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Sexualization of children.

I hate to say it, but something is changing the physicality of age groups. At least I think that is what is happening. I swear there are teenagers today who look like adults in their 20s and young adults who don’t look over 18. I get scared seeing a conventionally attractive person (by stereotypical standards), wondering if I’m being a creep because I can’t identify their age group. Hell, I work among some people who easily can be mistaken for being under 18. Thankfully I know the company has a hiring minimum of 18.

EDIT: My point, that I should have stated, was if you surveyed a random sampling of a American suburban neighborhood, it might not be easy to identify age groups anymore.

This type of advertising isn’t new. There is that famous (although the claims from the father have been questioned) New York Times article written by Charles Duhigg in 2012. A father of a teenage girl in Minnesota got upset for receiving coupons from Target for infant care related products. As the story goes, he later learned his daughter was in fact pregnant. It turns out Target was using some predictive algorithm to identify would-be mothers and straight up sending them coupons for infant care products. It seems ever since this article was published that they stopped doing this in such a direct manner. Again, there have people who questioned the validity of the claims for this specific story, but Target did confirm they were doing this.

Speaking of… Look at the cover. There is a Wells blurb.

You should read the duology (I’ve only read the first book) Monk and Robot, which is solopunk. The premise is that robots got tired of doing what they were built for, and decided to form a treaty with humans allowing them to wonder into the wild and live without human contact.

Tell that to The Doctor! /s

It was long after the reunion which I realized this and I feel ashamed for all times I’ve rewatched the series since.

I watched a lot of it back in the day and by like season 10 (I have no clue how long it ran) I realized it was super boring and bad. There would be jokes as lame as “dude owns a Nintendo 64”. That was the entirety of the joke.

Also there is a long running arc about a main character who is physically incapable of talking to women unless he is intoxicated (aka alcohol).

No, and that is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar which people thought was a rip off of Project Haily Mary by Andy Weir (which I read and loved). When the trailer for Spaceman was released, Weir had to go on social media and tell fans Spaceman of Bohemia was published before his novel.

EDIT: I did not read Spaceman of Bohemia.

Or worse, you meet the super intelligent giant spider your human ancestor left behind, and you accidentally start a war with them because no one realizes the computer on the ancient satellite is made to behave like the project founder is trying to make first contact.

EDIT: If you haven’t figured it out, I’m describing the novel Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

But that isn’t a Meta company.

And there is a big chance those of us clearly not on there can’t see them post about that denial.

Did humans inadvertently body shame a spider?

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the person hired to fire themselves.

Look you have to thank Gene Roddenberry for this invention.

I left after the API price hike.

Huh. Is that good or bad?

I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.

Why the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?

Damn it. Are they all crazy because of the lack of water they aren’t getting?

I can top that. I saw a dog at a Korean barbecue restaurant. The ones that serve raw meat for you to cook at your table. Except this restaurant did it buffet style. I never went back.

Well this is both “correct” and wrong simultaneously. The Final Cut, which is the canonical version, states that Deckard is a replicant.

However if you watch 2049, that is specifically a sequel to the non-canon theatrical cut. So the statement would be incorrect in that instance.