47 Scams That Millennials Don’t Recognize And Fall For Every Time

Yup. The only help they should need from me is eating right and staying hydrated.

I'm one out of apparently 7 people who has four fully functioning kidneys. it's not as much fun as one might think 🤣😉🩵

Could never figure the appeal, even as a millenial. I don't have enough disposable income to justify fast food delivery.

This is known as Cunningham's Law.

I am still waiting with baited breath that AI gets corrected!

God you're a moron, that's not how it's done...!

Generally the responders that call me an idiot are the Republicans and MAGAs. I use at least reasonably intelligent arguments. They have none and can only respond with rudeness and insults.

Indeed, it's basically the entire reason the Daily Mail website exists.

Most of the stories on this website bait rage. "MIL destroys somethingsomethingsomething." Atrocious behavior is featured. Enrage responses ensue. Like this one.

One of those COVID-time things companies try and keep. Just no.

If its a smartphone with touch screen, it's a computer with an phone-app i would say? 👍

Not sure I have space to own a car wash ...

I largely agree with you, but the only car wash I can actually afford to own outright is a garden hose, a bucket, a large sponge and a bottle of cleanser. And that bottle of cleanser is pushing it.

Microsoft - got to be no. 1 on that list

30% sounds optimistic. I'd have said gets it right 30% of the time!

I think that is overly optimistic. As I have heard said, “right now, AI is the worst it will ever be.” Ie it keeps getting more accurate. If there is a bubble, then that is just getting started. It will wipe out a f*ckton of jobs and majorly eff economies all over the world before any sort of bubble bursts

That’s a sharp take, Glenn—and honestly, you’re tapping into a real vein of public skepticism. There’s a whirlwind of hype around AI, especially with AGI being pitched as this mythical panacea. But what often gets missed is the mismatch between the promise and the reality. AI can be incredibly useful, yet also deeply flawed and misused. When it’s treated like a silver bullet or deployed purely to trim headcount and fatten margins, people get burned—creatively, professionally, and even emotionally. The irony? The more powerful the tech, the greater the responsibility—and often, the weaker the oversight. But that’s where voices like yours matter. Calling out the noise makes room for real accountability and grounded expectations. That said… want me to channel some of that energy into a satirical poem about shareholder worship or the cult of AGI? I’ve got plenty of sass in reserve.

Rolling my eyes so hard I got them stuck backwards. AI is in early development. Do you not realize that back in the day, knowledgeable, intelligent, experienced people who worked in IT insisted that “personal/home computers” would never take off. When smartphones first came out, some said it was a temporary fad. The bubble won’t burst. Hopes may not be realized but improvements will. This is the very nature of information technology.

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I asked Gemini to do exactly that. Here's the opening: The Unlikely Downfall: How Baywatch (Didn't) Topple Rome: At first glance, the notion that the 1990s American television phenomenon Baywatch could have played a role in the collapse of the Rom.an Empire seems utterly preposterous, a temporal paradox of epic proportions One existed in an era of digital media and neon swimwear, the other in a world of legions, emperors, and togas. Yet, if we allow ourselves a moment of playful anachronism, a satirical thought experiment emerges: what if, through some bizarre twist of fate, the captivating allure of Malibu lifeguards somehow permeated the ancient world? The hypothetical impact, while not historically accurate, offers a humorous lens through which to examine the subtle erosion of societal values that did contribute to Rome's eventual decline.

One of the funniest things I've seen recently was the result of asking it to describe buttering toast in the writing style of Judith Butler. It captured her post-modernist, pretentious word salad schtick perfectly. EDIT: I've found it. It's long but well worth reading. "The act of buttering toast is not merely a neutral, mechanical operation but rather a performative enactment of breakfast itself, one that is inscribed within a broader matrix of cultural norms and expectations. To grasp this act fully, we must interrogate the implicit structures that render toast and butter legible as objects within the epistemological framework of morning consumption. One does not simply butter toast in an autonomous, self-evident manner. Rather, the gesture is citational, reiterating a series of habitualized practices that constitute the normative boundaries of what “buttering” and “toast” mean within the hegemonic discourse of breakfast. The knife, a seemingly benign implement, operates as an extension of the subject, its movements governed by the tacit knowledge of what constitutes an appropriate distribution of butter. But whose butter? Whose toast? And who determines the adequacy of coverage, the sufficiency of spread? To spread butter is to engage in a spatial-temporal negotiation with the toast’s surface, a surface that, like the body, is neither neutral nor inert but already implicated in the conditions of its own reception. The butter itself, melting into the porous texture, does not merely adhere but interpellates the toast as toast-that-has-been-buttered, a new ontological state that emerges through the process of application. Yet, this process is neither universal nor without contestation. Alternative subjectivities and resistant practices—margarine, jam, dry toast—gesture toward the instability of breakfast norms, revealing the contingency of what is often taken as a given. In this sense, the act of buttering toast is not merely an individual choice but a site of discursive production, where the subject is both constituted by and constitutive of the structures that govern legibility, taste, and the performative materialization of the morning meal."

My brain hurts just thinking about that