Hey Darth Vader would likely let me live a drudge life pushing Emperial paperwork for funding breathing equipment. I would ask for a transfer to a do-nothing planet though. Vader seems to have too many explosions on his ship for my health insurance to manage.
These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/
Here's something I have noticed, front page search results all look like they were created specifically for your search question. Like they were written by middle schoolers who took a test question and turned it into the first sentence/topic of their low lexile answer.
You no longer land on a resource written last year or 10 years ago.
And the ads! Oh, the ads! Every four sentence paragraph begins and ends with an ad and most likely a floating video box.
Too true. Before LLM there were website farms just producing any old content based on the popular search results. No primary sources sited. Much of it pulled off of Wikipedia and LinkedIn articles at best.
Today is my 21st wedding anniversary. On our first wedding anniversary, we were pretty broke, so hubs made me homemade coupons for massages, but he spelled it wrong, so I got a handful of printed out coupons for 1 Hour of Messages. So, every year since I get something like this:
The most ridiculous thing about cop procedural shows is when they ask where a person was, and what they were doing at a specific time the person always has perfect and immediate recall. I'd be desperately trying to remember what day of the week that was, and trying to open my phone calendar. If I was the cop, I'd immediately be suspicious of the person who remembered exactly where they were and what they were doing.
Yep. I work a part time gig as a Standardized Patient. In my encounters with medical students I always hesitate on many questions to make it look like I have to work hard to come up with the answer.
When did my cough start?... Oh my... three weeks ago?.. Nope it was at least five weeks ago because I couldn't visit grandma because of it.... Scratch that, it was a good three months ago because my mom brought it up at the winter carnival & she was worried about it.
No patient can remember events from 20 years ago precisely. What were the events to lead to my appendix removal when I was 19? And I'm now 55? The trauma would make it all a blur.
I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?
It should be discussed. They should be read because it makes people uncomfortable. In reading HUCKLEBERRY FINN my teachers had us skip several chapters, the more racist and poorly written ones. As an adult I read them and felt they missed an opportunity for us to discuss how to think critically. We should learn to question our authors and thus our society at an early age. Both can be push fallacies. They should not be censored, but examined.
Too true about hateful, backwards thinking woodchuck parents. Teachers that want to teach critical thinking walk a fine line in the USA. Push too hard in either a stifling traditional atmosphere or in a forward thinking atmosphere and you're out of a job.
And yes, I've seen hippie style parents get upset when the progressive style of teaching is not correct for their little miracle. Can't teach Shakespeare because he presents the wrong values. Etc.
In H.S. I had an excellent English teacher when we read TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. We delved into the motivations, the background, the history of the time outside of the reading, and more. It did teach me to examine my beliefs and those of others during that time.
And yes. Most of education since the advent of Regents Exams to graduate (thanks to W. Bush) has caused more of an assembly line to be created from school to work.
I didn't realize until much later that I went to an excellent school compared to others my age. My grades were never good compared to my peers and I didn't realize until later that what I had learn back in the early 1980s was still more than what others in other public education systems were being taught.
My neighborhood was full of Boomers who were working in tech. They expected their kids to know language, literature, science, and math. They supported the schools.
It's been an amazing journey since I started toot.community. However, due to personal commitments, I'm stepping down. The community deserves undivided attention, which I can't provide anymore. So, I'm handing the reins over to the reliable hands of the Fedihosting Foundation (https://fedihosting.foundation). I have confidence they'll keep treating you the way you deserve.
I'm grateful for the connections I made here, and I'd like to thank you all for your support and trust in me. It means a lot. ❤️
I don't have experience but have heard from many that it is easy to over inflate with cartridges. The convenience does not outweigh the danger of not having a cartridge when you need one. A mini pump won't do that. Have you considered solid, flat free tires? A little extra weight and expense but an option.