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Hmmm but what if instead I just thought many words in a big circle that goes round and round and round and round again. Might that help?

the problem with writing (one of them) is that at some point you will get stuck. and you can do lots of things to get yourself unstuck, but no matter what, getting unstuck does require writing words again

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I’m the better worker, but when I was time for layoffs they kept the girl that doesn’t follow the regulations but goes drinking after work with the guys instead because everyone likes her even though she’s always gossiping about everyone. I don’t get it.

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A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books sold on Amazon, and academic journals. “A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”

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The amount of preparation, training, and support they’re given also matters. Did the parents leave them with all the materials they need for sandwiches or just tell them to feed their siblings and expect them to figure it out?

Has the parent put resources in place for emergencies? Has the child been told who to call if the situation exceeds what they’re comfortably able to manage?

What is the parent DOING during this time? Taking a family member to necessary medical apt? Working? Or just drinking with their own friends every weekend?

What’s the follow-through? When the parent returns are they checking in with the child? Asking not just how things went and what happened but how the child felt about it? Are they praising the child for what they did well and granting them credit and appreciation for what the parent was able to accomplish because the child managed things so well at home?

I do have a question for you, but before that I wanted to say I love your page and you do help me with seeing different sides of things.

Do you think the "parentification" of children is abuse? I've heard from people that see it as abuse because they're just kids, but from others I've heard it teaches responsibility and whatnot.

My parents used to have me watch my siblings and cousins a lot and even now I still babysit my sister, which I don't have a problem with because I'm almost 18. When I was around the age of 10, I was still tasked with watching her while parents went out, I had to cook at times, or clean the entirety of my house when in trouble (the house was 3 stories at the time).

I did just want a bit of insight and ask if that should be classified as abuse or not, thank you.

- @jennzworld

It depends on how often it's done.

It also depends on whether increased responsibilities come with increased rights. If they see you as both a child and an adult based on whichever is convenient at the time, then it's abuse.

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not aromantic but I believe in their beliefs.

"there's no platonic explanation for this" try harder bucko

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Read this aloud, brother laughed uproariously.

Me: you will never be the swiftest rider.

The Brother: 🙁

Me: you are six foot four and built like a lumberjack.

The Brother: 🥺

if ur gonna be pressed into service by your liege lord, u want to be the swiftest rider. get good at horses, because they're always sending the swiftest rider off to do some other shit that is, crucially, away from the battlefield. I'm telling u. when ur forces are outnumbered and the enemy legions show up with some unexpected advantage, someone in command is gonna say, "send the swiftest rider to alert the queen!!!" that's u. u want to be that guy

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Source

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You REALLY don’t want to know how much essential equipment at the airport is held together with zipties.

I’m positive this is not unique to airports. Deferred maintenance makes workplaces less safe, but zipties let us present a larger profit margin on our quarterly report, allowing us to qualify for more favorable loan rates.

The more I read into reports about industrial and transportation accidents the less I feel like “operator error” actually exists

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Beginning the process of marking: “prefer not to answer”. On all questions about my race, ethnicity and gender. As a cis white person I don’t need the protection of ambiguity, but I want that ambiguity to continue to exist as a shield to others.

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So Orchids really are that b*tchy prima ballerina who’s balancing on a razor edge between peak physical perfection and total psychological and physical collapse because she’s been pushing past her limits in pursuit of dance since she was a toddler and doesn’t know how else to live.

sometimes I forget orchids grow on trees and I’m like. oh.

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The Pink Parkor Paraplegic is my new hero

Okay okay okay so I’m changing like every recognizable detail of this for privacy purposes but yall need to appreciate this

So I know how to retain CCTV footage, right? It doesn’t come up everywhere but I know my way around- and if someone gets jumped in a parking lot or whatever I can go backwards and see whodunnit

So I’m at this one place, right? And I get a call that an older woman in a wheelchair got hurt somehow and we need to see what happened.

Nobody remembers the exact time, because of course not, but they tell me she was wearing like a massive hot pink jacket and she’s in a wheelchair and she left with a medic round 09:45ish, so I figure I’ll start there.

So I find the incident itself no problem, but they need ALL footage for liability and insurance and stuff, so I have to keep going

And about ten minutes backwards, I lose her. She comes into view past a single shelf on one of the worse cameras and vanishes.

like. VANISHES. Hot pink jacket, big bulky black chair, gonzo. No idea where she came from.

So, I pull up entry cams. Zoom backwards till I see her come in… at like 06:15.

THREE AND A HALF HOURS EARLIER.

So first off, this is gonna take me like two hours minimum to write down, forget retention. And I’m kind of dying in my soul a bit but I start over there, watching her come in and meander and whatever.

At about 08:30ish she disappears.

Doesn’t leave. Doesn’t head to a bathroom. Doesn’t take her coat off. Her trail just stops.

Now, I’ve done this before. Typically, a location only has the mandatory minimum amount of room for a chair or walker to get around, so a person using one can only go forwards and it’s hard to 180. That limits options and makes it easier to follow, whereas a little unattended and fully mobile kid will zoom around in circles and shit and go who the hell knows where.

Then I see her again on the other ass end of the building, and I have to go back again to see how she GOT there.

My guys.

Her two and three-point turns are INCREDIBLE.

She’s popping on the wheels, flip, zoom, she’s out somewhere I didn’t think she could even GET to. I’ve been planning my search for places that fit a wheelchair or least-resistance fast-paths from A to B and she’s like… doing some Tokyo Drift shit.

I don’t know WHY. The whole place is basically completely accessible so long as you put up with having to reverse, but no. No, she goes where she wants.

I’ve been at this for half the day, and I still have no idea where she went for like an hour and a half.

Fuck me, I’m taking a lunch break

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So very crash!