Confused Salmon

I'm a being that fell to earth decades ago and currently observing daily life. Humans are fascinating yet at times horrifying. They/them.

[Confused Salmon @ConfusedSalmon]

Supporting Willow in Her Fight Against FIP https://t.co/IYu0CHWoSo

[Majorian @majoriansmusing]

When the beefy 5 layer burrito was introduced at Taco Bell in 2009 it was .89 cents. It is now 5 dollars. Even adjusting for inflation it should only be about $1.39.

But nah foods not more expensive don't worry guys!

[nyara @nyaraVT]

“iF bIdEn DiD iT yOu WoUlD lOvE iT”

This isn’t football. Stop treating politicians like you’re picking a team you have to unconditionally support.

Stop being in a cult and call out obviously bad behaviour.

[Josiah Hawthorne @JosiahHawthorne]

Right now it feels like 90% of Twitter is just people acting out this meme.

[Confused Salmon @ConfusedSalmon]

@japan_nobunaga I actually avoid saying "how are you" and don't like being asked that as I find it disingenuous. The only time I'm ok with it is if they actually want a real answer or if there's a reason to actually ask it and it's from someone who knows me.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

You’re born onto a planet you never asked to exist on…

and society immediately hits you with: “Okay, now go earn the right to eat, sleep, rest, and have shelter.”

Like… zoom out for a second.

We’re floating on a rock in infinite space and we created a game where you have to spend most of your life working just to not starve or freeze to death.

The whole concept is actually insane when you think about it.

[Confused Salmon @ConfusedSalmon]

@ado1024imokenp

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Interviewer: Why do you want to work here?
Gen Z: I have two answers — the professional one and the honest one. Which do you want?

Interviewer: The honest one.
Gen Z: I actually don’t want to climb any corporate ladders. I don’t care about job titles. I don’t need accolades.

Interviewer: Then what do you want?
Gen Z: I just want enough income to fund my lifestyle, not be depressed, help other people, and be around good humans. That’s it.

[Confused Salmon @ConfusedSalmon]

@TDS_95514874 Are you trying to get sued? The author stated this is not to be used for AI.

[𝐠𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫 @____selah]

genuinely how it feels like living rn

[goma @soigomaa]

Millennials aren't breaking down at 50 — they're burning out at 30. Why? Because Boomers sold a story that no longer works. Millennials were told:
"Go to college. Follow your passion. Success will follow." Instead, they inherited a rigged system.
Student debt has tripled since 2000. Housing prices are up 150% in just two decades. Entry-level jobs now demand 3+ years of experience, while wages barely moved since the 1990s. The result is brutal. Millennials became the most educated generation in history, yet also the most anxious, overworked, and underpaid. One in four has no savings. 62% live paycheck to paycheck. Nearly half say they feel burned out all the time. Gen Z watched this collapse in real time. That's why 70% prioritize mental health over money, and college enrollment is down 15% since 2010. Gen Z isn't lazy. They're adapting to a system that failed the generation before them.

[Rich Homie Juan @chico_peric0]

@YourAnonNews

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Today my boss asked me if we're "ready for AI this year".

I said absolutely. I told him we've been running "machine learning models" on our data infrastructure for the past 18 months and we're seeing "significant optimization gains."

He asked for specifics. I said, "Our email filtering system uses neural networks to detect phishing attempts with 97% accuracy."

He looked impressed.

Here's the truth: that's just the default spam filter in Office 365. Microsoft built it. We didn't do anything.

But I rebranded it as "AI-powered threat detection" in a slide deck last year, and now everyone thinks we're innovators.

My boss wants to announce our "AI initiatives" in the next shareholder meeting. I told him I'd prepare a presentation.

I'm going to take every automated process we already have—backup scripts, user provisioning, patch management—and add the words "AI-enhanced" in front of them.
Innovation isn't about building new things.

It's about renaming old things with better buzzwords.

[inhumans of capitalism ( The reactionary ) @Inhumansoflate1]

Self help probably helped lead to extreme individualism

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Chris Cuomo asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez how we pay for Medicare for All, tuition free college, and the green new deal. It gives people sticker shock. Her answer:
“People talk about the sticker shock of Medicare for All, but they do not talk about the sticker shock of our existing system. In a Koch brothers funded study, it shows that Medicare for All is actually much cheaper than the current system.
Let's not forget that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act because they ruled that each of these monthly payments that everyday Americans make is a tax. We pay it every single month. (Or we pay at tax season if we don't buy plans off of the exchange.)
Americans have the sticker shock of healthcare as it is. Why aren't we incorporating the cost of funeral expenses of those who die because they can't afford access to healthcare? That is part of the cost of our system. Or the cost of reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability or are not able to participate in our economy because they don't have access to the healthcare that they need?
At the end of the day, we see that this is not a pipe dream. Every other developed nation in the world has this. Why can't America? And that is the question we need to ask.
We write blank checks for war. We just wrote a $2 trillion check for the GOP tax cut. And nobody asks how are we going to pay for it.
So my question is why are our pockets only empty when it comes to education and healthcare for our kids? Why are our pockets only empty when we talk about 100% renewable energy that is going to save this planet and allow our children to thrive?
We only have empty pockets when it comes to the morally right things to do. But when it comes to tax cuts for billionaires or unlimited war, we seem to be able to invent that money very easily. To me it belies a lack of moral priorities that people have right now, especially the Republican Party.”