MerryJaneDoe

Ultimately, who is responsible for the content on the platform? Who should be held accountable for shit content? How much privacy are YOU willing to give up in order to ensure that only verified biological humans are on your platform of choice? There’s no good answer here, except that maybe we put too much faith in social media and minimized all the ways it touches our lives.

The snake is eating itself. Can’t trust Amazon sellers, Google reviews, YouTube videos. Can’t trust that there’s a real person behind that social media profile. Don’t know if the how-to guide was created by a trusted professional or a random ChatGPT subscriber.

Growing pains of the Information Age. Two steps forward, three steps back.

It’s all the same.

Listen to the wise words of Dwight D. Eisenhower, maybe the last sane president of the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y

This man was a general in WWII, a military man and a patriot. He warned that perpetual war would be the result of the “military industrial complex” America had built.

He was right. It never ends. We are at peace with our neighbors to the north and south, have an ocean between us and our nearest rival, yet somehow this nation is always at war.

“Salt. I hear so much about salt. I tried a heaping spoonful and it was nasty. What am I doing wrong?”

Same energy, my friend. This is why cooking is such an amazing skill. You can take 10 things that aren’t particularly tasty, and create something amazing.

Don’t “save”.

Invest.

Cursive as a primary concern and dental hygiene as an afterthought? Hot take…

Reclaim patriotism. Republicans love to wrap themselves in the flag, progressives need to do the same thing. It’s just a piece of the whole, but seeing pics of the LA protests with Mexican flags flying - that doesn’t help bring American voters to a cause.