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Jury: Meta Failed To Protect Kids. Now What? (Ep. 263)
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In this episode of Scrolling: New Mexico Jury finds Meta guilty of not protecting kids on its platform. Then, Good Riddance to abortionist Kermit Gosnell & Democrats lean in on childhood trauma to win over voters.
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Hello and welcome to Scrolling with Haley. I'm Hayley Carnia. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you to everyone in the chat who shows up early. I love to pop in and say hello. You can only do that if you watch on rumble. Rumble.com Haley brings you to the Bondino Report channel and that is where you can watch this show live and in full because we're streaming right now on X on Facebook, maybe some other places, but you're not going to get the full show. Then once the live show is over, you can catch us on your favorite podcast platform, Spotify. We now have video there as well. And wherever you watch or listen, just tell a friend I appreciate it. All right, well, on the show today, Meta has been under fire for failing to protect children on its platforms for years. And a jury has has just found it guilty inside all of the ways children are harmed on Meta and other social media platforms. So you can better protect the children in your life. Then Democrats are leaning into their childhood trauma to try to appeal to their voting base. That's sad. And all pumped full of SSRIs. Will it work in 2028? I guess we'll see. Plus, McDonald's is testing out humanoid robots to deliver your French fries and then replace other human tasks. What could go wrong? And I'll explain the latest AI trend, taking Tick tockers by storm. Are they rotting our brains on purpose to set us up for Neuralink? We're going to get into that theory. Put your phones on. Do not disturb. The show starts now. Meta, the parent company owned by Mark Zuckerberg, has been under fire for years for a multitude of reasons. Now, my issues with Meta, well, they started around Covid because of censorship. That was just one of the reasons. And I'm sure everyone remembers. You know, Meta owns Facebook, Instagram. Many conservative influencers experienced shadow banning, even real banning. Mark Zuckerberg admitted to being bullied by the Biden administration into censoring conservative viewpoints. I remember Tucker Carlson, Tommy Lahren, just to name a few. They were talking about the vaccine, how they didn't want to get the vaccine, which isn't false. It's just not what the Biden administration wanted to push. So therefore they censored it. And that's all. It's come out in lawsuits and there are, there's proof of that. So Mark Zuckerberg, he admitted to being bullied by the Biden administration, even getting yelled at by Biden staffers to go through with this censorship. And he just said, okay. And he's admitted now that that's wrong. But too little, too late, in my opinion and a lot of other people's opinions. You'll remember that President Trump was temporarily banned from these platforms following January6. That was insane to de platform a sitting President of the United States. So Mark Zuckerberg, in my opinion, spineless. But Metta is under fire for the damaging effects its platform has on its users, primarily children. Users are addicted to these platforms. They're designed to be addictive because the company wants more users and they want the users to stay on the platform longer. So there are features like infinite Scroll. You know, once you play one video, the next one just shows up on its own. So you don't even have to touch your phone. You're just given content after content, video after video. Same thing with autoplay. You go to the platform to watch one video. The next thing starts and there's all of a sudden you're looped into this playlist of infinite content. Then, of course, notifications. It triggers this thing in your brain where you're, you're, you get excited when you see a new notification. Algorithms doing the same thing. They're keeping the users on the platforms for hours. People are checking their phones for notifications. Like a drug. And I'm addicted to my phone. You all know this. This show is called Scrolling with Haley because my screen time is astronomical. I spend 14 hours a day on my phone. Plus there are some days where we get into 16 hour territory. It's a little scary, actually. It's a lot scary. But thankfully my brain developed as a child before these kinds of things were implemented. I can't imagine children at such impressionable ages being exposed to these kinds of dopamine hits. And then these comedowns, inevitable comedowns. This is why we're seeing kids not being able to function in public unless they have a screen in front of them. You guys see it on airplanes, restaurants. If any parent these days wants to bring their kid out in public and not have them throw a tantrum, it just seems like they are using a screen, an iPad, a phone, as a pacifier, as this digital pacifier. Oh, my kid's screaming here, play a game on my phone. So now we're seeing kids grow up and they're anxious to take phone calls, they're anxious to speak to people in real life. They would rather text and send memes and play games and go into this depressive hole. This all creates anxiety, self harm. Kids are now comparing themselves to AI, to airbrushed models. This creates body image issues or at least exacerbates them. This all, you know, we want to blame the platforms, but these issues have existed outside of, you know, meta and other social media platforms for decades. You can't just blame, you know, Facebook for giving people mental health problems. It might exacerbate the problem, but it's not the root cause of the problem. And now, you know, before social media there were the 90s, skinny cocaine chic models and all of the advertisements. You know, so women felt insecure and, and inferior to these women. They thought that, oh, I'll never, I'll never shape up, I'll never, I'll never be on their level. I mean, how could I, how could I ever look like that? I can't even diet and look like that. And you'll remember people used to say the models don't even look like the models in the magazines to try to get people to realize that Photoshop is real. And Photoshop might be real, but the models looking that perfect were not real. So people know that, but it still doesn't, it doesn't fix the problem, right? I mean, you know that these models aren't real, but then you keep seeing them on social media and I'm talking about kids, right? Kids, high school age girls, they're scrolling on Instagram these days. They see Instagram models and they're perfect. I mean, they have perfect skin, they have a perfect body. And these young women are thinking, I, I'm never going to, I'm never going to look like that. Then we get into bullying. You know, kids before social media, they were bullied in real life, they were bullied at the lockers, they were bullied on the playground. And now these social media platforms are just the new medium for these kinds of messages and these kinds of bullying and this kind of comparison that is really setting kids up to fail. And the most concerning side effect of social media for kids is now their proximity to pedophiles and predators. Predators have instant access to victims via DM and other chat rooms. Sextortion schemes are carried out on social media platforms. Child sex abuse material is shared far and wide. People take social media photos and then they turn them into pornography. So we see this as a problem now. A lot of parents they want to share their child, their newborn, their toddler with the world. They want to share their first day of school photo. They want to share a birthday. All of these happy moments in their lives, all of these milestones. So then they post this photo on social media, and it gets a lot of likes, it gets a lot of shares. People can screenshot them. And even if you post your kid or your grandkid to your Instagram account, that might be private. You might only let family or friends follow you. That doesn't mean that these photos can't get into the wrong hands. You actually don't. You might think you know the