reallllly feel like some of you have to start understanding people are sometimes going to make mistakes and not understand something and not know things and it’s going to slot them in a perfect place for you to scoff and call them problematic and evil and they’re not even going to know why.
every major structural social problem right now is basically “we don’t have enough skilled workers on the ground” and the reason is always “well we’ve been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits” and somehow the news always just mentions the “shortage” without digging into the cause
air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason
logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason
public transit can’t meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason
We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers… FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON
FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF
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Do you like it when some of the romanceable companions are straight/gay, or do you prefer it when they're all bi/pan?
it’s so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn’t work and it’s a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn’t a good way to learn, because it’s not really “artificial intelligence” so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don’t want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn’t work. it wouldn’t synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn’t know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.
i think one thing that’s been really helpful in keeping myself from using it is thinking about Why i have to do the specific assignments i have. like what is the actual goal. like some assignments the goal isn’t “share a story about parenting styles in ur personal life” so much as it is “show you understand the concept of parenting styles thru a story”. or it’s not “how do hormones impact teenagers’ decision making abilities” it’s “can you understand, reword, synthesize, and explain the information in the text and videos to explain how hormones impact teenagers’ decision making abilities”. and looking at it as “this assignment is asking me to read some words and then understand and explain them, which is a skill i want to have” rather than “i have to answer these stupid questions that seem really obvious because all my professors want me to die forever” has helped. especially in a world where everyone uses chatgpt i want to know how to read with my own brain
I think of Bloom’s Taxonomy with this kind of thing :3c It helps me get past the stage of “ugh you KNOW i know this though, why do i have to do this?” Because, remembering is the lowest form on the triangle, and by that, it’s like the simplest. Everything higher needs the previous skills. Kind of a cool chart for what OP described above, the understanding, the rewording, synthesizing, all these other skills that are being checked besides knowing/remembering.
(I personally can’t fathom why someone would go to college to outsource even the most basic steps of learning to a predictive slop machine, even as someone who skipped more assignments than I should have in my first years of uni. To me, it seems like they’re wasting their 10 minutes and at the end the true work of the assignment isn’t even done bc the prof wouldn’t like. know if they’re meeting the content or taxonomy level goals???? but what do i know)
Reblogging this. Remind me in five years when I’m a teacher that I need to be mindful of what and how I teach.
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Ahmed and his family are only trying to survive against the starvation that has taken all of Gaza by storm. Ahmed’s sister needs milk to feed her two small children, and Ahmed himself has even faintedfrom the hunger. Ahmed’s beloved cat has now diedof hunger.
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There is not enough food to go around. Those with food sell it at prices too steep for people in need to afford. Ahmed does not have much time. He and his family are already in critical condition from starvation and lack of shelter. He has already lost his cat, he cannot lose his family. He cannot lose his life.
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I’m just saying if Daniel Radcliffe, the literal protagonist of the Harry Potter franchise since the age of ten years old, was able to disavow JK Rowling and move on from the HP universe then actually what the fuck is anyone else’s excuse. There is no one else on the planet who can say their entire childhood was HP more than that guy and he still cared about trans people more than the average tumblr user who says “we’re protesting by making all her characters queer and trans!!” like you can do better. You should do better.
I don’t know exactly how to articulate this but… if you repeatedly show historical fiction women rejecting traditionally female skills/duties and doing swords instead, because swords is obviously the Most Important Thing, you are kind of implying that all the work that has been traditionally done by female hands for millennia was useless all along and not, you know, keeping civilization going. Because it’s usually rejected not as a personal preference but as This Is The Important Stuff (male work) and That is The Dumb Useless Stuff (women’s work) and that kind of bothers me. The message was supposed to be Vital But Underpaid and Underappreciated, not women’s work is insignificant so let’s all go do swords.
guy types out a rage filled response on the internet. but before posting it goes on a long walk to calm down. during his walk he gains a new appreciation for life and his role in it. he comes home, rereads his pending response, and clicks post.
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