Wow, that’s a lot more complicated than I would have expected!

Our system, although it’s basically the way it is because things change slowly here, kind of works for us. Between 16-18 here, you’re no longer in school, you go to college (different meaning than in the US!) or vocational training. It’s an in-between child and adult stage, where most people start doing grown-up things for the first time.

But isn’t the age of consent 18 in the US? How does that work?

In the UK you used to be able to get married at 16, but the age of consent is 16, so it kind of made sense.

I don’t know why you posted that image, but I’m glad you did. I didn’t know about Quasimodox before - they’re fantastic!

The main image on their landing page is of Makoto, my favourite SFIII:3S character, so that’s 100 points before even entering the site.

I think you’ve misunderstood the comparison with candy bars. Many medicines that health insurance companies charge through the nose for are sold for very little, sometimes pennies a dose, in other countries.

Insulin doesn’t actually cost that much to make. Two to four dollars a dose.

Paracetamol is dirt cheap. In the UK it can bought for as cheap as a penny a tablet, and that’s twenty times what it costs to make.

The insurance companies charge stupid prices for them though, despite them being of similar production costs as candy.

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I was amazed, but you can buy a “dinasour” colouring book, so maybe they’re right.

Dinasour Coloring Book

The Native Martians, obviously.

A student and/or a professor.

Which I’m happy enough with - I’ve had a taste of both, albeit with substantially fewer demon-related shenanigans.

In the linked article, MyMiniFactory say that they’ll ultimately be removing AI content from Thingiverse.

I’m in a tricky position here.

I use MyMiniFactory, have backed several frontiers things and am a member of a few tribes.

I also use Thingiverse a lot.

And while I certainly don’t want to pay for AI content, I don’t mind that much if it’s free. There have been times that I’ve looked for something for DnD and the only option was AI generated. And honestly, I’d much rather have that than no model at all.

I can’t see the video without an account, but the house in the thumbnail looks really good.

For DnD, my orcs all lived in a Tabletop Scenics Orc Barracks, but now I’m very tempted to try something like this for next time.

I’m more of a coin return man myself

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.