blarghly

@blarghly@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy A for me, except when i’m forced to write by hand.

  Okay - I’m sorry your nerd muscles were so weak you couldn’t even hold a pencil.

  But regardless of your personal shortcomings, these classes exist because they teach useful things, and if we want to tell others who did and did not learn those useful things in this class, we need a way to test that knowledge.

  Now, it seems like your point of view is that all the knowledge and experience of a university education is useless anyway. This is a point of view I have some sympathy towards, but on the whole I don’t think it is right. However, if you do, then why the fuck arent you filthy rich yet? If you know so well what people need to know to be successful and well educated for the next 30 years, and you think you know how they should learn, and you know how you can evaluate their abilities after receiving an education - then why aren’t you doing that and raking in the billions of dollars that go into university education right now?

  So go do that. Tell me when you make your first million. But until then, I’m gonna assume that the foundational western liberal education has value, seeing as it has persisted for quite a while. LLMs on the other hand, may very well turn out to be a fad of the summer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hexbear users are the rick and morty fanbase of lemmy instances⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Still better than the typical crap you see on reddit. I hate to say it, but the influx of normal/trashy people is worse than the bots. Gimme someone with enough independent thought to consider themselves a third wave communist or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to juggle in the park?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if you take “weird” to mean “abnormal”, then yes, it would be very weird. You will likely be the only person juggling in the park. But weird doesn’t mean bad - just different.

  On the other hand, your coworkers probably spend their lunch breaks eating McDonalds and scrolling IG in their cars. Juggling in the park sounds like a way better use of your time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are all very nice ideas, and we’ll see if they pan out in the future. But universities need ways to stop (or, fine, reduce) cheating that can be implemented right now. A class in English literature and composition should test how well you can read and interpret the source material to then express something about it in your own words in a coherent way. This is a useful life skill to have, and students should learn to do it without AI assistance. Giving them a pen and paper and a quiet room to work in has been a good enough method of assessment for at least the last 50 years which is reasonably cost effective.

  Yes, there are problems with standardized testing. Yes, you can cheat on a paper test. But the way to improve the evaluation process is to first establish a stable baseline, and then try new things that might work better to see if they actually work better. Not to throw out everything we knew before and haphazardly try every random idea that pops into someone’s head in a panic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this idea, but I also think that we should keep in mind that the time of university staff is expensive, and with the already outlandish cost of education we need to strike a balance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  perfect not being the enemy of the good and all that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But there was no necessity to move much of large scale manufacturing over […] rampant consumerism

  I mean, I’m not fan of rampant consumerism either, but a lot of manufactured goods legitimately improve quality of life. For example, iPhones are manufactured in China, and the low cost of manufacturing there allows the product to be sold to consumers for a relatively low price (I should also add that a lot of the components in an iPhone are actually manufactured in America because they require a skill that America has a competitive advantage in). If we insisted on keeping these manufacturing jobs in the US, iPhones would be much more expensive and fewer people would be able to afford one, and likely a foreign manufacturer would step in to fill the niche left.

  Sure, no country “needs” to offshore jobs - no country really “needs” to do anything. But if America wanted to remain economically competitive while providing a good quality of life to it’s citizens, then those low-skill auto manufacturing jobs that everyone is so whistful about 100% needed to go to lower skill markets.

  Most goods are not reasonable to spend government money on as well. That works great for medical goods and food, but not much else.

  Those are the goods I would suggest it is important to keep domestic manufacturing capacity for. Also military equipment, but we already do that… too well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Eeeeeeh… China was rapidly industrializing, and the low skill manufacturing jobs they took were going to leave the US anyway. While ensuring the rights of foreign workers is definitely something I support, it still wouldn’t have stymied the tidal shift in low skill labor to lcol nations.

  Ensuring a domestic supply of some goods is definitely important. But tariffs aren’t the answer here - instead, the answer is to support local industries by giving them government contracts to produce their goods, which the government can then use and/or stockpile when we aren’t in a time of crisis.

  And anyway, while a great amount of manufacturing labor went overseas in the last century, American has been reclaiming ground recently… with robots.

  Basically no matter how you split it, those high paying, low skill manufacturing jobs were never going to stick around for long. That’s just the forward march of technological progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, ya’know, they could just have students take tests on paper in a lecture hall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My constant refrain on all the internet relationship advice is “You see that essay you just wrote? Read it to your partner.” And this will resolve the problem in one way or another in 90% of cases.

  But then we also get a pretty hard selection bias as internet readers of relationship drama, in that in order for us to even know about the problem (1) it has to cause a significant emotional disturbance for OP, (2) OP has no source of trustworthy, levelheaded advice in their real life - which is already a bad start, (3) they think that the internet is the best place to go - another red flag, (4) they must be self-important enough to think their personal drama would warrant the attention of strangers, (5) the drama must be so juicy that it gets hoards of upvotes and comments so it reaches the front page, (6) it’s probably fake anyway.

