With respect, it sounds like you have no idea about the range of nonsense human students are capable of submitting even without AI.

I used to teach Software Dev at a university, and even at MSc level some of the submissions would have paled in comparison to even GPT3 output. That said, I didn’t have to deal with the AI problem myself. I taught just before LLMs came into their own - Textsynth had just come out, and I used to use it as an example of how unintentional bias in training data shapes the outputs.

While I no longer teach, I do still work in that space. Ironically the best way to catch AI papers these days is with another AI. This is included in the plagiarism-checking software, and breaks down where it detects suspicious passages and why it thinks they’re suspicious.

I think the biggest issue is that you’ve assumed everyone is the same and wants to be treated the same.

The world isn’t black and white. People are telling you their personal preferences and you’re telling them that they’re wrong.

You’re fighting other people’s battles for them even when they’re telling you that they’d prefer you not to - you’re literally acting like the guy in the last panel.

If there’s anything that we’ve learned over the last horrible year it’s that getting all of your information off social media is a recipe for disaster.

It’s a Christian tradition - four candles, one for each Sunday before Christmas. There’s often an extra one in the centre for Christmas day too.

Every week an extra candle is lit. Today, using the conventional method, three candles would be lit.

“I have approximate knowledge of many things”

I wish. Cursive is an absolute antipattern that only makes handwriting more difficult to read. There is a massive drop in legibility once children start to write joined up when compared to the year before.

I realise that it was a solution to the problems that old dip ink pens posed, but now everyone uses biros there’s really no need.

I realise things move slowly (I’m in my forties and had to use fountain pens for schoolwork, ballpoints were banned), but cursive is truly a relic of a bygone age, kept alive only by government mandate.

EDIT: I’ve just checked to see if it was still the case and it turns out that this year the UK government has released a revised Writing Framework. There is no longer a requirement for teaching cursive in primary school, and it actively advises teaching using pre-cursive letter forms.

Exactly this. My youngest (now 12) was taught letters in exactly this shape. It’s called “pre-cursive”, and is intended to ease the transition into writing joined up.

I didn’t get it, so looked to see if the answer was on other sites. Full credit to Tisha Bell on Facebook.

“if you notice, around a certain time, there stopped being villains and became more about breaking generational traumas, and believing in yourself”

I don’t know where they’re sitting, but I know I don’t like it.

Heterodexteral

Its clearly Seen Been.

Some religions.

At-will employment too.

“You’re nothing special - easily replaceable. I’m doing you a favour by letting you have this job.”

Basically anywhere where a power imbalance is an intended feature, not a necessary evil.

Dynamic typing issue?

1 + 2 = 12

12 + 3 = 15

Ellen - before she was a talk-show host, Ellen DeGeneres played the main character in an Emmy award-winning sitcom. The show had LGBT characters, with Ellen herself (both the character and actress) coming out later in the show’s run.

I’m surprised I’ve not seen Will & Grace mentioned (I’m sure it must be here, but I didn’t notice it). That show famously featured many LGBT characters, including a lesbian couple who were Will and Grace’s main rivals.

Less specifically for lesbian characters, but featuring a gay couple as main characters, you’ve also got The New Normal, a fantastic show about a gay couple that was cancelled after one season, and, of course Modern Family.

I wouldn’t say that this programme was good, but Brookside famously featured the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British TV (the watershed is the point, 9pm, where it’s assumed that children will no longer be watching TV). This was in 1994, when we still had backwards Conservative Party laws about it being illegal to “promote public discussion” of homosexuality. For context, it’s worth noting that even two years later, when Carol and Susan got married in Friends they didn’t kiss.

I’ve no problem with giving credit where credit’s due. A smile is a smile.

I’d much rather this type of advertising than the traditional exploitation of insecurities or false promises.

In the second semester they turn students Muslim, or at the very least some kind of Spanish.

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I’m sorry it came to this, but this is clearly the behaviour of a deviant. Expect a visit from officers who will escort you to an undisclosed location for reprogramming.

What’s your opinion on lengthening the word “no”?

I’m against it in all circumstances. Nothing ruins a dramatic moment in a comic than a character shouting “nooo!” - in my head it always rhymes with “moo”.

Thanks for replying to this. This is everything I would have said, except in a far less exasperated way than I would have said it!

I’m going to draw a line under it now though. I honestly don’t have energy to explain why a street-preacher who was active for a only a few years does not have the same quality of historical evidence as Cleopatra.

They’re either stupid or a troll. A quick look through their profile shows a lot of posts in Danish, so I don’t think they’re stupid. Scandinavia, however, is famously home to trolls of all shapes and sizes.

Well, I’m certainly glad that I wrote out all that, for you just to reply to the first paragraph!

Anyway, you’re wrong. Literally minimum effort required to dig these out, but I’ll do it for you anyway.

Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus

Annals by Tacitus

Antiquities has two mentions, along with a rather grim description of what Nero was doing to Christians. Annals has one mention.

And I think you’re fundamentaly mistaken about what the Bible is. It’s just a collection of works. The Old Testament is pretty much the same stuff as the Jewish Tanakh, and predates Jesus fairly significantly. The New Testament is composed of works created after Jesus’s death. This includes several letters by a guy named Paul.

“OK, and…”, I hear you say.

He was absolutely a contemporary of the historical Jesus, carried out missionary work after his conversion.

I’ll grant that there are no first-hand accounts - even Paul’s accounts were second-hand from people who actually knew Jesus. But it doesn’t mean anything - there are few first-hand accounts of anybody from before the early middle ages, let alone a commoner born 2000 years ago.