people who follow you, but you don't. You can be wrong. You can be wrong about people. And I don't know the exact statistic, but in terms of pedophilia, I mean, you have to worry about the people in your inner circle. It's not so much the creepy guy at the park, it's people that you know. It's a pastor, it's a coach, it's a tutor, and it's a teacher. There are all of these instances. It's an uncle, it's an older brother. It's, you know, these people that you know and you are betrayed by them. And I think a lot of parents, not that they're. They want to be naive to this, but I think it's just easier to think, well, this will never happen to me, and no, not my family, and no, not my friends. And that's just. That's. It would never happen to me. It would never happen to my kid. My kid is safe. But it's really not. Your kids are not safe on social media. I don't really know why people post photos of their newborn babies. I don't know why people post photos of their toddlers. It's not necessary at all. And your kids can't really. I know this is getting a little intense, but your kids can't really consent to their photos being posted on the Internet. It's one thing to take photos and keep them in a family photo album for yourselves, but kids don't really have any understanding of what it means to have their photos on social media. And I guess this is a new phenomenon because when I was younger, I mean, parents weren't really on social media. They weren't posting baby pictures online. But I see videos on TikTok now of kids saying, oh, my gosh, my mom posts the most embarrassing photos of me from when I was little on Facebook. And now my friends are finding them, and then it turns into sort of more bullying. Um, but it's, it's quite concerning what happens when you post a photo. It might be innocent, might be a video, it might be innocent. And there are people online that can screenshot it. They can use AI to turn it into something that it isn't. And a Meta researcher actually blew the whistle on 500,000 child exploitation cases and every single day on its platforms. That's Facebook, that's Instagram, that's WhatsApp. That's a horrifying statistic. It really is. I mean, 500,000 per day, that's. I can't even wrap my head around that. This is just. In the US since 2023, there were over 40 lawsuits in this country. 40 states sued Meta accusing that it was failing to protect children. And now just recently, a jury in New Mexico, they have now found Meta guilty of this. And Meta is ordered to pay $375 million. They have found Meta guilty of putting profitability over the protection of children from sexual exploitation and Meta mental health harms. The jury found Meta liable for violating state consumer protection laws in hundreds of thousands of instances. Now Meta denies this and plans to challenge this verdict. And over the years, Meta has taken action to try to mitigate these issues. They have rolled out teen accounts. This was rolled out in 2024 and 2025. If you're a teenager, you can make an Instagram account, you can make a Facebook account, and it is private by default. You can't be followed by random people, strangers. There are limits on dms, there's limits on adult contact. There are parental controls in place, There are time limits and PG13 style content filtering. So if you make a teen account, if all of these metrics and all of these guardrails are working, it should be a safer environment for teens. Now, there's also been an issue with removing accounts that are leaving sexualized comments on the videos and content of minors. Meta says that they are doing this, but it is not foolproof. It is not 100%. They have also ruled out different tools to detect and report child sexual abuse material. They are restricting self harm content searches. So if a child is going through some kind of a depressive episode and they want to search a video on it, it's not going to come up. And they also have tools in place that alert parents on concerning activity if that is popping up on the accounts of their children. But critics say that these measures are not doing enough because kids are still coming into contact with predators and the issues persist. We also Saw this with Roblox. I did an episode recently on all of the predators that are on Roblox. That is a gaming platform, platform for children. Tons of children are on it, millions of children are on it. And there are again, other instances of predators making accounts. They are getting in contact with children, they are inviting them to meet them in real life, and they are abusing them in real life. So Roblox, same thing they have said, you know, we're putting all of these guardrails into place. You're not gonna, your, your kids aren't going to be able to DM strangers, things like that. It still happens, right? They ruled out all of these things in 2024, I think 2025. And there are cases as recent as this year, just, you know, a month ago, of kids going to meet adults that they met on Roblox. So it's not foolproof. And I don't believe in government bans. I don't really believe in government intervention. I hate the government and I hate when the government wants to play the role of the parent. But parents have to know these risks so that they can better protect their own children and grandchildren, nieces, nephews, et cetera. As much as we all want to blame Mark Zuckerberg for all of these problems, or blame, you know, Google or whatever the platform is, it's just not enough. You, it's not enough to point fingers at these people. It's not entirely their fault. There's going to be evil everywhere. You can't really rely on a platform to fix all of these issues that have plagued our society long before they even existed. So we have to do our parts first. And I believe in accountability. And if you want to keep your children safe, you have to do your part. Should Meta continue to put guardrails in place to make their app safer? Absolutely. I am all for it. But our society is deeply rotten. There are evildoers everywhere. There are pedophiles everywhere. Even if you think you live in the safest neighborhood, they could be right next door to you. And even if they don't live right next door to you, they can still talk to your kid. They can still, if they're not physically in your child's bedroom, they can be talking to them via a laptop, an iPad, a phone, a watch. That is a very scary reality that nobody wants to admit. But as soon as you let your child on social media and the Internet, it's a possibility. And can we raise the next generation of children and shelter them completely, completely from the Internet in 20, 26. Of course not. That's not realistic either. You know, having your kid grow up like the Amish is not going to work. You. You go to school and you have iPads in school, you have computers in school. I know. It's kind of a trend now. Parents are seeking out schools that don't have a lot of technology in them. And I think that's smart. But it's, again, not foolproof. There's no way to keep your kid off the Internet. And once you tell a kid no, and I know this because I once was a child that was told no, it makes you want to do it even more. It makes you want to go, oh, I'm not allowed to do this. Oh, don't touch the stove. It's hot. It makes you want to test this out yourself. And it doesn't mean that your kid is a bad kid. But if you tell your kid, hey, don't make a Facebook account, don't make an Instagram account, don't go on Snapchat, don't do this, they're going to want to do it. They're going to be curious, their friends are going to be on the applications, and then they're going to feel left out. So knowing what to look for can certainly help. Taking a quick break to tell you about our sponsor for today's show, Beam. Let me talk to you about something that doesn't get enough attention. Sleep. I bet you told yourself going into this year you were going to fix your sleep, but guess what? It's March. That means the New Year New Me energy has officially worn off. That is why Dream by Beam has become one of my non negotiables. Dream is made with a powerful blend of all natural ingredients. Reishi, magnesium, L theanine, apigenin, and melatonin. 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All right.
