I don’t need AI to write and email for me, I can do that myself.

I don’t need AI to add typos for me either, I’ve got that handled as well.

“Papers”…

Shouldn’t that read “evidence”?

This is by design. May not have been in the original blueprint, but it was modified to be that way in one of the recent remodels.

And I didn’t contradict that.

Just pointed out that, and this is coming from the same source, it’s not the only thing that keeps morale up and that folks who have deployed before know that food service in a war zone can be spotty even with modern logistics.

EDIT: People are focused on food in this thread, but there’s a reason why mail service is mentioned in the headline with it.

Sorry if it offends, but communication with home (mail, internet, etc.) plays a big role in morale as well. A lot of soldiers like getting mail and hearing from their families, girlfriends, etc. It relieves a lot of anxiety to know that your loved ones are doing well. Don’t know what else to say.

Word from home and communication with people you love, especially in the era of instantaneous global communication, is a powerful thing. Not that food isn’t a motivator too, but you expect some missed meals and low quality as the ops tempo increases. Miss a meal and you’re pissed until you get to eat again. Jack up a guy getting video of his kid’s last ballgame and he’ll stay pissed even after he gets it.

Scarce and shitty food is one thing, but if you fuck up the mail (and these days the internet), you’re gonna have a really bad time.

Look. I’m an apatheist. I don’t really care. It’s one kind of BS or another to me.

But on one hand, you have a someone who has decades of experience and study in the traditions, text, and history of their religion, and on the other hand, you have an asshole who fucked a couch and is a useful puppet for Peter Thiel and a bunch of other billionaire sociopath fucksticks.

Pretty easy to figure out who I’d respectfully disagree with and who I’d just call a goddamned idiot.

I have a similar argument with my mother, who claims the tile and fixtures in her (very dated) bathroom are battleship grey.

To me, they’re a light dusky blue, as if you mixed a light shade of grey with baby blue, and they clash horribly with the truly grey marble around her sink.

This argument has existed for 30+ years without resolution.

We already have that, and it has solved absolutely nothing while potentially making online surveillance and privacy issues worse.

The answer isn’t age-gating or ID verification, it’s changing how the sites themselves operate. Get rid of the idea of “driving engagement”, no more stealth ads, and no corpo, media, political party, or lobbyist accounts. Hold influencers and podcasters to the same kind of standards we used to hold journalists to, where they’re required to tell you when the’re shilling for some kind of shady supplement company or political huckster.

You know, the kind of shit any sane species would do with this sort of tech, but when have we ever been sane?

What if, instead of trying and failing to kick kids off social media, we focused our attention on the reasons why being online is so often detrimental in the first place?

Pre-fucking-cisely.