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    8 hours ago

    Essays are another complaint I have about my grade school experience. Especially for English class. They never told me exactly why it helped me to write an essay, and so I felt like I had to guess what I was learning. I always thought it was about grammar and spelling, and that they wanted all of that literary shit like allusions and tone and whatever.

    I knew that it was okay if you wrote something creative, but it sucked shit, but I didn’t realize that they wanted us to write shit sucking creative prose, because most everybody has to write badly before they can write goodly. I was always paralyzed by perfectionism, and in those days, we either wrote it by hand or on a typewriter, so it was hard to go back and edit.



  • I think that my definition of “resurrect” is not the same as their definition of “resurrect”.

    Like, imagine that you went out and found an actress who was willing to dress up like your dead grandmother, and who would also study videos of her, and could do a perfect impersonation. I doubt anybody would say that she was “resurrected”. But this is precisely what the AI is attempting to do.

    To call it a “resurrection” is an insult to her memory.


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    18 hours ago

    When I went to college, I had a computer science professor who assigned a group project, and he also told us exactly how to do a group project. You know, how to organize it, how to distribute work, how to have meetings and report progress, etc.

    That was the first time any teacher had ever explained anything to me about the group itself. The professor thought it was a good way of introducing students to the way things are done in a workplace, and he was right. Group projects are hard. If the students have to figure it out themselves, they will screw it up royally, just like anybody would.

    I honestly believe that every teacher I had up until that point had no interest in using group projects to actually educate the students. It was just a break so that the teacher could pretend like they were teaching students to work in a group, but actually added little scholastic value for students. (There was some inherent value in the socialization aspects, but the teacher never told us to do that, either.)

    If teachers don’t teach, then it’s only luck if students end up learning.




  • People have been saying that about Stephen Miller since before Trump’s first presidency.

    It’s just as unsurprising as Elon Musk’s Nazi salutes on stage at a GOP convention.

    The reason Musk accidentally makes Nazi salutes when he gets excited is that he’s a Nazi.

    The reason Stephen Miller’s rhetoric is the same as Nazi rhetoric is that he’s a Nazi.

    I’m not speaking metaphorically. I don’t mean “Neo Nazi”. I mean that Stephen Miller, like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, idolizes Nazi Germany, and in all likelihood, literally thinks of himself as a Nazi.




  • I suspect that China knows that they can say whatever they want, and that they can do whatever they want, and that those two things have nothing to do with each other.

    Saying they support humanitarian rights makes them look good.

    They can sign any agreement or treaty or whatever. If it says human rights must be respected, well, that’s just ink on paper. It’s not like it’s going to change what they do in the least.

    It’s more surprising that the US voted against this. Maybe it means the US ambassador to the UN is somewhat working against Trump to make him look like an amateur. Maybe it means that Trump weighed in on this directly, and this happened because he really is just that stupid.










  • On the other hand, the GOP, along with some Democrats, just approved a huge military budget, $900 billion IIRC, and what have they been doing with that? Blowing up fishing boats, hijacking oil tankers, and basically gearing up for some sort of larger military action in South America, perhaps. More suffering and death.

    The GOP knows that causing suffering and death is in their best interests. They need “others”. They need victims. And they need hate. If people were able to calm down and rationally vote in their own best interests, instead of billionaires’ best interests, the GOP would be gone within a few years. And after that, the Democratic party would have to change quite a bit if they wanted to stick around, as well.