If you want to understand why we are at this level at this point in time you need to study the disastrous effects of the "reforms" put in place by Lyndon Baines Johnson in the mid-to-late-60's.

Think a little next time you vote for local dog-catcher, schoolboard, and such. Those local elections matter more than you think. And for the past 60 years you've been putting treasonous filth in the school boards.

Treasonous filth that taught the children of treasonous filth, and now here we are, with a generation or two completely unable to deal with even life's little challenges, let alone the big heavy ones, without yelling for Government or Daddy or Mommy or AI to help them.

The problem with America is very much its educational system and the two or three generations of traitors it's created.

But, even daring to point it out gets you called Racist and worse.

I don't care. America's problem is very much its educational system and the two or three generations of traitors it's created

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And text responses too.

"But wait, there's more!"

This is from my own pile of experience in the past 6 years:

When you interview with us over teleconference, do not remain in your PJs. Do not remain in bed. Put some damn effort into your appearance. And stop using ChatGPT to answer questions, we can see your eyes moving from screen to screen, and we hear your keyboard.

At least put on a shirt and comb your hair. We've had interviews where the person being interviews is still in bed. No joke, no hyperbole.

No, they didn't get hired. Mainly 'cause they kept delaying responses to wait for their chatbot to give answers.

DEET destroys plastic, such as.. car upholstery, car interiors, etc.

If it does that to plastic, what is it doing to the wearer?

This is empirical, not "internet" based. The shit ruined the finish on my shooting ear pro, and also ruptured the seam where my DEET-ed back of the knee would contact my car's seat, and the center console where my DEET-ed elbow would contact it.

DEET is yeeted from this house in favor of picardicin (or whatever the correct spelling for that is)

To quote a line from the OG Animaniacs, the best cartoon in history:

"Whoa. Dumber than advertised."

Isn't this guy supposed to be one of those super-respected "intellectuals?"

I think old age is getting to him.

I've had convos with some AI chat bots and all I can think is "it needs constant correction, outright makes shit up, this is really just a reflector and cross-referencer, this isn't 'smart' in any way."

Principle of Oddmatches. If you have a million samples, you can expect to find one-in-a-million incidents.

So I gave this story no credence until The Atlantic denied it.

It's interesting how these multi-billion-dollar AI companies all have such remarkably terrible UI.

I'm not the type to read the tripe the media in general produces or promotes.. but on my own, I recognized the cybershackle had been usurping my "me" time.

So now, I pretend the smartphone is just a phone, like in the old days: It stays at a fixed point in my house. If I'm in the cine watching anime brianrot, the phone's in the other room. If i'm at my desk, the phone's in the dining room.

I don't need to check email every 2 minutes. Or look something up every few minutes. With the phone in the other room, I just focus on what's in front of me.

If I'm on call, they'll call, and only phone calls ring through to my watch, where I can pick it up from. That's the only 'forward' from phone-to-watch. Texts, email, etc etc -- none of that shit matters anymore, so none of it rings through to the watch. Only phone calls do.

Such duplicity. Why didn't they do this (or if they did, why didn't the media trumpet it like they are now?) back in the deep dark days of 2022? Gas was more expensive then, than right now.

Anything to throw mud at the politicians they don't like, and you people play right into it.

I'm so tired of the manipulation.

Has it been "Fundamentally Changed" enough yet?

Do it. Reddit, and stop talking about it.

Throw that last coil of rope around your neck and kick the chair out.

I wish utter failure for any platform that engages in id verification.

So what?! CNN, MSNOW/MSNBC, and others were 100% state-ran media during the Biden and Obama years. And still are, they see themselves as "tHe reSiSTaNce"

Now the Right gets some more air capability and you're losing your shit?

Cry harder. Turnabout is fair play.

The damage done by consistently and solely pushing the Leftist talking points since *checks calendar* at least 2000 has consequences. Take a bath in those consequences.

It's time to start re-equalizing this nation. The Left runs the schools, the media, and much of the government. Lucky you that we have the system of government we have. Had we had a real King or a real Dictator, there would've been a pogrom the very first day. I mean a real pogrom -- not a single solitary Democrat left in DC. Not the softshoe bullshit we got with DOGE.

In this instance, I bemoan the loss of a broadcasting icon, an historical piece of radio heritage -- but make no mistake, I do not mourn the loss of another Leftist propaganda spreader.

I look forward to more Leftist whinging and tantrums as other outlets realize 20+ years of proselytizing a single political viewpoint is poisonous to their own bottom line.

Wish i had mod points.

No, the West wont' get it until the UK has an Islamic radical as PM, and the US a radical Islamic president.

The West won't get it until there's minarets in every city and town, calling you to prayer.

And by then it'll be too late.

The Left has managed to weaponize "Racist!" and "Islamophobe!" to the point where people are cowed into not speaking up and taking action.

We're thinking it.. but we're not saying it. Much. Yet.

It's time to say it, and say it loud enough that those with fingers in their ears and heads in the sand can hear us.

You went to a theater, the theater had uniformed ushers ready to eject miscreants. There were curtains, not ads, covering the screen when not in use.

The sound was crisp, the picture clear.

People dressed fairly nice, and were polite.

Now, movies are like flying cattle-class in a low-cost airline. Pajamas, flipflops, and everyone's lighting up the theater with their retardophones.

Then there's the software. Hollyweird has shat on every tentpole property they have. They've reduced Star Wars to lesbian Force witches, they've reduced Star Trek to pew-pew idiocy

Ralph Broke The Internet was so bad, after the first one being so good, that I swore Disney off. I will only buy opened, used blu-rays of theirs now. I refuse to buy new from them.

Maybe the bigwigs oughta fix the presentation issue and also start realizing that if you make movies for the 80% of us, it'll sell. But when you make movies squarely aimed at a very small segment of the population, don't come crying with Pikachu face that "Waaah, no one's watching our movies!"

Make shit we want to watch and we'll watch. Pitch shit at a niche audience, enjoy the niche returns. Simple math.

Wish i had modpoints. Very helpful. Gracias.