I’m an educator, and we have the revision history extenstion in Google doc that allows us to see the document as it was written.

If large blocks of text suddenly appear, it indicates plagiarism.

Knowing your students and their lexicon, it’s unnecessary for most of us to use it though.

Most of the students that try to sneak AI struggle with writing to begin with, which makes it remarkably obvious when they try to pass off something that is not theirs.

It’s lightweight, open source, and does exactly what it’s supposed to.

I kind of legacyed my way into it. It was the first thing I grabbed after uTorrent went to hell decades ago.

What is the advantage of qbit over it?

Proton

It definitely seems to go against the spirit of how the company is being promoted.

They sell themselves as being user-oriented. There’s a million things these companies could do to make money off of your data, and this one claims to sacrifice all of that for the good of the user.

Now it turns out they are using shady anti-user marketing practices, which is almost to be expected for a for-profit company in this day and age. It does not align with a model that claims to have the user’s best interest at heart though, which is how they promote themselves.

I believe that was the year that many started to question. Jeffrey Bezos went from around 3 billion dollars net worth to nearly 9 billion in '07.

The e-readers, to my recollection, were still seen as novel, with The Nook and Barnes & Noble seeming like the obvious powerhouse.

I seem to recall Bill Gates being seen as the evil billionaire that siphoned everyone’s ire, while the other fledgling tech bros largely flew under the radar.

Hot take, but I feel like this is one of those bands whose live performance transcends anything they put to video.

I saw Billy Strings live, and it was almost a religious experience. The energy in that room was impossible to capture on film.

I imagine seeing Idles is a similar situation.

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

It is a bit lengthy, but it seems like each interaction is written around pithy wisdoms interwoven into the lives of interactions of the characters.

Each time it happens, it’s like stumbling upon on a gemstone by a river, and keeps me anticipating the next unfolding of the plot.

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Colbert Report was a pointed jab, and obvious satire. King of the Hill almost had a loving admiration in it, without the implied harsh critique or judgement that satire normally holds.

Having moved from an urban to a rural area, I can anecdotally say there is more to it than just education (though that certainly may be a factor).

Universities scare the conservative faction because they think they are hotbeds of indoctrination, but in reality, the openness people and new ideas occurs largely through socialization, not from any curriculum.

Rural areas rarely encounter that degree of interaction with that variety of backgrounds and beliefs. It is embarrassing to be ignorant of the outside world when you are socialized with so many people that seem to know more than you.

Once your mind is open to the wider world, a lot of the smaller beliefs have to be shed. I believe that is one of the reasons that one of the strongest variables associated with political persuasion is a university education.

It’s socialization, not indoctrination, and not just a matter of education.

For shits and giggles, from the ‘before times’:

Here’s the thing. You said a “jackdaw is a crow.” Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing. If you’re saying “crow family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people “call the black ones crows?” Let’s get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that’s not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you’d call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don’t. It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

Tunick’s case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border, which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter.

So do the laws apply at the border or not? If he has no constitutional rights because he’s supposedly not on U.S. soil, then he couldn’t be breaking U.S. law, since he technically isn’t there…

I’ve wanted to play souls-like, but still haven’t jumped into the genre. Definitely throwing my name in the ring for this one.

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