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There's just a cruelty of this society you don't really notice until you hurt a certain way. Something traumatic happens, something absolutely earth shattering happens that makes you want to curl into a ball and cry and just let yourself work through your hurt, but you're still expected to pay rent. You're still expected to go to work. You're expected to be kind and put on a smile. You're expected to keep paying bills and be a professional be "normal" like. You're never allowed to take a break from it all. You don't get to say I'm having a really hard time right now let me sit this month out. The inhumane way society is constructed. I don't know man I'm just depressed.

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some of the comments on my censorship post are like “um I think books should be rated like movies because some books feature stuff like gang rape that teens shouldn’t be allowed read”

ok. now imagine being a librarian and looking a teenager who’s been gang raped in the eye and saying “oops, sorry, can’t allow you to read this one, it’s for big kids and you’re not ready for it”

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this is getting concerning no i do not want to coddle a man like a child nor do i want him to control me and make all my decisions. have none of you considered maybe a man who is nice to you and treats you well and respects you. just a thought

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Friendship can be just as intense as romance. Romance can be just as intense as friendship. There is no one over the other. There is human connection, there is the strength of the bond that varies based on the specific circumstances surrounding each relationship. There is love - it may be platonic or romantic or anything in between. There is love, and it simply presents different forms.

Love doesn’t come with a hierarchy.

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I should be allowed to answer the phone at work with “what do you want?” because maybe I can’t help you and maybe based on how you talk to me I won’t want to help you. So it’s totally disingenuous to expect me to open by saying “How can I help you?”

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have you ever thought about how amatonormativity is so prevalent that it twisted the word "relationship" to generally mean "a romantic relationship" in normal conversation. saying "I'm in a relationship" should be an inane statement. everyone is in relationships dipshit it came free with your membership card to a social species. but alas

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Wow! Grading really goes by fast when a third of the class didn't turn in the assignment and another third obviously used AI to do it, so I can just give them a 0 and move on! 🙃

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i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

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Observing the anti-AI backlash as someone who has spent any amount of time trying to get people to stop funding animal agriculture is… interesting.

“AI uses so much water and pollutes our rivers!”

“These data-centres produce really high emissions when the planet is dying!”

“They use so much land and so much energy for something that so few people actually need!”

And I agree but it’s just… Hmmm.

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Whenever I think about students using AI, I think about an essay I did in high school. Now see, we were reading The Grapes of Wrath, and I just couldn't do it. I got 25 pages in and my brain refused to read any more. I hated it. And its not like I hate the classics, I loved English class and I loved reading. I had even enjoyed Of Mice and Men, which I had read for fun. For some reason though, I absolutely could NOT read The Grapes of Wrath.

And it turned out I also couldn't watch the movie. I fell asleep in class both days we were watching it.

This, of course, meant I had to cheat on my essay.

And I got an A.

The essay was to compare the book and the movie and discuss the changes and how that affected the story.

Well it turned out Sparknotes had an entire section devoted to comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. Using that, and flipping to pages mentioned in Sparknotes to read sections of the book, I was able to bullshit an A paper.

But see the thing is, that this kind of 'cheating' still takes skills, you still learn things.

I had to know how to find the information I needed, I needed to be able to comprehend what sparknotes was saying and the analysis they did, I needed to know how to USE the information I read there to write an essay, I needed to know how to make sure none of it was marked as plagerized. I had to form an opinion on the sparknotes analysis so I could express my own opinions in the essay.

Was it cheating? Yeah, I didn't read the book or watch the movie. I used Sparknotes. It was a lot less work than if I had read the book and watched the movie and done it all myself.

The thing is though, I still had to use my fucking brain. Being able to bullshit an essay like that is a skill in and of itself that is useful. I exercised important skills, and even if it wasnt the intended way I still learned.

ChatGTP and other AI do not give that experience to people, people have to do nothing and gain nothing from it.

Using AI is absolutely different from other ways students have cheated in the past, and I stand by my opinion that its making students dumber, more helpless, and less capable.

However you feel about higher education, I think its undeniable that students using chatgtp is to their detriment. And by extension a detriment to anyone they work with or anyone who has to rely on them for something.

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i simply don't think nonbinary people should have to see having our gender/s respected and acknowledged as a luxury. i think it's frankly sickening that that's the state of things tbh.

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I do find it weird and funny that tumblr has this like ingrained anti vegan sentiment. You are the social justice website! Consider the research!

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When you have too many interests and not enough free time. 😅

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