Yeah I think that’s it — more in the vein of if something’s worth your time, you will be absorbed in it.

Restiform Bodies — 3rd Reel Judy Garland

My guess is they’re cheaper and there’s just so much pressure to add more things to your CV. “Publish or perish” as the also-predatory and exploitative Academy says.

No shit, that’s why HelloFresh is sending me ads in my name a week after I moved

“is understood to have told friends”

You heard it reportedly 3rd hand here first, folks.

32% of polled Americans who will admit it out loud, mind you. That number is absolutely higher. Pew Research found 43% of American adults trust Fox News and they trounce other cable news channels by a long shot. We ain’t never gonna make it.

With the very crayons they ate

100% and it varies on the institution. I was given test and transfer credit counting towards overall hours, but not replacing requirements for upper division courses. Often the mandatory lower division classes are “weed outs” to streamline the students who will major, since programs can’t handle more than a certain number.

Really proud of you for going back to school OP — best wishes.

Just one more day of medication overuse migraine bro, I promise

“In summary, this airman, although talented, will not be guided by policy.”

The RNC kumite

You know what, it was the n+1 piece! Thank you!

There’s a NYT article somewhere, and I’ve been desperately trying to find it, about a woman who worked as some kind of real estate(?) call center AI augmenter. Essentially people would call in about listings or something, and she had to step in when the AI went off the tracks or didn’t know how to answer questions, matching its tone/inflection while refusing to acknowledge that there was a human stepping in. She ended up being super burnt out from the job. So the whole system was just super redundant, awful for the people working there, and as we’ve come to expect from AI, just a half-baked turd sold to some MBAs for a mint.

Edit: it was a n+1 piece, thanks @Tikiporch@lemmy.world

I know this is a cop-out because of the vast number of other improvements to devices and infrastructure, but I really liked having a seemingly indestructible phone with a removable 10-day battery and an absolute death grip on that 2g/3g network.

Unfortunately he’s shown that he can handle one tree. I suggest doubling it.

Yup, the whole “you have no legitimacy, except for the legitimacy which I grant you and fear, because I reject it for not existing”

They were so mad about a black man as president that a black woman will just bring out the misogynistic element along with the racism. It’s nothing new. Ask your local republican how they feel about Whoopi Goldberg for practice.

I tried putting off state and local election stuff until a canvasser came to the door last week and asked about public education funding, because the republican chain all the way up in this state wants nothing but charter schools (along with turning this place into even more of a cesspit). I would’ve found out closer to November, but now it’s going to haunt me for months instead of weeks.

Solution: ipad starts to swivel, do a 360 and walk away

SOMA. Duplicating consciousness across multiple bodies and the branching off of one particular conscious mind to carry the narrative while the others were left behind was a fascinating concept for a game to engage with. Plus the atmosphere was a sublime nightmare.