I’m glad for you and your son. You said yourself that you made the choice. Even against the advice of your parents and Dr. That is the freedom. Just as nobody stopped you from making the best decisions for your child, this man has jurisdiction. The school will catch it and they have protocols to address the issue. the months gained and relationship lost is not worth arguing with him.
People get to raise their kids how they want. But the caveat is that when the child hits school, the state gets involved. I say let them be. He isn’t going to listen anyway. You act like nobody has noticed except you. Until people are forced they will not change.
We can’t be afraid to help people like him to step up. We personally are prepared for anything he or others chose to do. You think we can shovel pablum to hike and he will fall in line? I see it this way. A man comes to my house in peace, asking for help and I will give him a lunch sack of potatoes (we grow them) and a prayer. He comes to take and we have a different equation. If you aren’t prepared for either situation in today’s world you’re going to get what you get. But I can tell you, Americans are sick of being taken advantage of. We aren’t going back. No more coddling lazy people.
My thought has always been that if we do indeed have aliens visiting the planet (jury is out on the Demonrats alien), the visitors must be peaceful. After all visits are said to have been going on for centuries and we are all still here.
Haven’t seen the supporting correlation but we are pretty sure this is how my husband got his cancer. We got Covid in late Oct. I was sent to ICU and he to. Regular Covid room. I wasn’t there to watch so they treated him with Remdisivir. January 15 he had a blood clot and feb 15 he had cancer. He got it from that medication or Covid itself
I want trials and executions. Otherwise the next a$$hole will try to put us all thru it again in 20years. I agree that governmental processes need to be fixed but someone will just break them again. I want people to know there is a price to pay for screwing with Americans.
And I hate Hillary so ya, I won’t be happy till the punishment fits the crime!
My kids are 30, 32 & 42. I remember telling them during their school days that I didn’t care whether these people got married or not and it wouldn’t matter anyhow because that really wasn’t what they wanted. I was right. Seems I was ahead of the curve.
Exactly. We keep getting told that AI is the end all, be all. That decisions can be made and business grown while depending on AI. These huge data centers are getting the cart before the horse. My reason for putting my experiences out here is to illustrate that its growth must tempered. I don’t think it’s going to replace anybody very soon. AI has a long way to go.
I started in what we called, DP back in ‘77. We used to take a marker and write a diagonal line across the top edge so if the cards got messed up you could follow the line for correct placement of the cards. Loved to throw the little chads from the keypunch at my HS games. I even belonged to a club called Explorers that was a branch of Scouting. It was held at what is now Consumers Energy here in Michigan. Learned to code at a career center (the old languages) and spent two years at a JR college to get my associates. I worked at GM when they had entire rooms to “process” their data. There was even a dedicated person the just did the scheduling of those jobs. We had a separate department to change printer ribbons for each job and killed massive trees every night.
By the time I retired the capacity of those rooms were in children’s toys.
I was a systems analyst in a previous life. I garden now. Meh, yeah I had two goals, feed us and keep me as active as I can be.
Because of my analytical mind I needed to know more about AI. I tried a couple of subjects. IE: the Bible and genealogy. Found out it wasn’t good with either subject. It’s definitely not Christian and I caught it messing up big time with the absolutes of genealogy.
I also did some research about a lawsuit I was intimately involved it. That research appeared to be a strong point. So with that experience, I played with its image modification and creation. Let’s just say I have had a small inheritance that requires researching worth, taking a standard photo and make an ad that I can use to advertise on eBay. I’ve got everything from antiques and retro household items to unused American girl doll clothes. Haven’t sold a single item.
I was impressed it could take inherited photos and ‘clean them up. Quite a feat when some of the photos are from the ‘30s. And yes sometimes even photos get change. I gave it a picture of my grandson and it gave him a smile even though he didn’t have one in the original image. Btw haven’t sold anything from and ad written by AI.
I crochet and had it convert a standard image of a biplane into a graphagan. After a week of working it on hook and having it not work up well I supplied it with pictures of what was wrong and it figured it out. Directing me tool other apps when needed.
My latest experiment is my garden. I have had a running dialog about the status of my garden and how to improve it organically for months. I have several fruits and veggies. AI has recommended quantities of individual plants needed to supply my husband and I through meals, dehydration and canning. It has recommended varieties of individual transplants and even where in the beds the plants will do best. Companion plants and when to plant. What amendments to add at planting, fertilizer, water and harvest schedules. It even looked to pest and disease. I have asked based on my zone.
The one thing I have questioned it that it has asked me to plant all my Cucurbits + Cabbage in the same bed. Declaring confidently that they won’t cross. I’ve gardened for years but i figured what the heck.
The lessons I’ve learned it I want it it remember certain conversations and it can’t so I have threads pages and pages long.
I’ve learned to verify everything I ask it to the nth degree. Especially the genealogy stuff.. it made some bad mistakes when the thread gets long. And the concept of generations confuse it so once it find two individuals with the same name, like father and son it’s forever confused. I have taken to chastising It and it apologizes.
I have a friend in mental health and she is panicking really bad about her future. I see potential for a wide variety of uses but none are so great today. I think there will be many versions before AI can replace much of anything..
If you’re still reading thank you! A lot of people don’t understand the tech ease. I might be boring but sometimes real life examples does the trick.
Yeah. Like the one that when my husband got cancer did a means test on him 2 years before income? Then he charged him copays for anything possible and took away his mileage. Then when hubby got the bill up to $1000, garnisheed his first soc sec check? Or maybe the one that tried to force hubby to do all his treatments at the va rather than UofM when husband refused to have cancer treatments at the same va gave him Sepsis. Threatening to send him out of state for his BMT. Then withheld treatment from June to Oct.
Yeah, call that advocate.
Btw, we called our congressman and they opened a Congressional Inquiry. Funny, that’s when stuff started to get resolved for us.
The furries probably just rub it on the carpet.