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Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

theconcealedweapon

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

tiny-space-whale

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

docholligay

Possibly my spiciest take is that it's actually good to have people you respect and like that have some dogshit takes.

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

LET'S ALL GO PISS ON THE POOR

084392

Some fans of certain media will comb thru all the canon material for their ship and be like "ohhh this is soooo much content we're being spoiled!!" and then you look over at them and *all* their content and its like

enbaluka-tokyo-drift

gondorrevealparty

baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them

josephbrassey

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

gudamor

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

aqueerkettleofish

For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."

Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.

Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.

Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.

The best part is the local city council's reaction.

And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.

mawofthemagnetar

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

beelzeballing

"the vocaloid community cant be THAT funny" here's kyounosuke yoshitate, voice provider of nekomura iroha, in the MIDDLE OF HIS VIDEO WHERE HE CAME OUT AS TRANS

i think about this so fucking often. its been 2 years and sometimes i still randomly go "i cant believe yoshitate kyounosuke used his fucking coming out to shill for iroha.... legend.... icon...."

alex-just-vibing

looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

dont care

what the actual fuck

dont care

ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

don't care

the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

alamogirl80

Reblogging for the absolute brutal accuracy of this comment

anachronic-cobra

And then you're like "fuck it, I'll make my own" and once you've done that you toss it into the goodwill bin to be someone else's prada or container of human teeth

mjrtaurus

And sometimes you gotta go with the container of human teeth purely out of morbid curiosity.

waterme-stories

The container of human teeth is what I was looking for specifically. If you must know.

cryptotheism

Can you feed me an exampleberry?

shamebats

infimace-blog

dead wife montage but it's a henchman reminiscing about da boss after he got put six feet under. picking flowers before hiding the bodies, wiping cocaine from your nose after a big night, that long drive down the beach to find the bookie who squealed. where did the days go

galileosballs

One of the subtle bullshits of students using AI to do assignments when they can't figure out how to do them themselves is that these students are robbing themselves of the experience of failure. You need to fail at least a little in life or you'll never learn how to get over failure.

(also doing so is very often caused by a completely unjustified fear of failing a course for failing one assignment, which could be alleviated immediately by reading the damn syllabus. Seriously, this thing is worth 2% of your total grade. It is not worth this level of anxiety. It's not worth cheating on)

fruityyamenrunner

there's lots of failure in life. i don't feel very sad at the idea that it is being avoided in this venue.

galileosballs

Respectfully, it is because life is full of failure that learning how to fail is so important. There is basically no better context than a small school assignment to learn this. The stakes are low - just a few points here or there, very small potatoes even in the extremely small-potatoes world of high school grades - but the student still feels like it matters.

And that's the combination you need to learn how to pick yourself up after fucking it up. It has to have really mattered to you, otherwise the first time you do fail at something that matters to you you'll go to pieces.

When you do a PhD, you find yourself surrounded by very smart people. Some of them have never failed an assignment in their life. Some of them failed and learned. You can tell who is who from how they react when the inevitable and constant failures of academic life start to hit them. I also see this amongst my students. Often, I'm the first person to ever give them a bad grade or call them on their obvious plagiarism. And those students can't handle it. Sometimes they stop coming to class entirely out of shame, which turns what would have been an extremely minor grade penalty into failing a whole class. My colleagues all say the same - university students right now lack the ability to bounce back from failure at a rate far higher than any past cohort.

Failure feels terrible. Especially when you really tried. But the only way forward is to keep trying and keep failing. The earlier a person learns that, the better.

maniculum

I mostly teach introductory English courses, so the majority of my students are in this demographic — born in the mid-to-late ‘00s & now at the beginning of their college career — and I can co-sign what OP is saying here.

This very semester, I had a student do EXACTLY what OP is describing. She turned in a very-obviously-AI-generated assignment, and I called her on it. The assignment in question was a 250-word reading response; all one had to do in order to get full credit was read an article & write a paragraph or two giving one’s thoughts on it. It was, in fact, worth exactly 2% of the semester grade. I didn’t even give her a zero — just sent her an email saying that she needed to redo it if she wanted credit, and that I’d have to put an official warning in the system if it happened again.

Kid completely crashed out. No response to the email, stopped showing up to class. Looked her up in the university system a week or two later — if a student misses a bunch of classes in a row, we’re supposed to file a “check up on this person please” thing — and saw a note from her advisor saying that she’d had a meeting with them where she discussed the possibility of withdrawing from the course because she didn’t know how to handle the AI issue. As it turned out later, she apparently decided instead to just refuse to deal with the whole thing at all: never returned to class, never emailed back, didn’t even withdraw — just ghosted.

As a result, yeah, a minor grade penalty that could easily have been made up turned into an F on her transcript. I don’t know if the issue was that she couldn’t handle a minor failure, or if the prospect of having to do all her reading / writing / research without leaning on AI was too daunting, but either way the outcome was the same.