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  • I was a teen in the 80s, a young adult in the 90s, and overall, America was pretty fucking nice, especially the Clinton years. With the benefit of hindsight you can say we should have fought for X, Y and Z, but we weren’t at war, starving or overrun by fascists. Was a 20-something young man to have foreseen today’s disastrous climate? I was partying and getting laid.

    And I have never once in this heard of this, “working in the shadows” bullshit. None of us talk that way, never have, we embraced being disconnected slackers.



  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldGmail is entering the Gemini era
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    1 month ago

    The search option actually seems useful, assuming it works worth a shit, and like it or not, AI could fit the bill on a limited data set like one’s email archives. But I’m not ever going to let AI write for me, and I won’t trust what it reads for me. I hardly need a 4 sentence summary of a 4 sentence email.

    Yes, other email providers are out there, but I’ve been neck deep in Google’s ecosystem for 20 years and having a hard enough time in life without having to trash my Google Minis, Androids, 2FA, countless logins, email, on and on.

    OTOH, I’m fed up with, “TRY OUR NEW AI THINGY!” Fuck me, I hit something on Google Maps navigating home and was screaming, couldn’t turn it off, all while barreling down the highway. “Hey Google? EAT A BAG OF FUCKING DICKS!” “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.” “Hey Google, turn of the FUCKING AI!” “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.” My kids were laughing their asses off.








  • That first sentence is likely my answer! People are identifying with the memes, therefore they feel they belong to that group when they may truly not. I am not a smart man.

    As to medication, LOL. My ADHD best friend and his ADHD wife brought some Ritalin home one afternoon. Very excited, they invited me to join in snorting a line. I was bouncing off the walls like I was on meth. They got calm and were very happy to just sit on the couch and talk.

    Another funny one; When we were 17 a salesman in the department store offered us coffee he was selling. Gf: “No, that will put me to sleep.” Say what?! True enough. We met and lived with each other 10-years later, coffee knocked her out cold.

    But what really turned my head was seeing my 6-yo daughter on medicine the first time. She never struck me as “abnormal” until I saw her on speed. We watched her literally stop and smell the flowers.


  • Didn’t want to say it, but it sure seems trendy to me. Quick example from my daughter:

    She had zero issues with eye contact until very recently. She reads memes telling her eye contact is a problem for people like her. Now she has problem.

    I am NOT saying that issue is fake, but when a child is constantly bombarded with, “This is how you are!”, they become that way.

    Part of my thoughts in the OP are, “We’re making normal behavior out to be abnormal and slapping a label on it. And perhaps we’re making it worse than need be.”

    My mother constantly told me I was sickly as a child, and I was constantly sick. First year of college (without her influence) was my first year without a single illness, not even a mild cold. Miracle! Wait…