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Speaking of childhood trauma, remember when Democrats, they wanted to make Biden stutter this sweet little quirk about the president, like he overcame this massive obstacle, struggled his whole life, became President of the United States. It's a nice story, and he really leaned into it. Watch.
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Well, I was a kid, I was a relatively good athlete, a pretty good student, but I stuttered to talk like that. Now, if I told you all earlier when I was a kid, I had a cleft palate or club foot, none of you would have laughed. But it's okay to laugh at stuttering. I'm not being critical of you, but think about it. It's the one place where people think you're stupid. Oh, really? I'm a hell of a lot smarter than most of you.
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So he leaned into the stutter thing, and I don't know if that was just he happened to start stuttering, if he was faking his stutter in that moment to make a point, I don't know. But he certainly does struggle speaking. And in his old age, definitely, we watch that. And Democrats are using this strategy, seemingly to launch their potential 2028 bids for president. Apparently, it is chic and in vogue for Democrat politicians to whine about their childhood trauma. I think this is supposed to make them relatable. And with most liberals being depressed and saddled with trauma, maybe it will work. But this is the headline out of Axios. Dems Eyeing White House Lean into their childhood traumas. Some potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates are introducing themselves to voters in a striking way by documenting their childhood resentments, family chaos, and fights with their parents. Interesting. You hate your parents. I hate my parents. Why don't you vote for me for president? Your parents are divorced, My parents are divorced. We have that at common. Why don't you vote for me for president? So it's quite the strategy, but I don't know. We'll see. They highlighted a few different Democrats here, the first being Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Governor. And he wrote a book recently called Where We Keep the Light. And in that memoir, he wrote about how he had a happy childhood, but at times he grew up in an unhappy childhood home. And this all stemmed from his mother, who was unstable emotionally, and that he and his siblings sort of grew up in fear. And they thought that if they were really good and they were well behaved, they would stop the chaos and the yelling and in their home. And Shapiro notes that he wrestled with whether or not to discuss these private family matters in public, but then he did so because he said that this actually helped him in life. He overcame this trauma. And because he learned how to sidestep his mom's outbursts and things like that, it influenced his leadership style. So basically, he said that he learned how to problem solve, he knew how to anticipate a problem, and that made him a better politician. Is that true? Maybe. I mean, we're all who we are because of what we went through in life. We either overcome it or we lean into a victim mentality. And it seems like, at least in Josh Shapiro's stance, he's kind of doing the same. He's doing both. Right. Like he's leaning into the trauma, but he's also saying, I pulled myself up by my bootstraps, didn't let it bother me kind of a thing. Then they also talked about J.V. pritzker, Illinois governor. He has not written a memoir yet, but he has spoken openly about losing his father to a heart attack when he was seven years old. Then he lost his mother to alcoholism when he was 17. That is certainly traumatic experiences. That is a lot for a kid to go through before the age of 18. Losing both of your parents is. Is tragic. And I feel for him, and I guess he has opened up about that because he thinks that the more people that know this about him, they might maybe feel for him or they might be represented. Feel represented by that, oh, I went through the same thing. I've been through something similar. Maybe they'll pick up a voter or two because they've been through something similar. Then we get into Gavin Newsom territory where it's not that I don't believe that Gavin Newsom went through childhood trauma. I'm not in a place to say whether he did or didn't. I have no idea. But he does try to play this game where he grew up in this, you know, tough household. And he was. Yeah, he. He just didn't. I. I just don't believe it. But the California governor, this is what it says in the article. He's candid about his, at times fraught relationships with both parents, which he says left him caught between two worlds and fully accepted by neither. So he says that he doesn't really have a great relationship with neither one of his. Either one of his parents, which Might have explained the fact that when he's governor of California, both of his parents moved to Florida. You might remember Gavin Newsom at the time. I think when Gavin Newsom thought that Ron DeSantis was going to be the guy for the Republican Party, I mean, he made it a. A point to tear down Ron DeSantis at every chance that he got. He was very anti Ron DeSantis. So I think Gavin Newsom knew that he was going to run for president in 2028, even before then. Like, he knew who his potential. Com competitors were going to be, and he started to tear them down. But I remember that was hilarious because he was so anti Ron DeSantis. And, and you know, his parents, they got houses in Florida. Like a lot of people. They fleed blue states in order to get rid of or not deal with the COVID vaccine mandates and things like that. They wanted to live in a. A nice red state for a change. And Gavin Newsom's family, they were no different. So then Gavin Newsom, he has written a memoir recently called Young man in a Hurry. And of course, he recounts having dyslexia. That is a big problem for Gavin Newsom, apparently. And he also complained in his memoir about, you know, being raised by parents that didn't like him. He had a stepmom or. Oh, no, his mom was saying that, like, it's okay to be average. It's okay if you have. It's okay if you have a disability, a learning disability. It's okay to be average. And, you know, he talks in his memoir about how that really bothered him that he thought that his parents didn't like him or, you know, didn't accept him. And then he was, you know, struggling with his parents divorce. He had an absent father. And of course, all of this leads up to the infamous Gavin Newsom I can't read moment. Remember this?
