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Teen Sparks Debate With Viral Video Listing The Rules Her 'Strict Parents' Have Enforced That Have Made Her An 'Avid Liar'
She gave multiple examples of their restrictiveness in their home, including only charging devices in the kitchen, never her bedroom; not allowing FaceTime and discouraging calls in general; wanting every possible detail about an event before allowing her to attend; and requiring that she carry a bag with an AirTag planted inside of it at all times.
The TikToker found these restrictions to be unjustified, as she felt she was always on her best behavior and also performed very well in school. While she could see these restrictions making sense if she "partied or did drugs," she was simply a high school teen, focusing on her education and trying to maintain her friendships.
Very bluntly, she claimed:
"Because of them, I've become an avid liar. Not a good liar, but a very avid liar."
"Then I get caught [lying] a lot, and the restrictions just keep coming."
Unfortunately, the video has since been deleted by Mei. But many viewers were able comment on it before she did so.
While they understood why Mei was frustrated, fellow TikTokers were divided over the video.
Some completely understood where Mei was coming from and commiserated over having similarly strict parents.
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But others were not convinced, claiming that these restrictions were not what they would call "strict."
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Every generation is going to have its subgroup of "strict parents" or "helicopter parents," and in each generation, that's inevitably going to look different. For Millennials, that may have meant not even being allowed to own a phone while all of their peers were getting their first and second devices, or not being allowed to go out for anything but school.
For late Gen Z teens, that might mean having the device but having strict rules regarding its use.
Either way, strict parenting styles tend to create sneaky and lying children, who are mostly good kids anyway but do whatever they can to appear as "good" as possible to avoid more unnecessary restrictions being placed on them.
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UK Man Goes Viral With His Shock Over All Of The Bizarre And 'Supersized' Things Walmart Sells—And We're Cackling
TikToker Tayla Jackson has enjoyed building an account around being an American woman with a boyfriend from the UK, with the pair of them sharing and reacting to each other's cultures. Her boyfriend had a lot to say about hers.
In one of her most recent videos, Jackson took her UK boyfriend to Walmart for the very first time, and his reactions started at the front door with the shopping carts not requiring a coin insertion to borrow and return a cart.
After that, there were many comments about the sizes of the products, like a pizza being too large for a UK-style oven or what a person could possibly need so much ground beef for.
Jackson's boyfriend also accused Americans of being stupid, since the meat supply section labeled it with a "Breakfast" section and a "Lunch" section, indicating that Americans wouldn't be able to tell the difference without assistance.
Not to mention how lazy he quipped Americans were, since an American can do practically anything, all in one place, if they walk into a Walmart, using shopping for avocados, only to buy a car, as an example.
There were also interesting labeling choices that her boyfriend could not wrap his mind around, like one frozen food section being marked as "Entertaining." To Americans, this of course means dishes and serving sizes to better accommodate hosting a party, but to her UK boyfriend, he expected to find DVDs and games in the freezer section.
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Some TikTokers were equally perplexed by the boyfriend's finds as he was.
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Others found his commentary and criticisms highly entertaining.
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Though some of Jackson's boyfriend's comments were pretty critical, their journey to the store was all meant in good fun, and honestly, he might have a point with some of his observations.
Anthropic Researcher Abruptly Resigns Before Warning That AI 'Could Kill Us All By The End Of The Decade' In Alarming Rant
Jacob Coxon, a researcher for Anthropic, recently resigned, fearing that unrestrained development of self-improving AI models will make the Terminator franchise more documentary than fiction.
Coxon took to X to share his warnings about the technology he spent three years developing:
"The people building AI earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade."
"...They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives."
You can read his full thread of seven posts here:
In his final post, Coxon appealed to his fellow AI researchers, writing:
"If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind?"
"Should you put your head down because 'it’s happening anyway' - or take this moment to call for different conditions?"
Coxon also explained his stance on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.
Coxon pointed to multiple incidents of AI agents hacking systems without any input from humans as proof that tighter supervision and controls are vital before it's too late.
Anthropic’s current Head of Alignment Stress-Testing, Evan Hubinger, also posted on X to say he agreed with Coxon.
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People across social media concurred with the need for regulated AI and safeguards instead of barreling ahead blind.
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Warnings of reckless, accelerated AI development without safeguards have come from others in the tech industry before Coxon.
Former Google engineer Blake Lemoine sounded the alarm in 2022. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates also recently called for caution, planning, and government regulations for AI.
MAGA Christian's Viral Post About Learning Donated School Supplies Will Go To Spanish-Speaking Kids Has Everyone Making The Same Point
"I could use some help. Recently, a Christian organization I am a part of put out a call for school supplies and birthday presents for needy kids. This of course is something we wanted to do so we signed up. We got the lists back. They were written entirely in Spanish."
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Von Swol falsely assumed Spanish means "immigrant," but the oldest continuously occupied European-founded city in the United States—St. Augustine, Florida—was established by Spain in 1565. Spanish and French speakers colonized large portions of what became the United States.
Today, an estimated 18% of Americans—about 55 to 59 million people—speak Spanish, with the roots of this European language tracing back before 1776. In the states of California, Texas, New Mexico, Florida, and Nevada, 29%-21% of their population—which includes Indigenous people colonized by Spain instead of the British Empire—speaks Spanish.
Spanish is an immigrant language, but in the same way English is. Both are European languages that came to the Americas through colonization.
But despite no law or constitutional amendment establishing an official language for the United States, Van Swol can only see Spanish as a "foreign" language spoken by non-White immigrants. And, being MAGA, he immediately thought undocumented immigrants as well.
His post explained:
"I went back to the organization and asked them if the kids and/or parents who would be receiving the gifts are American citizens or illegal aliens. They wouldn’t say."
"They also said it shouldn’t matter to me what their immigration status is and that Jesus commands us to give. What do I do?"
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His post further displayed his MAGA Christian values, stating:
"Up until this year I have always given to this organization and it didn’t matter to me whether illegal immigrants and their kids were receiving my help or not. Now… now I’m wondering if I’m fighting against myself."
"Am I enabling illegal immigrants, who should be deported, to stay here longer by personally giving them free Christmas presents, gifts, and school supplies?"
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Demonstrating how Christian nationalism is divorced from Christianity, Van Swol concluded his post with:
"There are poor AMERICAN families in my own community who are struggling. Shouldn’t we be trying to help them?"
"I don’t think it is hateful or un-Christian to ask a very basic question about where limited charitable resources are going and whether we should be giving them to people who aren’t supposed to be here and instead directing them towards families who have lived here their entire lives, paid taxes, followed the rules, and still desperately need help."
"What do I do?"
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Van Swol got his answer loud and clear in the comments from his fellow Christians.
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Van Swol's post was purely performative.
He failed to engage with any of his fellow Christians in the comments and, as of this writing, hasn't provided his decision on whether to contribute to this unnamed charity that may not exist, for a situation that likely never happened.
Van Swol's bio puts him in North Carolina. The possibility that a charity in that state—or anywhere in the United States—would give Spanish language-only instructions to English speaking donors is slim.
Instead, it's far more likely that Van Swol, like many of his fellow MAGA Christian influencers, just made up a scenario to spread his anti-immigrant, White nationalist rhetoric.
What would Jesus do? Not this.