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Chapter 1: What frustrations do we have with customer service?
go to our website to solve this problem at blah, blah, blah, blah, and hang up. If I could solve the problem on the website, I would not spend hours of my life waiting on your stupid, animated call. I mean, I've had it.
Yeah, I could not agree more. The amount of frustration that we have had with robots is— in the era just before AI is really about to take off has been maddening. So I imagine these frustrations are only going to exacerbate unless the robots get smarter, which maybe they are. I don't know. But we're going to get more of this, not less of this. I know.
And the thing is, is I suspect that the robot is better at technology than me because 90% of the human population is. But what is so infuriating, if I'm going to get hung up on and sent to the website, why do I have to be on the phone for four minutes waiting for my option to show up? Just tell me, hey, bitch, I'm not going to help you go to the website. Click.
At least then I'm not 10 minutes in so frustrated that I'm just like, you know what? I don't want the damn thing. Forget it. I don't want to – I know.
I know. It's so frustrating to – it's not customer service. It's customer disservice. It is. They do their customers a disservice that you cannot call and solve a problem because they're just constantly cutting jobs to enrich the profits. And I just wish that we would ramp up customer service a little bit more because then you have angry customers.
And then you end up having no customer because then you're like, screw it. I'm going to discontinue the service because I hate these people and I hate this robot. Right. That's exactly what I did. All right. So I'm just going to go into what I've had it with. And you went on about this at length last year when your youngest son was a senior. And this year, my youngest son is a senior. Right.
And the amount of senior activities is unbelievable. This is the most celebrated generation I've ever seen. And right now I'm going to do a dramatic reading of a list of items that were texted in a parent group me, not to the seniors that are 18 years old, but to the parents. We're in.
The parents have days long multi-message group me back and forth, back and forth, thumbs up, hearting, liking, commenting about activities in which their child needs to take the lead on. But this is just something that I received. Upcoming senior activities, senior sunset, senior skip day, senior parade. senior slideshow, senior staircase photo. Mind you, all of these are different dates. Okay.
Senior recognition and awards, senior finals, baccalaureate, senior banquet, graduation rehearsal, graduation, graduation party and lock-in. This, sadly, is just the tip of the iceberg because my son, like yours, plays sports. So then what's not on this list is the basketball banquet, the soccer banquet, the tennis banquet, the events for those.
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Chapter 2: Why are parents overly involved in senior activities?
i shouldn't be here this is something the kids should be doing during their school day to celebrate themselves the parents should come to the graduation 100 but all of this other stuff is torturous and I love my child, but here's the problem. Even my child doesn't want to go to these events. So last night that was the senior banquet. He is senior down and there was an Oklahoma City Thunder game.
And I said, Roman, are you going to the senior banquet? He goes, no, I'm going to the game one of the Western Conference Finals, Mom. I will always remember that. The senior banquet, along with all the other 40 dinners I've been to the last three weeks, I'm not going to remember at all. So even the kids are not wanting to do these activities.
Yet the parents are having long conversations about arrival times, departure times, attire. I was going to say attire. Why aren't the kids texting one another to figure out what they wear? Why is a mother figuring out the outfit that her 18-year-old needs to wear while at the same time... This same generation of mothers and fathers say of these kids are worthless. Right.
You can't have it both ways.
Well, here's so many things about that because I was there last year. And what's so amazing to me is if you put truth serum in all of these parents, they would say these activities are for the kids. Right. And in my mind, I'm like, these activities are for the parents. The kids don't give a shit. The kids don't give a shit if you're at the senior slide show.
They don't give a shit if you show up at the senior picture. Frankly, they don't want you there. But all of these parents have just made this, like being a senior in high school is the most monumentous achievement that any child will ever do in the history of the world. And it is so aggravating and so stupid.
And this is what I told my daughter, because she was on the cheer team and they won state. And so we had to get all these rings and have photo shoots and do all this crap. And I told her, I said, here's the thing about high school. The minute you walk out the door, you're done. You never think about it again. You don't long for it again. It's like in the past, see ya, wouldn't want to be ya.
And it's like it's the parents that are keeping the kids all like, oh my gosh, it's so sad you're going to college. Are you fucking kidding me? You get to live on your own for the first time. Tell me one teenager that's sad about that. Right. Right.
But then it gives these poor kids like the burden of being responsible for their parents' sadness. Right. At a time where their parents should be like, I'm so going to miss you, but this is your next step. Go spread your wings, fly. The amount of independence you're going to enjoy is so fun. But then these kids have this burden that they're leaving their parents in shatters.
