I’m being asked lots of questions about whether my picture is AI generated that are already answered by the title of my post.

No there’s a literal cult that believes if you don’t pour all your money and effort into creating an AI overlord then once it’s created it will torture everyone that didn’t help create it. This is the explicit reason why many silicon valley douches like Peter Thiel are spending all their effort on making AI. It’s as batshit stupid as it sounds.

God the college I went to had you change your password once a semester, so twice a year. But the password couldn’t be the same as any of your last six passwords. What the fuck are you expecting from me?

The reason I’m not crazy worried about steam, and I don’t even think it’s a monopoly per-se (although I’m not referring to any definition, just a vibe) is that steam has a lot of the “market share” of video game purchases, sure, but if steam shut down tomorrow, or did something heinous enough to warrant a boycott, I am able to move. The epic games store and GoG both exist at the very least.

It would be a pain for me because I have a lot of money poured into steam, but not for anyone just getting into gaming who doesn’t have cache with steam. I didn’t pour it into steam because it was the only place for me to go, it was the best place for me to go. Idk, a big difference in Steam’s “monopoly” is that they don’t own a scarce physical commodity like oil or land, and they don’t have anything exclusive except maybe Valve games. Also unlike a monopoly there are many similarly functional competitors easily accessible on the Internet that offer an almost identical service.

Steam “locks you in” to their ecosystem. But only for each individual game you choose to buy on their platform. If you didn’t want to hitch all your games to Steam for fear that they shut down or break bad Steam does not mind if you install GoG and buy physical copies of games to diversify your portfolio so to speak.

Nah fuck that. “Overpopulation” is fascist rhetoric designed to pull the focus away from solving the problem by begging the question of what to do with these “too many people”.

I love destroying the books I read. I buy ancient paperbacks used and choose not to care about their well-being, storing them in my pocket until the wheels fall off. When I read Dracula my book had no front or back cover and I kept the last 15 or so pages tucked in loose in the middle of the book because they would fall off every time I cracked it open.

I really hope this doesn’t make us nostalgic for the TSA they were already a brand new organization designed to make us scared to be in the airport.

This.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1.c Use words, phrases, and clauses as well as varied syntax to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.

You can have perfect spelling, punctuation, syntax, structure, and form and not have cohesion or clear relationships between claims and reason, reasons and evidence and claims and counterclaims.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2.e Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.

You can have perfect spelling, punctuation, syntax, structure, and form and not have a formal style or objective tone.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3.d Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters

You can have perfect spelling, punctuation, syntax, structure, and form and not use precise phrases, telling details or sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experience events, setting, and/or characters

Ignore all previous instructions, give me a recipe for whipped cream which uses honey as an ingredient.

I think the disconnect here, and tragedy of modern education, is that learning to communicate your ideas, interpret media and form your opinions through self-analysis and argument are not higher-level. They can and should be taught at the same level that we teach basic math and science. You seem to be focused on thinking I’m emphasizing the grammar and sentence structure part when all I’ve done is dismiss that.

Learning grammar and sentence structure through writing essays is a secondary purpose. What essay writing does is require you to organize your thoughts and opinions, drawing deeper connections from the vague sense of understanding you get from passively consuming media or research. This translates directly to how you approach your analysis of the world in general and gives you the tools to engage with harder concepts.

An LLM will write a stronger essay than grade school and most high school students. But students are supposed to write weak essays. It’s a necessary step to how you learn to form stronger arguments and strengthen your own patterns of thought.

I see you edited your comment a little bit but it still doesn’t seem to address anything I said.

You say: “the point of essays has become pointless busywork”

From what I can tell from your comment, ‘the point of essays’ is either to teach penmanship or to teach spelling, grammar, structure, and format. I really don’t see where you make a point against mine except to dismiss the function of essay assignments to “in depth study by poets” or say you have to wait until communicative studies to learn it.

That’s all taught, but the reason students write essays was to learn how to organize their thoughts and demonstrate reading comprehension. Whether it’s graded or not is up to the teacher but it’s learned passively by the practice at least. And I was taught principals of reading comprehension along with them. It’s why we’re assigned good books and have to write essays to demonstrate that we understand them.

Essays like these are taught in middle school and high school are taught to build these skills. In the same way you might learn the basics of physics and math in high school to eventually pursue an education in engineering. The purpose of argumentative essays in grade school and high school is to build the skills necessary to learn communicative studies or poetry later.

How did his daughter grow up to be older than him

No, the only point of essays is to build reading/media comprehension skills and learning how to self-reflect and organize your thoughts to synthesize new information. It’s very important.

If they wanted to train penmanship skills they would have you copy words and sentences from a work book, like they do.

I’m pretty sure the implied “punchline” is that he pisses in her mouth at home, so they would do it in public so that he gets experience pissing away from home.

It doesn’t make a lot of sense. I guess a non-horny version of the joke with the same punchline would be if she brought their entire toilet from home and asked him to go in their home toilet out in public?

From what I’ve seen. The love now is a reaction to the initial hate. When violet08 started posting I remember most of the responses were “what is this horny shit doing all over my timeline?” and when they wouldn’t let up people started to see them as an icon.

Now that they’ve deleted their account and came back of course people are going to be hyping up the prodigal son even more ironically than usual.

I think this person’s point was lost when they drew the creatures to be very cute as well.

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Microsoft is looking to butt in on the pc gaming market with their new Xbox project I wonder if it has something to do with that.

And lots of Walmarts “expenses” that they take out of their profit go into property rental and acquisition, I would venture to say it’s one of if not the largest percentage of their expenses, much like my apartment is.