  So for the 5000 upvote /r/relationshipadvice post “My Trump supporter boyfriend says our free-use sex life should include my 14 year old daughter, but my cousin (her father) disagrees” - the answer is definitely “Yes, you should break up, and also go to therapy, preferably in a mental institution.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your name is Punk Rock Sports Fan.

  Suppose a local punk band wants to inform people that they will be playing a show. So they print out some posters and hang them around town.

  That’s advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every new car park may have to be covered with solar panels [UK] | Solar canopies would be compulsory under proposals estimated to save £28,000 on electricity bills at an 80-space car park⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought is that this is dumb, since if this made actual financial sense, the car parks would already be doing this. So by creating an additional expense, what they are actually doing is disincentivizing the creating of car parks.

  My second thought was: “good”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, wtf? I’ve thrown around insulation so many times without gloves. No pain in my hands!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wear ear pro when I use my impact driver, especially in confined spaces. I don’t need to make my tinnitus worse than it already is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What would an “AI Class” even entail?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fine. Any detrimental effects are cumulative. Unless you are a serious DIYer or professional, you have nothing to worry about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb Begins Testing A New AI-Powered Customer Service Bot In The U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As an Airbnb host…

  fuuuuuuuuuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't be Evil⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They realized that cringe increases engagement via hate-sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia sources their information better than most journalists do in their articles.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This says… something… about you. But I couldn’t tell you what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The real inflation is on basic human interaction. We use to just be together and no one was trying to make money off of it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, more or less everything involves money. This is like when someone says “ugh, X isn’t political”, and then someone else points out that no, everything is political. If you want something that can’t just be picked up off the ground, then someone, somewhere is paying for it, in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The real inflation is on basic human interaction. We use to just be together and no one was trying to make money off of it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. You are limiting your ability to make things happen if you insist on making it free. If you just charge a fee, you can use it to pay a venue to host you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The real inflation is on basic human interaction. We use to just be together and no one was trying to make money off of it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, make your own club. It’s as simple as finding a space to do it, inviting your friends, and putting up some posters or whatever.

  But finding a space could be difficult. Many people find dancing, or especially learning to dance, in public spaces like parks to be uncomfortable. So you’ll need somewhere private, out of the public eye. You might be able to find space in a local school, library, community center, or church - but these places rarely seem to have a good vibe. Usually they have bad lighting, modernist architecture, lackluster sound systems (if they have any at all), and/or an odor that isn’t bad so much as it is vaguely off-putting. And just generally, they aren’t the sort of places where a vibrant young person wants to go to have a good time. So you probably need to find a private venue, like a bar with a spare back room. The bar might want to host you as a form of passive advertising and a way to get people in the door - but just as easily, they may want you to pay a fee for the inconvenience you cause them and for the use of their space. And fair enough - after all, they still need to make their rent.

  Then, you have to actually put on the event. Picking out music, getting a good vibe going, dealing with assholes and telling them to go away, getting the word out, responding to emails, finding people to cover for you when you just can’t make it this week, etc. At which point you realize that you are essentially working a part time job, so you might as well get paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Make America Greay Again': are MAGA monarchists?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not explicitly, since MAGA and Trump don’t have any real policy platforms. It’s not principles or ideas - it’s a vibe. Ask 10 Trump voters what Trump stands for and you’ll get 10 different answers.

  But certainly, at least some of Trump’s powerful and influential supporters want to move more towards a dictatorial style of government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk… seems like a drug reference, lol. The kid just isn’t cool enough to get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving a shit about recycling is mentally taxing. One of the worst parts of being poor is the mental strain of uncertainty inherent in your life which makes long-term planning and delaying gratification increasingly difficult. Any ounce of willpower you have needs to be spent maintaining or improving your situation, not used up doing things that have literally no impact on your life.

  This is why veganism is typically seen by poor people as an extravagant virtue signal of wealthy people. Poor people may choose to eat fewer animal products because they are expensive - but few would turn down a free well cooked steak. Caring about animal rights or the environment is something only the wealthy have the mental bandwidth to do - telling a poor person that they should do these things only serves to alienate them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dreaming Spanish, if you are trying to learn Spanish. I seriously think it is the future of language learning, bar none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, like, I think this is a bad move for Duolingo as a company, since their code quality will rapidly go downhill with the current state of AI generated code.

  But also, if you are a contract employee, you should be prepared to be let go at any moment. That’s sort of the whole point of being a contract employee - you are only employed for the contract. It isn’t unethical in anyway for a company to not rehire employees who knew up front that they might not be rehired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern problems require modern solutions...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  THEY’RE TURNING THE BAGELS GAY!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should naming your children stupid names be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Judged by whom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this something only introverts struggle with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but if they keep talking while the other person is trying to talk, that’s rude.