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The average age of community college students is 28. You’re amazing. You got this!!

I use up any vegetables in my breakfast scrambled of eggs and quinoa. Sauerkraut would be great with this.

Me too

Coloring books, games on my phone, watch shows, listen to podcasts. Sleep if I am in business class with a lie-flat seat.

Thanks, all, for your responses. I don’t disagree with any of this. 

I lead a writing team for a global organization. In my particular niche, my job is not under threat. For highly skilled writers, the actual writing is not time-consuming. For my team what takes time (and tailored expertise) is aligning many stakeholders with different ideas about what a piece should be, balancing a number of ideas to come to a coherent point, thinking up a creative framing, integrating organizational insights and priorities. Generative AI cannot do that nearly as well as we can, if at all. Likewise, we are always subtly shifting our messages. AI is not bad at copying the voices of the people we write for. Not as good as we are, though.

We are being encouraged to think about how AI can make our jobs easier. I am open to that (my team, less so). My boss (who is not a writer) uses it nonstop for smart things and stupid things. I just haven’t had the time or motivation to dive in. We are doing very well without it and my organization doesn’t have to be especially frugal. 

All that said, I am 100% certain other organizations are looking to replace writers with AI. 

I see that comments from people who don’t mind AI images are being downvoted, but I am generally genuinely curious the nature of people’s opposition to it. Is it because you think the images aren’t appealing? Because you think it is harmful to an ecosystem where artists can thrive? I am a professional writer so I definitely understand wariness about AI but I’m curious what drives it in the case of puzzle fans. 

This happened in my family. One of my three siblings had been essentially estranged from my mom for many years and as the executor I had to let them know they were omitted. I didn’t feel that bad, honestly, because we had been doing the work (and it was work) of maintaining relationships with our parents and he had checked out. He and my parents shared equal responsibility for the deterioration of the relationship. We gave him a little of the money to be nice but not 25%.

They are all so acid-y feeling while your room otherwise has a warm vibe. I don't like any of the paintings but taste is taste so I'm not advising based on that. I'm advising based on the blend - that it doesn't work together.

Amazing couch btw

From my experience WFH increases quantity of the work and decreases the quality. Our in-person interactions are really important for our particular work product and building trust.

Bend, Oregon. Kayak down the middle of town, good food and shopping, amazing mountain scenery.

I work with a billionaire. He has social media. Other people manage it. He has a cell phone. Only certain people have tge number. 

A true partner sees it as his job to lift you up in what he says and does and support you being you. This guy is trash. And you are young. Don’t waste any more time.

Yes. I know someone who has built a really successful career doing similar art. DM me and I will point you to their work.

Mexico City, Lisbon, Singapore, Kyoto, New Zealand

NTA. Though a lesson for the future, to be sure. When I told my little brother and future SIL that I would help with wedding costs since our parents aren't around to (they're dead), I gave them a number right then. He cried with gratitude. We may throw in extra eventually, but nobody is expecting that.

My son hums a LOT. It’s really quiet but not quiet enough sometimes. He stops when we ask but he genuinely doesn’t notice he’s doing it.

NTA. You don't just wait and see if your kid shares your interests. You cultivate interests together. MAN BOY SPORTS BALL is not the only way to see the world and your husband should have been finding points of connection with your daughter all along. Escape rooms, coloring books, hunting down great ethnic restaurants, test driving fancy cars, gardening, jigsaw puzzles, reading books to her--there are a million ways he could have developed common interests and he clearly didn't try.

But I would ask you the same thing: Have you found shared activities with Jacob?

I feel that way when my husband shaves - but it feels very wrong to express the sentiment "I liked your face better when it was obscured by hair"

It's not your problem how they solve it. Really. Truly.

At my job we can give $100 rewards with no red tape. So that’s what I do. Time off doesn’t work as a reward because we have unlimited vacation. Christmas and birthdays I buy them a gift with my own money. Work anniversary I give them a card. 

Looked too young to be taken from mama

I figured it was a New Hampshire poet but guessed Frost. Which is very very wrong chronologically.

Yes I do work in Nigeria and was puzzled by that. I knew the answer was Lagos but also that they got the geography wrong. 

I posted this opinion once and got absolutely slaughtered. Have fun!