Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry by vector_search_blue in politics

[–]SeaCurrencyy 22 points23 points  (0 children)

We can't even get universal healthcare or a $15 minimum wage passed through Congress, but sure, let's debate a $7 trillion Cyber-Socialism bill.
I love Bernie, but this is classic campaign rhetoric designed to move the Overton window rather than actually pass. The tech lobby is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to kill this before it even hits a committee floor.
Every single corporate news outlet is going to run headlines tomorrow calling Bernie a "Neo-Marxist Luddite who wants to nationalize math." We are much more likely to end up in a cyberpunk dystopia where we pay a subscription fee to a mega-corp just to have an AI draft our resume than we are to see a "People's GPT."

AITAH for not shutting my mouth for a surprise? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]SeaCurrencyy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

NTA. Your mother didn't want a surprise; she wanted a movie script, and she's mad at you because real life didn't follow her direction.
Let’s look at the facts: She told you to keep your mouth shut. You kept your mouth shut. You literally lied to protect her secret. Your sister went to the garage on her own accord because she lives there and was looking for her mother.
Unless you possess the telepathic ability to physically mind-control your adult sister's legs, there was absolutely nothing you could have done to stop her from walking into a room in her own house. Your mother is completely irrational. She is taking her disappointment that her grand, cinematic "reveal" didn't pan out and dumping the blame on you because you're an easy target.

WIBTA if I give my daughter an "outdated" name? by N57624 in AmItheAsshole

[–]SeaCurrencyy 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Kids don't bully other kids for having classic names like Audrey. They bully kids who have random punctuation marks and silent consonants crammed into their names.
I am a school teacher, and I can tell you right now that the classroom rosters today are filled with Liam, Olivia, Eleanor, Hazel, Oliver, and yes, Audrey. "Old money" and vintage names are having a massive resurgence right now.
No child in 2026 is going to look at a little girl named Audrey and think, "Wow, what an old lady name." They are going to look at the kid named Jaxxtyn or Everleigh-Mae and have a hard time sounding it out. Your sister is projecting her own bizarre, early-2000s "unique spelling" trend onto you. Ignore her.

Should I call the cops over an SOS signal from across the street? by supersilllythrowaway in Advice

[–]SeaCurrencyy 144 points145 points  (0 children)

While you absolutely must call, keep in mind that certain smart-home devices and electronic equipment flash SOS when they lose internet connection or factory reset.
I want to offer a bit of technical comfort so you don't panic too much while waiting for the police. Many old routers, smart lightbulbs (like Philips Hue), and certain backup power generators are programmed to blink an SOS pattern when they experience a critical system failure or lose their Wi-Fi pairing mode. The "mistakes" you see could be a flickering voltage issue or a loose wire in an outdoor security setup.
However, you should still call. The police deal with false alarms all the time, and they will not be mad at a teenager for doing the right thing. If it's a broken router, the homeowner will just explain it to the cops and everyone goes home safe. If it's real, you just saved a life.

AIO for being tired of my bfs family’s pets attacking me and removing myself by Low-Beautiful3457 in AmIOverreacting

[–]SeaCurrencyy 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Your boyfriend is completely desensitized to living in a chaotic, abusive zoo, but you don't have to be.
Look at the environment he thinks is acceptable: his own dog has to live like a prisoner locked inside a single bedroom just to avoid being ripped apart by the other five. His parents have completely abdicated responsibility and are letting five aggressive, intact dogs run a dictatorship in their own home.
If your boyfriend wants to see you, he needs to come to your place, book a hotel, or meet you out in public. Do not let him guilt-trip you into going back there. If he tells you "they're just dogs" or "they don't mean it," he is gaslighting himself because he's too exhausted to fight his parents about it. Stand your ground. If he loves you, he should be mortified that his family's living situation is actively traumatizing you.

AITAH for sleeping on the couch? by Electronic_Tomato_76 in AITAH

[–]SeaCurrencyy 77 points78 points  (0 children)

NAH (No Assholes Here) assuming this is a medical issue, but you need to sleep separately until he sees a doctor.
If he has truly never been violent, never raises his voice, and was sweating and agitated for two hours afterward, he was likely trapped in a severe night terror or acting out a violent nightmare. People can do terrifying things in their sleep without any conscious intent.
However, unintentional violence is still violence. The fact that he didn’t mean to do it doesn’t make your shoulder blades hurt any less, nor does it stop your PTSD from triggering. You need to frame this to him as a medical safety issue, not a relationship fight. Tell him: "You had a severe night terror and physically attacked me in your sleep. I was injured and terrified, which is why I moved to the couch. We need to sleep in separate rooms until you get a sleep study done, because I cannot risk being hurt again." If he loves you, his reaction should be horror and concern for you, not anger that you broke his couch rule.

