Yeah but every single Democrat district is a complete war zone so those kids are probably just going to retaliate with nuclear missiles if you try that!

Dude this isn't happening and it's not a problem this article is bait and you took it.

Now would be the time to get a little embarrassed that you fell for such obvious bait and resolve not to fall for it again.

or you could just keep letting our "news" media continue to make a fool of you. That's an option.

I seriously doubt a silly meme is causing that much problem for teachers as opposed to the literally billions of dollars in funding that is being drained from the school by voucher programs where 95% of the people using them were already sending their kids to private schools and are now just getting some of my taxpayer money for free.

Seriously if you want to get pissed off at somebody go look up arizona. There are people taking the school voucher shit and using it to buy Ski-Doos and take Disney vacations and shit. It's literally just a billion dollars of free money for the top 10% in the state.

That has a lot more impact on teachers than every now and then the kids making a joke and getting a dirty look from the math teacher. When my kid went to school and this was going on 9 years ago it was standing room only. Seriously the last five or six kids had to stand in the back because they're just weren't enough chairs because they were closing schools. And I can't imagine things have gotten better. This wasn't even a poor School district I had secured a good job and was living in a good neighborhood. Not the absolute best mind you but still not the worst.

This is a especially mean spirited little article designed to appeal to a certain type of person who likes getting angry at kids for being kids. It's clickbait for people over 50.

My mom was what they used to call overprotective and what was actually paranoid delusional. I got plumped in front of the TV because the last thing she wanted was me "out running the streets" AKA playing.

Lots and lots of kids got stuck in front of the TV for hours and hours on end with nothing else.

YouTube and tick tock aren't really interactive they're just tv. Posting to a forum isn't interaction. If anything the kids are better off today because they at least have discord and chat and can actually do some minimal interaction for real.

Is that crazy is very very common. My mother for example was a high-functioning alcoholic and that was largely due to tons of undiagnosed mental illnesses. I myself probably should have been in a variety of programs to deal with various forms of ADHD and light autism but my mother being a bit of a loon chose to move us to another district where the school didn't have the resources to do all that. And most of my friends and family exhibit some form of obvious mental illnesses.

Basically in America we don't like to acknowledge mental illness unless it's the kind that makes you violent or suicidal.

There's an old phrase, I cut myself to feel alive. I've never been that far gone but I know people who have and they explain to me what it actually means.

Crazy people aren't crazy 24/7 or even 365 days a year. They go through bouts of insanity and conversely they go through bouts of sanity.

And crazy people can often feel the attacks coming on. Much of this is due to brain chemistry issues.

So if you feel an attack coming on and you know that you're going to be suicidal in the very near future but you know you're not going to want to actually kill yourself after the attack then what you need is somebody to watch you 24/7 so you don't kill yourself.

But at least in America we're not going to pay for that and anyone who cares enough about you to do that sooner or later has to sleep or go to work or both. They just can't watch you around the clock.

So what you do is you want to get admitted to a hospital to be watched but they won't do that unless you are actively harming yourself. So you cut yourself a few times and that gets you in long enough to hopefully get past the current attack.

This is an extreme case but a less extreme case is a buddy of mine with severe anxiety issues that prevent him from working a full-time job. He looks like a fully able-bodied person but he will periodically have freak outs and breakdowns and when you do that unless you are some sort of mathematical genius that can command high salaries, and sadly he is not, then you just keep getting fired from jobs.

That's the kind of crazy that is frustratingly common. In fact I'm willing to say quite a bit of the poverty that is generational can be traced back to crazy and other health problems preventing generational wealth from accumulating.

I don't know about the rest of the world but America is obsessed with hyper individualism though. It's a core part of our culture. So we don't like to talk about systemic problems like that and we like to pin everything on the individual and if they can't hack it well they can just be homeless and die in the street or we can round them up and toss them into work camps.

