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The grades came out for my second essay and the teacher said that six people in class were failed for using AI or copying work. That's one third of the class! How do people still fall for this AI crap?
 
The grades came out for my second essay and the teacher said that six people in class were failed for using AI or copying work. That's one third of the class! How do people still fall for this AI crap?
Well, from my personal observation, people don't fall into using AI to cheat on their assignments because they're gullible or stupid. They do it because it's easy, because the assignment isn't a priority in their lives, because they haven't been convinced that it should be a priority in their lives. It is my personal conviction that the AI plague in schools speaks to a lot of deep-rooted, fundamental issues with the way our society thinks about and structures education.
 
The grades came out for my second essay and the teacher said that six people in class were failed for using AI or copying work. That's one third of the class! How do people still fall for this AI crap?

I think one problem is that schools they don't teach students well on what they're supposed to learn, or even whether it would be actually important to them.
But because grades are important to them to get into a good college/university, they would have to get these grades by any means necessary, which can include AI. Not to mention that schools are limited in what they're teaching would end up limiting the student's knowledge and choices on what they wanna be rather than the set choices that schools and universities provide, even if said students aren't interested in it.
If they were studying for something that they liked, they wouldn't have to use AI and think critically for themselves.
 
on the topic of ads, here is an ad from saturn (the short-lived GM branch that was meant to compete with japanese companies) which feels less like a car ad and more like an ad against car-centric infrastructure
 
Man... am I tired of the same rhetoric about modern pokemon games. being repeated over and over again. It's like EVERY TIME, the conversation in a discord server shifts to pokemon the same three things are said!ZA BAD! GAMEFREAK LAZY LOL MULTIBILLION DOLLAR FRANCHISE, 1000 million soldiers dead!!
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WINDOWS!
this release cycle reminds me of why I hate the pokemon fanbase
 
pokemon fans love to repeat the same points over and over again with each release, only to keep buying and playing the games. if you hate modern pokemon so much, surely you wouldve disengaged with it by this point. for the record, i understand and sympathize with the haters, since there are a lot of issues, but like, every mainline mons game is at worst a 6/10 tbh, so idk why people act like modern stuff are dogshit games
 
I never used twitch and I feel like I read about some headline about how the site did something horrible and awful but people never stop using it
 
I made a US map that reduces the number of states and had fun. I brought it down to 32 states I felt were reasonable. Couldn't justify paring down more to myself. Curious what people think about it.

My Requirements
1) Only merges, no changing borders around more granularly.
2) New states should make sense geographically.
- No merging disconnected states.
- No gerrymander-style wacky shapes.
- Traveling from one state to the other shouldn't be a huge pain.
3) New states should make sense in culture/vibes ways.
- Like, I'm definitely not reuniting the Virginias here, just because they were together 150 years ago.

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I identify new states by the primary city in their borders.

West (4):
Seattle State
California
Nevada
Phoenix State

Far West (2):
Alaska
Hawai'i

Mountain West (4):
Boise State
Utah
Colorado
Sioux Falls State

Midwest (5):
Omaha State
Twin Cities State
Chicago State
Michigan
Columbus State

Heartland (3)
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas

Deep South (4):
Texas
Louisiana
Atlanta State
Florida

Appalachia and Lehigh (3):
Nashville State
West Virginia
Pennsylvania

Mid-Atlantic (3):
Charlotte State
District of Columbia
Baltimore State

Big New England (4)
New York
New Jersey
Boston State
Manchester State

Heres my take on the east coast, having lived in 4 of the east coast states and traveled through all of them

New England should all be 1, they root for the same sports teams (except for the very southern corner of CT, they are NY sports fans) and all identify as New Englanders culturally.
If you wanted to break it up then NH and MA should be together, the majority of their populations is in and around the Boston metro area. They also share an Ivy league rivalry of Harvard v Dartmouth. Lots of people travel between northern MA and southern NH. Not much travel between Maine and NH because its so sparsely populated in that boarder area.
VT shares a very small boarder with MA, and their centers of population are far apart, VT is more like north east NY, but I would keep all New England together.

MD and VA should be together, both blue states whose largest populations are in the DC-Baltimore metro area. Both have lots of commuting and travel into DC and the DMV region. I'd keep Delaware with them too.

Northern NC and Southern VA are sparely populated, not a lot of travel between. Overall VA doesnt feel like the real south, NC definitely does. VA is firmly a blue state now, NC is purple but more red than blue. So I'd break them up.
The Carolinas share a lot in common and should be together. Parts of SC are part of the Charlotte metro, so lots of cross board travel in that area. Myrtle Beach SC is a popular destination for people in NC to travel to when going to the beach. Both red states. SC and NC have both attracted a lot of retirees from up north because of low taxes, mild winters, and lots of golf courses. Other parts of the south (except FL) attract less northerners, no one from up north wants to move or even visit to Mississippi or Alabama, but they will go to the Carolinas.

LA could fit in with the deep south of GA, MS, AL since they share a lot of college rivalries and are similar culturally especially southern MS and AL around the gulf coast.
 
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