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I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you, just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone. You know, trying to act all there if you got 940, but literally a 960sat guy. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.
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Does anyone believe that Gavin Newsome can't read? He can't read a speech. I don't. I don't believe that. Does being dyslexic make you racist? Does it make you a total grifter? Does it cause narcissistic tendencies like this? Gavin Newson posted this on social media recently within this week, saying that he looked like Patrick Bateman. Or I guess saying that. Next one, number seven, please. He said, for so many years, people have been saying that Patrick Bateman and I look alike. Now, this pick has been going all over the place. What do you think? And this is. That doesn't even look like Gavin Newsom on the left. It doesn't even look like him at all. It just. It looks fake. I don't even think that's a real photo of Gavin Newsom. But anyway, he puts himself next to Patrick Bateman, and I guess I could see a resemblance here. But it is funny that this is psycho, right? Who? Oh, he's an actor.
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It's the greasy hair that does it for me.
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It's the greasy hair. It's the clean cut. It's almost giving creepy. Like it's. It's, yeah, like clean cut, but it's almost like giving me the heebie jeebies at the same time. Like, it's scary. It just seems very sterile. And yeah, people in the chat are saying that it looks AI. So what Gavin Newsom was doing here. And I saw a lot of people on social media saying, oh, my gosh, Gavin Newsom. So narcissistic. How could he think so highly of himself? Why would he post this? Whatever. Well, it was actually inspired by one of President Trump's posts. But this was from 111 weeks ago, so this wasn't recent. But I'm assuming that this got kind of swept back up in the algorithm because President Trump just went to Graceland and got a tour. So maybe this got, you know, resurfaced on social media, if you will. But real Donald Trump, this is on his Instagram account. For so many years, people have been saying that Elvis and I look alike. Now, this pic has been going all over the place. What do you think the comments are like? No, you don't look like him. No, no, no. But this is why Gavin Newsom posted this. Gavin Newsom is obsessed with President Trump, the same that he. The same way that he was obsessed with Ron DeSantis when he thought that Ron DeSantis was going to be his competitor. He's obsessed with President Trump. And what's funny is Gavin Newsom isn't going to be running against President Trump, but he makes these just obsessive, competitive, like, over obsession. I don't even know the word. It's Like a hyper fixation right now with President Trump and everything that he does. He finds old posts of President Trump's just to craft his own social media posts in the same style as the President. He does this with President Trump's truth social posts. You know President Trump. Thank you for your attention to this matter. He writes a lot in all caps and. And Gavin Newsom does the same thing. It's so weird. It's giving stalker. And when Gavin does it, it falls flat. Get your own personality. People want to vote for someone who is genuine. And Gavin Newsom's entire existence is a facade. It's fake. He wants to come off as relatable. He's not. He wants to come off as this kid who struggled and built himself up from nothing. He had a silver spoon in his mouth. Sorry, I know he struggles to read, but there are worse things in the world. Struggling with dyslexia and making it his whole personality isn't the flex he thinks it is, especially when he uses it to call black people dumb. Then you contrast that with President Trump, who has a huge personality. People love his personality or they hate it, but people love him because at least even his haters know that he's real. He's not lying. This is exactly who President Trump is. And most people can see through Gavin Newsom's fake sob stories and probably the fake sob stories of these other Democrats that are running and saying that they grew up with such a hard life. Are people gonna buy it? I don't know. Certainly the Republicans, the pull yourself up by your bootstraps type, people are not going to fall for that. We don't like the whole victim mentality thing, but liberals love it. So maybe that'll work. Maybe it'll work to set themselves apart in a Democratic field of however many candidates are going to throw their hat in the ring, but maybe they'll. Whoever has the most childhood trauma will. Will get themselves to the White House or at least the. The nomination. It'll be interesting to watch. Moving on. Now, the CDC has put out a level one travel warning. This is as I see these headlines and I'm like, I get flashbacks from COVID and I'm thinking, no, never again. Right? Never again. We shouldn't have even had a travel warning or anything the first time. And, you know, we see how that worked out. Now this is happening again. This time because of dengue fever. American travelers are returning home with it. Great. So these travelers who are getting dengue fever are returning from, you guessed it, Afghanistan, Bangladesh. I heard it's gorgeous this time of year. Afghanistan. I don't know why people are taking trips there. Yeah. And I looked into this because I'm thinking, who is going to Afghanistan for a trip? Like if I could pick, you have anywhere in the entire world. You could have a globe and you could close your eyes and, and spin it and land it and you could go anywhere and it would be better than, you know, Taliban run Afghanistan. But I guess people are going there. And I looked into this and apparently the Taliban is really pushing tourism right now. They want more people to come visit. I can only imagine why. And I don't know who's falling for this. You have to be very stupid. But they, they want people to come to Afghanistan. I'm sure they want to make money with tourism. And during the Biden administration, this was like 20, 23. They, there were about 650 people traveling, Americans traveling to Afghanistan, and Now they're about 6,000. So whatever the Taliban is doing to get people to, to visit is, I guess, working. Maybe they're employing travel influencers to tell people that it's really not that bad. We really don't rape women. Like, we really don't, we really don't kill people that we, that we don't like. We're really not that bad of terrorists. Maybe there, maybe it's