@bethanyshondark It is a thing. It's called auditing. No grades, assignments optional(?), just sitting in on a course to learn what you can.
But books are always an option too.
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3LandObserver ☦️
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3LandObserver ☦️
@3LandObserver
Southwestern Germany Katılım Kasım 2023
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I wish there was such a thing as college at 40. A chance to do it over, only this time we don’t take classes for credits and grades, but just to learn.
Maddie Rowley@Maddie_Rowley_
At 36, one of my biggest regrets is that I didn't pay as much attention to my undergraduate courses in 19th and 20th century literature and American lit. I was (and still am) really interested in ancient and medieval literature and while that's great, I think I would much better understand specific historical and literary references had I not skimmed, say, "The Brothers Karamazov." I did take a seminar on James Joyce and that was a doozy. I remember slogging through A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I'm trying to remedy this literary chasm of my own doing while chasing two young kids and working a full-time job. Last year I finished The Iliad and Gone With the Wind and I'm now listening to In Cold Blood on Audible and am reading The Count of Monte Cristo. It's a daunting task and I have lots of catching up to do, but it's a goal of mine to read the classics. Anyone else in a similar boat?
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@based_rowing Every job I've had in Germany or Switzerland paid me once a month!
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This should have no meaningful impact on your life and if it does then you need to considerably reevaluate your spending habits.
Jozu 🇵🇦@JozuJoestarr
this is my first time getting paid biweekly in my 8 years of blue collar work. genuinely how do y’all live like this?
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@tetsuo_cpp The LLMs all play Mad Libs when they're idle, but sometimes it breaks containment.
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I noticed that GPT models like to invent their own jargon when describing some concept in a codebase. Out of nowhere it’ll drop these super dense wordy terms like “cycle aware pinned buffer remapping” as if I’m supposed to know what that’s referring to.
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Federal jobs in the D.C. region are at their lowest level in 30 years.
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@TheBabylonBee Hey Bee, I showed this to my teenage daughter, and she wants to watch it, so you have to actually make it now.
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@politicalmath To be fair, $39.5 trillion now is probably worth about what $10 trillion was when you started.
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When I started this account, I was a deficit hawk and our debt was a measly $10 trillion
Kalshi@Kalshi
JUST IN: US national debt hits record $39.5 trillion
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@3LandObserver @xwanyex He is implying shooting and killing them is okay while retaining deniability when people push back. It’s his favorite tactic.
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@simongerman600 Hmmmm, what could it possibly be about the Netherlands and Denmark that leads so many people to cycle there?
GIF
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How common is cycling across major European cities? My beloved Munich does well within Germany but gets smoked by good old Groningen. Infrastructure matters. Better infrastructure leads to more cycling.
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@VigilantFox I would not want to be in Joe Biden's shoes at the Last Judgment.
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RFK Jr. reveals what HHS found when they went looking for the 375,000 migrant kids Biden lost.
"It's a huge, huge tragedy."
"One guy pretended to be the parent of 42 children. We have no idea what happened to those kids."
"We're now finding them. We found about 137,000 of them, but a lot of them you just can't find. There was about 60 kids who were sent to one address. When we looked at that address, it was a container, a steel container in the middle of a parking lot."
"A lot of them were sent to work at slaughterhouses and picking fruits in the fields. They were slaves."
"So we stopped that. Now everybody who comes in has to validate the relationship. We DNA test them to make sure they're related to that kid. Nobody gets a kid unless we know that is the kid's parent or relative."
"It's a huge, huge tragedy. My agency [under Biden] was the single biggest child trafficker in the world."
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@Y2SHAF One of these days we're going to have to stop launching a rocket full of water into the sun with every AI query.
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FIDE Laws of Chess:
"3.1.3 A piece is considered to attack a square even if this piece is constrained from moving to that square because it would then leave or place the king of its own colour under attack."
So according to FIDE the white king is, in fact, in check.
rcc.fide.com/fide-laws-of-c…
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@TN_House_ I prefer line-break-on-Enter, but either way, what's more important to me is that everything say in the UI which one it does.
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世の中のチャットツール、
「Enterで送信」なのか
「Enterで改行」なのか
そろそろ世界基準を決めてほしい。
絶対、毎日どこかで事故ってる。
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@ingelramdecoucy They don't go to church and they've gone no-contact with their families. Of course they're heavily committed to their political group. It's all they have left.
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It’s a problem, and has long been a problem, that Socialists are simply better at building physical communities to keep people connected and engaged than Conservatives. It’s easier because they’re by default more “group” oriented, but I do truly believe we need to figure this out
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@JSRavencroft @MikeNerdlaw @netflix I tell my kids they missed the Golden Age of Home Movie Watching.
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@MikeNerdlaw @netflix The mail-in Netflix was great. You were forced to choose wisely and live with the consequences of your decision. The waiting also added to the experience. In a way, it was better than streaming in the same way camping can be more fun than staying in a resort.
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@BattleByrd This is bizarre, but also brilliant. But also bizarre.
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If it's good enough for the roof it's good enough for the shower!
Easy money...
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@xwanyex We have two sinks in our main bathroom in Germany, and it's nice because you can have a favorite sink.
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I hate double sinks. I don’t ever want anybody getting ready at the same time as me.
Bobby Fijan@bobbyfijan
4 bathroom sinks in a 2BR apartment I just can’t get over that
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@pegobry_en How much more money did he get for pretending not to have written it?
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@3LandObserver Answer to your first question: a lot of moeny
Answer to your second: LOL
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Given that Matt Damon is a turbo-lib and Affleck has a trans kiddo, this might be as good a time as any to tell y’all that the story around Good Will Hunting is fake.
The scenario for Good Will Hunting was written by notorious Hollywood script doctor William Goldman, who also wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride, and All the President's Men.
Damon and Affleck were cast to play the part of the penniless screenwriters who made it in Hollywood by none other than Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein.
Good Will Hunting fit right into Miramax’s ‘90s recipe of making movies with broad audience appeal but enough veneer of intellectualism to win oscars (with vigorous campaigning).
One of the most striking aspects of the entire Weinstein fracas is that Damon and Affleck were never asked, not once, not even when they went on Rogan, what they knew when about Weinstein allegedly preying on movie starlets.
Affleck and Damon are ultra-wealthy and ultra-respected even though their entire career is built on a lie orchestrated by the most infamous conman and sex criminal in Hollywood history.
Slumdog_Chillionaire@SlumRNA_Dog
My boy Odysseus here, he’s wicked smaht
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@WhiteCurb @pegobry_en Did he get a bigger paycheck from writing the script and pretending not to than he would have from his name being on it?
And was it worth it for his career not having his name on that script?
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