HELL YEAH FUCK HIM UP YOUR HONOR
this cannot be real im losing my mind
you're lucky I can't find that tweet saying that Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was fat for a season to hide that his actor was pregnant
found out today that the “no don’t [action] your so sexy aha” meme is, in fact, NOT well known outside of internet circles and you should not just Say That to an unsuspecting coworker
good to know. you took one for the team
the people arguing with me about this are funny to me, he is from the southern most region of hyrule working on a farm and also the only guy in the province wearing eyeliner and spiky hair. he is also secretly a dark beast
The AI issue is what happens when you raise generation after generation of people to not respect the arts. This is what happens when a person who wants to major in theatre, or English lit, or any other creative major gets the response, "And what are you going to do with that?" or "Good luck getting a job!"
You get tech bros who think it's easy. They don't know the blood, sweat, and tears that go into a creative endeavor because they were taught to completely disregard that kind of labor. They think they can just code it away.
That's (one of the reasons) why we're in this mess.
Important tags!! vvv
Do... they... not force you to take ethics with your coding classes anymore?????
I had an ethics class one semester each year when I was in uni, and that was only like.... 12 years ago?
Fucking hell the (lack of) education in the capitalist world never ceases to distress me
Ethics classes in STEM are the exception, not the norm. My college certainly didn't require them for any STEM major.
Wow I HATE learning this, but it certainly explains all the people who apparently can't tell when their clients/coworkers are nazis.
Oh boy. Oof.
i tend to be cautious about bothering cats but I think it's important to remember that some pretty extreme cat bothering is still within the typical bounds of cat social life
Currently sat in a summer school type thing we're hosting in work and some English architect is telling us about sustainable design in Wales, except she hasn't bothered learning a single Welsh name and if I have to listen to one more "I don't know how to say 'Welsh name' so I'm going to use 'shitty English name/nothing while laughing at it' I'm going to throw this slanty drawing desk at her head
Spot the unforced errors:
"Wales has three national parks. There's the one I can't pronounce so I'm going to say Brecon Beacons, there's Pembrokeshire Coast, and there's Snowdonia."
Said with that lil laugh English people do when they say this stuff, because they think they're being funny and charming in a 'what am I like' way rather than disrespectful and arrogant as fuck
"This one is by a reservoir in Gwent I can say, tee hee! Landy something, but-"
Me: Llandegfedd
Her: uh... yes, so difficult! Tee hee!
FUCK OFF
"This one is called... Um... I don't know how to say it tee hee!"
Me: Ysgir.
Her: I'm so bad at Welsh haha
YOU ARE DELIVERING A THREE QUARTER HOUR LECTURE TO WELSH STUDENTS IN WALES ABOUT WELSH INFRASTRUCTURE
YOU HAVE MULTIPLE WELSH SPEAKING COLLEAGUES CRAWLING OUT OF THE WOODWORK WHO COULD HAVE TOLD YOU
LEARNING TO PRONOUNCE THE PLACES SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRIORITY ONE YOU ARROGANT BITCH
Like listen. LISTEN. I know this is entirely normal. I know this is so exceptionally common that about 80% of English people do it, I know they think it's funny, I know they don't even see there's a problem, I know I'm basically kicking off at rain in a wet country. I don't know why this extremely normal and commonplace occurrence is nettling me this much today.
But last year, I gave a lecture on grassland management. As part of it, I told the students about the ngitili silvipastoral systems in Tanzania. I am in no way saying I'm perfect!!! I am not a template to be copied!!! But ahead of that lecture, I scoured YouTube until I found a video of an indigenous person in Tanzania talking about the system!!! And I listened to how they pronounced it, and I memorised it, and then I even wrote out the phonetic pronunciation on the slide so my students could learn too, because not bothering to learn that while then presenting myself as an authority on the subject would have been grossly appropriative and colonialist and also plain fucking rude.
And none of those students were Tanzanian for me to insult to their faces
