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“The bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in the history of cinema — and one of the weirdest and most inexplicable flubs in any movie I can remember. It is elaborately, even ornately wrong.” (I was slack-jawed by the end of this.)
Absolutely go read this. I was delighted the entire time.
i love the conclave. what do you mean the entire world has tv cameras trained on the chimney of an old italian palace waiting for days or weeks until the color of the smoke changes and we find out who’s been elected as the next supreme dictator of catholicism
the secret rites have chosen bob, from chicago. impeccable
ok im sorry I can't stop thinking about this can mims fuck like can they cum
to quote the ancient texts:
Why would you make a robot you couldn’t fuck?
(I have my own deep HC about how Lao distinguishing “mim” relationships as a thing is a symptom of his personal issues, not a widely held opinion/belief.)
after almost a decade, lex and irina xenoblade found alive on nintendo switch
Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks
Evidence:
Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.
And they told you science was no fun.
Science!
I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in.
Legolas’s pupil size isn’t the problem here, though. 5 leagues is 17.262 miles. The curvature of the Earth means that for a person of average height, the visual horizon is less than three miles away. Even if your vision is telescopic and the atmosphere is perfectly clear, you can’t see around the planet. If they were standing on a hill, it would have to be at LEAST 198 feet above sea level in order to see the horizon at 17.2 miles away, with nothing tall in between. Which, knowing Rohan, isn’t impossible.
But consider: Elven satellite eyeballs.
you mean like
@sidereanuncia it’s back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares
I shall never find peace.
Also, for what it’s worth, there’s absolutely no reason to believe that the curvature of Middle Earth is the same as that of Earth.
There’s no evidence that Middle Earth curves.
Yeah there is. The Silmarillion states that the world was curved after the fall of Numenor (I believe), preventing access to Valinor. But Elves (among others) can travel the straight path across it.
So middle earth is round, but not for Elves because magic.
So wait, the reason he can see that far is because Elves just have the ability to ignore the curve of the earth? That’s awesome. It also means that no matter how good your optics got, you would always want elf eyes manning the spyglass because they can see arbitrarily far while everybody else is limited by this ‘horizon’ bullshit.
Oh thank God, my poor elf prince has seen too much in this post
Elves are flat-earthers
This post went from amusing to horrifying, to be brought back down to amusing, sprinkled in with some cannon explanation, and then you leave me here in fucking outrage
This post really was a rollercoaster.
for elves it was a straight line
This screams clones to me
do you guys think if i kissed the robot whose eyes turned red (to signal he turned evil) his eyes would stop being red ? asking for a friend
Interesting theories. I will have to kiss more robots to find out the truth
Also on DE notes, my heart is just incredibly full being back in this world and reconnecting with people I care about.
… Mina is happy too. Honest.
Here is my XCXDE story:
I have chronic hand pain and made the terrible decision to design my build to play like a tactical rhythm game. So, I got one Telly run in last night then wanted to just hang out with my bestie in voice so I went to Noctilum, sat down, and started sketching.
Ok yeah pretty great right?
Except when I get up and turn around
A Saltat has been staring at me for *one and a half in-game days*.
🎶 workin' 9 to 5 🎶
Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks
Evidence:
Update: Legolas’ pupils are about 3.5 cm wide each. Now drawing kawaii Legolas on physics assignment.
And they told you science was no fun.
Science!
I’m going to do it. I’m going to hand it in.
Legolas’s pupil size isn’t the problem here, though. 5 leagues is 17.262 miles. The curvature of the Earth means that for a person of average height, the visual horizon is less than three miles away. Even if your vision is telescopic and the atmosphere is perfectly clear, you can’t see around the planet. If they were standing on a hill, it would have to be at LEAST 198 feet above sea level in order to see the horizon at 17.2 miles away, with nothing tall in between. Which, knowing Rohan, isn’t impossible.
But consider: Elven satellite eyeballs.
you mean like
@sidereanuncia it’s back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares
I shall never find peace.
Also, for what it’s worth, there’s absolutely no reason to believe that the curvature of Middle Earth is the same as that of Earth.
There’s no evidence that Middle Earth curves.
Yeah there is. The Silmarillion states that the world was curved after the fall of Numenor (I believe), preventing access to Valinor. But Elves (among others) can travel the straight path across it.
So middle earth is round, but not for Elves because magic.
