Real or not, I still say not calling it "AI Wrangler" is a major miss...

"Y'know, I've been thinking... The app is missing a couple of things, like This, and That, and it should also do This after That, but not That after This, and maybe even navigate to The Other Thing after 3 Launch events, while also not doing that if the user is under a Pisces moon in the 4th Year of Wilting..."

"So... you want a Rate the App pop-up with specific trigger conditions?"

"What?! No! I want one of those prompts with the stars and the redirect to the Store which lets people post reviews of the app, what are you even talking about?!"

AI Junior Dev: short-circuits

Jesus Christ, what do they even talk about?! Like, I'm not one to judge, but the dude's old enough to be her dad (heck, even older as you've indirectly said!), I have trouble relating to people ten years younger than me...

I can imagine this is deeply uncomfortable. But hang in there, maybe she's just figuring some things out with herself.

Just want to add that we shouldn't neglect word of mouth as a useful transmission vector. Anecdotal, but I've started dropping the idea in conversations with the people I know (most conversations inevitably drift to the state of things, so it's not that hard to squeeze it in), and most started focusing on that. A couple of explanations and memes later, and they started reconsidering their shopping habits.

I think we're reaching the point where the level of degradation is high enough to be immediately noticeable, which means people are becoming receptive, if only through survival mechanisms. As you've said, most people are simply functioning based on incomplete data, and this particular boycot is like a lite variant, mildly irksome at best. Easier to switch from Coke to American Cola (I'm not kidding, this is an actual fizzy Coke clone made by European Drinks - now discontinued, I believe...), or whatever else there is.

I do completely agree that a public, official campaign for this would speed things along greatly. I'd second trying to see if Volt wouldn't be interested in including this idea in some of their campaigns. Could also talk to local councils/whatever form of local government is available about this, maybe it could even merge with promoting local products in some areas (my home town has a lot of supermarkets which import apples, even though it's actually pretty renown for its apple orchards and natural apple juice, it's downright stupid...). This would imply creating some reading material at least, but wouldn't need to do much more than explain the movement, then send the readers to an accessible (and mobile-friendly!) web page with more info ("buyeuropean.eu" has a nice vibe to it).

Edit: another long shot would be trying to talk to local businesses and see if they won't carry some info material, like have a "Pop!" poster with the concept somewhere, or even carry pamphlets. Most local businesses are very good nodes for transmission because everyone knows the local shopkeep, and the local shopkeep knows everyone. Sure, it's not in their immediate interest to have people refusing to buy their stock of American products, but the process should be slow enough to allow them to adjust their suppliers. A 1-2 month timeline, thereabouts. Unless they have longer-term contracts, but I don't know how those stand now that Liberation Day has happened [Heh, remember ~~Michael Bay's~~ Emmerich's (my brain is melting...) Independence Day? Yeah, they called it Liberation Day, too. Better plot than IRL...]

Edit 2: I'm an idiot! These exist, apparently. Yeah, we need a campaign=)))

By ""discreetly"" starting to kiss Trump's ass a little while after he'd win. Yes. We know. Let's stick with Europe, though, please? Like, seriously?

This whole console exclusive thing is getting on my nerves more and more as time goes by...

Fair enough, but the fact that we have to circumvent official channels in order to do so says a lot about said official channels, y'know?

Seriously, human existence is a collective learning experience, Stagnation started rubbing its hands with perverse delight the instant we forewent vulnerability and openness for excesive individualism.

Edit: I still don't know how to adequately open up to someone else, after a decade of trying to figure it out. After being raised to be a soulless performance machine and being surrounded by people who cave in to the grindset, I don't know what it means to be open and vulnerable with another person.

And it sucks so much long-term, I can feel it as though I'm being held back several grades, like I'm completely missing the point of my own lived experience and have no idea what to do with it, because I don't have the framework of a big picture atop which to analyse things, and I think that framework would be having enough perspectives which aren't my own in my life.

I've finally understood what Alan Watts said, that we can't know ourselves unless we have other people around to help us see who we aren't. It's because we know too well who we are, but not knowing who we aren't, that's like trying to understand fire without knowing ice.

Well, a B&E is pretty much always a bad idea, imo. My advice would be to hang on to that key and try to discuss a repatriation of goods with him. You two could work out a way to do this with minimal face-to-face interaction if things are still a bit too raw. You can then "oh, I just remembered about this" the dupe key back to him.

If this doesn't work out, then a B&E stops being a bad idea.

Coming from Trump and his ilk, that's a compliment. Fuck you, too, orange buddy.

How are they with parking lots, tho'?

I hate that I started hearing Gungans explaining 1984 to me now...