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I had a strange experience at the swimming pool today.

When I walked into the women’s locker room, I saw two female staff trying to unclog a drain using some tools and guidance from AI. My first thought was that maybe management was trying to save costs by having staff handle everything themselves.

But then I paused and realized that might have been a bit narrow-minded.

I suddenly remembered something from last year — at the exact same place, a male plumber had to come into the women’s locker room to fix a similar problem. I remember feeling uncomfortable at the time, especially since there was no prior notice.

That’s when my perspective shifted.

Sometimes “AI + do-it-all staff” isn’t really about efficiency — it’s about working within real-world constraints. In some situations, there simply aren’t better options.

That said… after I finished swimming, the drain was still clogged.

AI is powerful, but in the end, some problems still need experienced hands to solve.

A few of my comments disappeared and/or never posted, so I’m using this as a trial.

I have a question about it & what happened at The UK's version of The Oscars '26.
My years of getting two-degrees & loads of higher educational courses towards certifications, I was not facilitated (educated)/taught about any thing I can remember about Tourette's syndrome. Of course, it was before Transgenderism & such things have become accepted as it is now, so while such things are not negatives & some would even say challenges (my definition is not negatives, just have to learn to work it out to live life with differences, from what people are willing to accept, & will better who they are)
Is (or are) there a feed (or feeds) in this PieFed website that is for Tourette's syndrome?
Or Is (or are) there a feed (or feeds) in this PieFed website that is broader & encompasses all challenges dealing with minds?

...Neighbors' Roosters Extremely Close Keep Me from Achieving Enough Sleep, List of My Ideas & What Readers' Suggestions.

I have looked through topics & communities & cannot find a clear community(ies) to post it in.

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After hearing it used, I was looking up the correct usage of the term 'begs the question', because I heard somewhere that most people use it incorrectly, and came across this helpful page from Merriam Webster.

This bit at the end made me laugh out loud.

So that's where beg the question comes from, but all this, ahem, begs the question of what you should do with all this knowledge about the phrase. Liberman recommends that people avoid it altogether (but also "cultivate an attitude of serene detachment in the face of its use by others").

Was just watching a show, and terrorists demanded a very well off country that they pay a STAGGERING sum of £100,000,000.

The government had an hour to do it OR ELSE.

Just thinking about the fact that their decision is based off of lives lost, and how little money that is to them, let alone the most rich, and how real of a situation is just disgusting.

Just wanted to vent this out and maybe talk about other shit. What do we have?

Would this be useful to anyone? Of course with respect and careful not to spam. I already built the Matrix Activity Tracker which many have said has helped a lot navigating the matrix protocol network. https://gitlab.com/masland.tech/matrix-activity-tracker

I cannot find how to add a signature to my profile. Is it possible at PieFed to have a signature?

If so, how?

Rather, it would be the concept

I'm not sure where to post this and thought that maybe here is okay, but if not, let me know.

For some reason, I got this idea from where I had heard about five-year-old Liam and his father in Minnesota being taken to an ICE Detention Center there. It came from seeing his blue bunny hat and finding out his middle name is Conejo, which means rabbit.

The idea it had given me is about a similar boy wearing a blue bunny hat like Liam's who has gotten the nickname of Conejo Rabbit, and the story it gave me is about ICE taking a little boy away in the middle of an unauthorized home invasion because their ICE rulebook said he was an unauthorized immigrant. At the center of it are two self-appointed immigration enforcers who chose power and Trump policy over a traumatized boy's life.

But what they didn't know is that the boy's father isn't just a grieving parent; he is the District Attorney, and he has the law on his side. What I imagine following is a courtroom reckoning involving one hell of a release order from one pissed-off federal judge, a media firestorm, and a brutal unraveling of a Trump system drunk on control. And just wait until you hear how I imagine this battle ends, because justice doesn't just knock; it kicks the whole damn Mar-a-Lago door in.

Anyway, I have been thinking a lot about this lately after reading through the articles I have seen so far and feeling compassionate for him. I wish there was some way to reach out to him or even his father to speak with them because I was imagining Liam getting a pair of footed pajamas that are the matching color blue to his blue bunny hat seen in the picture of him, perhaps fuzzy, have feet that look like bunny feet, and have a white cottontail on the back of them. After he got out of that hellhole they call a detention center, he would feel warm and comfortable in them after his ordeal.

And I was imagining him getting a large stuffed blue bunny with the word "Conejo" embroidered on its belly that could feel like a guardian to him, maybe even a superhero if combined with what he has on his backpack. These are just thoughts that came to my head since the word 'Conejo' is 'rabbit' in Spanish, and he has a blue bunny hat that is seen in the pictures of him, such as this one.

If you think it's an adorable idea and maybe something that can be put together as a charity or something for Liam while finding a way to reach out to Liam's father to make certain it's right and accurate, as I feel it may help comfort him from his traumatization and know who I could talk to about this, please let me know.

Hello. I'm forced to beg for food currently, and this is the least forced place available. I haven't used Lemmy before, and am unsure where to ask.

Dear reader,

Michael Parenti died two days ago and I had not seen much Lemmy coverage of this loss. As a larger community, Lemmings tend to share a worldview that seeks awareness of less discussed ailments in history (at least those of us raised in cultures where the subjects are taboo and education precludes questioning). For some Lemmings, like myself, I lack the prior context for many of the more left leaning and anti-imperialist thinking - I found Parenti to have been my intro into this area. For folks inrerested in these, and many more topics, I would highly recommend folks unware of Michael Parenti to take a look into his enormous lifetime of work. His careful discussions on what has made the imperial order of the West so crushing to entire ideas, peoples, and countries was so helpful for me to understand some of what I was missing. For the unitiated I enjoyed starting with Blackshirts and Reds and the much beloved Yellow Parenti Lectures.

I just found a lofi bg version and now I must share it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ng4BMf-_FSQ

Just a vent out because of the current events, I just wish they could stay asleep for some days, just a break. please

it's all fucked up