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I'm so fascinated by people who seem to believe that analyzing media is somehow taking the joy out of it. Like. Do you not enjoy thinking? Does taking stuff apart and figuring out how it works not give you a hit of dopamine? And you get mad when you see people having fun in this way? What a sad, miserable way to engage with the world.
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Dean Winchester was Castiels forbidden fruit
Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.
I’m really starting to think you people don’t understand what university is for. You’re buying the accreditation that you can do these things. It doesn’t matter how you do them.
I can assure you if you're going to school to be an xray tech or a surgical assistant it does very much matter how you do the stuff your accreditation says you can do. We aren't all business majors.
Yes, but you actually can’t do an X-ray without an X-ray machine and you can’t do surgery without scalpels. We already rely on technology for everything. Offloading cognitive tasks just frees us up to do more. If you can do your job with chatgpt, but can’t without, you can still do your job. I’m sure you would find university much much harder without access to google or the internet too.
Do you think scalpels are magic and do a little song and dance and perform the surgery themselves like Beauty and the Beast characters and the surgeon is there to conduct the background music
What do you think will happen when your employer, who hired you because they saw you have a certificate to say that you have specific skills and knowledge, starts expecting you to have and use those skills and knowledge and you can't because you think a university degree is just a piece of paper that you buy
"Offloading cognitive tasks just frees us up to do more"
When you're in school, the cognitive tasks are there for the explicit purpose of being brain exercises. It's weightlifting. It is FOR building your mental muscles and making you a stronger thinker and planner. "Offloading the cognitive tasks", then, is just Not Doing The Weightlifting. What happens when you pay for your gym membership and just stand around messing around on your phone? Nothing. Nothing happens. Just money leaving your wallet. Nothing else.
Using AI is a short term pleasure that is going to fuck you over in the long term, and by the time you realize that you didn't build the necessary muscles you need for the cognitive tasks required of your ACTUAL JOB (or, like, adult life in general), it's going to be too late to do anything about it... except going back and doing the real work all over again to get you up to speed.
And if your response as a college student is "Ugh i'm already good at this though, i don't need the practice" -- sweetie, you have no idea how good at it you could be though. If you're good at it now but you keep working on it, you're going to ASTONISH yourself in a couple years with how good at it you can get. I was a good writer when I was in college; I am an ASTRONOMICALLY better writer now, because I put in the work. But you have to lift the weights and build your muscles to get there, even when it's tedious. There aren't any shortcuts for this. You can be content with your own mediocrity, or you can believe that you're capable of growing towards brilliance. Which one will you choose, mediocrity or brilliance? You get to pick right now.
I’m a Surgical Assistant and that ChatGPT stan pissed me off so I’ll use my job as an example. 90% of our job as surgical assists comes down to memorizing the names and usages of the thousands of unique instruments and equipment and sutures involved in surgery as well as having the critical thinking skills to anticipate the needs and expectations of the surgeons we work with. That’s a “cognitive load” that cannot be pawned off on a computer. If I relied on ChatGPT to tell me what instruments to have ready for a case, it would create a composite of what the most likely instruments to be used in a given surgery and assuming that it’s even accurate, it would be effectively useless if my surgeon didn’t use any of those because each doctor is different. Surgeons get pissed off if you give them the wrong diameter size suture, so why would I rely on a soulless algorithm to tell me what my surgeon wants? And if I’m not figuring out for myself what they may need based off my own learning and not machine learning then why am I even there? There’s a reason robotic surgery still requires a surgical assistant and a surgeon to operate the robot, technology is an easement not a replacement for human labor and in college learning is the labor you should be doing.
A common thread with ChatGPT simps seems to be that they truly believe all labor is as easy as their cushy middle management jobs in the tech industry. “Buying an accreditation” might work there but can you imagine someone in the medical field not actually knowing the subject they’re licensed or accredited to know? I’ll give you a hint: the word we typically use is malpractice.
I would also like to add as somone who did a one degree about 10 years ago when academia was just startingto make the switch from fully physical to full online, it is entirely possible to do a degree without really using the Internet or Google. You turn up to lectures, you collect the reading list, you go to the library, you find the book you need on the shelf, you take it and several others back to whatever desk you're working at and the you read them and make notes (I made notes on a PC but plenty of people in my group used paper notes pads), you critically evaluate the information amd decide whether or not to include it in your assessments. No Google required, it's not that fucking hard.
Let me introduce you all to the building trades concept of "buying your book."
A "book" is (a slightly outdated beyond this specific topic) term for your union card, which states that you're a member in good standing of your local/union and ostensibly means that you have the coinciding skills that go with the title of journeyworker or apprentice or whatever. Typically, to become a journeyman, you serve an apprenticeship (usually 5 years) and then have to take a test of some sort to prove you've acquired all the necessary skills to earn the qualification. The card/book is the proof that you have a basic level of competency.
Sometimes though certain locals, usually in the South or other places where right-to-work or similar attitudes are stronger, will "sell books," which is to say they will allow people who either haven't served an apprenticeship or passed a skills test to buy their card so that they may work on union jobs.
There's a myriad of reasons and reasonings on why a local might do this, but on the ground, it means that if I'm on a big job, anyone from areas or locals that have a reputation for selling books is automatically assumed to be under-qualified. This sucks, because I've known plenty of badass hands from Southern Locals, but because they come from book-selling locals, they had to overcome that stigma. To an extent, this whole thing is self-regulating because if you bought a book and can't hack it, you only come to a travel job once before they will never invite you back, but it is a constant source of sand in the gears for the whole labour management process.
Anyway, learning is important and faking learning WILL bite you in the ass if you have any desire to exist in the world in a meaningful way.
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
Oh but when Cas starts to milk every injury he gets
cas when he gets his kidneys ripped out on a solo mission:
cas when he gets a papercut in the same room as dean:
via @spaghettinatural
If we have to live thru the crazy 20s 2.0 can as well bring back the vibes
I saw someone somewhere once express the sentiment that Anakin ought to have realized that Palpatine didn’t have his best interests at heart when he tells Anakin to leave Obi-Wan behind on Dooku’s ship at the beginning of ROTS (and, apparently, that Anakin was stupid or overly naïve to not infer this). This doesn’t really make sense in context - obviously, Palpatine’s goal is to get Obi-Wan out of the way so that he can more easily get into Anakin’s head, but from Anakin’s perspective it just looks like Palpatine is being pragmatic and utilitarian.
And Palpatine’s attitude here precisely mirrors what Anakin has spent thirteen years learning from the Jedi. Attachments are forbidden. Your own personal feelings aren’t important. The only way to serve the force is total self-sacrifice. So Palpatine’s rebuke here doesn’t sound suspicious at all to Anakin. It’s what he’s come to expect from authority figures.
On a deeper level, this ideology has deeply warped Anakin’s perception of himself and his surroundings. This is a boy who was taken from slavery at the age of nine (at a stage of development in which he was highly likely to blame himself for the trauma he’d been through). And when he first joined the Jedi, just at the time in which he most needed acknowledgment and validation for his emotions and help with working through his trauma, he was told that he needed to detach himself from emotion and let go of his attachments - a difficult feat for anyone, let alone a child and former slave who’s just been separated from his mother, friends, and everything he’s ever known in favor of a totally alien environment.
Anakin deals with this through unhealthy repression. He buries his anger and fear and insecurity and bitterness and feelings of attachment towards other people until they manifest in violent outbursts like the massacre on the Tusken Raiders. He doesn’t like these ideologies, but he’s also internalized them, to the point where he feels profound guilt over his emotions; there’s always a voice telling him, in the back of his mind, that he wouldn’t be struggling with this if he tried harder, that a good Jedi wouldn’t give into his impulses.
So, no, Anakin doesn’t recognize at this moment that Palpatine intends to hurt him, because the kind of psychological mindset that he’s developed at this point is in no way adept at detecting threats like the one Palpatine poses. His indignation at Palpatine’s suggestion is on behalf of Obi-Wan, not himself. Anakin hasn’t been conditioned to look for external causes to his own inner torment, so his instinctive response to someone trying to hurt him is to blame himself for being hurt.
Geralt and Jaskier are forced to travel through a forest that sits squarely within Fae territory, a fact that has been steadily fraying Geralt's nerves since they crossed the border.
Because Jaskier is exactly the sort of person the Fae would adore.
Bright, curious, charming, endlessly willing to follow a strange song into the trees or accept directions from a talking fox. Practically gift-wrapped for kidnapping.
Which means that, for the foreseeable future—at least until they finally leave the forest behind—Geralt spends an alarming amount of time stopping Jaskier from wandering off with suspiciously beautiful strangers, chasing impossible music, or following glowing lights that are very obviously a trap.
Jaskier insists he's perfectly capable of taking care of himself.
Geralt has already had to drag him away from three flower circles, two mysterious feasts, and one brook that kept calling him by name.
