Enmanuel

Being in special Ed was wild man. I remember during an especially stressful year, the principal let me bring my damn Xbox 360 to school and during lunch I got to play it alone in the office. granted it was school appropriate games but I thought it was awesome at the time. Then when I read my documents from that time, their writings describe me like I was some sort of ticking time bomb they were delaying the explosion of. They legit thought without their intervention I would be a serial killer or something.

i just know the mixing engineers opened that file and had a heart attack

we all remember where we were.

This is so sad man

i just read the greatest sentence of my life

stuff like this sounds stupid until you turn like 23

This will sound like an obnoxious “only in New York thing” but randomly deciding to walk 6 miles home from work because it’s a nice day and you want some fresh air is really an amazing experience you can’t get anywhere else

Santa Barbara is beautiful but everyone who lives there is either a college student or 3 years away from a retirement home. Would be bored out of my mind after a beautiful summer

And, yes... my medical school colleague told me that students were formally protesting a class where they were assigned 80 pages in a week... in medical school.

The effects of this reduction in educational standards is cumulative. Students can't critically think? They can't connect between things? They can't solve problems? They seem to be quite mad? I'm not surprised. To put this in LLM terms: We literally aren't giving kids enough training data upon which to develop those skills.... and we are doing it increasingly over the entire course of their education. The madness is their version of hallucination. The 'Gen Z stare' may actually be reflective of a serious cognitive changes, folks, and one that should make us all concerned.

I coteach a class with a colleague.. but I am lead... for the past 15 years. I was discussing complaints from students and he pointed out that we have reduced the difficulty and load every 3 years or so since the beginning, and we probably have to stop. I agreed. But, the students were absolutely irate, and complained about how it left them no time to 'reflect'... a load about 30% less than when the course started. That is an objective decline in ability.

Another student who seemed really interested in history... confirmed he was... but doesn't read. He watches Youtube... ... which explained how the conversation went after when I pressed further.

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

off topic but a group of people really got together and decided this should be the s9 trailer and im supposed to trust them with gay eddie

@danielledsouzag But it’s the gays forcing their lifestyle on everyone.

@danielledsouzag I would’ve left!! It’s always the evil ones trying to talk about God.

Republicans: I wish LGBTQ people would stop shoving it in our faces Also Republicans:

Janet Jackson reveals her favourite kind of sushi is the Philadelphia roll: "I just love how it has that cream cheese."

perdón pero es 100 veces mas divertido tener amigos solteros con anécdotas bizarras de citas antes que los que estan de novios hace 45 años y siempre tienen el mismo problema desde que empezaron la relación