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Chapter 3: What is the impact of parental involvement on Gen Z?
And I'm like, then go to the game. The kids don't want to go to this. It's boring. It's awful. It's too much. We've already been to 95,000 celebrations and we're not even to graduation date yet. Right. So, yeah. So we missed out on the baccalaureate, have zero regrets because game seven was such a blast. So we'll remember that forever.
Baccalaureate snooze fest made a great decision for our family, prioritizing sports over the church. Yeah. which I think could help a lot of Americans. And then Roman himself did not even go to yet another banquet because he's like, Mom, I've been to like seven banquets already when you tack in the sports stuff. So I've had it. We need to quit celebrating people.
Parents, don't do for your kids what they can do for themselves, buying prom tickets, deciding what they're going to wear, what the attire is. That's on them. If they show up to an event underdressed, that is a life lesson, definitely. Been there, done that. That is a life lesson that they learn. They show up in shorts and a t-shirt and everybody else has on khakis and a polo shirt.
Then they learn, oh shit, I should have texted my friend. These are the lessons these kids need to learn. And so when you read these reports that Gen Z is depressed and anxious and all of these things, It's the parents' fault and the school for enabling the parents to have this much involvement.
And Donald Trump and all of these right-wing MAGA politicians for expanding, they say that they're for limited stuff, for making parents this unhinged all the time. They feed this toxic narrative and we're not raising independent, autonomous citizens. Well, that's how they want it.
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Chapter 4: How has the anti-vaccine movement evolved?
And something is going to have to change if we make it through this fascist regime to where when people are talking about a junk science that it is labeled as such on the screen, this information has not been peer-reviewed.
You know, if you're talking about not putting sunscreen on a child and that it's better to, you know, have vitamin D, I'll tell you, I'll tell you a prime example is I'll never forget it. So it was during COVID and I went, I think I was getting Botox. All right. And we're talking maybe like six weeks, six months into the lockdown when I really needed it. I hadn't had any in like six months.
It was a medical emergency. Yeah. So I go in and my main girl couldn't do it. So it was like her nurse. And I had a mask on because I was just getting it like in my brow and my forehead. Well, the nurse had her mask on and she was asking me like if I was going to get the vaccine. And I was like, oh, yeah, I'm totally going to get the vaccine.
And the question she asked me was a leading question because she goes, oh, I'm not. I just want my immune system to pop. And she started like moving her body like this. She goes, I just want my immune system to pop. She had the syringe in her hand and I'm just like, oh my God.
And she goes, yeah, you know, I go to the grocery store and I don't wear a mask because I'm like, just give me all this stuff. I want my immune system to build up. And she had to have a mask on in this room. Yeah. And I was like, you don't wear a mask to the grocery store? And she says, no.
And I mean, and people like, you know, walk away from me, but I kind of always look at them and I'm like, I want the germs. I want the immunity building properties of the air of this grocery store. She's like real unhinged. And I remember just thinking, oh my God. And she's like, you know, we don't know what's in that vaccine.
And I was like, I don't know what's in those poison you're about to inject into my forehead, but I don't give a shit. I want these wrinkles gone. I don't care what's in the COVID vaccine. I want it because I trust the decades-long virology and immunology experts that have studied such a thing.
And I also know that I had grandparents from the greatest generation where each grandparent had like nine or ten siblings. All four of my grandparents had a couple of siblings that died due to diseases that have since been eradicated because of the advancement of modern medicine and vaccinations.
It's crazy how people are totally ignoring that. And I don't know if it's ignorant of history or it's just the empowerment of stupidity. But, you know. When you go to like a cemetery and you see the pre-vaccine little bitty headstones of babies and you think that was before. I mean, there's a distinct line. The data is very clear. Like they're not dying anymore. This is the mark.
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Chapter 5: What are the consequences of ignoring scientific advice?
Oh yeah.
Shit. She went to high school with, you know, and they're conducting their own research on certain things. It's so stupid. You know, these people are dumber than a box of hot rocks. But, you know, it's a really interesting question to pose because it's you know, there's freedom. You know, you should have medical freedom.
But then what are the moral implications of where if somebody doesn't want to get vaccinated and then we have these measles outbreaks and sudden deaths? I don't know how. how to handle that in a free society. I'm over my skis on the moral implications of how to execute that. However, I do think you fundamentally have to embrace education and the endorsement of facts.
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Chapter 6: Why is it important to trust medical professionals?
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