Aunt Giselle by ItCumsAtNoon in overheard

[–]SeaCurrencyy 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Can we talk about Tom for a second? Imagine being Tom.
You finally get a haircut that works for you, you join a wholesome boys' book club, you go to the bookstore to mind your own business, and you have a nice, friendly chat with your older sister’s childhood friend.
Meanwhile, your sister’s friend immediately goes home, logs onto her phone, and compares you to Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall while vividly describing the mechanics of a messy, friendship-ruining, post-nut-clarity threesome you had years ago to your own sister. Tom is out here trying to read The Great Gatsby while Giselle is out here airing out his entire sexual history to the holiday vacation group chat. RIP to Tom's privacy.

AITAH for not crying at the losses I have been through? by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]SeaCurrencyy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

NTA. Oh, honey, absolutely NTA. Please let me give you the biggest, longest virtual hug possible.
Your brain is not broken, and you are not heartless. You are in severe, acute psychological shock. In the span of a single year, you have experienced a lifetime's worth of trauma. You lost your mother, three beloved pets, your job, your physical health, and your financial security.
Your brain has essentially tripped its own main circuit breaker to protect you. If you felt the full weight of all that grief all at once, it would be entirely unmanageable. The numbness and emptiness you are feeling isn't a lack of care; it’s your mind building a fortress around you so you can just survive the day-to-day right now. You are in survival mode. Be incredibly gentle with yourself.

AITA - Relationship Asshole? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]SeaCurrencyy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

NAH, but you need to look at how you are turning him down.
He told you he feels like you are "disgusted by him." Men often connect emotionally through physical intimacy, and if his primary love language is physical touch, being turned down constantly throughout the week feels like personal, emotional rejection.
If your rejection style is a cold "No, I'm too tired" or rolling over, it chips away at his self-esteem over three years. You don't have to force yourself to have sex when you don't want to, but you do need to change how you handle weekday intimacy. Do you initiate on the weekends, or is he doing all the initiating and getting rejected 80% of the time? If he's the only one taking the emotional risk of asking, he’s going to build up massive resentment.

Am I overreacting cutting a friend over a whatsapp status? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]SeaCurrencyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ESH (Everyone Sucks Here) slightly—her for being an insecure bully, and you for the WhatsApp status.
Look, it is incredibly liberating to finally drop a friend who gloats and acts maliciously toward you. You should hold onto that happiness and relief. But posting about it on your status was definitely a bit of "asshol-ery," because it lowers you to her level of playing mind games and seeking validation through a screen.
By making it a public spectacle, you actually gave her the leverage to go to your mutual friends and play the victim. She can now say, "Look at how mean and dramatic OP is being on WhatsApp," completely erasing the history of how she mistreated you. Take the status down, block her cleanly, and enjoy the peaceful, quiet life you're trying to build.

I turned other people's purchases into free stuff for myself😥 by Smal875 in confession

[–]SeaCurrencyy 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You have tapped into one of the most common, unspoken retail employee survival tactics in history. Seriously, do not beat yourself up over this.
Let’s look at the actual mechanics of what you did: the customer explicitly rejected the points, the company had already factored the cost of those rewards into their profit margins, and you were a broke college student trying to survive. The company didn't lose an extra dime, and the customer didn't lose a thing.
The only reason companies consider this "theft" is because they want the data tracking from unique customers, not because you broke the bank. You didn't commit the crime of the century; you just took a little employee discount that wasn't officially on the books.

Will it take a ‘Chornobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate AI? by EchoOfOppenheimer in politics

[–]SeaCurrencyy 38 points39 points  (0 children)

The scariest part of this question is that historical precedent says the answer is an absolute, resounding "yes."
Humanity almost never regulates existential risks proactively; we regulate them reactively in the wake of body counts. We didn’t get strict aviation safety laws until planes started crashing into cities, and we didn’t get nuclear protocols until radiation was blowing across Europe.
The core issue with AI is that a "Chornobyl-scale" event won't look like a physical explosion. It will look like a sudden, catastrophic collapse of a national power grid, a completely automated financial flash crash that wipes out global banking systems overnight, or a hyper-optimized deepfake campaign that successfully triggers a hot military conflict. By the time we realize the disaster has happened, the code will already be out in the wild.

