They dont realize that teenagers dont even have jobs anymore mostly

No joke, I once spent an entire day feeling like I was straight up gonna die. I thought I had appendicitis or something but the pain was nowhere near my appendix. Either way it kept me laying prone waiting for death for like 8-12 hours before I finally went to the hospital.

So I go the hospital, they run all these tests, Im pretty sure they gave me some kind of drugs in the IV without fully telling me because I remember feeling a lot better and having to try hard not to giggle when they wheeled me around to get scanned.

So they do all this stuff, and then finally the doctor comes in and tells me Im just full of shit. Like, literally, I was massively constipated and that was the entire issue.

I got back home and was in a ton of pain again, so I drank an entire bottle of Miralax and then pooped my entire soul and most of my organs out the next morning. Im talkin ass-chaffing farts

As someone who was a TA a bit, I think that is 99% because if schools tried to hold students accountable to the standards of even ten years ago they would have to fail 2/3rds of their students.

Highschool becoming a joke means none of the kids have strong enough core skills to be tackling real college work by the time they get there, but schools cant afford to enforce actual quality standards for work. The graded model has completely fallen apart at this point given how steep the curve is. The quality of work that gets an A today would have been a B or high C from 10-15 years ago. Of course there is real A grade work being done too, but what defines an A grade has ballooned to a ridiculous degree such that most of it is not really A grade work

The problem isnt new, it was already bad 10 years ago to be honest. I had a professor in community college about 10 years ago who had been a professor at ASU, and she had quit teaching there specifically because the university wouldnt allow anyone to be graded below a C, regardless of if they did any work or not.

Most large public universities are just degree mills at this point, or bordering on it if not

The rich learned their lesson last time: the lesson being that they can buy shit on the cheap while everyone else gets screwed.

And they hold the levers of power, so…

Generally speaking once you are past the second year of undergrad you have no choice but to finish out without taking a loss. Virtually all US colleges and universities require you to spend two years with them in order to graduate there, so they will only grant you transfer credits for the first two years worth of coursework (even if you are one class away from graduating at your current school). Plus, higher level courses are less likely to have exact course matches than intro courses across the board, although that is more of an issue in the humanities than in the sciences

The word hallucination has zero implication of intent whatsoever. Last time I checked hallucination is an entirely involuntary experience, regardless of the context the word is used in.

They are called hallucination in computer science not “to romanticize” it. It is called that because the output is totally random from the perspective of the input. If there is no logical path from input to the output, it is similar to a human hallucinating. Human sees no actual weird visual stimuli that results in them hallucinating a dragon, therefore the input info from their eyes has no bearing on what they imagine is actually there.

This is different from “fabrication” in that the AI intentionally creating fake info based on your input request would not be a hallucination, because there would be a relationship between input and output.

While you say you prefer “fabrication”, the word fabrication actually implies some intent that is absent from what we are referring to as AI hallucinations

Its not really more futuristic, considering its a tried and true design.

I think you mean its just better designed

The purpose of my comment was kind of to call out the ridiculousness of the question being on the form, because if that broad definition is how were defining war criminals, then yes I think logically it would mean people funding the war crimes in any capacity would then be war criminals themselves. Again, by the definition assumed based on the question being on the questionnaire. When I read it my first thought was that I could probably not say no to that question as a US taxpayer

Personally I dont think aiding & abetting in any way, especially through involuntary taxation, is enough to define someone as a war criminal. But its fair to say we (collectively) arent doing enough to stop the bad shit our taxes are funding, which is true of any Israeli citizen right now as well.

People could refuse to pay their taxes and risk arrest, but I dont think thats an effective form of protest. Better to not be in prison and have a voice. But there would be a logical consistency in doing it

Im pretty sure between middle school and undergrad I had to learn about the Stanford prison experiment no less than 15 times. Im surprised more people dont consider that aspect of psychology

I thought I was being blatantly sarcastic, but apparently not.

To be quite frank Im not aware of any gangs that dont have like 10 different distinct visual ways to identify themselves. Be it colors, tattoos, signs, etc.

Hiding gang affiliation is a bit of a “bitch move” I would think from a gangbanger perspective

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How could any Israeli citizen say no on #3 At this point. Even if you arent directly committing atrocities yourself you still are funding the government engaging in it. Not to mention most all of them have served in one capacity or another (involuntary aspects nonwithstanding)

TIL im “vibeliving”

16-year-old seduces adult nazi to shoot him in the woods during military occupation is slightly less family friendly than Spiderman, at least from what I remember about Spiderman

The GAO and inspectors general have tirelessly been working on the same manufactured outrage issue, since forever, that DOGE pretends to solve, but the vast majority of Americans have no idea they exist whatsoever.

The GAO is one of the few government agencies that actually makes a ton of money. Like $400:1 return on what we fund them with.

Instead of letting a billionaire play cities skylines with our government and create a fake government agency, we could have just given more money to the GAO

Gang members dont want to give themselves away. So instead of throwing overt and specific signs, you have to look for covert gang signs such as the friendly wave, peace signs, or rock n roll 🤘

Plenty of countries have some degree of immigration issues whenever there are worse off countries near by, which is true for most countries.

For example, the president of the Dominican Republic is doing the same thing right now to deport Haitians back to their half of the island.

Its insane how many mini Trumps there are

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That is basically the point I was trying to make. I used to do all kinds of stupid stuff 10 years ago, and I would never touch anything today. Of anyone left who would try anything, so many of them have died that how many are left?

I think even most people drawn towards substance abuse for one reason or another would be put off by the lethality of modern street drugs, especially when there are other options. Alcohol, cannabis, whatever

Ontological fun for the whole family