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If you ask me an interesting question like "when did Freddy Mercury die?" That can be a an invention for a conversation.
If we're going to a show and you keep asking me "how long is the drive? Do they have parking? Will there be food there? What are the bands again?" You're just being needy and want me to do the labor of pulling of the show info for you.
thats when you go boomer hick deadbeat-dad mode and give vague non/answers completely off the top of your head. " 'round 'bout 6 hours", "anywhere's a parking spot, y'know", "yeh, prolly", "the one with the funky beats".
the funny part is now the search engines are changing into machines that just make up LLM shit at you
Then they just spam the same question at you. They are obstinate in their laziness.
" now it's 'round 'bout 5 hours and 58-ish minutes. Reckon we're makin' good time"
Honestly with the first question my mind just kinda blanks but the second one gets at least few gears turning even though I don't even know point a and b.
my gut instinct response is "that's an interesting question, what do you think "
It's hard for me to imagine circumstances under which I'd enjoy being lead into a discussion about AIDS deaths.
it can be a learning experience starting out with a guesstimation of deaths caused by the disease, learning about the actual number of deaths both in the LGBT+ community and the wider world, then steer it into a historical discussion about how right-wing ideology of being hateful bigots turning a blind eye and gagging the truth lead to so many preventable deaths under the capitalist system, and how if even mitigation and symptom treatment research was started as early as the epidemic was discovered, Freddie might still be here today, among so many other folks that could've shined brightly as him.