It's been less than a day.
goodnight beloved~
Just wanted to say this is one of my fav fanarts of all time
Yeah im bingqiu pilled rn so here are some sketches
15.10 - The Heroes’ Journey
he was gonna buy a magazine about pies. the cUTIE
#hm thinking thoughts about how this is when he’s been stripped of his main character plot armor #because chuck is trying to teach him and sam a lesson by “leaving them alone” or whatever #and then suddenly dean is buying recipe magazines at the convenience store #when we’re used to seeing him buy that shitty porn magazine #chuck temporarily cut the puppet strings and dean stopped doing the puppet things #thoughts thoughts thoughts (via @thevioletcaptain)
#s15 is a masterpiece #you can fight me idc #spn s15 #dean winchester character study #dean with free will is a cutie pie #pun intended #spn tag rant #don’t queue this cas (via @lazarusthirsting)
Every now and then on special occasions the Demon Emperor and the Lord of the Northern Desert take their husbands to the theater.
The first time had been a request from Shang Qinghua - Shen Qingqiu's presence included- and the demon lords had donned human disguises and accompanied them with no idea what they were getting themselves into.
Their human husbands had been perfectly composed and polite during the whole performance. The real show didn't start until they stopped to get some drinks after the showing.
"Alright you joyless curmudgeon, what did you think?" Shang Qinghua said.
Whereupon Shen Qingqiu unleashed an avalanche of expletive laced criticism directed at every aspect of the production before concluding. "It was fine I guess."
Then before either Demon Lord could recover Shen Qingqiu asked Shang Qinghua his thoughts.
Shang Qinghua's opinions are more forgiving but he does explain what he would have written- which is some of the raunchiest material either Demon has ever heard.
Shen Qingqiu then starts picking apart this hypothetical smutty version of the play and the pair of them keep going like that for hours.
It is the most entertaining thing Luo Binghe and Mobei Jun have ever seen. They both just sit in silence and watch their husbands' normal demeanors disappear as the two snipe at each other the whole night.
And when they finally get home both their husbands are eager to thank their husbands for the trip... Which is a bonus.
do you ever think about how one of the last things that ned ever hears is the sound of sansa crying and screaming.
happy pride
okay so spock (the alien in blue) essentially goes into heat. like literal heat like an animal. Anyway, spock’s in bloodlust in this episode and must go back to vulcan to have sex with his finace (or someone. but its supposed to be his fiance) or he’ll literally die. this is called pon farr and some backstory spock is half human and thought he wouldnt go through pon farr so he abandoned his HOT fiance to fuck around in space except oops pon farr happens so. he and kirk (in yellow getting his tits cut open, he’s also spocks captain and best friend) and their other friend mccoy go to vulcan so he can have sex with his fiance or get married or whatever so he doesn’t die. but then spock’s fiance (t’pring) is like no i dont want to marry spock i want to have him fight someone to death (which she can do) and spock at this point is fully in the ‘blood lust’ and is basically not in his right mind and doesnt get what’s happening. and t’pring picks kirk to be her ‘champion’ in the fight (her logic is that if spock dies in the fight she doesnt have to marry him and if kirk dies, spock will be so upset with her he won’t marry her anymore anyway). anyway kirk doesnt know that its a fight to the death and so he’s like of course i’ll do this fight if it’ll help spock and then he gets told it’s a fight to the death and he goes WHAT and right afterwards spock slices his titties open like in the gif. also eventually spock and kirk roll around in the sand and kirk fakes his death and THIS somehow knocks spock out of his blood lust and he goes back to the ship super sad bc he’s killed his ‘best friend’ only to discover kirk’s alive and we see one of his biggest smiles of the series (a big deal bc spock is vulcan and they dont show emotion). anyway this aired as the season opener in 1967. know your history and all that happy pride
star trek heritage post (June 1st, 2022)
i've said it before and i'll say it again, but it's really neat how similar wen ning's and lan xichen's rants (at jc or wwx respectively) are
a usually reserved and mild-mannered character
going apeshit for the first time
on behalf of their loved one
who, as they think, is being horribly mistreated by the target of their rant
(even though the loved one endured some great hardship for the sake of the target in the past)
and so despite knowing that the target isn't aware of their loved one's suffering
(and the speaker themselves being involved in inflicting that suffering)
"WELL THEY SHOULD FUCKING KNOW ABOUT IT, THEN"
they deliver the truth in the most accusational way possible
to make the target feel bad and leave their loved one alone and stop causing them harm
while, crucially, not knowing that the target cared about their loved one just as much
and, whether or not it was their goal or they just wanted to hit someone with a steel chair, resolve a decade-and-a-half old misunderstanding between the target and their loved one
"he'll never tell and you'll never ask, FINE THEN I'M DOING IT" is such a funny character motivation too. not their circus but they've had fucking enough of the monkeys
“You murdered my teacher! I will burn your palace to the ground!”
I’ve been re-reading the Immortals, and totally forgot that Daine gains the ability to control animal skeletons as well.
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