Manga authors are incredibly overworked. Over and over and over again I find a manga or an anime I like and it only gets a few books or one season and I look why when the show is obviously popular and I find that the author had a nervous breakdown and had to stop because they were working 18 hours a day 7 days a week.

If it was not very profitable to produce anime and manga that would be one thing but Crunchyroll brings in over a hundred million dollars a month in subscription fees alone let alone all the merchandise and add-ons they will cheerfully sell you.

It got to the point where they couldn't abuse Japanese workers enough so they started abusing South Korean workers. And they are gradually running out of those and increasingly relying on Chinese workers.

I love anime and manga but the industry is on its way to collapsing one way or another. And the only reason for it is corporate greed.

I could see AI being useful for the manga authors. The quality would of course go down but at least they wouldn't end up in hospitals from over work. I think for anime it's less of a benefit. It becomes too obvious when stuff is in motion.

It does mean either way the quality goes down but the only real way to increase the quality would be to have local governments mandate better working conditions and we sure as fuck ain't going to do that.

I mean I'm American and we are gradually being forced into 996 even though we are automating so many jobs that we need to cut working hours.

This is the exact same fear mongering I had when I was a kid about TV and my grandparents got this fear-mongering about penny dreadfuls (I'm American so they called it pulp but I love the phrase Penny dreadful so that's what I'm going with)

I think it was comic books when my parents were alive but there's always something rotting the children's brains

It's like how the ruling elite use various forms of bigotry in order to divide working people into castes that they can control. In America we use race and sexuality in India they use skin color and caste systems and in Japan where everybody looks about the same they use job title and surname. But it's the same trick in every country every time.

I bring it up because my point is the same patterns continue to repeat again and again and again used to prevent any progress in human civilization. We can't actually solve any problems because we always have these nonsensical moral panics and bigotries distracting us from real solutions.

And heaven forfend you try to iterate when your first solution isn't 120,000% perfect. People just eviscerate you if everything isn't done exactly right the first time.

Basically we never learn and we're repeating the same patterns and the same mistakes that my grandparents did and my parents did and that my generation did and if I wanted to dig into history I'm sure I could find my great-grandparents and great great grandparents did.

We never learn.

On the other hand apple is a trillion dollar company so they've got enough money that they can probably tell the orange one to go fuck themselves.

As for China I wouldn't trust him with a 10-ft pole though. You very much want to get your money up front when it comes to China because they are always looking to replace you. It's a very different kind of empire building than what America does

Our healthcare system right off the bat adds between 10 and 15,000 to my cost as an employee. This means I have to bring a shitload more value even before accounting for the wage differences.

I have lost opportunities to both Canada and London and if you're reading this you probably have too. My personal favorite although technically I wasn't going to apply for this was seeing a project in a call center I worked at go to canada to access the cheaper employees thanks to the single-payer healthcare system.

That project was Fielding calls from Americans for a American private insurance company. Basically Canadians telling Americans they got denied.

If we had a single pair of healthcare system it would create millions of jobs but the problem is the Private health insurance industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars and the last time there was even a small chance of a single pair system they spent half a trillion dollars scaring you with death panels.

Meanwhile we have private death panels all over the place. But those are okay for some reason.

It's time for you to come up with another word for it.

You know how you used to call it bleeding hearts but then it became political correct and then it became cancel culture and then it was woke? You guys tried dei but I think that was a little to iso complicated for the sort of person you're trying to appeal to.

I'm just saying that your material is getting stale and just like how cracker barrel had to change their logo you need to come up with some new branding for a new generation of keyboard warriors and Russian bots networks

The other religions tend to keep their heads down a little here. We have Christian nationalists in charge right now so those other religions while they will go about their business and try to get converts and tiths they usually aren't quite as politically involved here as the Christians

The scientologists would like to be but they've been dropping off the map as their members fade away. There is also the Moonies but I think they compete a little too strongly with Christian extremist evangelism here so they have a hard time getting a foothold.

