Hemingways_Shotgun

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • To each their own I supposed. But I firmly believe you retain more knowledge, the more senses that you use when learning.

    If I’m reading the material (sight), highlighting the notes (touch), and listenting to the prof (sound), I’m triggering more synapses and as a result hold more of the information in.

    Letting an A.I. summarize it for you, or just recording in on a laptop voice-to-text while zoning out for the hour of that class, is completely useless because you don’t actually learn anything except how to ask the computer for the answer.


  • Your country is being run by a man who behaves like I behaved in fourth grade when I didn’t want to admit I hadn’t done my homework and just compounded lie upon lie upon lie hoping to outlast the teachers somehow.

    For the record, I was a total shit-head in fourth grade. I was ducking and weaving, adding more lies to the narrative (even going as far as blaming my sister for stealing it, and STILL not backing down when they brought her in to call my bluff). Somehow, my idiot brain just thought that if I kept spinning out more and more convoluted webs of bullshit, it would eventually hit the magical “they believe me” mark.

    Here’s the thing though…I was in FOURTH GRADE and I GREW OUT OF IT! What the fuck is Trump’s excuse?



  • Going to university in the late 90s/early 00s, when not everyone had home computers and especially not laptops. We had the computer lab in the basement where were could go to print out essays, do research, etc.

    There was the library as well with a few computers on each floor, but those were always taken, and lab access came with our tuition anyway.

    Other than that and a rather simple cellphone, we were device free. We still took notes by hand, copiously highlighted lines in ridiculously overpriced text books, met with friends at the coffee shop to study, and essentially kept technology compartmentalised.

    Do I miss it? Oh hell yes.