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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Not in my family. Us women were expected to be the cooks, cleaners, everything. Every family get-together the men would just sit and talk and the boys would go out to play, and the older women would do the cooking, then come make the girls do the dishes.

    My sister and I finally called them out on it, and to their credit they did try and make the boys help with the clean-up… although they never did that great of a job, because they’d never been taught how.










  • It’s good from their perspective. ‘AI’ will be, to their mind, a way to access skills without having to pay for the labor or learn the skills themselves. Never again having to deal with things like ‘employees’ or ‘paying people’ is something they’ve wanted for a long time, and now they’ve been told it’s in reach.

    And the people selling AI to them are feeding on this desire. Not sure if they’ve also huffed their own supply, or if it’s a tailor-making-the-emperor-new-clothes situation, but either way the result is the same. ‘Just a little longer, bro! A little more power and water bro! And then we totally can all dance off into the sunset, hand-in-hand, leaving all those icky poor people behind and roll around in infinite money forever!’










  • Yup. Until recently we had a bad habit of giving other creatures tests geared towards mammals and then, when the reptile or insect or whatever didn’t ‘do well’ (because duh) our scientists declared that obviously meant they were stupid.

    Like snakes were thought of as really dumb because they wouldn’t solve a maze to get to a piece of food like rats would.

    Now, snakes can go sometimes a year without needing to eat, so of course they looked at the maze and said ‘Um, why should I go through all that effort, again? Eh, think I’ll take a nap instead.’

    When scientists got smart enough to offer them a comfy dark place to take a nap as a reward, suddenly they were solving the mazes as fast as rats did.

    (Of course intelligence does vary. Kingsnakes, for instance, obviously have a timeshare on the single orange braincell.)