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i hope im not just a mutual to you but also a "why the fuck am i following this guy again"

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episode [unreasonably high number] of a crazed madman connecting dots that don't exist: ratio? in amphoreus?

one of these poster things in the night version of the sky repeats the same phrase over and over, "foolish beyond reach". in chinese, it is 愚不可及。

you know who says 愚不可及 all the time? that's right

ratio's hit by heavy attack line in chinese is 愚不可及

now the problem is that it doesn't line up in english

the same line is instead "you fool" which is not identical to the phrase "foolish beyond reach" but you know what it's there in the original text and that's good enough for me

i think i need to give up on this clearly impossible quest and the best time to do so was several updates ago

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I'm sorry, professor, I consider publishing your course a day late, having a mandatory live zoom meeting during business hours to stay enrolled for an asynchronous class, and requiring students to use a $60 ***pdf*** that you wrote as their textbook to be exceptionally unprofessional and since I've still got 14 days to get a refund I'm totally not paying $150 to take your class.

Also, for all the newbie professors out there: a syllabus is not just a greeting and a list of assignments. If you haven't given your students AT LEAST your office hours, your late work policy, and your preferred method of being contacted, then you have not given your students a syllabus it's just sparkling announcements.

But really. Sir. SIR. You teach Speech 100. This is one of the most basic classes with like, 20 of the most widely available accepted textbooks and you want me to pay sixty dollars for a pdf of a book that you rewrite every semester so that there are no previous editions?

Buddy this is interpersonal communication, not introductory rhetoric. Why is one of your *four* total assignments about Socrates?

Maybe it's the fact that I've taken Spch 100 interpersonal communication three times already, maybe it's the fact that I grew up with somebody who taught Spch 100 interpersonal communication from 1981 to 2018, but buddy what the fuck are you doing?

"Some of our lectures will only be available for 24 hours so it is up to you to stay on top of it."

Friend, you are teaching an asynchronous online 100-level class at a community college during a pandemic. Get off your high horse, a third of your students are probably parents. There is no reason whatsoever to limit access to course materials to 24 hours unless you are doing it to be a controlling asshole.

Also YOU published your class a day and a half late! You don't get to publish your class late with an incomplete syllabus and tell students to "stay on top of it." Especially not since that means that people have two fewer days to buy your PDF textbook and only one full day to prepare for your mandatory 1pm on a Tuesday zoom meeting!

Why do you require me to have access to a printer for an online class? Oh yeah it's because you expect me to print out and draw on sections of your $60 ebook.

SIR. No thank you.

Kids, new students: this is a level of bullshit and disorganization from a professor that you do not have to put up with. This is a neatly ordered series of red flags that say "this professor is going to be absolutely unbearable."

Also *any* humanities class where your whole grade is 4 assignments should get serious side-eye. You should be able to pass most 100 level humanities classes by just turning in weekly assignments. 4 assignments means that by the time you figure out how the professor grades you're probably close to halfway through the class. Look for classes that require weekly participation as a major chunk of the grade because that way, even if you fuck up a project in a major way, just showing up can save your ass.

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i fear some of you forget that the destiel queerbait went on for TWLEVE (12) years which is why it’s actually not comparable to whatever ship you’re pretending it’s comparable to

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People in the UK especially, please don't give your ID to Spotify

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Phaidei Edition because they're taking over my brain,

Other Parts: First / Second / Third

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I went to a conference today and I had one of the fakest sounding experiences of my life. I want to share it but I feel I have to make a shitty comic in ms paint or something because I'm not sure how to recount it in text post format

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i love gaboon vipers why do they move like that

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John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.

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Watching Stye removals from people’s eyeballs bc of a mini video lesson my professor put out and it’s just like

Wow

Eyes can make tiny rocks that turn into eye pimples. Basically.

Please never let this happen to me (but also I wanna remove one)

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this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz

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My daughter has decided that our cat has to pick her cereal for her in the morning now. Why?? "He knows what I like"

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Exactly!!

I really struggle with combat pacing, but I do have dice and a nice gridded mat that I can test things out on and it helps so much!!

Why is writing combat Lowkey like planning D&D encounters???

This is literally my new favorite writing hack- just create an encounter table of potential enemies??? It makes explorative encounters in your writing feel extremely natural-

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That was Dale Gribble

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The lion does not concern itself with the bank account balance when a little treat is calling