So wait, the reason he can see that far is because Elves just have the ability to ignore the curve of the earth? That’s awesome. It also means that no matter how good your optics got, you would always want elf eyes manning the spyglass because they can see arbitrarily far while everybody else is limited by this ‘horizon’ bullshit.
Oh thank God, my poor elf prince has seen too much in this post
Elves are flat-earthers
This post went from amusing to horrifying, to be brought back down to amusing, sprinkled in with some cannon explanation, and then you leave me here in fucking outrage
This post really was a rollercoaster.
for elves it was a straight line
Oh hey I teach out of this textbook, we’re doing this section this week - I’m gonna write to the guy and tell him to stop putting Star Trek references in because the Kids These Days find them confusing
I will 100% go find some of the weirder questions if you want
I think if you're using AI on your college assignments, especially for your major, there's a deeper problem.
Because whether you think your studies actually matter in the real world or will have consequences... it should matter to YOU. You are supposed to be here because you want to learn from this institution. You chose this major because you think you might want to pursue it as a career.
If you are so disinterested in your work that you are asking chatgpt to do it for you, that's a fucking canary in a coalmine for how much enthusiasm you are going to bring to this field. You shouldn't be studying this topic. And if you're doing this with every one of your classes, you probably shouldn't be at this school at all. You clearly don't want to be.
Maybe this college or this field isn't for you, and that's fine. There's other options. But right now you're just wasting everyone's time and money, especially your own.
as a broader phenomenon i think it's an indictment of classism and institutional gatekeeping. like, yes, obviously we're supposed to be pursuing a course of study in order to learn from it, but let's be real here. we all know most of us didn't go to school To Learn. we went to school To Graduate. why? because there was a whole big list of things we weren't allowed to do unless we had a piece of official paper proving we had Graduated and 97% of a college degree was frequently considered the professional equivalent of 0% of a college degree.
as long as jobs are gatekept by school rather than gatekept by skills acquired in school, a large number of people will reasonably conclude that society's priority is for them to turn in passing assignments rather than to learn.
what you measure is what you get.
respectfully, what a degree is, or at least is supposed to be, is a certification that you learned the things required by your major. visual design and the tools to create art, or reading multiple languages and writing about them with your own voice, or calculating advanced problems and using mathematical tools, or understanding botanical theory and the ability to use the tools to study plants.
I agree that it is bullshit that our generation was told (incorrectly) that a college degree was a ticket to the middle class, which was otherwise barred. (Again, not true. The kids who went into trades or got a job at a unionized workplace or, for some, got a job at a non-unionized workplace and started saving, are generally much, much closer to middle class than those of us who racked up 4-5 years of debt.) But the piece of that that is actually true is that your degree asserts that you have certain skills and knowledge that a workplace might value.
it’s not, in fact, just an expensive piece of paper, or at the very least it is not supposed to be.
using AI to complete assignments (or paying someone else to do them, or whatever) essentially makes the degree something of a fraudulent document, which is why universities have such a huge problem with it. your degree might get you in the door at a workplace, but if the workplace is hiring you for the skills on your degree (which you did not acquire), you won’t stay there long (unless you’re a very charismatic white dude, and even then, you need connections and luck).
also, the idea that schools/degrees are just gates keeping jobs, rather than teaching skills and knowledge (and, again, certifying them), deeply frustrates me, because what on earth is the alternative? every job has a rigorous knowledge-and-skills exam as part of the hiring process? go back to the exam system of ancient imperial China? just let private companies like the ones who run the SAT etc decide on testing methods?
(i will say that the obvious actual alternative is that we go back to a world where a college degree is required where it makes sense to require one, which is very few jobs, and the rest of the jobs you are expected to learn the skills as you go and move through the profession. but that is not, in fact, something that colleges, and certainly not professors, have any say in or control over.)
you can say "what you measure is what you get," and maybe so. but that does not change the fact that these skills need to be measured somehow, or you’re back to relying on Who You Know, period.
also? re your tags?
#OR it may be because they're fully aware that college is merely a series of hoops to jump through to prove you deserve to be middle class
that’s what you think it is. that’s not what college was for me. for a lot of people it’s a transformative experience. for a lot of my students it’s their first chance to learn some history that isn’t filtered through 40-year-old textbooks and texas propaganda. for people who don’t already have the skills employers are looking for because their highschools sucked, college can be a chance to learn those skills.
but if I sound insulted throughout this post, it’s because whether you realize it or meant it or not, you just told me that my life’s work is not, in fact, teaching people skills and knowledge, but churning out apathetic white-collar workers.
