’s bad or I’ve seen it before, but we have an agreement if I care and want to be immersed I’ll let them know…

…and then if it turns out the movie’s bad I’m down to roast it.

Sometimes I’m enjoying a movie and I can tell they want to talk, and it drives them insane, but they respect the agreement.

How do you convince the winning Monopoly players to stop playing Monopoly and move us onto another game?

A question for the ages.

Sure it is:

“They investigated me for month — found nothing!!! So 15 ⁠year old charges resulted,” said the short note, which is hard to decipher in some places.

“It is a treat to be able to choose” the “time to say goodbye,” the note continues. “Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!”

“NO FUN,” it concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”

You can also see a picture of the note here.

reads like how Trump would write his

(…🤞)

I mean the sterility of his appearance could’ve fooled me.

🎉

Sadly it’s too late for me.

I think I’m gonna work ‘till I’m dead ‘cause I can’t be bothered to be content with being “unproductive” for extended periods of time.

…that and retirement has never felt obtainable.

I’ll rescind the APB.

That fucking face. Somebody shit this taco out of their butthole already.

Hello my name is Doug, I’m 40+ years old and I’m a fucking idiot.

I mean I guess part of me knew, I have been to Subway and watched them slice the fucking bread. But when I see baguettes at the store I think “hm, just like Olive Garden, I can make tiny baguette slices!” I don’t think “yeah time to make some killer sandwiches.”

…I’m going to blame my autism for this one. It probably isn’t true, but I’m gonna blame it anyway.

👏

Deprogramming cultists is a lot of work, and things are stressful enough as it is for the non-cultists. I don’t know what the best approach is for them, but I can only hope when/if everyone cuts them off, they do some internalizing.

…I know they won’t, but I can dream.

I’m very fortunate in that I don’t have a single friend or family member who voted for Trump.

The closest I have in my proximity is one maybe two coworkers, but they are not loud about it and stay very quiet on all things political because they get dogpiled on for any talking points they bring up.

But yeah if I did know any friends or family, I’d absolutely cut them out.

wowwwwwwww

…if I ever friend broke up with someone like that, I would be very tempted to burn that bridge and tell the wife.

That’s a good tell tale sign, especially if it’s only happening with one friend specifically (ie I might look for reasons to not do other hang outs just ‘cause my social battery was depleted, but if it’s one friend specifically, it’s probably them).

My sign was I felt super depleted after every hang out, and I would never introduce him to my other (more diverse) friends, despite his persistence. Then I had to ask myself why am I even friends with this guy?

I remember when the first Surface released and Gabe from Penny Arcade was like “wtf this is better than iPad for drawing. why aren’t they advertising this aspect of it?”

I don’t know if that’s still true, but I always tucked it in the back of my mind when I was looking for drawing tablets.

One thing I find kind of funny is how AI is flooding HR inboxes with trash, and how that now means the old boomer advice of showing up to a company and asking for a job in person seems a lot more considerable than it had before.