why is it always that the sign that the robot/AI is becoming ~*too human*~ is when they fall in looove
give me a robot who realizes they’ve ~*exceeded their programmed parameters*~ when they get incredibly emotionally attached to their favorite movie and start writing fanfiction about it
So I’m a white Caucasian female, but I am fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English. Now, looking at me, you wouldn’t know I can speak Mandarin, which is why I find it absolutely hysterical to mess with people when they come through my line speaking Chinese, and I understand every word their saying. My co workers find it especially hysterical.
Okay, so the other day this Chinese couple came through my line, and I asked them (in english) all of the questions about the bags and if they had their rewards cards, all of that fun stuff.
Anyway, I started ringing up their stuff, and the wife said to her husband “Tell her not to bruise the bananas” in Chinese, and i didn’t say anything. The wife said “tell the stupid girl to go faster” in mandarin. I smiled at her and pretended like I had no idea what she was saying.
She kept commenting on how my hair was like a boys (I have short hair, its honestly not even that short) and how her grandfather would have gone faster than I was going, all of this in chinese.
and then, she said “make sure she doesn’t forget the water” in chinese, and I replied in English, “I won’t forget the water”
And i watched with enjoyment as a look of sheer terror spread across her face, as she realized I understood everything she had said before. She just stood there with her mouth open and her husband said (in chinese) “This is why you shouldn’t trash talk employees while their standing right in front of you” And i replied (in english) “He’s right”
They paid, the husband apologized, and left. After they walked out the door my manager and co worker and I were laughing so hard, even though being a cashier sucks, it sometimes makes my day a little brighter when something like that happens.
out of all the aspects of millennial-bashing, i think the one that most confuses me is the “millennials all got trophies as a kid, so now they’re all self-centered narcissists” theory
like— kids are pretty smart, y’all. they can see that every kid on the team gets a trophy and is told they did a good job; they can also see that not every kid on the team deserves a trophy, and not everyone did do a good job
the logical conclusion to draw from this is not “i’m great and i deserve praise”— it’s “no matter how mediocre i am, people will still praise me to make me feel better, so i can’t trust any compliments or accolades i receive”
this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.
where did this whole “ugh millennials think their so-so work is super great” thing even come from it is a goddamn mystery
what fucking kills me is, yeah, maybe we got the trophies, but who gave them out
this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.
It’s also what I observed happening as a singing teacher: the older kids literally would not believe a positive word I said until I had proved I would tell them they screwed up/had done badly/etc. I did so in as useful a way as possible (“So this passage. We really need to work on this passage. A lot. This passage is not good yet.”), but with almost every adolescent I taught I had to prove I would give them straight-up criticism before they would parse my praise as anything other than meaningless “the grownups always do this” noise.
This is literally a huge chunk of what is wrong with me. By the time I reached high school, I assumed all praise was fake–made up to spare my feeling. Even today, I struggle with accepting compliments or feeling proud of my work.
You know what else a population treated like this learns?
That their skills, accomplishments, and personal value as unique individuals are such mortal threats to their peers’ sanity that they must hide and devalue them or else everyone around them will be TRAUMATIZED FOR LIFE. That success must constantly be overshadowed by hypervigilent guilt over who might see it achieved by someone other than them and wither because of it. That the reason “everyone wins” is because losing is death and success is murder. That their work must be devalued in service to an all-devouring imperative to protect others from the toxic experience of envying it.
That achievement automatically means cruelly taking something away from someone else instead of creating something beautiful that those around you can ENJOY.
That if you accepted or desired approval, you were thoughtless. That if you took pride in anything, you were a snake. That if you asked for your value to be recognized, you obviously didn’t care about those around you. That adding value to any situation you were in was only acceptable with written permission, which you had to carefully assert that you hadn’t asked for in any way, or else you ran the risk of battering the self-esteem of people who were just waiting for the chance to cry foul and batter you back.
That success is a zero-sum game.
NOPE.
(Among other things, this shows up in the tendency of creatives to devalue their work even if it’s really good, repeating stridently that they’re not making anything that can actually be called good lest someone respond with the dreaded “how are you so good, I quit.” Please, everyone, stop both of those things. Just really please stop.)
Oh, fucking god, this.
Leading to the lovely correspondence, if something goes wrong, of:
– I am the worst – It’s my own fault if I’d worked harder it would have worked perfectly – It’s my own fault for wanting to achieve something and put myself above others – The fact that I am sad about not achieving something means I am a selfish egotist and a horrible person – BUT I SHOULD HAVE TRIED HARDER AND ACHIEVED
Adding to this the fact that the job market is universally SHIT right now means that there are so fucking many people in my generation who believe that we’re just worthless. I’m 27 and have only just found my first like “grown up” job, and when you have this mindset and are getting rejection after rejection while your parents/older people are just like IT WAS SO EASY WHEN I WAS YOUNG YOU ARE NOT TRYING, or simply not understanding that you’re trying your best and shit still isn’t coming your way, it is very very easy to hate yourself.
i need more fics where roxy ISN”T presented as the girl who always shows up to school drunk i want roxy lalonde, the girl who hacked into the school website and changed the color scheme to pink, purple and white and the font to something very bubbly i want roxy lalonde, the girl who snuck a stray cat she found on her way to school in her bag and had to try to hide it from all her teachers roxy lalonde the valedictorian who bedazzled her robe because why not give me roxy lalonde the girl the teachers got tired of reprimanding for drawing wizards all over her tests there are so many things you can do with a character as great as roxy lalonde how could you possible lower her to just an alcoholic ditz especially when she REALIZED SHE HAD A PROBLEM AND STOPPED DRINKING!
I hate it when people try to scare high school students by saying the words “the real world” like shut the fuck up there is no fake world there is only one world and we are all living in it right now whether you have a fucking high school diploma or not
