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Thursday 7/25/24

You could argue, I guess, that people who write, "Prove me wrong" ("Aaron Judge is the MVP. Prove me wrong," "Chivalry is dead. Prove me wrong.") deserve life, but I'm afraid I wouldn't also be taking up the cause.

I'm not going to eat any more cookies.

I'm not going to eat cookies anymore.

See how easy that is? That's how that works. And everyone is allowed to know that. It's true. You are free to know what a child in third grade is expected to be able to know.

College. That's hilarious. College! What the hell is happening in college? How do so many people go to college and not have mastered--or possess a clue about--what a third grader is expected to?

Here's something to try, or you can just take my word for it: Venture on over to the horror show of human brokenness that is Threads and look at what all of the pretend writer types post and how nary a one of them understands that it's not always "everyday" as in one word. Turn it into a game. You will see thousands of examples of "I try to write everyday" from these lying, fake frauds who claim that writing is so important o them, and reading, and yet they somehow don't even know this. Because it's not important to them at all. Fantasy is important to them. Always running scared from reality is important to them. Their bullshit, reach-around, grab-ass "writing community" is important to them, because it's like high school, and they have no other lunch table to sit at.

And that was just said by the person who didn't even go to lunch in high school. You know where I went? To the library. You know what I did there? I worked on my writing during lunch. You know what I did starting in third grade during recess? This is the great athlete guy, too. I stayed in and worked on my writing. Because it always actually mattered to me, and I had, and understood that I had, an ability no one else did, and it was going to take a lot of work, time, and effort to master that ability and learn what it could do and do everything I could do with it in the time on earth that I had.

For whatever reason, when I go on Google, one of the handful of links that pop up because of what the computer thinks I want to see is for a word of the day. Do you know what these are like? I'll give you an example of one: Lucrative.

"Lucrative" is now a word that people don't know because we're an illiterate society. One might think, "That doesn't matter, because reading is boring and who wants to read"--and I'm with you in just about every instance, because the publishing industry offers just about nothing worth reading or that even a reader would ever wish to read--but words are used in talking, too. They are the primary means of communication. People can't communicate. They can't share, they can't connect. They have nothing to say and are limited to using the same two dozen words, the same trite, mindless, annoying phrases, "literally" every other sentence, and so forth.

I'll be on a dating site, and hardly any of these women will be able to formulate a single sentence for their profile, let alone express anything intelligent. If there are more than six words in a woman's profile, the woman usually had them written for her by AI. ("I used AI LOL!!!!!") But no, not a problem at all, this whole computers taking us over and replacing us thing. Should be fine. Think of what you have to be, how little you have to be, to be unable to say anything about yourself or what you're looking for, let alone anything intelligent. To be incapable of saying anything. Not a great deal. Not anything brilliant. Just anything at all. You are so mentally limited, barren, that you can't come up with anything.

By the way: When you match with someone, AI jumps in to do your interacting for you. If you want to use your own words as a human, you have to cancel out of the AI options. AI starts by giving you three. They're really great. For instance: "How are you today?" Because people are so stupid, AI figures, that they need help with even coming up with that. And they do.

You know what people are most likely to say if they do say anything in terms of a profile?

"I love my fur babies."

Oh, great, you creepy, creepy person. Popping cats out of that human vagina. Because that's the image that occurs to me. Not an indication of a disturbed person at all.

But I'm going through the profiles, and it will be 300 overweight women in a row, because we are a nation of obese, lazy slugs. I said women, yes, but I'd venture that it's even worse on the male side. So don't try and do that. I'm on to you before you've gone and done it. I know all the things that people want to do to be able to "catch" someone else. I'm simply saying the truth that is easily provable with the aforesaid screenshots and time stamps, and I don't think we need to be cataloguing those on here, do we?

You know what I'll do, though? When I see that first non-obese person after 300 people, I will have to sit there, despite her having nothing to say, and apparently no intelligence at all, nor common sense--as in, "Maybe I should say something, because this is a dating site, and I'm alone, so alone, and I don't want to be, and it'd be better to use a few words and help the cause a little"--and think, "Fucking hell, should I swipe on this one, at least she's not obese."

There you go. That's the dilemma. That's usually the only choice involved because there is nothing--as in fuck all--out there. There's no intelligence, no substance, no one to surprise you, no one who is different from anyone else, no one who expresses anything differently, has different interests, it's the same shit, again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

It wasn't even ten years ago. It was getting there. But every now and again, there was something a bit different. Someone. Not now.