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“They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won’t know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can’t do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won’t have to process grief, because you’ll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it’s going to destroy humans, long before there’s a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people.”

hey guys, sorry to have to ask, but this month has not been kind to me and i'm about $100 into the negatives & won't be paid again til the end of the month. since graduating last month, i've been looking for a job (with no luck yet!) and my benefits for may were cut since im no longer in school, so now i'm getting ~$200 less than i was receiving before. it's been rough adjusting to this, and right now i mostly need help with getting groceries + essentials