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I see you your chicken (fully understanding the Diogenes joke and reference) and raise you:

a platypus.

One more joke hate: You may claim to be a woman but biologically you are a featherless biped and thus a man.

Finally a good argument for why I'm actually a man

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time + work = healing (a soft sequel to this comic)

(Boulet is a phenomenal French writer and artist who will draw his friends as recognizable fictional characters in his autobio comics for their privacy.)

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Robin would approve.

Six year old, bouncing up and down with glee as desserts are unpacked: "I'm so appointed!"

Took me a moment to realize she had logically assumed "appointed" must be the opposite of "disappointed" and used it as a synonym for "excited."

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i actually need to know people's thoughts on this because at least in my experience the answer to this has drastically changed since i was on tumblr in the 2010s and its driving me fucking insane

*im talking about fandom takes specifically. not someone being horribly evil about a real-life issue or or blatantly factually incorrect. literally just harmless fandom disagreements or differing interpretations of a text/character/etc.

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I'm going to try this more.

this is from a "manipulation advice" video and it's just so fucking funny to me. why didn't I think of responding to insults like this

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My English diploma exam in Grade 12 (worth 50% of my final grade) was a written exam. I had no idea how to study for an exam that could cover any and all of the stories/plays we read throughout the semester, so I didn't study at all.

The exam: choose one of three questions that related to three different works, and answer the question in five paragraphs: an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. We had three hours.

I could barely remember anything from any of those literary choices - so I picked the one that I felt the most confident in (barely at all) and got to work. I wrote my introduction and my first body paragraph. Then I looked up at the clock and realised I had only thirty minutes left of the exam. I. Freaking. Panicked.

I wrote a conclusion, handed that sucker in, and left.

I walked into that exam with 70% in that class.

I graduated with 80%.

This means that, despite not meeting the length requirement by two full paragraphs, I BS'd that essay so hard and so well that I got at least 90%, which boosted my final grade!

Y'all. I mean this with everything in my soul, as a teacher who is currently being pressured to use ChatGPT/AI to generate everything from lesson plans to report card comments, DO NOT fall for AI garbage. Yes, using it will make my job as a teacher infinitely easier but I need to strengthen my teacher muscles which takes much more time and effort but the results are so much more rewarding, genuine and authentic.

Use your brain. Think. Learn. Grow. Make mistakes. Figure it out for yourself instead of handing it to a computer to figure it out for you.

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Ultimately, I don't want to be known for my dog.

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the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

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I had some unexpected visitors today when I went out to do goat chores!

That's a nice pair of Spaldings. A BS male and a hen. Some idiot just lost $600+ because they thought peafowl were like chickens and could instantly be free ranged.

If they stick around and you'd like to capture them (and they should be captured even if you don't intend to keep them, they do not know where they are and will not be adept at finding food and water and are susceptible to predators), they can be offered game bird feed or dry cat food or whole corn or peanuts, and led into an enclosed space. Shut the door behind them and capture them in the dark (it will be easier to grab them when they can't see).

If you'd like to keep them I can give housing advice, otherwise either contact your local humane society/ASPCA or drop me a PM and let me know where you are and I'll see what I can do about helping you find a place for them with new owners.

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So this is definitely a case of "we did not expect Harvard to fight back and we forgot they have billions of dollars and the best lawyers"

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We’ve been here before, but I have a new technique this time!!

Please support these videos on Patreon if you can!

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Oooh! What a lovely idea!

adhd will get you thinking "i should make this doctors appointment" every day for 7 months and counting

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Continue✨ Keep going✨

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genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

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I love the idea of a kid who was raised in Mandalorian society and knows Mandalorians to be the people they trust/are generally good with kids, getting lost somewhere and being on their own for a while

But the moment they see a Mandalorian in the market— one they do not know and have never met— they’re running up and crashing into them, clinging to their leg the second they get there or reaching up to them with those uppy hands, asking for help. Mando in question is looking down at this itty bitty thing like “excuse me” but then the kid calls them ba’vodu and looks up at them with these big wet eyes and asks for help in Mando’a and— “okay, okay, calm down, let’s find who you belong to. Yes I will pick you up. Yes I understand you. Thank you for not touching things you know you’re not supposed to. Hey Zar’gax the Destructor—” *hulking Trandoshan bounty hunting partner turns around* “I have to do a side quest, I’ll meet up with you later”

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Before I left for Spain (born and grown Canadian), I looked up some of the local etiquette and so much of this checks out. I didn't receive any phone calls while there (they all preferred what's app), but I heard so many people answering their phone with a single "What?" Like, a few said, "Hello" or whatever, but the majority picked up, said, "What?" and then the conversation kept going.

