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I'm not of that generation, but it's my impression they don't care whether the empty words come from a person, a politician, or a greeting card company; and the
by ModernMech 4y ago
I'm not of that generation, but it's my impression they don't care whether the empty words come from a person, a politician, or a greeting card company; and they certainly don't care if the empty words come from the brain of a university administrator or a website they visited. The words are all equally empty.
The only thing that matters is a cultural change that will lead to fewer mass shootings. Getting angry at university administrators for whatever lack of empathy they demonstrate is myopic. There's plenty enough reason for people to get angry about the way things are, but this is the wrong thing to be mad about.
> Why was the author even considering using AI in the first place?
Maybe because there aren't anymore words to be said about these things. They happen so frequently, that the expectation is words will be said after the fact, rather than action will be taken to prevent the next occurrence. So here we are, days after the shooting, mad at the words someone said after the shooting, rather than the fact there was a shooting.
Who here is still mad about the shooting? Who here is going to do something today to make the next shooting less likely?
- NickC25 4y ago>Who here is still mad about the shooting? Who here is going to do something today to make the next shooting less likely? I'm still mad about Sandy Hook. That's in my home county. I'm still mad about Tucson - that was the local grocery store I went to during school. I'm still mad about Virginia Tech, I'm still mad about Vegas, and every other mass shooting. I'm still mad that it took Alex Jones nearly a decade to be convicted for the continued harassment and verbal abuse of people that had to deal with their 6 year olds get shot up by a psycho while sitting in 1st grade class. Unfortunately, there's a powerful voting bloc both in DC and around the US that will vote to make sure nothing happens. Forget about enforcing the laws on the books - lots of police sheriffs around the nation have said they have no interest in doing so.