The Child, aged 17, witheringly asks "where did you hear that? ChatGPT?" when I've said something she thinks is stupid.

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

the number of idiotic things that have been said the last 10 years to avoid stating the obvious that "this president is one of the stupidest people who ever lived" truly beggars belief

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

Re: the current moment

Perhaps a big disconnect comes from the gap between "people who can see through the hype and are assessing utility in a post-hype environment" and "people who know how dangerous the hype is precisely because being able to see through it is actually pretty rare in humans"

remember when celebrities seemingly randomly started coming out talking about how much they loved NFTs and thought it was super valuable and the future?

Zohran Mamdani: “For a long time, Republicans have sought to describe themselves as being driven by the needs of working people – when in reality we've seen a chasm in what they've actually delivered for those people”

The human body was not meant to endure 2 trump terms in one lifetime.

They are so, SO desperate for people to resub. PLEASE don't resub your Nitro everyone. Props if you aren't already subbed, props if you were subbed and you unsub right now. NOTHING changes unless a company FEARS for their bottom line. Feel free to use Discord still, but don't give them a penny. 💖

boy do I miss when you could go on the internet and see, in chronological order, posts made by people you followed

I have never met a "logical centrist." There is nothing logical about "centrism," at all: It's just finding the "moderate" position and claiming it *bc it's centrist/moderate.*

What's logical about that? In what way does that forward best practices in policy or do the most for people's lives?

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

This is so, so well-articulated.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Pilgrim I literally never read a prologue on principle alone. If it's that important, it should be in the book.

Doyle789 I agree completely. The epilogues and prologues aren't part of the story. If they were important they would be part of the story. People write forwards for books, that's just another person writing about what they thought about the book or author... I assume that's what author is doing in the prologue and epilogues

Erin I agree. I feel like it's stuff that wasn't good enough to be in the book 20h Reply 100

dude epilogues and prolouges to me are equivalent to dvd bonus features and are therefore skippable unless you're really into it 8h Reply • 255

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

a single vote in the court against birthright citizenship should prove to every liberal court reporter or follower that it is an illegitimate institution that should never be taken seriously and needs to be diminished or fully abolished rather than reformed

it won't be of course but it should be

Happy Birthday Curren Chan! #umamusume

Dems think they're clever with these answers, but they are just increasingly alienating people, because 1) It is obviously genocide, agreed upon by the major reputable international organizations (HRW, Amnesty, etc.) and 2) A supermajority of Dem voters believe it's genocide

video games have been around since my grandparents were little and weirdo freaks now try to act like it’s impossible to make one without using the Polluting Thief Chatbot that didn’t exist before like five years ago and I will never understand that

All three branches of government are corrupt and our allies all chose to pretend everything was normal for the last decade instead of addressing the elephant in the room. Rather than take action against rising fascism, the international community allowed this to snowball. It's all our problems now.

We need to impose explicit ideological tests on all law enforcement, military, and civil service jobs as a matter of law

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.

From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...

one thing you see people say a lot is "republicans don't want to vote for a diet republican" whenever a dem does shit to try to appeal to them, which is true. what often goes unsaid is the other part of that, which is that most democrats also do not *want* to vote for a diet republican either

As an English student I consider words to mean what they fucking mean