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[amoeba03]

So the benefit to my twice monthly Facebook check is that I get to see that a bunch of people I vaguely knew in high school are getting married. The downside is that I see all these people I vaguely knew getting married, and I'm 21 and have had one like, weird half-relationship that ended with her telling me she absolutely had no interest in us ever dating again when she got back from a humanitarian trip (no reason given either), and I don't have the social skills or physical appearance necessary to be able to confidently start another relationship. So... yeah, not the best, but I have to keep doing those Facebook checks so I don't do anything awkward if I see these people on public

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"I can tell if you use AI to write your paper" no you can't. You can tell when people are *bad* at using AI to write their paper. If you just ask chatGPT to "write an essay on the supply chain", of course it's going to suck. But if you go to Gemini and say "Here are the instructions for an assignment: [paste instructions]. Here are the relevant details: [insert any sources you want used, mention that it should be written as if for a college paper, if it's a personal essay give personal details]. Could you please write an essay fits all of the given criteria? Please ask me any questions that will help you write it more accurately"

Then you use Gemini's live editing mode to fix minor errors and change little parts of the paper as needed, both by writing new stuff and asking Gemini to try specific paragraphs again. 10 minutes tops for a 6-8 page essay on absolutely anything that's guaranteed to get an actual good grade. I've been doing it through all of college so far and have never once been called out for using AI. Work smarter, not like the people who include the "Sure! Here's an essay on..." when they copy and paste it

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I'm taking a college Spanish class and it is *not* going well. Right now I have to improvise a presentation on gender equality as if I'm speaking to a town hall in a rural town in Mexico, and one of the requirements is that I can't have any notes, just a slideshow with some general points on it, so I'm forcing myself to learn the phrases I'll need to know so nobody can claim that my slides had too much on them or that they counted as notes.

I'm literally imposter syndrome-ing so hard that I'm actually doing the thing. At this rate I won't even be an imposter eventually

[amoeba03]

Just learned that Mary Shelley was trying to think of a story that would scare her friends since they were doing a competition, and she couldn't think of anything at all for several days, and it was driving her crazy and she got all depressed because she desperately wanted to think of a super scary story.

One night, after listening to her husband talk with another author about Charles Darwin, she started thinking about what it would be like if someone brought a corpse back to life somehow, and as she got lost in her imagination with that concept, she got so terrified that her heart started racing and she had to snap herself out of it. She then thought "Dang, that was really scary. If only I could come up with a story that intense to terrify everyone." And she had to just sit there for a second until she realized. Then she went and wrote "Frankenstein"

Source: the introduction she wrote for the 1831 publication of "Frankenstein"

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I decided to explain why I'm depressed. No reason, I just feel like doing it. I know in all likelihood nobody will ever read this or find my page. In the last 3 weeks, the girl I was dating moved so we broke up, I've fallen drastically behind in a college Spanish class and I have an exam coming up, my bike got stolen, someone hit my car with their truck and there were no cameras so I can't prove it was their fault, I got fired for bs reasons, and it seems like the whole world is doing great other than me. That's not even the end of my issues, I'm just tired of listing them.

But I beat Portal 1+2 and Castlevania: Mirror of Fate, so I guess that's nice

Tell me why I was about to leave MOD Pizza (which I went to alone bc it's raining and I'm depressed and I don't really have a support system so I just didn't want to be alone on my room) and Wonderwall came on the speakers and my first thought was "I guess I better stay until it's over."

To be clear, I have no connection to Wonderwall or Oasis. Idk why my brain thought that

[amoeba03]

Tell me why I was about to leave MOD Pizza (which I went to alone bc it's raining and I'm depressed and I don't really have a support system so I just didn't want to be alone on my room) and Wonderwall came on the speakers and my first thought was "I guess I better stay until it's over."

To be clear, I have no connection to Wonderwall or Oasis. Idk why my brain thought that

[amoeba03]

Found this in my drafts.

Not entirely sure what I wanted to do with them?

[amoeba03]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[amoeba03]

You ever notice how the sentiment of "Don't let anyone sit alone" that schools and churches and stuff talk about sounds like a call to action to help people to extroverts, but sounds like a threat and a nightmare to introverts? Just let me sit in the back corner with at least 1-2 chairs between me and the next person. I'm not going to kill myself, I just like personal space and putting myself in situations where my ADHD survival instincts can chill because I can see the whole situation in front of me.

Coming up and trying to talk to me and refusing to leave even when I just give short 1-2 words answers, then shifting into just talking about yourself when I clearly don't care makes me actively more likely to kill myself.

[amoeba03]

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #5

[amoeba03]

Basically the vengeance saga

[amoeba03]

Btw always remember that vitamin C supplements fix all your problems

I'm sick rn and I'm mixing my vitamin C supplements with water and filling my metal bottles with normal water and getting my benadryl (not 17 though, I'm not ready for the hat man) and my Advil Liquigels and I feel like a little old Celtic druid mixing my little potions to heal myself

[amoeba03]

I'm sick rn and I'm mixing my vitamin C supplements with water and filling my metal bottles with normal water and getting my benadryl (not 17 though, I'm not ready for the hat man) and my Advil Liquigels and I feel like a little old Celtic druid mixing my little potions to heal myself

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"Henchman" is boring, "lackey" is demeaning, what do we even have left? The "hired assistant of a villain" community is in shambles

2024 is a terrible year to be a henchman. The word "minion" is barely usable and you can't even say "goon" anymore.

[amoeba03]

You are beautiful in your own, warped little way!

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I love how he begs ody