For some, yes, for others it’s just stuff that takes up space. The reality of today is there’s often not going to be the financial capacity to hold onto much. Boomers had excess space because they could afford big houses with large garages and outbuildings on large tracts of land.

Even a quarter acre plot is large by today’s shithole subdivision standards. Garages are reduced down to barely fit a vehicle, and driveways likely won’t hold the length of a full sized truck. Basements have been taken away. Shared walls instead of yards on single family townhomes instead of homes.

Even on antiques roadshow, unless it’s Tiffany, knick knacks and general clutter without use items are continuously down in price.

Few have the luxury of space any more.

Take a trip through the online auction markets. Not warehouse returns/junk, just the estate dissolutions with on site pickups after purchase. Or companies like CTBids that operate nationally and do estate downsizing for elderly selling their houses for assisted living situations or small condos, in addition to full estate auctions.

You’re scrolling pages and pages of “crap” inheriting families were going to toss out or things they couldn’t afford to store and keep.

A bit voyeuristic, but you’ll quickly see what people value now. China? No. You can’t use it because you can’t microwave it. Lots of knick knack crap selling for under $5, life collections and such. The useful stuff bids up pretty high. Tools. Even expired MREs. Not collections.

The real prize is the house, and the auction house clears the valuables turned clutter from it faster than families can.

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I like it when AI bots use Reddit for answers, it openly demonstrates its faults.

What’s awesome is it’s not always right. Wikipedia blurbs are exactly what some are looking for and it does do that, nvm the fact that Wikipedia still gets it wrong sometimes.

Argue with it to correct it and it never disagrees with you.

I’ve found myself arguing with both healthcare staff and healthcare consumers about using this crap to answer their questions, both in the last month.

Healthcare blushes then spins it as they’re using the listed sources not the ai blurb. Sure.

Healthcare consumers are getting defensive, unlike past use of WebMD. The latter was most often sheepishly chuckled over. AI, I’m finding, is being fiercely defended, like it’s a trusted family doctor of the past 20 years.

My personal favorite was the guy who specifically used his chatGPT sub to sort out the meaning of his labs for him. When gently reminded to be careful with using AI for definitive answers, the guy bristled stating: it hasn’t gotten it wrong yet. Sir, if you don’t know the right answer, such that your consulting chatGPT for the answer, how would you know if it’s getting it right?

But he’s committed. He has a sub.

Steven Hawking dies and the world gets buried in AI slop.

I ask people every now and then, the theme of the answer is similar: one stop shopping, it’s easier than looking elsewhere, answering with the question where else am I going to go? People tend to take the shortest path between A and B.

There are some things you can only find there, sure, but there’s more of a shopping dopamine hit if you look around. Other retailers do exist. Most of the time you can find it elsewhere.

I’m talking the plain, standard cup of coffee.

Work is whatever. Their computers are theirs. It’s the home PCs that require better quality.

Starbucks usually tastes like someone scraped the char of a heavily used grill and used the particulates as coffee grounds.

Ok, that’s fair. McDonald’s coffee is readily available and much better than Starbucks plain coffee. Generally safer than gas station coffee.

Why consent to watching ads? It does damage to your brain.

Ads are anti-dopamine, for starters.

It’s weird to me, anyone using Edge or Chrome over Mozilla. It makes no sense. It’s not 1998 anymore. Surely people have had time to absorb the progression of things.

You’re better off finding the local taco truck with Hispanic consumers or even an American / Asian fusion place for some takeout.

I have fast food maybe once a year, closer to every 2 years. I don’t understand the appeal. Unless it’s Culver’s. Even then, rarely done.

Even the infamous McDonald’s French fry doesn’t taste like it’s worth the calories any more.

Red cabbage.

Purple carrots get to be purple, but, that may be because there are literal red carrots.

Purple peppers get called black or some such, but again, red peppers exist.

With 3D printers in play, how is stuff like this still a thing?

I do not understand. Scrabble or Words with Friends, ok, if and only if there’s an ad blocker, but the rest, how? It’s like painting a house wall with a half inch art paintbrush.

The underlying problem. It’s a moocher circle jerk.

It should be watermarked. Credit for answers should go to what generated the answers. If it’s not you, well, now it’s not so easy to be a lying sack of shit.

That was my first thought.