I swear I’m not Jessica

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Cake day: October 30th, 2024

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  • I think you have to ask yourself, is it fair to your future child to have their parent lie about who they are? Do you really want to teach your kid that that should suppress their identity and be dishonest with those closest to them?

    You also shouldn’t assume that you will be able to keep things together if you try to play “father.” The crushing pressure of living a lie is easy to underestimate, and you might end up transitioning anyways. If that does break up the marriage, the fallout will not be felt by just the two of you, but the kid as well.

    Children are a huge commitment and an even more important responsibility. You’re literally building a person, and that cannot be taken lightly. I think keeping up a facade for a partner is bad enough, but bringing in an even more vulnerable person is borderline inexcusable. If there are any unmitigated reservations about having a kid, you shouldn’t have it.











  • And the people who ARE irresponsibly delaying it and softening it and dragging their feet about it, I think, maybe actually want it to succeed.

    Like you said, don’t say it in a milquetoast way. The corporate owned media aren’t maybe doing interference for fascism, they are. They don’t want to cause panic because that will hurt shareholder interests and make it harder for the rich to avoid the public’s wrath for backing fascism.

    The liberal establishment is also not being honest about how fucked things are because they don’t want to admit they have no power anymore. Liberalism is dead and can only be rebuilt, not saved. They don’t want to admit that it’s dead because that might actually cause people to want to fix the problems that let this happen in the first place. At a fundamental level, they don’t want to recognize that the myth of the American dream is what led to Trump. They don’t want to admit that an ideology of privatization and free markets was the deathcult all the commies and anarchists told them it was.

    America will never move forward until it is humbled; until the myths of American exceptionalism are dead and buried. The post Trump era will not be recovery unless people reject the desire to return to the past.






  • “Our bet is sort of that in the next year probably … maybe half the development is going to be done by AI, as opposed to people, and then that will just kind of increase from there,”

    That’s not how AI works even on a good day. All the current tech could allow programers to do is add another layer of abstraction, just like they’ve been doing in various ways for the entire history of computer science. It can’t replace labor, only increase productivity like every technology ever has done.

    We are not close to general AI and even if we had it, it wouldn’t be as groundbreaking as the capitalists think. Labor will adapt, markets will adapt, and it will not fundamentally change the challenges anyone faces. Technology can not fix social and political problems and it will not create perpetual motion machines.