working. Anyway, these people, US Travelers returning with dengue fever from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Colombia, Pakistan, Vietnam, Samoa, Sudan, all over the place. So dengue fever, I have obviously heard of it, but I looked it up because I. What, what happens when you get dengue fever? Because I'm thinking if they're going to make a new Covid. Let me see what I need to start looking out for, right. It's spread by mosquitoes, high fever, severe headache, rash, joint and muscle pain, and most people recover. So just want to quell anyone's fears here. This is not a death sentence. One in 20 can develop a severe life threatening dengue fever, which requires hospitalization. But most people have symptoms for one to two weeks and then they, they make out all right. So I don't think we need to start closing anything down anytime soon. But I do find it funny now that especially the mainstream media, right, once there's like a little thing, they do this with measles, they do this with every. Once there's an uptick in cases. It's like they start pointing the fingers at the unvaccinated. They start pointing the fingers at the Trump administration, RFK Jr. Whoever. It's like this, this stuff happens. So Anyway, I just thought that was funny. But then speaking of travel, United has come out with this new advertisement. They are pushing this lay flat kind of a situation where you could lay flat with a mattress over three seats. And this is going to be available starting in 2027. Goodbye armrests, they say. And then they're going to give you a mattress and a blanket and a pillow. No, I'm out on this. Sorry, I'm out on this.
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Why? I like it.
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We'll have to talk about this because this can only go wrong. This can only go wrong. Like tell me why you like it.
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I like to sleep. What do you mean? It's comfortable?
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Yeah, it's comfortable. I think for one person. I don't want to watch a couple canoodling on the airplane.
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Well, but you're sleeping so you're not going to watch it.
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Who's sleeping?
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Everyone.
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I don't sleep on airplanes. If I'm next to a couple cuddling, I'm going to be mad. And cuddling is like best case scenario, worst case scenario, you know, people are going to do other things. And then I saw the comments. People were like, I have, I have two autistic kids. Like this is great. They don't have to sit in a chair. It's like how. Okay, maybe, I guess there are situations. Then someone asked, hey, am I gonna be able to bring my dog and do like a lay flat and sit with my dog? And United said no. So I don't know. And then people were joking, like, can I buy the seat underneath the bed for an even more discounted price? Like below cabin? It would be like goblin level. I saw someone joking about it. I don't know. I think this is gross. Like this can only go wrong in my opinion. And if you want three seats, buy them then. I don't know, I just think it's what I want to lay flat on an airplane. Yes. But then I think go get a first class seat. Like go, go get a lay down seat.
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Yeah, I'm sure it will be three times the price. Just like on like Spirit.
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You don't think that this is going to be. You don't think that this is going to be expensive?
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I think it's just going to be 3x the price of.
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That's what I'm saying. Right. I think it's weird. Also, who's cleaning the mattress? Who's cleaning the sheets? Who's like, I think this is all gross. It's all going to be like individually packaged. It's going to kill the environment. Listen to me. I'm like turning into a liberal. I think this is gross. People are saying that I'm jealous of happy couples. I actually, I, I like seeing happy couples. I don't like pda. I think tasteful PDA is fine. I just know that people aren't tasteful because I've seen how people act in airports and it's an abomination. So I know that after eight airport mimosas and after they fist fight a flight attendant, they're probably going to try to do something nefarious in the lay down flat seat, if I had to guess, just because I know how people act and it's not right. So call me jealous if you want. I think I'm being a realist. That's, that's what I'm saying. But technology is evolving and delivery drivers are already being replaced by robots. But the ones that are still in human form are starting to wreak havoc in lower Manhattan, and many of them are Muslim migrants. This is a crazy headline. Hundreds of delivery drivers hanging outside East Village mosque, overwhelming locals, forcing New York City businesses to close. So the New York Post is reporting that hundreds of Muslim delivery drivers, they are congregating outside of the Islamic Council of America Medina mosque. And this is in lower Manhattan in the East Village. And locals are pissed off. And multiple small businesses in the area have shut down in recent months. Residents are saying that they are complaining to the city and nobody's listening to them. Their cries for help, nobody cares. And of course, no one in Momdanistan is going to care that there are Muslim people praying and which praying is fine. But in and out of this mosque, they're all over the, the sidewalks. All of their delivery bikes are all over the sidewalks. They've got hundreds of electric bicycles piled along the curb. People can't walk their dogs, they can't walk their families. There's a smell because of food. And they are all, you know, it's just, they're congregating and it's, they're tossing trash. Apparently it's smelling now. They toss their trash. And now there's, there's an army of rats around this place. And again, the real estate in this area is astronomically expensive as most of the real estate in New York City. But you could buy a townhome for about $15 million. And then you have, you know, an army of rats outside because all of these hundreds of delivery drivers are throwing their food everywhere. Then the New York Post was kind of posted up outside. I'm sure they sent A reporter, and they were just looking in the neighborhood. And again, they saw hundreds of people.
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C
And.
