Worried About Holiday Conversational Tension? Alexa Has An App For That

Raise your hand if you believe only idiots seek out a “smart spy” device.

*Raises other peoples hands even though they didn’t voluntarily*

If we are going to rely on an electronic device to maintain the peace in our homes and lead civil discussions, then we have bigger fish to fry.

The Daily Wire reported:

Amazon is hoping to take a bit of the sting out of the inevitable, inebriated political debate sure to happen around your holiday table with a new application, available through its Alexa home assistant.

To help tech-loving families keep from flat-out killing each other (something Alexa will also record, an unfortunate murder suspect in Florida learned to his detriment last year), Alexa will now suggest “fun debate questions” and issue “question prompts” so that you and your family can pick a less contentious subject than politics to disagree about.

Have you ever gotten into a SUPER heated discussion with someone, and an electronic device tries to temper your tension, then you were all, “OMG thank you, my beloved electronic device, for keeping me so accountable” ??

No? What, do you live under a rock? (Please sense my heavy sarcasm here)

Good gravy. Please don’t tell me an inanimate object (created by humans, I might add) is going to have more emotional intelligence than… I don’t know… HUMANS; the most cognitively advanced species on the planet!

On the other hand, is it really a family gathering if it doesn’t consist of nonsense drunken political fury?

If you didn’t kind of politically resent one another sometimes, I would question the depth of your bond.