Is there an app that doesn’t fill me with impending dread

THE KIDS WILL BE ALRIGHT

I SEE that Enid Blyton is the latest children’s author to face the wrath of modern-day sensibilites. Or ‘sensitivities’.

Apparently the use of the words ‘idiot’ and ‘shut up’ are too much for young readers. This follows Roald Dahl’s novels getting a touch-up for describing characters as ‘fat’ and ‘double-chinned’ among other horrific adjectives.

Censoring like this is a slippery slope. There is no limit to what offends and the chances of a book surviving a single generation let alone being handed down over many is fraught. Coincidentally I recently had to re-read one of Blyton’s Famous Five books to the young ones before bed. Different point but where Dahl still has an edge to his novels, Blyton the case was dismissed by a very sensible magistrate is a stunning outcome.

The only winner in this case is the magistrate who said what most of us are thinking all the time. “This is a classic case of the insanity that has overtaken society in the 21st century,” he lamented.

“It started in the 1980s when we advised students that they had rights and

It’s understandable in a way given columnists are by nature quite thinskinned creatures - excluding yours truly, duh - and hand-in-hand is their paranoia at them and their thoughts being redundant.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you would know about Chat GPT which is

Parks and easements between homes could be a balance between permaculture and native trees to this area. As in native paperbarks left to regenerate a wetland area surrounded by Neem or Tea trees and Banksias. The real estate individuals could when they put tiny thin easements in to widen them heaps and make earth zones with more amenability to humanity’s wild side. Our earth and non dangerous animal earth closer to us all as in ducks and so on in our daily walking the dog through parks and paddocks left for snakes and great flocks of finches and budgerigars with dog walkways through them. The birds would fly up in swirls and come back down again. Lots of food for predators like cats and peregrine falcons. BECAUSE WE ALL NEED TO ROAM IN OUR WILD SIDE. So back to the drawing board counil with your standard plate design parks only for humans. And the real estate because nature refreshes us and rejuvenates us. We play god with the earth and need to decentralize and work more with it. It would be more like half the land for community and half for the great Australian dream of owning your own home next to the permaculture zoned interspaced community. HIGH TECH business areas and its high rise solar power production and rooftop community gardens. Free train travel for housing commission livers to the beach or else where. And more space for everything else needful things in the community besides the great Australian and country indigenous dream of owning ones own home. I do too one day!

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(kids cheating through school) or the greatest tool at making our lives even more efficient (yay). Reading some columnists and you can only pray that AI will take them out.

As for me, I’ve tried to get it to write my column, but it’s even worse.

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