#this might sound kind of patronising but theyre all conversations ive had

[fgrobichiko]

Also important lore that I've seen kids not get:

George Bush was a huge piece of shit, not just a funny man from texas

Elon Musk is not a genius, did not found Tesla, does not design his products or know how they work, and was never cool or funny

You used to be able to customise everything about your computers and similar devices, and you never had to see advertising on them

The idea that there are only three or four big social media sites is the result of specific individuals' greed and not the natural state of the internet - we used to use forums

"AI" is not intelligent at all and is not capable of thinking

Similarly, biology is not capable of thinking - if you have more of a given hormone, your body will react like any body would regardless of its parts, and biological processes are a chain of cause and effect which can be disrupted, not just a signal that says "Make X happen"

A lot of things used to be worse than they are, and are better now. At the exact same points in history, a lot of things used to be better which are now worse. There is no point in history where all things were just good for all people. This is why we have to discern which things are important to preserve and which are not.

I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains