Oh I’m not implying, I’m directly stating it.

If you cannot go 24 hrs, 48 hrs, a week, without using a phone for anything other than making actual phone calls on it, you have a problem and need, at bare minimum, a hobby.

I’d suggest reading whole books.

There is so much literature on how massive (especially shortform) social media use destroys your ability to concentrate, lessens your attention span, causes addiction, and is intentionally designed to cause addiction.

Its literally come out in court, fairly recently.

If you can’t hit pause on this on your own, yeah, you need help.

At this point, I don’t know where that help is going to or should come from, but I know an addict when I see one.

Because I am one.

I’m addicted to nictoine, I start getting real pissy around the 24 hr cold turkey mark.

I certainly would count myself amongst those who would need actual help to actually quit.

Difference here being, my nicotine habit isn’t and wasn’t tolerated or accepted in public school, I did that shit to myself, a decade afterward, as a legally/socially self responsible adult.

I mean, the scene with Bardok… like… the amount of curvature of the planet you can see behind them…

Nah, they’re in the equivalent of roughly MEO, like GPS Satellite altitude.

Assuming gravity is still the same basic thing, no, no they are not in any kind of substantial atmosphere, unless we’re going with ‘Saiyans can breathe trace amounts of hydrogen or helium’.

I do not know how it is portrayed in the manga vs the anime.

I think its just rule of cool in this scene, but yeah its kinda… nonsense.

Unless there is some kind of… sci-fi bio modifaction of … many? of Freiza’s soldiers going on, that somehow enables them to … not need to breathe, amongst other extraodinary capabilities for beings that seemingly originally developed on some kind of planet, with some kind of atmosphere.

https://dbzeta.net/threads/how-was-bardock-able-to-breathe-in-space.19947/

Apparenty the scene isn’t actually depicted in the manga, and most of these peeps are going with ‘well there is still technically some atmosphere’ to which I would say No, not without rewriting the laws of physics.

On Earth, you have 1 atm of pressure at sea level, 10^-7 atm of pressure at 100km altitude.

MEO is like 2000 to 35000km altitude.

Its well into ‘hard vacuum’, where we can’t really even meaningfully measure ‘atmospheric pressure’.

I assumed the joke was mercury poisoning.

Seafood tends to be higher in mercury than many other kinds of food, its the most common way that people get mercury poisoning these days.

And… degredation of motor coordination, speech ability… just basicslly all of your neurology in general… are things that mercury poisoning can do.

… It recognized itself as a security threat.

Well… I mean … technically its not wrong…

Uh wait uh Mr Jacket Clown Man, wasn’t this kind of your plan?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/03/25/trump-taps-zuckerberg-huang-and-ellison-for-white-house-ai-panel-report-says/

You… you’re on the advisory panel.

For AI policy.

… ?

In the future, memory will cost nothing because we will just assume no human beings have any.

• Mr Jacket Clown Man, at some point, presumably.

Wow I hate you and I hate this.

… A+++ shitpost.

I mean like I have a local LLM and essentially I use it as a coding assistant, but more accurately I’m doing a study of what kinds of errors these things produce more frequently and in which cases.

Its essentially a hobby that sates my curioisty and occasionally produces semi complex, working code.

… This is apparently, to MSFT, not only production ready, but ‘meta-production ready’.

Oh well, it certainly is funny.

Well that’s surprisingly straightforward.

Sam Seder can out comedian him by literally just describing a thing Breuer decided to do.

I have seen a video from him that actually caused me to laugh out loud, so yes, he’s pretty good aka amazingly better than most of what somehow gets categorized as ‘comedy’ these days.

I almost want to say Elephant Graveyard, but… he’s arguably more of like an anti-comedian, but… I have such a dark sense of humor at this point that… yeah he might as well just be an actual comedian, making jokes about how horrifying the broad state of comedy is.

… But he doesn’t like do stand up or w/e so idfk.

I mean I’ve felt this way for the last 10 or 15 years.

Oh, well, most adults being paid to pefrom their role, their tasks and duties, at a job, most of them are essentially de facto capable of role modelling proper phone usage, otherwise they’d be fired.

You just don’t use it while you’re actively working, you know, actively engaged in the act of teaching a lesson, overseeing a lab day, etc.

If a teacher was constantly on their phone, while they’re supposed to be teaching, they’d get reported and reprimanded and eventually fired.

This isn’t disingenuous, to hold this assumption… this is how things have worked for a long time.

Yeah, yeah a construction or transport crew should also have restrictions on distracted driving or otherwise operating a multi ton vehicle, yes, same as a forklift operator.

They should be fired if they egregiously violate safety protocols.

Systems exist and have existed to do this.

The problem that is going on in schools is that a combination of over-exhausted and underpaid teachers, combined with incompetent/corrupt admins have just looked the other way on this for so long that its become a problem not only in schools, but also all the places those kids who went to those schools go after they’ve graduated.

The solution is not to equivocate, the solution is having higher standards.

And just to be clear: addictive behaviors and patterns start in adolescence, and then progress and worsen and broaden when they are not identified and addressed.

This is … very widely the consensus of all kinds of studies into all kinds of addiction.

So having teachers model proper usage of the useful but potentially very addictive device… is arguably the most important area of society to do this with.

If you want a society that isn’t constantly distracted by their rectangles… you should exemplify to them how to properly use the rectangles from a young age.

But also:

The longer the Hormuz conflict goes on, the more oil and gas prices go up. The more shipping costs go up.

The more everything costs go up, if ‘everything’ is classed as ‘basically anything you might regularly purchase’.

So… they’re now in quite a bind, because their possible purchasers, their target demo, are actively and rapidly becoming poorer, as time goes on.

I could have sworn that the Freiza/Goku battle involves them both or each being in space, outside of the atmosphere of Namek, for at least small periods of time.

Yeah, the Freiza race can just exist in space, but I thought there were some scenes of Goku being in space for at least longer than a normal human could possibly survive.

… and then of course in the battle between Bardock and Freiza, Bardock, despite not being a Super Saiyan… along with a lot of other people… just full on have a battle in space above planet Vegeta.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rBb3TsrV4ps

So… I’m going with the coherence/canonicity of ‘who can breathe in space’ is… kinda nonsense, lol.

I do think it would be very funny for there to be a fashion trend of just, your entire outfit is your astonishingly overpriced ‘luxury’ handbag.

I’m sorry, is there a massive problem of adult teachers and staff at school being constantly glued to and distracted by their phones such that it prevents them from teaching and doing what they are otherwise there to do?

No?

… Maybe the critics can ask ChatGPT what a false equivalence is.

We had early smart phones back I was in high school.

We also had this rule.

Its fine.

If its not fine, you have an addiction problem, and should seek help.

Apologies for further 'image recursion’ing this but:

Typically, a url that points to an image is automatically displayed as an image, and then you also seem to have put the image in the body of the post as well.

In a (rare for me) defense of Boomers, goddamn, the one dude I knew who learned COBOL on his GI Bill out of Vietnam…

that man was a fucking wizard.

He actually cackled to me when he told me how C Suite knew he was retiring in 6 months, they were not planning on hiring a replacement for him… he was planning on being hired back as a contractor within 2 years, seeing as he personally built the company’s entire transaction accounting payroll and billing systems in the mid 70s, and no one else had any idea how any of it worked.

… For an international logistics company, with over 100 offices all over the world.

But yes, the rest of the Boomers csn go back to Minions memes and being catfished by AI Brad Pitt or whatever it is they do these days on the 'puter.

I mean, the joke is so painfully obvious:

Epic Fail.

… its too late, we already put the gnome in the rocket.