#maybe it's useful for emails or programming

[laikiirnodel]

Consider the following:

If your life as it currently stands is bad enough that you want to end it...

What's something you've always wanted to do that you've been scared to try?

Move across the country?

Get a job in a weird field?

Run away from home (ESPECIALLY if the reason you feel this way is because of poor/abusive treatment by the people you live with)?

Visit another country/join an exchange program?

Drop out?

What's stopping you? Are you afraid of losing the few friends and family you do like? You'd lose them for sure if you died. Send them your (new?) phone number/email/etc. before you go. Or write down theirs and save it somewhere, and contact them afterwards if you really want to. (Libraries are free and most have at least one computer you can use, including for sending emails.)

Like, yeah, it's a drastic change. It will probably change your life. You may or may not like the changes. But there's a chance you will like them.

If you're planning to throw everything away anyway- if you're prepared to lose everything-

Why not try losing just some things, first, and see if you can replace them with better things somewhere else?

I have dear friends who did this. Thought everything wasn't worth it anymore, but went "you know what, fine, I'ma ditch everything and *go to college* [or whatever] across the country. I'll figure out a scholarship/job when I get there. Crash on someone's couch maybe, or buy a tent. Whatever. Beg for the cash for a train ticket. Whatever gets me out of this house."

Some of them were homeless for a while. They found a pretty solid community with some of the other homeless folks and that was enough to hold them together.

Some of them found amazing scholarships and graduated with honors. Started a new life with a new degree and never looked back.

Some of them were already in college, afraid of disappointing their families if they failed. Dropping out saved their lives, and the families have IME been able to reset their expectations and realise a kid without a college degree is better than a dead kid, and start actually being supportive. And if they don't for whatever reason, I bet you had friends in college who might let you crash on the couch.

Find a job that doesn't require a college degree, or join a vocation, whatever you need to do.

What I'm saying is- do the scary thing that gives you a chance, before trying the one that's permanent and irreversible.

If you don't like the results, then at the very least you've learned something.

If it kills you, well, you're no worse off than you would have been.

If it turns out well, then you just earned a new life. The old you is dead, long live the you.

It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

[cardi-c]

I wonder if gen ai users think the process isn't fun? Like I can't draw that well and maybe an ai can generate "better" drawings than me but the act of drawing is the good part?? and getting better is awesome?? and you feel like you accomplished something? the i made this myself feeling?

Like for example I don't have to crochet something myself, i could just buy the things. but where's the fun in that?

[woman-respecter]

“why are we here? just to suffer? everyday i get emails” is for the most part more relevant than ever but in my experience these days most suffering is inflicted through micorsoft teams/slack/internal company messanging programs. and zoom calls of course.

[33550336th]

I feel crwazy for this but I have been contemplating applying for psychology master degree... 🕴

[silent-sentinels]

well. woke up. too worried to go back to sleep. too sleepy to do anything else. we'll be here i guess hgghf

[telomirage]

boss: are you still working on [redacted]?

me: yes

boss: how's it going?

me, flatly: this is a terrible process

boss: [laughs for a solid minute]

me:

boss: thank you for your honesty

[ro-is-futile]

I know how to listen to the universe when it’s speaking to me

[lookwhatyoumademelou]

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[thanatologie]

i keep trying to decide how tech-savvy a modern emmrich would be and i believe i have settled on not very.

[kirkwallsbane]

can't tell if work is about to get a lot worse or better

[readingloveswounds]

i do understand that information changes quickly but EES / ETIAS are confirmed to NOT be starting in November actually and i feel like the study abroad office should maybe clarify that instead of being snippy about an earlier email they sent out that was poorly worded

[boreaurris]

i cannotttttt stand ppl using chatgpt in university its so so so stupid 2 me. u r paying 2 be here and youre bypassing your education to ask the Wrong Facts Robot to do your work for you? AWFUL

[dating-eveeything]

Mac romantic hcs please? 🥺 (preferably with a gender neutral reader but whatever you are comfy with writing is ok too!)

Romantic headcanons for: MAC

Featuring: Mac

Fic type: headcanons, fluff!!

No content warning, pretty short length wise, Gender neutral reader :)

Yay!! I love Mac soo much, made me so happy to see this in my inbox ❤️

First of all, once you enter a relationship with Mac your 11.5 hours of screentime a business week skyrockets higher than a person who touches grass could ever imagine.

Mac is pretty in-between when it comes to physical affection; though they tell you late one night that they only like it when you touch their keys or mess with the mouse.

Kisses are an average occurrence, leaning over the side of their chair and grabbing onto your shirt like it's the end of their life to tug you down- Peppering your face in kisses.

Post-getting together they push just a little more for you to get better parts for their system, promising that a new fan would work wonders for both them and you. Of course they understand the hesitation to replace anything, parts are so expensive nowadays, but they know eventually they'll wear you down.

And obviously, not only do they get you to buy things for them, but things for you too. That shirt set you wanted but decided on not getting? They're holding you close and telling you about how nice you would look in them, how good it'll feel to 'treat yourself'.

Sadly, you can't sit on their lap. Their legs don't have the strength to keep up any weight over ~10 pounds. But that doesn't mean you can't still cuddle up to them; Mac can sit on your lap, or the two of you can sit on the floor together under the desk, or you can lay in bed together.

Albeit, Mac doesn't like standing idle, so it might take some work to get them to rest. They always want to be working on something, even if that work ends up being a boring desk job where you really only respond to emails.

They enjoy showing off things they think you'll like, using popups to show you a funny video they saw online, or a jacket that's just your style, it's one of their most common ways of showing they pay attention to you.