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B
And then they saw that two people set up an alfresco barber shop offering fresh cuts and shaves outside. I don't want people to shave their faces outside on the sidewalk. I want you to do that at home in your bathroom, in the private of your own bathroom. I do not want to see that outside. I don't want it to be next to the food cart with my hot dogs. Like, this is all gross to me. Then people are apparently sunbathing outside. So they got their shirts off. Like, what is happening? That I. I would be so angry if that was in my neighborhood. Just gross. Then we have human delivery drivers. Then we have robot delivery drivers, and they're not good either. So this happened in Chicago. And these robot delivery drivers are getting in different kinds of trouble. So here's the delivery driver crashes into the glass bus stop, and its reaction time is just very slow. You could see it. It's crashing into the glass, and then it's blinking, and then it backs out and it just goes along with its day. It's got glass all over it. What a nightmare. This is just a nightmare. How is this better than a human being? Like, I know human being delivery drivers come with their problems, but how is this any better? A human being, I guess, can walk into glass, not see where they're going, and break the glass. I'm. That's a possibility. But how many times does that happen? Then you have robot delivery drivers. I don't know who they're being controlled by, if it's remote control and there's a human being somewhere, or if it's just all automated, I don't know. But I. I'm thinking that a human being wouldn't have gotten into this debacle. And a human being can kind of pivot a little faster. A human being can call for help and not just, you know, hit and run the bus stop, break it, and then leave. It's just ridiculous. And it's not just delivery drivers who are going to be replaced. It's also fast food workers. Take McDonald's, for example. Just a few years ago, they unveiled a location in Fort Worth, Texas, that was completely run by robots and AI. And then a year later, they did away with the AI ordering systems because apparently it was going so poorly. Like, all the orders were coming out way wrong. I read an example, and someone said that they ordered something saying, no butter, and then the AI robot handed them just like a stick of butter, which isn't on the McDonald's menu, but it looks like they're trying again. And I haven't been to a McDonald's in forever. If I have, it was through a drive thru. So I've only dealt with humans in some capacity. I haven't been inside a McDonald's or any kind of fast food restaurant in a long time. But inside the stores they have apparently done away with human face to face ordering. Everything is on a screen, which is not new technology. But you're, you have the humans in the back that are preparing the food, although they are coming out with robots that are kind of doing the food preparation themselves. That hasn't been rolled out yet. But I know, I've seen videos of robots making the french fries and things like that. And it takes way longer than a human being. If you've ever been to a McDonald's you see the people, they throw the fries in the bag super fast. If you've seen, you know, President Trump in there, it's quick. You know, you just, you get a groove going. But with the robots it's like very intentional. And you watch it, it's going to slow everything down. But whatever. In Shanghai, McDonald's is testing out humanoid robots to take the place of human employees. Watch this. So there's a robot that is playing with some kids, taking orders, delivering orders. And then here's the humanoid dressed as a freaking chef, waving at people. Unnecessary. It's just unnecessary. I think people, they do these things because they think it's going to be cool. Not so much that it's going to be better for the environment or better for efficiency purposes. I just think they're doing it because they just do it for the sake of saying, oh, we have a humanoid robot doing this and that isn't that cool? That's how I feel about the waymos. Nobody's asking for self driving cars. It is just look at what we're doing, it's cool. And then don't worry about all the issues that it's having. Just look, we did it. That's what this is all about. So in the future, McDonald's says that they're going to have fully automated, staffless McDonald's locations. And that might soon become a reality. And a single store might require very few human employees. This is kind of like when you see it, self checkout. If you go to like a Walgreens or a CVS or something, they have a self checkout or multiple self checkouts and then they have a human being standing there kind of Monitoring it. How many times have you been there and you're at a self checkout and something goes wrong and then the person's there with the key and then they have to come over and then they have to help you and then they have to push the buttons on the thing. It's like, what are we doing? I just think it's more frequently going to be the case that a service like this is going to malfunction and you're going to need a human to step in to fix it. Then here's an example of just how this thing can go awry. Not that this is so horrible, but this humanoid robot was at a hot pot restaurant in California and it just started uncontrollably dancing. They couldn't get it to stop. Stop. They couldn't get it to stop. There's three human beings trying to get this robot to stop dancing, banging all the plates on the table, causing a ruckus, waving his hands in the air like you just don't care. Someone in the chat said someone hacked it. I mean, maybe people are. Yeah, it's just for the novelty. It is just. What is the purpose of this? Nobody's really asking for this. If I'm at a restaurant and a robot comes over and bangs his fists on the table and my food goes flying, I'm not going to be like, wow, this is so cool. I'm going to say, get that thing away from me.
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F
I am the demographic for this. I love it.
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B
You would love this. You love the lay down seats on the United. You're very forward thinking. You like the, you like the technology evolving. I appreciate that.
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F
Kim and I, that's my wife, we went to hot pot was like two weeks ago and they had one of these little robots. They did, yeah, yeah. Not, not a dancing one. It was like the McDonald's one. Like a Roomba, like an evolved Roomba.
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B
Yeah, yeah.
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F
It only delivered drinks. Right. But I only wanted to order a drink to see the robot do it.
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B
Right.
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F
It plays the music and has like little cat ears. I don't know. I think it's cool. Maybe I'm a five year old inside.
