Ari B. Adler

@duolingo I had to go in and turn off the "feature" of sharing my activities publicly. Sharing things publicly should be an opt-in, not an opt-out. Why does Duolingo think we want a language learning app to be yet another crap social media community app?

I had to walk half a mile somewhere today and I got asked if I was going to drive it since it was raining. My response was that if I did that, I would have to turn in my Gen X membership card! 🤨

To companies who think they need to drop AI features into perfectly good software programs because it's the in thing: stop it! You're making previously stable and functional software into robot bloat that crashes. I can't wait for this stupid AI bubble to burst!!

The old saying is that "a picture is worth a thousand words." I have no drawing abilities, so I used @ChatGPTapp to turn the 1,000 words rolling around in my head into this image.

I may not always give you the opinion you want to hear, but it's usually only my two cents, and you get what you pay for.

Recovering from minor surgery and got off the pain meds and can finally do light exercise. But last night I also cracked open my first @ShinerBeer in a while and I feel better today than I have in weeks. What's in that stuff?! 🤔😄

If this is how @meridiantwp is repairing our neighborhood streets now, what exactly are all of my tax dollars going toward? 😠

I was having a similar conversation just the other day! Sometimes I think @stephanpastis, who creates Pearls Before Swine, is in my head. Maybe that's why it's my favorite comic strip!

I don't think AI is quite smart enough to take over the world yet, considering the answer Google Lens gave me when I was trying to identify this bird. 🤔😵‍💫

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Why write a long essay yourself when a comic strip encapsulates your sentiments exactly? Bravo, @stephanpastis!

True story: A historical farm lets some kids experience farm life by collecting eggs in the henhouse. The kids return empty-handed because "there were no eggs." Turns out they went looking for eggs in cartons. And that's partly why Costco is recalling 80,000 lbs of butter.

As I saw nonstop news coverage of hurricanes lately, I could not help but wonder how much better our nation and states would operate if the media focused that much time, money, and staff resources on covering federal, state, and local government agencies and elected officials.

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Just the latest in a long line of @stickermule pushing its way to the front of the crowd...plus they make good products.

@HughMcDiarmid You are correct that we all knew very little of what was going on or what was going to happen. The problem is the government and their "experts" all declared they did when they didn't. You cannot mandate trust, and yet that is what their entire operational plan was based upon.

Apparently, antidepressant prescriptions for young adults rose 64% following covid. Isn't it convenient to have an "emergency" requiring expensive vaccines with government over-reach leading to a generation needing an ongoing expensive Rx? Follow the money; find the truth!

@HughMcDiarmid Also, I paraphrased what they said. But that was the gist of it.

@HughMcDiarmid It wasn't a compelling enough comment for me to member who said it. I just thought it was funny. 😄

And now, this... usatoday.com/story/opinion/…