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You called "Faith of the Heart" a bad theme song but want me to retweet your missing sister?
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At their core, these people are bullies. The cruelty is the point.
In "Survival at Auschwitz," one of the most horrifying things Primo Levi recounts is the office girls chatting about makeup and vacations while working at a death camp with prisoners right there in the room.
That is the kind of person Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline is.
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i just think itd be funny if kittypets were a little more familiar to twoleg things such as: cars and bad words
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“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
— Carl Sagan
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Literally every neurodivergent person when somebody mentions their interest.
and here is his special little riding outfit:
Okay. but I feel like the necessary context of this scene is that that one officer that he's talking to is so incredibly boring that everyone is making excuses to not be at that reception.
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we have a government that posts spongebob memes as propaganda.
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on march 15th, the largest protest in serbia’s history took place in belgrade, with some estimates ranging between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people on the streets.
serbian students have been protesting since november of last year, following the collapse of the novi sad train station canopy and the subsequent attacks on students who were paying respects to the victims. universities across serbia have been shut down for more than four months, yet the students' demands remain unmet.
students and their supporters are facing intense pressure and repression—masked thugs are attacking protesters, personal information is being leaked in pro-government media, and teachers who have been on strike for months have received a salary of just around 2000 dinars (about 17 euros). on the day of the march 15th protest, authorities allegedly used a sonic weapon against the crowd.
state-controlled media is ramping up its propaganda, openly targeting the rector of the university of belgrade and protesters alike—most recently, with a bizarre film that ends in a guillotine.
so much has happened that it’s impossible to cover everything in one post. for further info, i recommend checking out the following links:
blokade.org masina.rs the breaking point this post youtube videos: how corruption kills fdu chronicles: from camp to assembly the 12th minute chameleon in a million years student led blockade in serbia
video by yaroslav bulavin
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Kira probably has, pound for pound, the best stories of any character in Star Trek. I mean, "Life Support" and "The Darkness and the Light" were kind of weak, but there are no real bad ones.
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When someone says they dislike NuTrek, I have a hard time believing that they dislike the Abrams movies, Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy AND Strange New Worlds, especially if they like all 6 classic series. Chances are they only watched part of one or two series from the NuTrek era and just gave up after that.
Yeah...I don't believe that it's possible to like both The Original Series and The Next Generation but not Strange New Worlds. Like, I'm sorry, they're all the same frigging series.
The thing is, if they ever end up doing Star Trek: Legacy--or any other series set less than a century or so after Picard season 3--then they're either going to need to pretend that the whole "Frontier Day massacre" thing didn't happen, or depict Starfleet as having been absolutely devastated and crewed primarily by badly traumatised wrecks of officers with thousand-yard stares; and I kind of think that this is an excellent reason why they shouldn't have included that plot point in the first place.
Every so often, I'll randomly remember that episode of Frasier where Niles is hosting a Halloween Party where everyone's supposed to go as a literary character and Roz dresses as O from The Story of O, and then whenever she has to explain who she is, people are like, "Oh!"
That lives rent-free in my head.
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Jenny Nicholson starting a feature-length video about Canadian church plays with "my recent fascination has been obscure Canadian church plays" & giving not one bit of further context or explanation of how and why she became fascinated with them, or even discovered them, is such a power move
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Tumblr is great because there are people who without a hint of irony will essentially say “being mean is a fundamental part of my ideology” and expect you to respect that
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"yet I'm still failing" yeah maybe because you're using a BLENDER to do your homework
on our news we had a segment about how schools are implementing AI courses so that students would know what they are, what the dangers are, and how to use it. And while I think that's fair considering this isn't going anywhere, the Estonian teacher who they interviewed made a really good point, paraphrasing: It can generate text that seems to be Estonian, but the sentence and text structure is heavily if not only based on English language rules, so it quite literally is not Estonian language that it puts out.
AI is essentially like a mimic of language, and that can be very dangerous for any and all languages that aren't English. and it also worries me because AI generated texts in English also don't feel like English. I can't judge the grammatical correctness of the sentence structures but they surely do not feel natural nor how people actually write/talk.
It's like auto-translating long texts on google translate, it just doesn't work, and you have to re-write the sentences from scratch so they feel natural so all in all it takes MORE time.
Even if you are ''bad'' at writing, if you have whatever reasons for why you ''can't'' write, writing your essays, copywriting and whatever else yourself is always more valuable and better for you than generating mimic texts that try to act like something they're not. If you aren't confident there's always people online who can spellcheck and help you write. People are more than willing to help if you just ask
I don't understand why academics stopped presenting their theories as dialogues; it's a versatile format, and a great deal more readable than essays or reports. Plus it lets you put your opponents' arguments into the mouths of demeaning caricatures. There's no downside!