Don’t worry, he did the close bit with scissors.

I find it funny, because if you’re like me and spent the 2010s commenting a lot on reddit, you’re literally part of the training data. All the LLM giveaways — like overuse of em dashes, for example — are things that you probably do too.

I’m stubborn and don’t want to change the way that I type.

I give it 5 years before we start seeing kids assuming classic meme videos like that are AI too.

My gaming/hobby time is typically after getting the kids down too. As long as I don’t sit down and get distracted, I can manage to get some good time in, but my brain is tired by then.

Also a good point. You can only raise taxes or cut programs so much.

If every country dealing with this wasn’t beholden to business interests requiring “line go up”, this sort of thing could be considered natural and self correcting rather than a crisis.

Population decline would mean more housing supply on the market, more competition to hire employees (better salaries and benefits), lower tuition costs to attract more students to your local university, etc. All the things that would make it easier for young couples who want kids to get established and stable earlier in life.

Not to be too preachy, but it’s the same mindset that makes us good at capitalism that hurts us in these moments. It’s really hard to compartmentalize this.

With any luck, the song will be stuck in your head all day too.

I feel like I was still seeing hipsters up until the mid 2010s.

Zuck does do a good blank stare.

I didn’t make this. Whoever this “Riker’s Beard” person is, they must be pretty active because I see their watermarked memes all over.