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@ Arcanepotato @crazypeople.online

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Like if your vegan anarchist grandma and vegan anarchist dad were the same person.

I am an engineer (closer to toot toot then clicky clacky) cosplaying as a farmer in unceded aninstanabe territory in eastern ontario.

Pronouns: she/they

Maybe the real vegan theory club were the friends we made along the way ✨

  • PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances.

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  • Not sure what any of this has to do with discrimination?

    I don't even know what this Tesseract is

    Oh I see

  • Tesseract hides any post containing the phrase "censoring me"

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  • Lmao right? LLM learned to from somewhere.

  • [Serious] What is the expected result of kicking out and rejecting all immigrants?

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  • They don't mean it. They just want someone for the working class to blame. They need immigrants to work for cheap and to only be here during their "productive" years and they need someone to blame for low wages and lack of local jobs.

    Who is paying them under the table? Doesn't that mean they are not paying their share of payroll taxes, wsib etc? Why not crack down on this?

    Who let them into the country? Was it because they couldn't find local people willing to take low paying jobs? This takes both the company and the government to make happen.

    Will off shoring end? Not likely...

    Will foreign companies be discouraged from investing in the country? Absolutely not.

    If there is no one for the poorest and most exploited working class american to feel superior to, will he continue to buy into the 'american dream'?

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  • What in tarnation

  • Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees

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  • Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees

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  • Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees

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  • People should continue to vote for folks who do fuck all to stop bad things? Because they are better than those who do the bad things?

  • Friends claim influencer injected himself with gold to gain “superhuman” powers before his death

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  • Wow it's almost like parasocial relationships (that are part of why social media is so addictive) harm vulnerable people.

  • Trust no one not even yourself

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  • Okay so sit down...

    Xenophobia is a tool to divide the working class and buy complacency of certain groups in exchange for being told they are special or more worthy than others.

    It is also used to create scapegoats for the harms caused by the capitalists.

    Once you understand that you can see why people having solidarity with marginalized groups they don't belong to isn't virtue signaling, it's the only path forward.

  • Trust no one not even yourself

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  • A Russian and an American get on a plane in Moscow and get to talking.

    The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and he's on his way to go learn American propaganda techniques.

    "What American propaganda techniques?" asks the American.

    "Exactly," the Russian replies.

  • Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees

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  • Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees

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  • It's almost like the ability to do it was there all along and people choose not to do and then tell you they can't 🤷‍♀️

  • Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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  • It was standard practice, I'm just expressing how hard it was for me as someone with disabilities.

  • Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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  • Math classes never allowed calculators, not because they were some sort of unfair advantage, but because if you somehow became reliant on it, it would hamper your ability to learn how to solve the problem.

    I really don't get this logic. Calculators don't solve problems they do arithmetic and make it so you don't need to cry because you can't remember the fucking unit square and your masochist calc prof wants you to do trig operations without a calculator.

    If you are learning to solve expressions, then sure it makes sense to limit calculator use. I still hate it because I did poorly in math until we stopped using numbers all together and then I ✨ thrived ✨.

  • Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

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  • How do you control for things like never having written an in person exam before, panic from last minute change, etc? Learning to write tests is a skill, especially in university. I assume it was pen and paper? I write by hand quite a bit still, but I'm sure I would struggle. I don't think I form thoughts the way I used to. I mostly start typing the go back and rearrange it, etc.

    I don't object to in person exams but maybe the kindest approach is to do it from the start of the semester.

    I sometimes wonder if people forget how short youth is. I truly don't think they are lazy or dishonest. I think they have failed by so many adults in so many different ways. I can't imagine the mixed messages they are getting about how AI is going to do the things for us and it's going to make a lot of the old skills we have useless but then they have to learn the 'old' ways anyhow. If they are in their 20s they are absolutely looking to the older folks for confirmation on things they haven't experienced. I don't think we are doing a great job of explaining why the old skills are still needed.

    The cheating part feels like maybe there have been no consequences so they think it's not a big deal? Again, you can't just tell them "don't cheat" if there is no explaining why and you don't enforce it. I know online exams were a COVID thing but I'm honestly surprised we didn't transition back, with accommodations for people who need them. You can't just give them tests they can do with no proctor, and on a computer that can access AI and expect them to think you take this seriously.

  • [Serious] What are some advantages of being over 40 years old and getting older?

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  • The respect thing confused me so much. Then realizing the wrong response is to list all the ways you are not worthy of the respect or confidence that is placed in you.

    "What other people think of me is none of my business" goes both ways lol

  • [Serious] What are some advantages of being over 40 years old and getting older?

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    • Being less dependent on pleasing other people allowed me to rest better.
    • I can survive on less money because I have paid off student debt and have good benefits
    • Getting to know my partner more. Every day we are getting better at being partners.
    • A lot less FOMO. I know I will not enjoy going to a big party. I can enjoy a quiet evening without feeling regret.
    • My overall life experiences make it easier for me to pick up (some) new skills. I can see how what I learned about geometry helps me be a better potter.
    • I feel more comfortable letting things go because I have experience that it won't matter to me in a day or week. Do that a 1000+ times and it will stick 😅
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  • I don't understand? I did use the correct words according to how I speak english. It's not possible to always avoid misunderstanding because there are so many different dialects, so I'm happy to clarify my meaning. It doesn't make the first way wrong?

    I don't know what a sock puppet is?

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  • The use of the word feel in the phrase "I feel like" when it proceeds the description of a recollection should be read as "my recollection is".

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the term bourgeois originated in medieval France, where it denoted an inhabitant of a walled town

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    Monarchists: can you explain the appeal?

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    What is your personal threshold for being grossed out by owning an object that was once part of a living being, and why?