Pongalh
5d ago
My apartment complex gate stops working constantly. My car's undercarriage keeps dragging on the ground and I have to keep it up with rope. My basic Android phone can't set reminders accurately. Speech to text is randomly capitalizing stuff I then have to correct. A delivery driver the other day couldn't find an apartment in my complex and I was unable to help him. He kept wandering around...
I just see normie problems persisting and I'm supposed to be fearful or at least anxious about post-scarcity and a lack of meaning? The UMC creative and knowledge worker is surrounded by seamless efficiency and can actually ponder some potential problem of life being much too comfortable and bereft of purpose. The rest of us are gleeful AI dilettantes who still have to left with our legs, not our backs.
Pongalh
8d ago
Makes me wonder if some black Americans took up a nation-building exercise in West Africa, if it would be racist criticize that. Unless you're black.
Pongalh
8d ago
Ah. They seem to punch above their weight in the discourse, so it seems higher. Especially if you're in a college town. It's ambient.
Pongalh
8d ago
I've heard plain old white evangelicals and people with names like Mike Huckabee referred to as Zionists too. They refer to themselves as such. This cohort was huge in the 2000s but since seems to have become contested territory, with some breaking toward Tucker and Fuentes. That leaves increasingly only Jews left. And this too gets dicey because left-wing Jews have only become more strongly anti-Zionist. When a left-wing Jew calls a right-wing Jew Zionist, is that also anti-semitic? (If so, are they a self-hating Jew, like an Uncle Tom?)
Pongalh
11d ago
Ah ok, so that encompasses way more than Aella. But who? If Aella is Jem/Barbie, who are the Holograms/the Rockers?
Pongalh
17d ago
I live near Section 8 housing and from what I can tell all the mothers are already stay-at-home. Stay-in-the-front-yard, even, when the weather is nice.
Nope, not a bit. I'm in Sacramento, California. I think your milieu might be much more successful than average? This list of problems is pretty banal. Alot of us shop mainly at the Dollar Store, etc.
It's kind of odd I'm even privy to a forum like this but not UMC or on the way.
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