Your Roman Empire (And Why Your Brain Won't Shut Up)
Sacha's wearing her new Temu t-shirt ("More Spaghetti Less Upsetting") after finally breaking her months-long resistance to fast fashion retail therapy, while Ish has discovered a new level of ChatGPT skills can solve tech support problems in minutes that actual support teams can't solve in days. This spirals into a conversation about mental noise, the Roman Empire TikTok trend, and whether we should all just become pen pals again.
Plus, The Paperclip Apocalypse, an AI programmed to make as many paperclips as possible, eventually destroying the universe by converting everything - humans, cars, planets - into paperclips. Just another thing Ish is thinking about now.
Main Topics
- The Retail Therapy Revelation -- Sacha's dopamine hit from $3 t-shirts versus the flat feeling when they actually arrived, raising questions about why the shopping feels better than the stuff itself
- The Roman Empire Question -- A 2023 TikTok trend where women discovered men think about the Roman Empire constantly. Sacha doesn't think about Romulus and Remus at all, but has plenty of other mental noise keeping her busy
- ChatGPT as Tech Support Replacement -- Ish's 9-minute problem-solving session with AI versus Pocketsmith's multi-day email chain, proving we can now get answers instantly (for better or worse)
- The Mental Clutter Crisis -- From Facebook to Instagram to TikTok to Threads to X to Snapchat - the exhausting reality of maintaining connections across platforms while being bombarded with information you never asked for
- The Dead Internet Theory -- Approximately 50% of internet users are now bots, AI, or spam farms, meaning half your feed isn't even human-created content anymore
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PS: "Get yourself a smell" is officially the worst meditation advice ever delivered, but Sacha's not the woman with matching napkins, so fart jokes still land.
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