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B
No, I, I think there is a part of it that's cool. Cool. But then I feel like the novelty is going to wear off. And I think once robots start dropping drinks or, you know, the wheels get stuck or something and then the glass breaks, it's like you're more willing to forgive a human being for making a mistake. I feel like when a robot messes up, it's like, you know, like, you have to fix this technology. Right? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe I'm just cynical and in a bad mood. This next headline though, this is in the UK and apparently squirrels are caught vaping out in the parks. And you know, after Covid, people were saying, nature is healing, Nature is healing. And just at about five, six years, we're, we're already back. We're back and we're worse than ever. Squirrels are vaping E cigarettes after mistaking the fruity aromas for food. This is horrible. Then of course they interview a member of the RSPCA and said that this video of, of a squirrel vaping, this is a stark reminder of the danger discarded litter poses to our wildlife. Then they interviewed this guy. He's a red squirrel expert. His name is Craig Shuttleworth. This is so uk. Craig Shuttleworth, like, this is obviously someone in the uk. He's a red squirrel expert at Bangor University. And he said that the squirrel was probably attracted to this vape. And because of the fruity flavor. If you've ever gotten stuck behind someone vaping and then you get this whiff of watermelon air, it's like I could just gag thinking about it. I don't like the smell of cigarettes, but I don't like the smell of bubble gum in my face either. It's just gross. Like, it's all gross. Why are we doing this? People peg it as like, oh, this is healthier than cigarettes. You can't tell me that this is a healthy alternative. It's disgusting. You're. You're breathing in chemicals. I just think all this is gross.
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F
So Mr. Shutterworth is a red squirrel expert.
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B
That's red squirrel expert at Bangor University.
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A
Not just a squirrel expert.
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B
That is something that it's like, you ask a three year old, what do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a red squirrel expert. I feel like that's something that a kid would say and he's living out his dreams.
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F
I'm happy someone in chat said it's a quite racist. Right?
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B
Only red squirrels. You know, there are black squirrels too. Huh? I guess you're not interested in those. Craig Shuttleworth got the albino ones too. Yeah. What the heck? What the heck, Craig? Why stop at red squirrels? They need DEI in the red. In the squirrel research community. This is what they need. So anyway, Craig Shuttleworth says, quote, eating a vape isn't part of their natural diet. No kidding. The components aren't something they encounter. Encounter in nature. No kidding. He Said they could not add it and consume some of the microplastics. Yeah. Do yourself a favor and stop vaping. And it just quit. It's not good for you. It's not healthy. It's not a better alternative. Just quit. And then when you do quit, throw them out safely so that our squirrels are not getting them. Okay. Nature is healing. Let's get into scrolling time. All right, I have to warn you all that this scrolling time is brain rot central. If you want something insightful, you can just click close out. And I'll see you tomorrow. This is brain rot city. And this AI Fruit sensation has totally taken over. Tick Tock. And this is how it started. Watch.
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C
I'm rice. If you cook me and then keep me in the fridge, bacteria can grow fast and upset your stomach. Be careful. I'm a tomato. Cold ruins my flavor and texture, making me bland and mealy. I stay best at room temperature. I'm bread. The fridge dries me out quickly. And that's how I go stale. I last much better. Outside, I'm honey. Cold makes me crystallize and harden. And I lose my smooth, natural flow. Room temperature keeps me just right. I'm a potato. Cold turns my starch into sugar and affects how I taste and cook. I keep best in a cool, cool, dark place. I'm an onion. The fridge makes me soft and damp, and I spoil faster. That way, I keep longer outside. Ives garlic.
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B
Yeah. This is the fruit leering center at Tick Tock University. So these started to go viral, and people were, you know, hey, I learned something. I already knew that rice could make you sick. You know, if you reheat rice and stuff, that makes you sick. I already knew that, but. And I already knew that you don't put tomatoes in the fridge and certain things like that. But, you know, this is. It's a learning experience. Okay, so this goes viral, and people say it's very cute. And people liked the tiffs. Then it turned into this. Watch.
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A
What have you done? Water Molina. Go away from here. Go away, flatulence woman. You can never be the mother of my child.
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B
Aplon, Please forgive me. My husband Aplon, threw me out of the the house just because of one fart. Now where will I spend the night? Finds a new.
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A
You are not worthy of my luxury home, Flatulence lady. What do you want to say in your defense? Water Molina.
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B
Your Honor, please forgive me. I promise I will not do this again. Guys, I'm sorry. I warned you. This is gonna be brain rot central. So we go from the Cute little baby AI. Fruits and vegetables, teaching you things. And then all of a sudden they're not teaching you anything anymore. Now it is full brain rot. Full send on the brain rot. And now you know the watermelon is farting so much that she can't keep a man. Tragic. Now they're gonna start cheating on each other. Watch this. I'm heading to my basketball session.
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A
Bye, Water Mama.
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B
Have fun, Water Mama. Does Mama even like basketball?
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C
I don't know.
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B
I have to follow her. I need to know the truth.
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A
I'm glad you came, Water Mama.
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B
Of course, Daddy.
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G
Nana.
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B
But no one can find out. Especially my husband. You're way better than my chopped husband. Brutal.
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C
Do this to Watermelon Dad.
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B
I have to show him.
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C
She getting that banana.
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B
Come on, let's go to the car where no one can see us and have some fun.
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C
Papa, you need to see this.
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B
I'm sorry. Hey guys. Sorry I'm late. Basketball ran late. Had two basketballs all in my face. It was heaven. I mean hard. I mean horrible.
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A
Baby, who is this banana?
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B
I, I, I can explain. I'm so sorry.
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A
Need to pack up and leave. Say goodbye to your kids. They ain't having no.
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B
It's a lot of fruit. Getting kicked out of the house for. For different reasons. And the A.I. you know, they come up with the. Or they try to come up with these different story lines. They're all the same. It's just different fruits. It's peaches cheating on strawberries and whatever. So this is obviously ridiculous, right? But people are totally addicted to watching these videos. And people are saying, you know, I don't know why I'm watching this video to the end, but here I am. I need to have my phone taken away from me. Like, this is crazy. Like, why am I watching this? And it's even getting political. This is. People are actually waking up to the trans lunacy via watermelina and these AI fruit videos. Watch this.
