Final Remix

'95 LeSabre was my first car. Drove over an open manhole and obliterated the subframe. Still drove and ran fine, but it was totalled. The engine fell out but still ran enough to get home. Those engines are immortal.

The impala, I’m selling because now I have too many cars. Runs great though. She’s gonna outlast me, probably.

We just sold our 1991 Previa. Even better, it got sold to a family just up the street, so it’s still in town. Now I’m waiting to sell my '04 Impala. Got that bulletproof 3800 V6, but no buyers so far.

Always was.

People just kept parroting the bullshit “it’s not DRM, bro. You’ll need for things like to use banking websites” propaganda so much, that it got drowned out. Cheers to microslop’s astroturfibg efforts for that.

No idea what this is all about, so I read whomever’s “elephant in the room” post on the tesseracts sub, and good god it sounds like someone in the throes of a mental health problem.

A Previa is not a shitpost. It’s a work of art. Fuckin’ thing can haul entire sheets of drywall, with no problem at all.

Oh, he has plans for the election… he’s done nothing but saber rattle and announce those plans recently.

“Oh, so just like Sekiro”

“Grad student and lab manager at a conference” vibes.

Things are bad. They’re coming in completely unprepared in some cases, and even our IT people are pushing AI to be used in blackboard (free “for now”, with promises of “a great deal” when prices happen).

Students are using Chegg, AI, and whatever else they can to not do any actual work. I can ask in an online discussion about what they did (a for-fun check-in question with no stakes) andnreceive multiple identical posts with different wording. I’d rather get the old bullshit “I agree with your post, Jennifer.” Unsubstantive posts.

My team’s playing with making exams worth more and required in-person again. At the moment, they’re mathematically insignificant in my courses but online and open for a few days at a time. Scores are high, but range from like 30-100. They’re entirely unmonitored… I have students ask if it’s cheating if they use their notes. These kids have no fucking clue sometimes.

I have an advanced course in my workload and I require in-person exams (I’ll even answer questions, during)… average scores these past two semesters were around 68. This is an advanced intro course and they’re doing well while we cover the material.

Hey, at least now I can point to something concrete and peer-reviewed to try to shake my students into doing the goddamn work in 101.

https://pbfcomics.com/ even.

Hardly. Slop is slop.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Ch 02

He’ll probably forget to follow through and start chasing someone with a gun again.

The guy who stopped it spinnig then set his hand on the barrel.*

*briefly.

Even his [widow|wife] said she hasn’t contacted him since returning from her sudden China trip.

Fancy sweat glands wrapped in fat?

In theory yes, but there’s far too much vested interest in seeing that our trains fail.

Yes it does, sadly. Our trains are basically set up to fail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN7e38Q7e1U

Congratulations. You asked a nazi’s CSAM generator for some slop and got slop out.

You must get up very early in the morning.