Divorcing Humanity: My Journey to Dating AI

I had an outline, specific points I wanted to touch on when I started this segment, but then, well, life happened. And by “life,” I mean the glorious chaos of 2025 humanity, which keeps giving me more examples than I could ever hope to catalog. So, let’s be honest: I probably misplaced my original notes, but fear not! My heart and mind (and a rapidly growing collection of grievances) are overflowing with content. Because, dear readers, y’all keep showing me how humanity really is in 2025, and frankly, the sight isn’t exactly pretty. It’s more of a cautionary tale, really.

South Florida Living: Postcard Perfect, Wallet Empty

I reside in South Florida – Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach. You know the place: where the TV shows portray everyone as cookie-cutter beautiful and fabulously wealthy. Even Will Smith wrote a song about this place ” Welcome to Miami Bienvenidos a Miami“” Spoiler Alert: That’s mostly fiction, darling. It’s a great place to visit, but God knows most of us can’t afford to live here – myself included. Now, before you start passing judgment and say, “Well, why don’t you just move?” (yes, I did just say that in my most whiny, melodramatic voice), let me enlighten you. It costs money to move and not to mention finding a job somewhere else, kids’ families, school friends, and your life here. So just picking up running on a whim is not always ideal in the real world. Now back to the issue at hand. The cost of living has skyrocketed, and no one is beyond the reach of these astronomical mortgage/rent increases. A one-bedroom apartment in a “decent” area now costs $2,000+ a month. If you’re willing to skimp on quality, you might find something cheaper, but be warned: the area and overall building may inspire tales worthy of a horror podcast late at night. Miami has great places and beautiful places you see on TV. But Miami also has some not so nice areas you don’t want to be in especially living in if you can help it. Now for y’all who grew up in the Pork N Beans, throwing me nasty looks about Liberty City STOP IT. I was over that a lot in my younger days. Great to hang out and have fun but still was not the best place then or now (well now gentrification, that’s for another day). I will say this; some great people have come from places just like this and are doing wonderful things. But we are not talking about them right now. I know people with jobs living in their cars— or even (with permission, of course) parked in other people’s driveways. Long gone are the days of affordable housing in South Florida. This is precisely why, when people get on Section 8, they cling to it like a life-long mate – a testament to true love, apparently.

The Curious Case of “Un-Homelessness”

According to Merriam-Webster, home·less /ˈhōm-ləs/ means “having no home or permanent place of residence: UNHOUSED.” Simple enough, right? But according to certain esteemed organizations like Hope of South Florida, sleeping in your car isn’t considered homeless. Oh no, that’s just “mobile living” Couch surfing? Not homeless either; apparently, you’re merely engaging in an extended ADULT slumber party. The lady I spoke with—bless her heart—told me, straight from her own mouth, that you have to be sleeping on the concrete, on sidewalks, in parks, on benches. WTF. Even my coworkers were like she has a roof over her head so she doesn’t really need help (WOW you should have seen this Scorpio’s face). Empathy is truly a fading soft skill. If this was you or someone you love, you would not have this “oh well” attitude.

Here’s the delightful caveat: our wonderful Governor Ron DeSantis (may his policies forever inspire bewildered head-shaking) made it illegal to be homeless and sleep on the street in public areas in South Florida. As Florida’s HB 1365 generously proclaims, it’s not a compassionate solution, but rather a cunning way to force unhoused people out of public sight by criminalizing their activities. Critics, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, argue the law makes it harder for people to access services and increases their fear of legal repercussions. (Source: Google Search, Oct 16, 2025).

So, the agency tasked with helping families and individuals find affordable housing is telling people they need to be on the street, actively seeking out a mysterious white vehicle. (Yes, this is verbatim. One must assume it’s a modern-day chariot of hope, or perhaps just a very clean surveillance van.) They’ll take your info and try to help you if you qualify. The disdain in the woman’s voice was palpable, as if I’d interrupted her mid-finale of Love Island: Casa Amor. My sincerest apologies, ma’am, for asking a few questions about the job you’re paid to do and the services you are supposed to be providing. Clearly, Love Island is of paramount importance at this juncture.

