we live in a strange time where we feel guilty for feeling joy when theres so much bad happening all the time. i think its important to remember that joy is also it's own form of resistance

"This...waddya call it? Chat, er, Chat GPT? Am I getting that right? Jeez. My wife, she loves this tech stuff. Goes nuts for it. Me, I'm a little old fashioned I guess. Do you mind if I smoke? Boy, that's a lot of...you do have permission to use all this data, right? I'm sure you do. Just checking."