OwOarchist

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrorbird⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Op has never met cassowary in the ocean.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrorbird⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
They’re not dinosaurs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’m beginning to understand why management types like it so much.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Well, that’s what they mean by one of the ‘good jobs’.

Because, sure, that still sucks ass. But at least you’re not sweating like a pig and getting skin cancer while mowing lawns. At least you’re not pissing in a bottle and stepping over dead coworkers for Amazon. And at least you’re not getting physically assaulted by irate customers who are mad at your employer’s terrible policies in some shitty dead-end retail place.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean, technically the kid's right⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I think, technically, this is a comma-separated list, so the kid should have circled 1.39, 2.17, and 3.96 as the smallest numbers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

they were already using software(way before pandemic) to grade papers.

To grade multiple choice questions, right?

… right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

It’s mostly just a piece of paper required for most white collar jobs to even pass on your resume to a real person.

Fun fact: as long as you’re not studying to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or other professional with a governing/licensing body, you can just lie about it.

No employer has ever asked to actually see my diploma. No employer has ever requested a transcript from the school. And even if one does, what’s the worst that can happen? You just won’t get that specific job – but you can keep on trying and applying to other jobs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

What’s the point if it’s all just phoned in?

You get a piece of paper at the end that proves you’ve gone through the class barrier hurdle successfully, thus proving that you’re not one of those filthy poors, so you’re eligible for one of the good jobs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Ivy League college students are, by definition, people who attend classes at an Ivy League university … nothing more and nothing less.

If you want to claim they’re anything other than that, you’re using different arguments – it can’t be justified definitionally. You’d think someone who was actually intelligent might know that…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Hot damn… Having issues because you’re used to the AI thinking for you is one thing … being incapable of counting to 10 is quite another thing entirely.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’d hate to be a teacher. Imagine how much time you’d waste grading AI-generated papers…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You needed to exhibit at least one to be admitted to the "lunatic asylum"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
If only we could throw people into asylums for ‘Greediness’, the world would be a much better place.

Also … Fell From Horse In War? So, what? Falling from a horse outside of a war isn’t good enough? Is it really that different, psychologically speaking, whether your equestrian accident happened during war or not?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You needed to exhibit at least one to be admitted to the "lunatic asylum"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Are you certain it’s not Hysteria or Uterine Derangement?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Teaching crabs how to read”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Or – get this! – you can use a private tab/window for the really bad stuff, so it won’t get saved in your browser history. Then you can still have a browser history full of benign things, rather than an empty one.

Also very useful: Firefox has a feature of [Menu --> History --> Clear Recent History…] – that allows you to delete any trace of sites you’ve visited within a given timeframe, with choices of 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, or all day. If it’s something older than that, you can also browse through your history and manually delete anything objectionable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're F*ing trying again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The George Floyd protests in my city were all organized on Facebook.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Most divisive at least

Under Lincoln, the country was divided into two factions literally at war with each other.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Although it looks like Israel owns America now.

Epstein was on the payroll of Israeli intelligence. His job was to collect blackmail material on rich and powerful Americans.

Israel has not only the “Epstein Files”, but pictures and video of Trump (and also some others in power in the US) raping, torturing, and killing young children. The threat of this blackmail material keeps them in line and has given Israel almost complete control over the US.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Lincoln, no contest. Having half the country in armed rebellion trying to kill you is hard to beat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Lincoln literally had half the country in armed rebellion against him.

Still a much better president than Trump, but I’m pretty sure that qualifies him as ‘more hated’.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're F*ing trying again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You’re still getting surveilled in real-life conversations … if anyone in the conversation is stupid enough to bring their phone or other ‘smart’ device (including any modern car).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨new 20 year old monitor!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Nice white and gold socks!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More chickens!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The TSA was once tested by sending 100 people through with guns, knives, and simulated explosives.

95 of them got through the TSA security checks with no problems.

Damn fuckers are so busy fondling balls and looking for shampoo bottles, they’ve forgotten what they’re actually supposed to be doing there.

Oh, and another fun fact: The TSA has never once stopped an actual terrorist. There have been several terrorist attacks attempted since then which were caught and stopped, but they were all caught and stopped by other airport or airline staff, or by other passengers. The TSA didn’t catch a single one, not even one in their entire history as an organization.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well? did it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Supreme Court just ruled that police need a warrant to use phone location data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

They are actually humans

[citation needed]
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The year is 2036 and I’ve been brought in for questioning because my PlayStation Plus subscription lapsed well over 3 months ago.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Pro tip: pirated versions usually remove this requirement.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good idea, no downsides⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Washing machines are already designed to minimize all the movement it causes. It just isn’t worth the effort to do anything else to it.

Well, if your machine is too noisy for your liking, you could…
- Make sure it isn’t touching any walls or any other objects, especially at the side or back of the machine.
- Place it on a rubber mat or thick carpet to absorb some of the vibrations.
- Put noise-absorbing foam panels on the walls and/or ceiling of your laundry room.
Doing any or all of those may make it significantly quieter, especially when listening to it from outside the room.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good idea, no downsides⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Vibrations don’t just vanish when they hit solid concrete.

Your entire wall will vibrate, which will distribute the sound through the house and make the machine seem much louder than it normally is. Potentially, this might eventually result in cracks in the concrete wall: concrete is very strong in compression, but has low tensile strength, low ability to resist pulling forces … and every vibration is a quick succession of compression and tension.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably accurate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

The ban of slavery caught up to them in the end?

Though Ben Franklin owned a few slaves when he was young, he later gave them up and became an outspoken abolitionist. I don’t think he’d be too mortified to find out slavery had been ended.

He might be mortified to find out that prisoners can still be enslaved, and that the US has a more people incarcerated than any other nation in history. Both by percentage of population and by absolute number. “Land of the free”, am I right?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably accurate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Of what?

There was a transgender Royal Governor of New York State.

This may come as a shock to you, but the existence of trans people is not the only significant change that has happened here since the 1700s.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Probably accurate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

The rest are getting pushed back into the time machine and sent to the Devonian period.

Great. Now the sudden appearance of invasive modern bacteria just caused a mass extinction in the Devonian, the entire history of life on earth is changed, and the dominant life form is an amphibian of roughly chimpanzee intelligence.