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  • Nancy really made his bald head shine!

  • Essays are another complaint I have about my grade school experience. Especially for English class. They never told me exactly why it helped me to write an essay, and so I felt like I had to guess what I was learning. I always thought it was about grammar and spelling, and that they wanted all of that literary shit like allusions and tone and whatever.

    I knew that it was okay if you wrote something creative, but it sucked shit, but I didn't realize that they wanted us to write shit sucking creative prose, because most everybody has to write badly before they can write goodly. I was always paralyzed by perfectionism, and in those days, we either wrote it by hand or on a typewriter, so it was hard to go back and edit.

  • "Translated from Norwegian by Google"

    but just in that photo was taken our little friend slid in the snow

    How did Google manage to fuck up English this bad? I'm guessing it's supposed to be "just as the photo was taken," but that translation sucks.

  • I think that my definition of "resurrect" is not the same as their definition of "resurrect".

    Like, imagine that you went out and found an actress who was willing to dress up like your dead grandmother, and who would also study videos of her, and could do a perfect impersonation. I doubt anybody would say that she was "resurrected". But this is precisely what the AI is attempting to do.

    To call it a "resurrection" is an insult to her memory.

  • When I went to college, I had a computer science professor who assigned a group project, and he also told us exactly how to do a group project. You know, how to organize it, how to distribute work, how to have meetings and report progress, etc.

    That was the first time any teacher had ever explained anything to me about the group itself. The professor thought it was a good way of introducing students to the way things are done in a workplace, and he was right. Group projects are hard. If the students have to figure it out themselves, they will screw it up royally, just like anybody would.

    I honestly believe that every teacher I had up until that point had no interest in using group projects to actually educate the students. It was just a break so that the teacher could pretend like they were teaching students to work in a group, but actually added little scholastic value for students. (There was some inherent value in the socialization aspects, but the teacher never told us to do that, either.)

    If teachers don't teach, then it's only luck if students end up learning.

    • it will cost us more to try to enforce it, than we will gain in revenue

    That sounds to me like an assertion that has no basis in reality.

  • The US military has had many incidents where it was sloppy as shit. I wouldn't completely write off the idea that they might just be a lot more incompetent than most people think.

  • People have been saying that about Stephen Miller since before Trump's first presidency.

    It's just as unsurprising as Elon Musk's Nazi salutes on stage at a GOP convention.

    The reason Musk accidentally makes Nazi salutes when he gets excited is that he's a Nazi.

    The reason Stephen Miller's rhetoric is the same as Nazi rhetoric is that he's a Nazi.

    I'm not speaking metaphorically. I don't mean "Neo Nazi". I mean that Stephen Miller, like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, idolizes Nazi Germany, and in all likelihood, literally thinks of himself as a Nazi.

  • Eh, no reason to discard the idea of putting a ceiling on the rich. Even if you took away all of the money people had that was over 1 billion dollars, that wouldn't cause any of those people to suffer.

  • In college, I had a URL in my email signature, and the website was about etiquette in emails. I did this because I had to frequently communicate with a person who typed in all caps, and I hoped that he'd read it at some point. But anyways it wasn't a well-known domain, nor was it one that I had registered myself.

    And then, somebody sent me an email asking what kind of sick sense of humor I had, and it turned out that the link now went to a hardcore porn website. Not the best link to have in your email when you're using it to try to find a job.

    Thinking about it now, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a prank by somebody who knew me.

  • Trump is all about "having", not "supporting." He fathered children, but I'm sure he didn't raise them.

  • IRL "that guy" would probably have already been partially eaten by the others.

  • I suspect that China knows that they can say whatever they want, and that they can do whatever they want, and that those two things have nothing to do with each other.

    Saying they support humanitarian rights makes them look good.

    They can sign any agreement or treaty or whatever. If it says human rights must be respected, well, that's just ink on paper. It's not like it's going to change what they do in the least.

    It's more surprising that the US voted against this. Maybe it means the US ambassador to the UN is somewhat working against Trump to make him look like an amateur. Maybe it means that Trump weighed in on this directly, and this happened because he really is just that stupid.

  • I can't find it now, but I remember an old video of a person opening the door and scooching through the car in the back seat when it was blocking the crosswalk.

    Of course, with automatic door locks, it's less likely to work these days.

  • She never deserved to get known by those initials in the first place. Her name isn't difficult to say. They were just envious of AOC and forced it.

    I always just called her Greene or Marjorie Greene. Hopefully it's all moot now anyways and we can forget about her.

  • If he's actually afraid of the axis, then he's in trouble because the axis is always there, even if he's not moving along the axis.

  • Didn't you hear how many wars he ended? There was the, uhhh, Albania-Azerbaijan war, the uhh, Israel-Palestine war that he completely ended moments before they started a new completely different war. Also Robot Wars and Storage Wars. And many others behind the scenes, so that from the outside, he seems to have done nothing at all.

  • We've watched Scrooged (NSFW) at Christmastime for the last few years.

  • Yeah why does the teacher have the equation for a line next to what appears to be a parabola?

    And I don't think either function is going to describe some random cock very accurately.