Odysseus32

A lot of these guys idolized 2019 LSU growing up.

For us it was 6-7 years ago and seems like not long ago.

For a 21 year old on Indiana they were 14. Probably seems like their childhood.

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38% don't cook at home, even breakfast?

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I think it can be a time thing.

Up at 6, 30 minutes to get dressed, coffee, etc. 45 minute commute, get to the office around 715ish, settle in start work around 730. If you're salary maybe there's a fire or something and you stay until 6-7ish. Drive home 3-45 minutes. By then it's nearly 8, you're tired, etc. You just pick something up.

Another fire, you spend Saturday on and off working while trying to do other chores. Tired, order out or go out to eat. Sunday maybe you cook.

Also for single people you have to think the gap between eating out and home cooking gets a little thinner. Especially if you don't like cooking. You can grab some yogurt or something, for lunch grab a sandwich, dinner maybe a burrito. Frees up your time for things you might want to do.

Doesn't seem like the best choice, but I understand it.

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We've been told that two days a week to ourselves is acceptable, and we squeeze household chores like laundry, errands, cutting the grass into these two days. We work around kid's sports, our own "down" time, and trying to make time for aging parents into these two days, and the evening before returning to work we're exhausted more than we are on worknights. Then we do it all again bright and early the following morning.

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Look, I don't like the way the system is set up, but nobody "told" us to do this. It's just that there's an agreed upon time of the day that's used for work. If you want a normal, generally low stress job, that's when you work.

You have every opportunity go do something else. There are plenty of jobs where you can have more than that to yourself. You can work as a paramedic/emt/firefighter and work 24 hour shifts and have 4 days off.

You can work night shift jobs.

You can start your own business and work 3 days a week and not make as much money. You can reduce expenses and ride a bike. You can leave the country if you have the right skills.

I think the in general the system is bullshite, but there isn't some demonic presence lording over you controlling you. I don't think there's any virtue or point to being a victim like this. That's not to say to "pull yourself up". It's harder now than it has been, I agree with that, but what is the point of toiling in misery like this? The world is what it is, if you want to change it get into politics.

There may be a group of elite who generally sit at the top, but they are doing what they are doing to keep themselves rich, and the result of that is the system. It is not a setup of the system to keep others down so that those people can stay rich. It's the result, not the input.

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What lasting subconscious effect is a video of a land whale wrasslin with a dog going to have?

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Woman being shown is identifying as a dog. Which group is said to identify as things other than who they are? The left. This lady is on the left. Look at how gross she is. Leftists are gross. Look, she's being attacked, well maybe if she didn't pretend to be a dog she wouldn't be attacked. Democrats are dumb.

The same shite happens with AI videos of right-wing people being shown to be aggressive.

Whether you like it or not, this stuff sticks with you.

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probably because it's believable in the world in which we live.

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You see a lot of grown women barking at storefronts?

This is fricking nuts.

I know AI has gotten better, but this is still clearly not real.

And they genuinely believe that this is a real video.

Think that was more Kelly's doing than anything.

Chris Hilton going to Washington might be good

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Yeah, but it’s improving faster and faster. It’s not good enough today but they are throwing trillions of dollars at it. My bet is it’s gonna happen.

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It's not improving at near the rate people say.

I was an early adopter of Chat GPT. I started using it in Dec '22/Jan'23. I use it often. I use Claude when I want to really get stuff done.

There's been substantial improvement, but it's just....under-delivering.

I think one day we have to worry.

Today is not that day.

What AI puts out is garbage. It's being pumped by leadership at companies, because they aren't in the details.

It saves time summarizing, it might catch grammar mistakes, and it can tell you where to look to find something.

It's absolute shite at creating. Even web design, it's just not good. You can see when AI has created logos or put together a marketing campaign. It can't tell you accounting standards with any sort of accuracy. It gives a vague idea, but usually it's just flat out wrong.

People should be afraid of AI, because people in leadership at large companies are vastly overestimating its capabilities.

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I can understand a guy sitting in a chair in front of the fitting rooms, playing on his phone. What I don't get is the active participation in picking out and discussing clothes. Maybe I've been missing out?

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Do you not like the style of certain things?

My wife tries on clothes and some of them look very nice. Some of them look not as nice. She asks my opinion. I tell her which colors I like. I tell her when I like something, but I'm unsure if it looks good to others. I tell her when clothes accentuate certain parts of her that she may or may not appreciate.

I don't see how that's a crazy thing to imagine if you're present with the person you're shopping with. If you'd rather be doing other things, sure.

Personally I'd be upset if I was with my wife doing something I like, let's say picking out gym equipment, and she was worried about being home watching a TV show or something. I feel like it's only right to try to not make her feel that way and be with her when we are together. It's also easy to do when you actually do want to be with the person.