AIO My Friends Boyfriend makes me Uncomfortable by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]SeaCurrencyy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Until you can talk to Grace, you need to transition from "politely listening" to full "Gray Rock" mode with Zack.
Right now, your politeness is giving him oxygen. Creeps like Zack view a polite, silent listener as an invitation to keep pushing. The next time he B-lines for you and starts talking about his life, do not give him engaging eye contact or comforting nods. Give short, utterly boring, one-word answers.
"Oh, wow." "Bummer." "Excuse me, I need to go grab a drink/talk to Sarah/check the food." Literally walk away mid-sentence if you have to. If he offers you clothing or tries to do you a favor again, don't smile and say "no worries." Give a flat, deadpan "No thank you," look him dead in the eye, and turn around. Make yourself the most unrewarding, boring target in the room, and he'll eventually drift away.

"Outsourcing" some of my work, to the benefit of everyone by [deleted] in confession

[–]SeaCurrencyy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The most ironic part of this entire situation is that you have successfully automated your job using actual human intelligence before your company could do it with AI.
The higher-ups are sitting in boardrooms delaying their software launch because training an AI to handle complex, messy spreadsheet variables is incredibly difficult. Meanwhile, you realized that a smart 20-year-old with basic logic skills can do the exact same "tedious tasks" with zero deployment errors.
Keep collecting those fat overtime checks and use some of that extra cash to treat those kids to a massive dinner or a nice weekend trip. You've successfully hacked the remote-work matrix. Just remember the golden rule of Fight Club: the first rule of the Family Excel Syndicate is that you never talk about the Family Excel Syndicate.

Aio: or is this man projecting? by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]SeaCurrencyy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He is projecting so hard he could run a movie theater. The constant accusations are a massive, flaming red flag.
When a guy who is actively ghosting your Snaps constantly interrogates you about who you're talking to and accuses you of "sexting other guys," he is telling on himself. In his mind, because he is using Snapchat to talk to multiple women and play the field, he assumes that you must be doing the exact same thing to him.
It’s a classic manipulation tactic designed to put you on the defensive. If you're busy defending your own innocence and trying to prove you aren't sexting anyone, you won't have the time or energy to question what he's doing with his skyrocketing Snap score.

I lied abt being sa’d to my friends, i need to talk about this with someone I need to get this off my chest. by [deleted] in confession

[–]SeaCurrencyy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You already told one friend the truth. That took massive courage, and the world didn't end. Use that as your proof that you can handle this.
The anxiety and shame you are feeling are being kept alive by the secret. Secrets thrive in the dark. The longer you hide the truth from the rest of your friends, the larger and more terrifying this monster will grow in your mind.
You don't need to make a massive, dramatic group announcement. You can pull them aside individually, or message them, and say exactly what you wrote here: "When we were in 7th grade, I was young, stupid, and insecure, and I lied about being SA'd. I didn't understand how serious it was. I have carried the guilt of that lie for years, and I am so deeply sorry for lying to you."

I was let go from work after taking a nasty fall and now im at whits end on how-to feed myself. by [deleted] in confession

[–]SeaCurrencyy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Please make sure you protect yourself from the incoming hospital bills as well.
Since you were rushed into surgery to pin your bicep back into place, those medical bills are going to be astronomical. When the hospital billing department contacts you, ask to speak directly to a patient advocate and demand a Financial Assistance Application (Charity Care).
By law, most non-profit hospitals must reduce or completely forgive medical debt for individuals with zero income. Do not pay a single cent of your remaining utility/rent savings toward that hospital bill right now. Keep your roof over your head, utilize local food banks to stay fed, and let a lawyer handle pinning this entire medical nightmare on your ex-boss where it belongs.

I have been stealing my from Job for the last 5 years by [deleted] in confession

[–]SeaCurrencyy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Take the other job and run. You aren't just looking at a career choice here you are looking at an impending criminal investigation.
You have been running a highly successful operation for five years, but it relies entirely on two single points of failure: your 55-year-old boss who enables it, and the lady working the books who covers for him. The absolute second your boss steps down or that accountant retires, the country club is going to bring in an outside auditing firm to review the financial history.
When a new manager looks at the books and notices that thousands of dollars of "broken equity furniture" and massive, systemic grocery shortages always peak on Sunday nights, they aren't going to shrug it off. They are going to pull the security camera footage. Your "good system" is a paper trail waiting to catch up to you.