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F
Do we have to?
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B
Yeah.
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A
I need to tell you something. I'm not a lemon. I'm a potato.
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B
What did you just say?
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A
That's not funny. You're a lemon, son.
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B
Why was I born a lemon? If I feel like a potato one day I'll become what I really am. Potato themed.
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A
Look, it's the potato lemon.
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B
He thinks he's a potato.
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A
One day I will be. You want a full potato transformation surgery?
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B
Yes.
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A
This operation is extremely dangerous. Your parents must approve it. This surgery will never happen.
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B
You're perfect the way you are. Perfect. I'm living in the wrong body based parents. If they won't help me, I'll find another way. My parents thought he was going to jump off the building.
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A
Please do the surgery anyway. Are you absolutely sure? There's no turning back.
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B
I've been ready my whole life. He's still just a child.
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A
Why didn't we see how much he was suffering? Begin the transformation. Finally I'll become a potato. Why are you digging?
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B
Because potatoes live underground style now. I'm finally home. We have trans fruit now. So life imitates art. Art imitates life. You get it? This is absolutely ridiculous, right? I have a point to my. I have a method to my madness. Now. People in the comment section are saying, see how, see how insane this looks to have trans fruit. See? Crazy to think that this is all happening in my fridge. Us watching this right now. People in, in, in chains. This is someone's real life. By the way. They get in the fruits confused. I have a feeling this isn't about food. We went too far. Are we dead ass? And yeah, like this is. This is just insane. This is. This is how we've gotten here, right? So now people are saying that they are essentially preying on empathetics. They are people who are empaths because people feel bad for the fruits. And if we could just play video 22. This woman has a theory that these AI videos are industry plants. There's a reason for this. Watch.
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H
Cheating AI fruit videos aren't going viral immaculately all on their own. I think it's big tech content farming and of course it's about fruit. It's literally an industry plant. One of the ways you can tell something's an industry plant is if it suddenly appears without explanation. There's no backstory, there's no origin point. All of a sudden your for you page is completely saturated. I did a little archaeological excavation and the earliest Relic of an AI fruit cheating video I could find was around March 1st or 2nd. It's very coincidental, I think, think that it started at the beginning of the month. And on that day I found hundreds of videos, but virtually nothing before then. Now you don't think that an AI company that can.
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B
So it just happened out of nowhere, right? So there are big tech companies and AI companies that are flooding the feeds starting just a month ago with these AI videos. And they're gaining a lot of traction. And a lot of the traction I think at first was bots. They buy. These AI companies are buying bots to interact with these videos. They're probably buying Views and buying followers. And then there are humans that are getting caught up in this because they see that this video has, you know, 200,000 likes. Whoa, I have to watch it that I fall for that all the time. Like, oh, I don't want to watch this video. But so many people have liked it. There has to be a reason. Maybe I'll watch through to the end. Maybe there's a reason why people are watching this video. And normally when it's a human posting content, there is a reason. Maybe something funny happens at the end of the video. And that's natural for humans to be attracted to something that is going viral. But these AI companies are creating this content that is just total brain rot stupidity. And people are watching it until the end. And now it has become this thing where people are totally, totally bought in on these AI storylines. I'm going to cancel Netflix. I want to watch this AI Fruit saga. It's crazy. So then here's another conspiracy theory about why these AI companies might be posting this content. Watch.
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G
Sometimes I really do think that their grandmaster plan in the end is to just get us all real good and dumb. So by the time Neuralink really hits the streets, some of you literally won't have a choice. You will lose the ability to do simple shit like drink water and open doors. You will actually need narrowing. I know it sounds far fetched, but I look around and I really can see that for a lot of you, it's not ridiculous. It's not ridiculous to say that that many of you are a lot closer than you think because what the fuck are you doing watching Fruit AI Fruit Love Island? You are a waste of space. I'm sorry, I know it sounds harsh. I'm, I'm sorry that the community guidelines inhibit me from sounding harsher.
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B
No, this is true. Because I thought the same thing. I'm thinking, why is this going so viral? Why are people watching the AI Fruit cheat on each other? This is stupid. Because it is stupid. But they want to make us dumb. Who's they? Right, like, I don't know, I'm just saying they want to make us dumb, these AI companies. But our social media, our plot, these platforms are making us. And this kind of brings us back to my monologue. In the beginning, there are all these negative effects from using social media. They make us reliant on them. They are like drugs to us. And our brains are adapting to this kind of video content. This is short. Our attention spans are much shorter. And soon enough we are going to be so dumb we are going to be so reliant on technology and social media that, yeah, once a neuralink comes around, people are going to be lining up to get it because. Because they are so dumb, they're not going to be able to function on their own. We're already seeing this with children that grew up with iPads. IPad kids can't have conversations, they can't look people in the eye, they can't entertain themselves, they can't play outside. They are so reliant on these things. We are going to get to a point, and I'm not trying to sound conspiratorial, we are going to get to a point where we are so dumb and we are so reliant on technology that there is no other way to exist but to have it all around us. We are going to be so reliant on it. We are going to have these humanoid robots in our phones, in our homes. We are going to be so reliant on them because our brains aren't going to cut it anymore. I'm going to leave it there. Thank you for scrolling along with me leaving on such a depressing note. But thank you for scrolling along with me. I had fun today. I hope you did, too. And you could follow me on social media at Haley Carania. I'm on TikTok, Instagram, Truth Social X, Facebook, and I'll see you right back here tomorrow. Bye.