I'm always amazed when someone chooses ticky tacky "new" suburbs vs. inner core ease of life and food, art, and music options. Especially when the crime/etc parity is effectively the same. There are still tons of people that don't realize how much more work it is to be "suburban" and how inefficient "auto-based" lifestyles are vs. an urban lifestyle. I'm on the verge of being relegated to suburban life again and just thinking about the lack of food options, lack of art and music, the isolation and lack of individuality, the increased odd hostility and lack of mental health among a large number of suburbanites gives me anxiety. Suburbanites so often are a very angry bunch of folks without them understanding why they are, all the while blaming the "other" that they don't even know. It is a very odd and upon thorough review, freakishly uncomfortable and strange lifestyle to pursue. If you're a suburbanite and you aren't one of the angry, hateful, othering types, my hat off to you in attaining a higher level of tranquility and zen among that simulacrum of controlled uniformity and madness. Deep respect for managing to maintain yourself in a sensible and respectable manner! Also if you aren't pushing off accountability to rural or urban folks, I add a bow of respect! 🙏🏻

Legit question here. There are studies and reports that have a vast number of people coming out of the education system with low reading and comprehension abilities. It was already a pretty significant problem in previous years, but now it is reportedly worse. If Gen AI/LLMs are basically just pushing us and leading many of us, much of what we do is read, respond, and then trust and verify what the LLMs are creating for us. How on Earth with this cratering comprehension among most people are we - as a society - supposed to maintain any reasonable and capable verification of the results LLMs provide us? The simple answer is we won't and can't expect that. It seems that might be the case. What is the resolution here? Emphasis on resolution vs. solution, because it's going to unfold however it does, it's clearly not in the wheelhouse of humanity to proactively do something about this now. What are your thoughts?