imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]

glad to hear they’re not throwing the book at them. there was reports that a cop was hospitalised after the incident so i was worried they might end up going to prison but i guess the cop just tied their shoelaces together or something

teetotaling was an important part of lots of leftist movements 100 years ago or so. they had the right idea. drugs can never be revolutionary.

Ireland is like this too

interesting, I’ve never really chosen to go without but i have tempered my intake to an acceptable level over the years. don’t really feel the need cause im just on 2-3 cups a day which isn’t that much

i don’t think taking a day off really does much, doesn’t it take months to fully withdraw from the drug?

can you describe your view of what a “healthy masculinity” looks like

iwl watching this did just kinda make me sad about the USSR. but i feel that most days

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IQ is skull measuring nonsense. how good you are at taking a standardised test is in fact not a remotely good “measure of intelligence”. if you care about education you should discard the notion of IQ.

if anyone figures out how to actually pick up a guitar regularly instead of just getting struck with motivation once in a while interspersed with weeks of no progress let me know

totally agree!

i agree it’s clearly a symptom of a greater problem. education as a commodity & visa to the corporate world rather than being something beautiful and fundamental that instils a love of learning and knowledge. the rot has been there in the academy (and high school, etc.) for decades or longer this stuff just reveals it.

my friend described it as a logical endpoint of the commodification of education, which i think i agree with. degree being seen as simply a visa to the corporate world has been a problem since long before AI proliferation. of course students don’t care and just want the piece of paper. the great failing of contemporary liberal education is that it totally fails to instil a love of learning (and often actually instils a dislike of it). undergrads are treated so poorly by institutions it’s no surprise most of them usually end up in the mindset of “do as little work as possible, fuck this awful system”.

my sister said every single person in her undergrad is using it and you’re just falling behind on doing menial assignments as efficiently if you don’t

yea i graduated just before the proliferation (although in my final year everyone was cheating in more old-school ways, as we were in online college due to covid). my sister is finishing her teaching undergrad currently and she says everyone uses it, you’re just falling behind in efficiency with menial assignments (lesson plans, etc.) if you don’t.

this is a half-assed non-apology and basically a promise not to grow or learn anything about trans people (people, not a “topic”; frankly dehumanising). are you a marxist or not?

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this won’t please anyone as well, it’s not like the british state are gonna let them off the hook for it. i do wish they had doubled down, obviously easy for me to say but they had an opportunity to be very cool and they undermined themselves.

low effort

you’re fine, he is still widely known/portrayed, here and elsewhere, as The Cool Irish Revolutionary (we are even taught in school that he was brave and good for signing the treaty) so i totally get it. just something i feel the need to push back on when I see it because it’s a symptom of the prevailing liberal historiography of the period.