I stopped using cursive my sophomore year of high school. Started using smallcaps, and everyone was happier.

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The kids used to insist on spaghetti tacos, back in the iCarly days...

Peanut butter is allergy death,

Just out of curiosity, can you do any of the alternatives? Sunflower, cashew, almond, pistachio, pecan?

If they find Lemmy "too hard to understand", do we really want them here?

Don't. Touch. Our. Boats.

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Sure, but no need for combs, hair product, trips to the barber... I shave my face in the shower, and just keep going.

He's gonna hear about it.

Luigi used a silencer.

I agree that a mold of their vagina isn't going to help.

However... Have you ever met someone whose OCD compulsion is Kegel exercises? Can't really get a replica.

Sometimes, it is, indeed, what's in their pants. Sometimes, it's not what's in their partner's head.

Bill pay through your bank. Fuck their payment processor.

When an old landlord pulled some bullshit on me, I paid a month's rent with 31 paper checks, delivered once a day, direct from my bank.

I'm more interested in the technology itself, rather than its current application.

I feel like I am watching a toddler taking her first steps; wondering what she will eventually accomplish in her lifetime. But the loudest voices aren't cheering her on: they're sitting in their recliners, smugly claiming she's useless. She can't even participate in a marathon, let alone compete with actual athletes!

Basically, the best AIs currently have college-level mastery of language, and the reasoning skills of children. They are already far more capable and productive than anti-vaxxers, or our current president.

I think most of the planet would like to see a multitude of crows in the oval office.

very articulated persons

I know there's a joke here about "getting bent", but I can't quite articulate it.

Wait... I think I just did...

In my experience, homework is garbage. It's busywork. The intent of homework is fine: repeat exposure of what you have previously learned. The execution of that intent is generally a piss-poor waste of time and energy.

The single best way I know of to retain information is to teach it to someone. Tutor someone, or group study. Or, in the absence of actually teaching it, plan a lesson, as though you intend to teach it to someone.

It found 51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form.

How good are the human answers? I mean, I expect that an AI's error rate is currently higher than an "expert" in their field.

But I'd guess the AI is quite a bit better than, say, the average Republican.

I see this all the time and it is unacceptable.

Your photo shows a wheelchair using a plowed roadway, because the sidewalk isn't plowed

Bike lane protected by concrete...

... isn't going to be plowed either. The only reason a regular bike lane is plowed is because it is part of the roadway.

Using an unabridged dictionary instead of my 4th-grade textbook's glossary.

Every new unit in social studies had a vocabulary box with about a dozen "new" words. The teacher's first assignment in each unit was to write out each word, then the complete definition of that word from the glossary. Each assignment was worth 10 points. Anyone who "failed" the assignment (less than 7 out of 10 points) was given a lunch detention: no recess.

Some units had only a handful of words; the assignment would end up being 2 or 3 pages. Some units had a lot more. They would end up being 5 or 6 pages.

She took off points for each misspelled word, missed punctuation, bad handwriting. The assignment had to be completed in ink, and she prohibited corrections of any sort. No erasable ink: If you made any error anywhere on the page, she expected you to rewrite the entire page. If the ink stopped flowing in your pen, and it produced an interrupted line, that was a point off.

It had to be turned in on standard ruled paper. Using college rule was an instant failure.

Once, I found a nice pen. It was a 1mm ballpoint. It produced nice, thick, clean, dark lines. It wrote smoothly. It was the first pen I found that I actually liked writing with.

Points knocked off immediately: she called it a "marker", and the assignment was supposed to be completed with a "pen".

One night, I had forgotten my social studies textbook at school. I decided against even attempting the assignment, and resigned myself to another lunch detention. Dad had other ideas. He insisted that I was exaggerating; the the teacher would be reasonable and accommodating. He said that she would appreciate the effort, and might even give me extra credit for going above and beyond.

He called around, and got the vocabulary list for me. He sat me down with the list and his big, unabridged dictionary, and told me to start writing. I remember that I filled two whole pages with the definition of a single word, and that I turned in 15 pages.

When she was grading my assignment, she called me up, and asked me what I had done. I explained that I had used a dictionary. She pulled out a big red marker, wrote a giant "F" across the first page, and gave me two lunch detentions for my obstinance.

She fucked me up for a few years. All I learned from her was that if I couldn't achieve absolute perfection, there was no point in even trying.

New Mexico? You mean "South America", right?

(Everything south of the Rio Grande is now "Mexico". Except for the Panama America canal.)

I think that's for the best.