If it’s really like Covid, toilet paper will be the first thing to go.

I call this “the Fox News approach to reality.”

I’m not, really. I just don’t think we have the luxury of taking the amount of time that we would need to educate people thoroughly enough to counteract the algorithm.

Probably what we need is a limitation on free speech where blatant misinformation is involved. In the same way that shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theatre is harmful, so is repeating false claims to stir political discord.

If you’re old enough to draw your full Social Security payment, you’re too old to hold public office.

Sorry, Bernie. You’re one of the good ones, but you’ll have to make sacrifices for the common good.

Yup. I’m 45 and I can’t believe that people older than my parents are still running the country.

Debate, education and engagement take time.

The algorithm is instantaneously ready with the next easily digestible bit of content to send you further down the rabbit hole into radicalization.

I worry that we need a more instantaneous cure in our current information environment.

You give him too much credit. He doesn’t know any of this. But the right-wing think tanks that have been waiting for this moment do, and he’s easily manipulated into following their agenda.

Farther right than Fox. Yes, it’s possible.

I live in Colombia. People here self-identify as “white,” and they’re surprised that white people in the US think of them as a different race.

Right?!? I wonder what happens when the business with the AI logo has to pay for full-color printing for all of their materials because their logo is so visually complex.

This isn’t an issue if you solely operate digitally, but a storefront needs signage. Advertising becomes much more expensive in process color than 1 or 2 spot colors. Most physical businesses need things like business cards, invoices, purchase orders, packaging, …

A professional designer will usually create a 1-color or 2-color logo to use for some of those things even when you have a full-color logo design to use on the most “important” materials. AI won’t give that level of service, for sure.

Isn’t the manosphere pretty transphobic? I would assume they have pretty much divorced all Matrix concepts from the Wachowskis by now.

I’ll find a duck.

Your candidacy would put the Church in quite a predicament, for sure. They could either embrace a trans woman as a leader (confirming that there’s nothing wrong with trans people) or reject her for being a woman (therefore admitting that one can, in fact, change their gender).

Of course, this is a false dichotomy, but a good PR team could spin it as a human rights win either way.

Age isn’t really a factor in the way you’re perceiving it here.

There’s a very large population of US Christians who think it’s a sin to work on Sunday but who also go out to eat in restaurants when they leave church. That particular population of Christians is pretty demanding and on the whole are bad tippers.

I grew up going to several of those churches. If my mom had to work her retail job on a Sunday, the Church Ladies™ would tut about it and say what a shame it was for her to be working on The Lord’s Day™. But then they would turn right around and head out for lunch at the nearest buffet restaurant where they’d run the server ragged for two hours and leave a dollar or two as a tip on their entire bill. They never understood how hypocritical their actions were.

I don’t understand the downvotes here. Parental age has in fact been identified as a risk factor for more than a decade.

But also, just being on the spectrum is not problematic. And, as you point out, a lot of people are probably somewhere on the spectrum but are undiagnosed because (in the US, at least) we generally don’t seek medical attention unless we’re experiencing some sort of crisis.

Trump definitely won’t attack Russia. Vladimir Putin is his bestie.

I think Putin is uncomfortable with a NATO country in that strategic position, so he has manipulated Trump into thinking that it would be a good “real estate deal” for the US to take it over.

I remember a time when the United States actually took a break from reporting on elections instead of manufacturing hype for four solid years between major elections.

The current political media landscape is exhausting, and I’m so sorry to everyone who is young enough to think that constant election projections are “normal.”

I agree with you one hundred percent.

But I also know a decent amount about the failure of literacy education in the US in the past 20+ years, so I’m not surprised that many people in the younger generations prefer video. For too many of them, reading is a chore.

Hell, I know plenty of people in my own generation who will tell you they haven’t read a novel since high school like it’s a point of pride.

I have heard that. I’m backing up everything that’s important.