dave blunts battles the purple robots

Statement from the University of Oklahoma:

Last week our DoorDash driver brought a child with him to the door. She bounced along happily at his heels. Then this week an Amazon driver had her family in the car with her when she delivered a package. And, over the summer my housekeeper brings her daughter with her and she plays with my dear dog and toys around the house or things I print for her. The personal world blending into the work world is an interesting phenomenon. It is a return to the preindustrial world. It is a humane development relieving some of the alienation of work. What we want is not to be free from work but free from humiliation. A couple hundred years ago, you would have visited the blacksmith or cobbler and he would have a few kids at his elbow or playing in the yard.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

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the fertility crisis is very emotional and weighs on everyone because it’s a clear metric of social decay. people can say they’re unhappy, but it’s hard to know how happy anyone ever was. but the fact that reproduction has become rare is an unavoidable signal of sickness

"‘Every day we have the same mission, to secure the humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip’… the residents try to move forward to take a good place in line, but there is a line ahead of them that they do not notice. ‘A line that if they cross, I can shoot them,’ explains Benny. ‘It's like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different way every time, and l'm there with the sniper rifle, and the officers are shouting at me, 'Take it down, take it down. I shoot 50-60 bullets every day, I stopped counting Xs. I have no idea how many I killed, a lot. Children.’”