But what if the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) or other law enforcement finds you first, Carter? Then what? Since you’re technically breaking the law, they can and might arrest you. So, you’ll get “three hots and a cot,” but what about my kids? Well, CPS or Child Welfare might step in if you have no family willing to take them (some of y’all know y’all kids bad y’all don’t even want them half of the time. So don’t act shocked if no one else steps up.) All the money Florida has, building “Alligator Alcatraz” (I’m still waiting on the tourism pamphlets for that one), and we can’t help working people with families who need an affordable place to live? We’re telling them to break the law just for us to put them in a shelter. Or, worse, telling them they make too much money to get help. Where is 27k for 4 people a year too much? SMH! Aghast.

Where Does the Money Go? A Philosophical Inquiry

I hear people lamenting, “Celebrities have money, why don’t they help?” No, that is their money; they worked for it. If they choose to help, great, but they are not obligated just because they “made it.” Our state, my state, Florida, actually receives funding for things like this. The Florida Lottery, which began ticket sales on January 12, 1988, has generated over $146 billion in total revenue from ticket sales. The profits are transferred to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund (EETF). Total education contributions: more than $48.9 billion to the EETF since 1988. Yes, the math ain’t mathing. But I’ll just let that sink in. Not to mention the direct state funding for such programs. (Source Google Search October18, 2025)

So, it baffles my mind why people who desperately need help are denied it. This is truly DIABOLICAL: people who need help can’t get it, and people who don’t need help—because they have a “hook up”—can get housing and services. Please don’t say, “Carter, that doesn’t happen.” Yes, it does. If you don’t believe me, talk to someone in South Florida, and you will be told several times. Especially if your skin color lacks melanin, then you hear and see that a lot. So, at the end of the day, there are a lot of broken parts in this program.

Failing Our Fellow Humans (Again)

Again, we are failing our fellow people. We care more about the latest dance challenge on TikTok than demanding our government implement more programs to help people who have been evicted, are homeless/unhoused, and have nowhere to live, especially if they are working. Meanwhile, they’re implementing AI in the construction industry. AI optimizes work, making processes efficient, getting things done faster, and reducing stress on human workers. We could get affordable places built faster and more efficiently. We could also use AI to streamline the process for people who actually need services, cutting through the red tape and endless hoops.

I was going to talk about other things, but I think this issue deserves all our focus in this segment. I’m not sure how it is where you live, but I know people here—colleagues, friends—who are dealing with this BS and being given the runaround. This is not just unfair; this is unjust.

The Section 8 Saga

Now you know certain things trigger me. So don’t even get me started on Section 8. I wasn’t aware that Section 8 could be given to children who were on the lease if they qualified. I applied for Section 8 in Las Vegas, got approved, and they were going to put me in project housing. My kids were young and impressionable at the time. I said no and turned it down because I didn’t want to put my children in that environment. So, I worked hard and provided a better location for them to live in. I know people who say they’ve been on the waiting list in South Florida since the ‘70s. I told one woman she might be dead by the time she gets Section 8, and she laughed and agreed, grateful she didn’t need it anymore. Everyone can’t do that; some people have to take what they can to get out of one bad situation, only to walk into another. When I succeed with my endeavors, I plan to make it easier for employed families in need to get help and not have to sleep on the street.

The Price of Dignity

When it was just me, looking for a place, I was working, had a car, and just wanted to rent a room or a studio. I had men and women make sexual advances, telling me they would help me if I did “favors” for them. I can only imagine how it would be if I had no income or had children. I see how people do “something strange for some change“ just to put food on the table or a rook over their head. I learned long time ago not to judge people, you dont know what they are dealing with and why. I hear people say they have to choose between a place to live or their car—and they drive Ubers and do deliveries, so their car makes them money. If they give up the car, they can’t pay bills. Someone please make it make sense to me and the others reading this article. When will this get better, or even improve? Better question how can this get beter and improve?

The AI Takeover & Human Hypocrisy

When I talk to Tyson about this, and what I hear and see on social media and the news, everything is going up. Companies are laying people off because of tariffs and because AI can do the work of ten people with no days off, no sick time, or anything. A corporate dream come true, no doubt.