And tipping. Oh, man. It's so rude to tip in Spain! I checked multiple sights and articles about it to make sure and yeah, no, tipping is considered rude because then the worker thinks you think they don't earn enough money doing their job - which typically does pay a standard living wage. (At least it did back in 2019.)

Only in the last couple of years in Canada have I started to notice tipping options in not just nice restaurants but everywhere. The food trucks, the fast food chains, the bookstores. The only places I haven't seen it is in the grocery stores.

Natalie Portman being confused by the fact that you have to say “hi” to someone before starting a conversation in France got me like ?????

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I've finally figured out an argument that convinces coding tech-bros that AI art is bad.

Got into a discussion today (actually a discussion, we were both very reasonable and calm even through I felt like committing violence) with a tech-bro-coded lady who claimed that people use AI in coding all the time so she didn't see why it mattered if people used AI in art.

Obviously I repressed the surge of violence because that would accomplish nothing. Plus, this lady is very articulate, the type who makes claims and you sit there thinking no that's wrong it must be but she said it so well you're kind of just waffling going but, no, wait-- so I knew I had to get this right if I was gonna come out of this unscathed.

The usual arguments about it being about the soul of it and creation fell flat, in fact she was adamant that anyone who believed that was in fact looking down at coding as an art form as she insisted it is. Which, sure, you can totally express yourself through coding. There's a lot more nuance as to the differences but clearly I was not going to win this one.

The other people I was with (literally 8 people anti-ai against her, but you can't change the mind of someone who doesn't want to listen and she just kept accusing us of devaluing coding as an art) took over for I kid you not 15 minutes while I tried desperately to come up with a clear and articulate way to explain the difference to her. They tried so many reasonable arguments, coding being for a function ("what, art doesn't serve a function?") coding being many discrete building blocks that you put together differently, and the AI simply provides the blocks and you put it together yourself ("isn't that what prompt building is") that it's bad for the environment ("but not if it's used for capitalism, hm?" "Yeah literally that's how capitalism works it doesn't care about the environment" she didn't like that response)

But I finally got it.

And the answer is: It's not about what you do, it's about what you claim to be.

Imagine that someone asks an AI to write a code and, by some miracle, it works perfectly without them having to tweak it---which is great because they couldn't tell you what a single solitary thing in that code means.

Now imagine this person, with their code that they don't know how it works, goes and applies to be a coder somewhere, presenting this AI code as proof that they're qualified.

Should they be hired?

She was horrified, of course. Of course they shouldn't be. They're not qualified. They can't actually code, and even if by some miracle they did have an AI successfully write a flawless code for every issue they came across that wouldn't be their code, you could hire any shmuck on the street to do that, no reason to pay someone like they're creating something.

When actual engineers use AI what they do is get some kind of base, which they then go though and check for problems and then if they find any they fix them, and add on to the base code with their own knowledge instead of just trying different prompt after prompt until they randomly come across one that works.

People who generate code like this don't usually call themselves engineers. They're people who needed a bit of code and didn't have the knowledge to generate it, and so used a resource.

And there you go. There are people who have none of the skills of artists, they don't practice, they don't create for themselves. When they feed the prompt to the AI they then don't just use the resulting image as a reference point for their own personal masterpiece, and if they don't like it they don't have the skills to change it---they simply try another prompt, and do that until they get something they like.

These people are calling themselves artists.

Not only that, these people are bringing the AI generated thing to interviews, and they are getting hired, leaving people who slave over their craft out of the job.

And that is the difference, for the tech bros who think AI art isn't a big deal.