I did that once, and it was really jarring for people to see.

People have gotten completely desensitized to names like “ForceU2swllow” or “xXx_daRk_pRo_MLG_xXx”. A regular name, your actual name IS the most unhinged shit.

Always struck me as a city thing, not a white people thing.

Maybe things have changed, but in the small town where I grew up, people generally wouldn’t bother.

• there would usually be a gap delineating one persons items from the other’s anyways

• the person who was professionally scanning our groceries 100% had the expertise to see the gap and comprehend its meaning

• If (I never ever saw it happen, ever) they had grabbed something, someone would have noticed, said “whoops, that’s not mine”. Nobody would think someone was trying a scam.

I feel like this is an amazing measure of someone’s general level of anxiety. Or maybe a measure of how little credit they give the person scanning groceries? Both?

James

Metal

I’m agreeing with Pete Hegseth? WTF is happening right now?

I mean, listen to your gut instincts, which is that you’re being foolish because he is a fool.

If your system demands trust, it’s a bad system. If your system has a written set of rules that don’t actually cover your requirements, it’s a bad system. If the “tests” you imagine post-hoc aren’t part of the system, you’re just opportunistically trying to shift the blame.

You made a deal, set the parameters, and what… Expected the for profit company to ignore their fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profit? What is this, your first fucking day of capitalism, Pete?

His response to this is engineered to shift blame, and he’s coming out swinging because ultimately he is to blame. It’s barely more than a political catchphrase. He literally invoked “America First”.

I think that’s an interesting take, especially because it’s AI generated.

I think it’s fair for artists to depict their own experiences. If these were hand-crafted, I don’t think I could vibe on that criticism. I think it’d be truly disingenuous for a white suburban straight man to be creating art of the experience of a rural black lesbian.

But, AI isn’t an artist. It has no experience.

Yeah, I kinda imagined this was the nature of the issue.

Not really sure how I feel about the implied argument, though, which appears to be that it is wrong to create period art (or ask an AI to generate a video) which doesn’t include some (all?) negative experiences of that period.

May I paint the view from my balcony, omitting the mosquitos biting me while I paint?

I think the crux must be intention… Which is notoriously hard to prove.

Yeah, the article repeatedly suggesting it was a disingenuous depiction of the era, but didn’t seem to make any attempt to support that assertion.

I’d love a breakdown as to what specifically was disingenuous.

I mean, like any social media, it’s selectively showing “the good”, and ignoring the bad. Is that it? Like, they can’t (and wouldn’t even if they could) put the heavy cigarette smell of any restaurant of the era through the phone.

I don’t have the current capacity to give this the response it deserves, so I’m going to hit a few key points of where I believe misunderstanding exists and then let you reevaluate what points still need pressing.

I don’t think I’ve ever moved the goalposts. My initial comment is what it always was, that you don’t CURRENTLY have a toddler. I think this is directly relevant to my thesis that parenting evaluations from people who aren’t themselves currently experiencing it need to be weighed as such (certainly not authoritative, and divorced from the reality of the experience)

Nextly, I think it’s worth deconstructing two things:

• did the observer genuinely think it was a kidnapping ?

• why did the father feel the need to justify?

I’m going to say “probably not” to the first, and to the second probably because of the keen awareness that parents have about how much people love the armchair deconstruction of their parenting. Thankfully, I got some great advice very early on from another parent which was, in short, to get comfortable ignoring the musings of others on the subject of parenting.

But I do think, after reading your post, it would probably make me more inclined to feel the need to justify myself if I were I in the same situation. How do I convince this bystander I’m X, Y, or Z? This person is trying to gather the variables to ultimately determine what I’m doing wrong as a parent.

I also don’t think it’s realistic that you can’t move a tantruming toddler through a public space… Especially if the immediate destination is the car. This hits me as very dogmatic.

The car, for example, IS my kids happy place. It IS the best place to calm him down. Get in the car and sing John Denver together. It seems, to me, cruel to deprive him of that even if I know he’s going to be pissed off on the way there.

I can respond more fully when I’m off mobile… And maybe I’ve over-attributed judgement on your part. I think you’ve read much more into the original post than is there, and have mentally constructed a scenario much more disturbing than it was. I think the dad calling the kid an asshole was what made it post-worthy, not some level of violence.

Yes, there is a point I’m trying to make, which is it’s intrinsic to the human condition to paint a much rosier version of your own childrearing experiences once they’re historical.

The internet is awash with new parents wildly frustrated with how incredibly out-of-touch the platitudes they hear about their experience even coming from other older parents.

Your original comment is just that. Judgemental and out of touch. You can make a kid act like that? A screaming toddler? There will certainly be times when nothing you can do within the laws of physics can PREVENT them from acting like that. My toddler threw a hysterical fit because the garage door can’t be SIMULTANEOUSLY open AND closed. No, son, I know you believe Daddy can do anything but quantum super positions are even out of my hands.

Should the guy have called his kid an asshole? No.

How harshly should you judge them for it? In that moment? Probably not very.

If I was going to take a kid from a stork, you think I’d take THIS one?

had

10:1 odds that neither of you currently have a toddler.

Excel is still doing the calculations, not the AI. The AI is helping to write functions.

This distinction is immaterial. This is like a big child grabbing a smaller child’s hand and slapping them with their own hand saying “quit hitting yourself”. It’s like trying to get out of a speeding ticket by saying all you did was push the accelerator… Truely it was the fuel injectors forcing the vehicle to an illegal speed.

Just because you’ve adjusted the abstraction layer at which you’ve ceded deterministic outcomes, doesn’t mean AI isn’t doing it.

You can easily spot check a couple examples then apply that same formula down the column.

This may be appropriate in some scenarios, specifically:

• When accuracy isn’t important

• When you will never need to justify what is being done to anyone (including yourself)

This, however, covers a decidedly small portion of professional work done using Excel.