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Happy one year to Sherb, Haley and Centross doing the most iconic relationship reveal ever

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Stop just asking "is it normal?" and start asking "is it harming anyone?" Lots of harmful things are normalized in this society and lots of things considered weird or rare are completely harmless. Whether something is considered normal or common shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether it's okay

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i feel strongly about this

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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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Tad: We could get rid of it. (Thinking she's talking about a nuclear reactor.)

Aura: No one will believe I got rid of it. (Knowing they're talking about star's best friend.)

Poor Tad but damn it's a miracle Aura didn't pill a gun on them right then with how they're losing their mind and all.

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the assisted dying debate is so crazy

because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.

BUT if they legalise assisted suicide in the UK right now i don't trust our ableist fucking government to not just start coercing disabled people into suicide to save money. they already won't give them enough money to live.

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You are not responsible for meeting everyone's expectations. Let them be disappointed.

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That moment when it becomes really obvious a mutual has gotten into a new fandom as you are suddenly swarmed by reblogs about new never seen before characters.

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a QPR is a QPR because the individuals in it decided it is. not because friends ‘don’t live together and kiss eachother,’ or ‘because friendships aren’t this committed.’ that’s not how this works. friends can do anything and as long as they have the intent for friendship, it’s a friendship. you can defend QPR’s without pushing amatonormativity.

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the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up. 

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When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

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Sure, of course, Victor Frankenstein was in the wrong for designing his creature to be beautiful and abandoning it in disgust when it was animated and unnerving, but like…

You ever drawn something really pretty and then flipped the canvas-

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Ok, Aura, don't worry this is still salvageable, we can still lie our way out of this. All you have to do is repeat what I' m telling you. The reason you were so adamant on no one using the star is cause its dangerous, ok? No, I understand Navi's not dangerous, we're not talking about Navi we're talking about the 'starcore', which no one else, other than those you've told knows about. The reason you're so adamant, is because its dangerous, alright? and it was meant to be detonated but you took it with you in hopes it could be used again, but it was actually really dangerous once you landed and you hid it. Maybe you add that it was what knocked Navi unconscious for the past weeks?. I dont know how long it was. The reason you were so volatile than is because you were worried of anyone else getting hurt, and also. you were scared, you didn't like being accused. That's reasonable, people will understand that. It also paints you as sympathetic. Now, lets talk about scale. Tell everyone who knows the truth about Navi this lie, get everyone on the same page. But ask them to be subtle about it. It's only more suspicious if suddenly, now you have a answer.If they need instructions on how to be subtle, send them to me, I'll explain. Lastly, damage control- apologies to vesper for pulling a gun on her. Yes, i understand why you did it, but we're creating a narrative here- not that you're protecting the starcore, but that you're protecting them from the starcore, so you need to do this. Preferably apologies in message form because i doubt words would go well. They might not believe you, but thats ok. All this is really about is providing an alternate narrative to keep people away from the truth. If we give them two narratives, neither the truth, the less likely they are to realise whats really going on.

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Ok, Aura, don't worry this is still salvageable, we can still lie our way out of this. All you have to do is repeat what I' m telling you. The reason you were so adamant on no one using the star is cause its dangerous, ok? No, I understand Navi's not dangerous, we're not talking about Navi we're talking about the 'starcore', which no one else, other than those you've told knows about. The reason you're so adamant, is because its dangerous, alright? and it was meant to be detonated but you took it with you in hopes it could be used again, but it was actually really dangerous once you landed and you hid it. Maybe you add that it was what knocked Navi unconscious for the past weeks?. I dont know how long it was. The reason you were so volatile than is because you were worried of anyone else getting hurt, and also. you were scared, you didn't like being accused. That's reasonable, people will understand that. It also paints you as sympathetic. Now, lets talk about scale. Tell everyone who knows the truth about Navi this lie, get everyone on the same page. But ask them to be subtle about it. It's only more suspicious if suddenly, now you have a answer.If they need instructions on how to be subtle, send them to me, I'll explain. Lastly, damage control- apologies to vesper for pulling a gun on her. Yes, i understand why you did it, but we're creating a narrative here- not that you're protecting the starcore, but that you're protecting them from the starcore, so you need to do this. Preferably apologies in message form because i doubt words would go well. They might not believe you, but thats ok. All this is really about is providing an alternate narrative to keep people away from the truth. If we give them two narratives, neither the truth, the less likely they are to realise whats really going on.

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take me to snurch (snail church)

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did u go protest today

good evening officer