Their love language is Parallel Play. Simply sitting next to you and working on separate things is fine with them. Hell, you could be talking to Chance or Dasha and they wouldn't care- as long as you hold their hand and squeeze it from time to time.

Not really the jealous type, they know you on a very intimate level, they know your type; they are your type. It's going to take more than some mediocre pick-up lines over text to get them jealous.

Though, there was this one time where they shut off the show you were watching instead of working because you kept oogling one of the actors. So maybe it isn't as hard as you think?

Flustering them is rather easy, no double clicking needed. Praise gets their fan running quicker than it probably should. They especially enjoy it when you praise them for their smooth running systems after a long day of running some pretty big programs and they'll melt.

[communistkenobi]

(taken from a post about AI)

speaking as someone who has had to grade virtually every kind of undergraduate assignment you can think of for the past six years (essays, labs, multiple choice tests, oral presentations, class participation, quizzes, field work assignments, etc), it is wild how out-of-touch-with-reality people’s perceptions of university grading schemes are. they are a mass standardised measurement used to prove the legitimacy of your degree, not how much you’ve learned. Those things aren’t completely unrelated to one another of course, but they are very different targets to meet. It is standard practice for professors to have a very clear idea of what the grade distribution for their classes are before each semester begins, and tenure-track assessments (at least some of the ones I’ve seen) are partially judged on a professors classes’ grade distributions - handing out too many A’s is considered a bad thing because it inflates student GPAs relative to other departments, faculties, and universities, and makes classes “too easy,” ie, reduces the legitimate of the degree they earn. I have been instructed many times by professors to grade easier or harder throughout the term to meet those target averages, because those targets are the expected distribution of grades in a standardised educational setting. It is standard practice for teaching assistants to report their grade averages to one another to make sure grade distributions are consistent. there’s a reason profs sometimes curve grades if the class tanks an assignment or test, and it’s generally not because they’re being nice!

this is why AI and chatgpt so quickly expanded into academia - it’s not because this new generation is the laziest, stupidest, most illiterate batch of teenagers the world has ever seen (what an original observation you’ve made there!), it’s because education has a mass standard data format that is very easily replicable by programs trained on, yanno, large volumes of data. And sure the essays generated by chatgpt are vacuous, uncompelling, and full of factual errors, but again, speaking as someone who has graded thousands of essays written by undergrads, that’s not exactly a new phenomenon lol

I think if you want to be productively angry at ChatGPT/AI usage in academia (I saw a recent post complaining that people were using it to write emails of all things, as if emails are some sacred form of communication), your anger needs to be directed at how easily automated many undergraduate assignments are. Or maybe your professors calculating in advance that the class average will be 72% is the single best way to run a university! Who knows. But part of the emotional stakes in this that I think are hard for people to admit to, much less let go of, is that AI reveals how rote, meaningless, and silly a lot of university education is - you are not a special little genius who is better than everyone else for having a Bachelor’s degree, you have succeeded in moving through standardised post-secondary education. This is part of the reason why disabled people are systematically barred from education, because disability accommodations require a break from this standardised format, and that means disabled people are framed as lazy cheaters who “get more time and help than everyone else.” If an AI can spit out a C+ undergraduate essay, that of course threatens your sense of superiority, and we can’t have that, can we?

[piedoesnotequalpi]

Well that was a pointless search through my email.

[stackslip]

most of all i'm tired to see a group of people who talk big game about ableism and how much it affects them then immediately turn around and base a solid 75 to 80% of their arguments against a new technology (that to some is genuinely an assistive technology! like it or not!) on the idea of the Natural Brain And Natural Body that is Pure and Good, and how their brains and souls are perfect and unrotten bc they're not idiot stupid r*tard brain-damaged baby losers who need help for BASIC tasks such as

applying for a job

communicating in a more efficient/socially acceptable/gramatically correct manner

summarizing texts or ideas in easy and simple to understand language

breaking down basic tasks to easier and more manageable ones

tasks that are soooo easy any baby could do it, and anyone who can't on their own is just a stupid stupid brain-rotten baby /s

idk maybe it's because i actually spend time with people with cognitive/intellectual disabilities or learning disabilities, as well as refugees and second language speakers who are incredibly disadvantaged in their interactions in the west, that i can't take this rhetoric anymore; especially from people who talk a big game about how the barriers they face because of their autism/adhd/anxiety and chronic illness, but then turn around and point and laugh and talk nastily about folks who for some reason or another struggle with communication, executive function, understanding/comprehension (whether in reading or writing or simple cognition of the thing at hand) and more.

you don't have to use genAI, sure. genAI like all current technologies can also be incredibly harmful to disabled people and mirrors the same systemic ableism and racism that exist. that's without going into data/privacy and how chatgpt and LLMs use them! but that's not the conversation from Principled Anti AI Posters. no, the conversation is that a disabled person who used midjourney or even a self-written genAI art program is a lazy bastard who's probably fat and languishing in a basement somewhere, and anyone who's used it to write an email or translate something is some disgusting baby loser with a rotten brain. and shockingly none of this rhetoric has translated into actionable actions against the tech industry or a better understanding of capitalism, nvm compassion for disabled people who aren't aspie supremacist adjacent losers--instead it's just resulted in harassment campaigns and 20 something year olds sobbing because they believe their future and art as a whole is destroyed forever and doomed. so really, how effective is your anti "brain rotting" genAI posting, or is it just cope because you refuse to acknowledge the grim reality and what could--should be done?