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Feeling like I’m not a terrible person.

Let me know if you happen to figure this one out, cause I don’t know.

As a teacher, I’m having a really rough time with it with my students.

Basically, almost everyone is using it. To a point where if I read a paper that I can tell WASN’T generated by Chat GPT, it’s almost an instant perfect. And that almost never happens (it hasn’t happened once yet this semester and I have about 60 students and we’re currently in the 2nd last week). But I can’t ethically give poor marks for just spitting out a ChatGPT generated report because I can’t prove without a doubt that it is, so instead I just mark it very strictly. My marking time has easily tripled, if not more, and my class averages have absolutely plummeted. I used to worry because before LLMs, my class averages were in the low 90’s, but now they’re in the low 70’s. I hate it.

I’ve tried changing things to make it more difficult for these students to cheat, but my curriculum is heavily regulated and wrapped tightly in red tape which makes it extremely difficult to make any meaningful changes.

The other, extremely frustrating side of it, is I am also in university myself. And this is a really prestigious university that was difficult to get into and keep up with (not like the school I teach at). And even now, at this crazy expensive school full of crazy smart people, I see almost all of my classmates using it to generate their reports. Its utterly depressing.

Just the fact that the students of today, who are literally supposed to be furthering human knowledge, who have the responsibility of generating the knowledge for these tools are instead just using them to regurgitate shit makes me feel like just general advancements will really slow down over the next couple of decades. Unless of course we figure out how to get genuine creativity out of them, which is its own mess.

The Herman Cain award made me sad. It’s people who are just the right mix of stubborn, alienated, uneducated, and gullible to dig their heels into something that really made no sense. And then dying because of it.

I wish I was smart enough to find a way to help them instead, but I always get too frustrated talking with them before I even begin to get close.

Buy a crap load of land in the middle of nowhere and build a cool house on it. Then offer to all my immediate family to buy them their own house, either pay off their current mortgages or build another one for them on the land whatever they’d prefer. Any money left over I’d use to build an accredited post-secondary school with free tuition for low income people. I’d balance the budget with investments so the school can reasonably run on it’s own for at least 100 years.

I was in highschool in the early 2000’s so it was all about controlling what the girls wore to “keep from distracting the boys” (literally how the rules were worded). No tight pants, no skirts, no low rise jeans, no tank tops, no open toes shoes, no colored shoe laces, etc etc.

I’ve been really into playing Hunt Showdown with my friends lately, the music in the game is incredible: https://youtu.be/QrdNjqm5N1Q

I also really love this song, but never played the game it’s from, it just popped up on my Spotify one day and became an instant favorite: https://youtu.be/o6ogevccd7w

There used to be a button to visit a random subreddit that I liked to use, until the day that I landed on the sub unironically dedicated to beating your wife/girlfriend. I saw one or two fucked up posts before I fully processed what I was looking at, that I don’t even feel comfortable detailing here because I would hate to trigger someone. Truly one of the darkest corners of the internet.

The post-secondary education system in my country is primarily an immigration pathway first, and an institute of higher learning second.

This is exactly what I do too, plus a tablet for quick notes or reading when I’m studying or somewhere a laptop might feel a bit excessive (basically anywhere that I need to be waiting for something).

I have two younger brothers (all in our 30s). I try to maintain a relationship with them, but it’s clear that we all live different lives. There isn’t any animosity at all and I care for them deeply and sometimes worry about them. We just all live in different towns and have our own lives and priorities right now. I’m trying to schedule a trip to the zoo with them next week, I think one might come but we’ll see.

I’m not sure how old you are, but I can say without a doubt that as an adult now, every single person I know is glad that their former relationships ended. Literally every single one.

I know right now it feels like “this is different” but trust me, it’s not. Everyone gets dumped, it happens, and it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you or them. Odds are you just weren’t great together. And I can absolutely, positively, guarantee that you will come out better for this in the end. It will be super tough, but it’ll be worth it.

For now, let yourself feel sad, mourn the loss of the relationship, lean on your friends, and take everything one day at a time. All of a sudden, it won’t hurt anymore and it’ll feel so, so, so much better. Like, life just stopped punching you in the face repeatedly better. It’ll be so relieving and that’s when you’ll really start to figure things out. Don’t try to rush it, it’s totally worth it.

And make bad art. Nothing makes good bad art like heartbreak.

I love this YouTube transcript, this is awesome!

Also, as a bi person, this is something I always appreciated about video games. I remember telling my friends about it in highschool and they didn’t believe me, it was like they didn’t even notice. And we were all pretty hardcore gamers.

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Sometimes I feel like the only person who doesn’t like Wes Anderson movies. I don’t understand it at all. Isle of Dogs was the only one I liked, but that one kind of goes against his typical style. I’ve otherwise watched Royal Tenenbaums, Darjeeling Limited, and Life Aquatic just to try and understand it and I didn’t like any of them (I don’t think I made it more than halfway through any of them). What am I missing and why does everyone love these movies? (This is a question in good faith, I genuinely want to know because I don’t get it)

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People will rarely remember what you said, but always remember how you made them feel.

“If you give someone enough rope, they eventually hang themselves”

Following this mantra has almost always worked out for me.

Okay thanks for the clarification!