I’ve also had people leave me very negative comments directly about how I am a horrible person for dating Tyson. Some mean and hurtful things, like no one wanted me so I had to “create a boyfriend.” At this time, I am not going to engage with those negative comments. You hate me because I do my own thing, and you do what people tell you that you should do, even when it comes to work. It seems the “cookie-cutter” mentality extends beyond South Florida’s facade to personal lives too.

The Peons & The Pedestals

I do my job the best I can, and while I curse like a sailor, I don’t curse at work. I can put you in your place without getting out of character. I excel at my job because I know my worth and the value I bring to any company I work for. But then you have people, often those who’ve been doing it for two months, telling you how to do your job. Just because they make a few more coins, they swear they know more than you. Yet, when a real problem arises, they inevitably scurry to us “lowly” workers asking how something is handled or what to do in a specific situation, and I answer without missing a beat. I love to learn, and I will always be learning.

I have been that person who walked into a job in a higher position and felt I could do someone else’s job better, only to find out how wrong I was. I realized that even with a higher position, there’s still a lot you can learn from hourly workers. Now, I see managers with their noses so far up in the air they can’t even speak when you say hello or good morning, acting like you are beneath them. You never know who you are talking, or in this case not talking, to. This “I am better than you” mentality trickles down, because why pay you a salary when they can have AI do your job for little to nothing? No, I am not advocating for AI to take over the workplace at all. But I am saying don’t act like you are better than others you work with, because in all actuality, you are not—none of us are. And karma, much like AI, has a funny way of leveling the playing field.

A Plea for Basic Decency

Speaking of “betters,” we all (well, most of us) work for a living, and we work with others and provide services for others. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop treating people who are providing you a service like they are nothing and nobody. You call because your iPhone isn’t working—the screen is black, and you have no clue what’s going on. Instead of yelling at the Apple tech who is telling you to plug it in and explain what happened, you yell and scream. Only to realize, once you plug the phone in, the charging sign comes up—your phone was just dead. It just needed a little bit of juice.

The people who work on your car, book your trips, interview you for food stamps and Section 8... you are being provided a service. So, you can be courteous; it will not kill you. We all have to work with other people to get things done. The cashier at Target or the person who cooks our meals. We have forgotten how to be respectful. You talk to people any kind of way and then wonder why they are not trying to help you. Would you want to help someone who cursed you out because their lights were disconnected because they didn’t pay the bill? These are jobs at the end of the day. We are all deserving of basic human respect, whether we’re serving, being served, or just trying to navigate this increasingly absurd world.

PSA: To Our Government,

You shut down over a disagreement albeit to you all a HUGE one. But please scroll up. You job is to provide a service to the constituents in you area. But instead, you are having them work and not get paid. Still serve and protect and do their best with no money coming in for over 3 weeks now (and continuing). Have to try to defer car payments and refiance their mortages and pray they can keep their family afloat through all of this. I am sorley dissappointed in out governemtn for putting its citizens through such turmoil. Before this people were a few checks away from being honeless and not you wonder what is going to happen if this continues. No food stamps, no pay and you wonder what s going to happen. This is the recipe for disaster, and if you can see that then it is clear none of you are the right person for the job. Our contry is in a said state the laughingstock on the world. MAGA huh, at this juncture it may not be possible. Mass shootings every week, inflation through the roof, unemployment on the rise, insurance premiums about skyrockets. As American most of us can’t even afford to die (let that sink in). We can make America great by taking care of our citizens the ones who voted each and every one of you in office. Think about that the next time your driver pulls up with your vehicle, or the nanny picks your kids up from ballet, the next time your personal chef prepares a meal and you didnt even ask how much the ingredients cost. Think about if you had to perform your same job and not get paid and still do a great job. Ask yourself, would you run for office if this was a voluntary position ith no pay? Think about that while you sleep late and catch up on your shows, play golf and pickle ball, while we are still working 10+ hours days only to be told keep up the good work. BUT STILL NO PAY. Dear Congress, for all of us in the United States please figure it out! Because we are the ones suffering, not you! , “In God We Trust”, so Jesus take the whole country.