The FOSS sphere is pretty nice. More and more of my stuff is running off of self-hosted FOSS software lately. Holdouts are my workstation OS and email because I'm really lazy and those require a bunch of boring work

What's a foreskin? Sounds anti-freedom 🦅🦅🦅

Free soft power? Don't mind if I do.

By far my favorite RPG system, good luck!

Modern economic theory is sitting down and watching The Sopranos.

Fellow Daoist, do not let this Heart Demon prevent you from following the Great Dao, lest you suffer qi deviation.

Gotta practice the posting-prose every now and then

Don't worry, a remake of Birth of the Nation could easily have that come back in vogue too!

Everyone should just be forced to read Hegel and be considered illiterate unless they can completely understand each and every sentence. How does that sound?

Based

What gets me is ChatGPT yaps its fucking ass off like it's trying to reach a word minimum.

So like????? What do they mean when they say they put it through chatgpt???? Often, they do it for simple statements or analysis to so it's not like it is breaking it down for them either as at least that would make sense. It's just as long-winded but is also a bottle deep into benedryl by design so it makes shit up as it fundamentally has no grasp of reality and they're having it read text and explain it for them????

Ngl the dinosaur bit tripped me up until I recalled wonderful could be indicative of astonishment (USain reporting for duty!

I don't know how none of the people in the excerpts picked up that it wasn't literally about a dinosaur in the street (or the fact they only recognized it was an animal and not a dinosaur, even when I had no fucking clue what it was meant to imply I still understood it was figurative. The fact none of them realized it was setting a scene was even more asinine. I felt illiterate reading this fact I needed a dictionary for some of the terms was disappointing (I read too much low-effort fantasy slop), and think the bar for "competent" was far too low.

I took some English in college and none of it really required older texts though so I could see how it could be overwhelming. Frankly, I am mildly concerned that I wouldn't have been able to parse it if not for the fact I studied philosophy and their prose is so much worse (in the difficulty and often in the enjoyability as well). Thinking of my fellow

I'm young too, so this means I likely had the same or worse literary education as everyone interviewed, the only difference would be my major and the fact I do read for leisure (or as a hobby for the gamers in the chat). (Edit: I also know a bit of a second language and can read texts in it but my proficiency is still low so I am used to strain while reading, maybe there is an acclimation effect there?)

Who wants the over on consequences? Bet is with the number of consequences at 1 and push goes to over.

It's gonna be barbarism

I mean that was in exchange for getting the house no? Like they did that because they wanted the house, doesn't seem to be a support thing but they wanted something nice for their investment portfolio and fucked up.

I mean yeah but I assumed the person who asked the question is probably not a lib (unless we're acknowledging that I'm the OTL- One True Leftist - and the rest of Hexbear is full of libs

Bits aside, from an educator's perspective, I would agree with the idea that cheating needs to be stamped out. However, from the cheatee perspective, the idea that cheating, in general, defeats the point of doing the thing is something I disagree with as there are plenty of purposes that can be attained using it in a way that is not self-undermining.

Actually, even if you want to learn I can still see incentives to cheat now that I have thought about it. If someone is interested in a topic, but has other obstacles (tragedy, mental illness, episode, etc.) near an evaluation, they may cheat as they feel it unfair for them to be assessed when they are in a compromised state or were studying/learning in a compromised state depending on when it occurred in the timeline. I know of at least one person who has cheated in such a circumstance and then did fine at a higher-level version of the course without cheating.

That's assuming that your goal in doing the thing aligns with what that thing is. If that isn't the case I would disagree. I know plenty of people that cheated at some point in education and it's usually because their goal wasn't education but meeting some criteria. It's also why I heard way fewer reports of cheating outside of STEM in academia; people taking my majors usually did it out of interest instead of getting the piece of paper.

Similar thing for when I see cheating in games etc. The goal they have isn't to improve it's the social capital they get from reaching some arbitrary milestone or some monetary goal associated with that milestone. In school, it is the degree, diploma, etc. In games, it's ranked clout or selling the account. I knew a guy who had someone boost his account in league because he wanted the seasonal gold skin but wasn't good enough to get it, he didn't care about getting better, just the reward that people who are better would get. It's the power of secondary incentives overriding a system's main incentives.

I hate this entire comment section and am worse off for having read it.

The U.S. going to war against an idea has never gone wrong!

Classic:

Citizen: I'm poor and lack social mobility

Enlightened individual: Have you considered helping kill members of the Global South?