Why would anyone care if AI generated content kept everyone in character? Why not just write a real story?

Nope. It makes me wish it would cook faster so I can start eating it.

The best advice I can give you there is to try and find some people who share a common interest and strike up a conversation? That was how I made most of my friends I knew from work and we used to go out for drinks after work or sometimes someone would have a party where I would always meet new people

I wish I could give you some better advice than that but when I was in my 20s social media was still a new thing and everyone still met up and shared stuff IRL 🤷‍♂️

When I was in art school a guest professor fussed (nicely) at me about this lol She said I clearly had skill but I was making everything too precise and people like art specifically because it looks handmade

I don’t know what your particular social situation is but I’d say it’s time to go out and maybe meet some new people? You’re pretty young and it sounds like you spend a lot of time online it might be good to get out in the world where you can have experiences with people your own age if you can. You’re right it can for sure be weird talking to your parents about this stuff

It sounds like you really liked your friend online but if they’re not willing to talk any longer it’s definitely time to move on and try to make those connections somewhere else

You’re not really giving us much information to go on, but to me it just sounds like you’re kinda lonely and finally found someone you really like.

Is there a reason you haven’t gotten more serious with this person online? Is it like a long distance thing? Have you told them how you feel at all?

Yes

I suppose no matter where it comes from it won’t be any cleaner than the inside of that rusty old tap you never got around to replacing. As long as it doesn’t make me sick then I don’t really worry about it 🤷‍♂️

An utter lack of evidence thus far

With the exception of a few shows on Apple TV I try to mostly ignore whatever Apple is doing these days

This is one of several reasons I don’t have social media anymore. I got tired of discovering that people whom I had previously respected were in fact terrible disgusting human beings 😞

I took Japanese in college and I didn’t realize until I started talking to actual Japanese people that the classes were teaching me the girliest princess honorifics possible lol

I get calls at work from people who talk like that and it drives me fucking crazy lol

I didn’t know they still made the hard plastic ones! They always make my ears hurt within like 20 minutes. The silicone ones aren’t perfect by any means but I’ve never had any major problems with them.

There might be for all I know!

Are you able to provide specific evidence that ghosts AREN’T real?

Sounds like there’s something you feel guilty about

It’s all just more of the MAGA crowds overwhelming need to “own the libs” at all costs. It’s kind of like the flat earth movement. It started off as a joke perpetuated by a bunch of trolls with nothing better to do, but once it grew to a certain point a bunch of people joined in who were too stupid to understand that it wasn’t supposed to be this serious. Now everyone in power is too embarrassed to try and undo any of the harm so they’re all just doubling down even though they know it’s all bullshit because they’d rather everyone think they were right even if it destroys society than to ever admit they might have made a mistake.

I’ve had a few miracle burgers. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. It just kind of tasted like a mediocre fast food hamburger. I don’t eat burgers that often anymore so when I do have one I want it to be really good so I probably won’t get another one unless there’s some great innovation in plant based meat in the future.

I suppose it accomplishes its goal in that it does taste like a hamburger, just not a particularly great one

I kinda feel like the name is part of the problem there. If someone says they’re serving me something called a “miracle” burger the expectation created is that it will taste exceptionally good, or at least better than average

Have you tried fumigation? Like bug bombs or getting an exterminator to do it professionally? You might have to leave your house for a couple of days but it would attack all of them at once that way