#i don't think people should be using chatgpt to do their assignments#but i MORE STRONGLY believe we should not put ppl in a position where using chatgpt to do their assignments is the most logical choice
to be fair, this is, in fact, why many professors tell students not to use chatgpt, spend a lot of time explaining and showing why it’s not good, try to construct assignments in such a way as to disincentivize chatgpt, and penalize use of it heavily. they cannot fix the entire system of universities and capitalism, but they do try to make chatgpt a less logical choice.
I’m currently teaching the first class where ChatGPT is even an option for my assignments, and it’s a career skills seminar.
I just had this talk with one of my students who used ChatGPT for his resume because he was overwhelmed by the amount of work needed to apply for internships. Shockingly, he has not gotten any offers while students who wrote their resumes from scratch are picking between multiple offers.
He did ask if I could tell he used ChatGPT and the honest answer was “no, I can’t immediately tell the difference between ChatGPT and overly generic, imprecise writing, but I can immediately tell that this is bad writing”.
I am begging y’all to learn how to be efficient without outsourcing your writing/thinking to a “most likely word” model, picking the most likely words is going to get you something so generic as to be meaningless.
Also as a prof in natural sciences… how dull it is to look at the intense beauty of reality and our ability to understand why it works and say that the only point of college is to get a job.
You are faced with some random problem and the only person who can help you is the main character from the last piece of media you consumed (you can also do favorite character if there are multiple main characters). You can stay in this universe or be in the universe of the character, whichever you prefer, but the problem remains the same and the only person who can directly help you is the main character. That character can call on the help of those they know in their media, but when it comes down to it, they are the only person really helping you. How do you react to this situation?
Spin to find out your problem:
Your Reaction:
Literally the best problem and the best person to solve it! Yippee!
With this problem, character will definitely be helpful, this will go well!
Ok, could be worse, this is definitely going to be an adventure, but a fun one.
This problem isn't getting solved, actually more problems will be created help.
Well, I'm cooked, and so is the world honestly. And it won't even be that fun.
Could Arthur Lester and John Doe get me out of a bad date? I mean, probably? I can't go on a date if I've fallen down a hole, now can I?
Calvin and Hobbes are helping me make brownies.
On the one hand, it's a relief that the problem is something age-appropriate for Calvin, but on the other hand, I may finally find out what the Noodle Incident was.
Bro I already deal with ENOUGH Catholicism, if the Penitent One from Blasphemous was helping me proctor an exam I would have a lot of questions
Ever since I learned that the new XCX character is german my neurons have been firing at the speed of light
i wish i could draw birds. i can only draw silly doodles of them but if i try to actually draw them it looks so weird. i just wanna draw birds but im either burnt out or i CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO DRAW THEM.
Ok drawing birds. Birds have weird shapes that hide under their floof and they can also control their level of floof.
Most recent bird painting on left - lilac-breasted roller referenced from a picture from eBird because I was exhausted and searched “colorful birds”. First one I could find when I started drawing birds 4 years ago on the left, which by coloration you can tell is an American Robin but wow what is that wing doing and the legs couldn’t move and also that doesn’t look like a thrush body plan at ALL
- Get a field guide with an anatomy reference at the front. Bird parts are fairly consistent and if you know how they relate to each other in the abstract, it’s easier to figure out what the bird you’re looking at is doing. For the US, Sibley’s great. Don’t know about other areas, I have a beautiful Birds of Australia field guide but it is also heavy enough to kill a man with.
- references from birders - we’re a weird crowd and will spend forever getting nice pictures of weird little guys to post on eBird or iNaturalist. Bonus guarantee that the ref isn’t AI.
- museums with mounts on display: I have spent many pleasant hours sketching mounted specimens- being able to look at the shapes in a static 3D location is helpful for seeing how the birds fit together.
Also, the things that make silly doodles of birds look good (exaggerated expressions, etc) are going to look weird on a realistic bird because they’re not primates! The things we read as expressions are sometimes things their anatomy just doesn’t do.
Go forth and fail at drawing birds a lot! I look back at my older paintings and they’re flat and have obvious anatomy errors, but that’s the process.
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okay okay but bird watching on Mira must be intense because the flying creatures are large, like the size of large sheds kind of large.
You'd need a panoramic lens to phoyo them.
Now see this sounds great to me because photographing ordinary birds is like