The Hindus and the Muslims both kind of keep their heads down. And then that just leaves the smaller religions like paganism and whatnot that aren't enough to have any noticeable impact on politics.

Ordinarily Microsoft would be violating the law if they bundled their AI bullshit with their operating system. That is a classic antitrust violation..

But since we stopped any semblance of antitrust law enforcement 25 years ago that's right out the door and we can all just suck it the fuck down.

Never mind the fact that there are absolutely no viable competitors to Microsoft besides Apple and if you play games apple is not a viable competitor...

The bullshit they are pulling in Windows 11 is exactly why antitrust law exists but we are all so terrified of bureaucrats we forgotten that bureaucrats is a white collar cop.

Ironically we defunded the police it was just the police that took care of criminals like Microsoft. Your ass is still getting a ticket if you're 5 over and the cop needs to make quota this week...

And while Einstein's contributions were enormous he wasn't the only one working on general relativity.

I guess my point is we don't necessarily have to or certainly do not want to wait around hoping for a super genius to make a big leap for us.

What's more the next super genius could be out there but getting crushed by our brutal Dog eat Dog capitalist system that doesn't feed hungry children.

There's a bit of exaggeration there I think but they claim to have replaced 4,000 customer service reps. That's about $25,000 per rep which if you account for the cost of an American rep and the cost of an Indian rep that sounds about right.

Labor gets very expensive very fast. So automation becomes a big deal very fast.

The problem is that 100 million or whatever it really is is just gone from the economy. It gets absorbed by Salesforce Senior Management and the big stockholders.

Some of it in a very roundabout way might make it into your pocket through a 401k but those large stockholders have noticed there's 10 trillion in 401K money waiting to be looted so they're working on that. They just opened up 401K investment to risky private equity now that the private equity firms have run out of easy targets...

Meanwhile your job or your business has fewer customers because you can't yank thousands of people out of the economy permanently and not have knock-on effects.

And if you're an Evangelical that means he's going to hell.

You would think that would be bigger news but we have a lot of industry corporate capture in our media so there you go.

So left wing does not mean government like we are typically taught especially in America.

And right wing doesn't mean opposed to government again like we are typically taught.

Right wing means deference to a hierarchy. It comes from the monarchists back in the day who sat on the right wing.

Left wing doesn't necessarily mean the opposite though. What left-wing means is advocating a society where everyone has necessities, a little bit more than the necessities at least and more if society is able and finally that people get a say in how everything is run and governed regardless of their position in a hierarchy.

The right wing is appealing because it gives you a sense of order as well as allowing you to exercise command over people underneath you in the hierarchy.

The left wing is appealing because it gives everyone a say in running things and because it's at least trying to take care of everyone's needs regardless of who they are .

The left wing is very bad at fast action and command structures. You cannot run a left-wing military for example. It breaks down because everybody gets to say and their say is more or less equal. And in a war you need quick decisive action and people willing to follow orders.

The right wing on the other hand is absolutely terrible at meeting the needs of people and protecting civil rights because they always defer to the hierarchy. Your civil rights are entirely contingent on your place in society in a right wing society. This is exactly how it was for the monarchists.

This means that for a lot of things if the left wing starts trying to do them it horseshoes back to being right wing.

If the left wing continues to try and be left-wing and do those things they just fail because the left wing isn't very good at those things. It all just breaks down.

So when it comes to something like selectively taking away free speech the left wing can't do that. They have to abandon all their principles and all the things that make them left-wing to do it. Any attempt to create all sorts of weird special cases outside of immediate obvious harm breaks down very quickly and is either abandoned or well, the horseshoe.

If you look at dictatorships this is always how it goes. It's why communism doesn't work. You never get past the dictatorship of the proletariat because the right wing is better at military violence and once you're left wing revolution starts implementing a right wing command structure to get good at violence and win the war well you don't get a chance to get rid of that military dictatorship.

This is why communist China has a American style Private health insurance system andyou will find people worried about losing their jobs to automation