Inui

joined 11 months ago
[–] Inui@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Burger brained since 1986

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Before I went vegan, I had the idea to make a site that calculates the cost of Whoppers in your geographic area so you could say something like "I'm not buying this new game, I could get 27 Whoppers for that price" when your friends question why you pirate everything.

Technically still could but Impossible Whoppers are going to be a significantly worse ratio.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I agree with everything you said and just want to add a dismal example: the institution I work closely with essentially says that online courses have infinite capacity, so long as they can get enough TAs to cover expanding the class. Which they always can, because students are desperate for work that allows them any sort of flexibility for classes. This is especially true in the engineering department, where most of the resources are allocated. So you have 1 instructor who isn't trained in good online teaching methods with a class of 500 students, 1 course designer trying their best to help them but who ultimately can't enforce anything upon them if they choose to go against best practice, and 20 TAs actually grading your work that instructor never actually sees.

Some courses on Udemy are unironically better than college-level Computer Science courses when it comes to teaching methods, but lack any sort of feedback mechanism outside of things like code tests.

That situation is less dire for the humanities, but a lot of the same issues are present. Discussion forums are absolutely not a drop-in replacement for discussion and debate in a classroom setting, especially a small-group seminar where you're discussing the content very deeply with maybe 5 other people for several hours every other day. It's like comparing reading Hexbear posts to attending your local Marxist reading group. Yet it's the most common format you will find for online humanities courses. Read the material, post about it, maybe respond to a post about it, and take an exam or write an essay.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

spoilerShe kicked my ass in our duel because I was playing a Wizard and she went first and one-shot me. Then she held back because she said she didn't want to hurt me.
cri

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is the only thing I know about him, from Wikipedia, and I already hate him.

CW: Mentions of SA

spoilerPrevost has faced criticism from advocates for clergy abuse survivors regarding his handling of sexual abuse allegations during his leadership in the Augustinian order and in Peru. The advocacy group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) has alleged that Prevost failed to act against abuse claims involving Richard McGrath, a former president of Providence Catholic High School, allowing him to remain in his position despite longstanding accusations.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

ChatGPT is just one of many models. There's lots of other free commercial ones people can use like Claude and Gemini. But beyond that, people can now run AI locally and the really small but worse models (shorter memory, less training material) can run on lower end hardware. The genie is out of the bottle.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

I think that question every time I see them and haven't ever seen a confirmation if they actually are or if its a Margot Robbie bit

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would put some of this on the school because some colleges allow people to meet English language requirements just with things like Duolingo scores. Which would be ridiculous if I were trying to get into a university in just about any other country.

It leads to them struggling in all their classes since they can't comprehend the material, slowing things down for everyone else, taking extra resources in advising, tutoring, etc that is all trying to compensate for the lack of language skills instead of providing the actual service they were meant for.

All because the school is relentlessly pursuing inflated international tuition.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

B-but the swastika sword ...

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I had it in background for like an hour before I had to turn it off, but I got the cliff notes of the rest of it. Ethan is such an insufferable dumbass that if anyone told me they were a fan of his, I would start to question our relationship. They're all bottom feeder Destiny-types who belong in the gulag

Hasan called him racist during this 'debate' when he went off about "the Arabs", but typically treats him with kid gloves, as did iDubbz. To be fair though, just letting him talk lets everyone else see how full of shit he is. BadEmpanada is the only person who has interacted with him and called him what he is. A disgusting racist and zionist piece of shit, obsessive to a dangerous degree, a neglectful father, an abusive boss. Hila Klein is a terrorist and IOF mouthpiece.

I can't wait for him to get wiped from the internet.

EDIT: People are also too kind to Ethan's crew. They're all complicit at this point.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Everyone is either on Eden or Horizon now depending on your era preferences.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They could also just not post, because if I wanted a wrong answer from a robot, I'd have just asked the robot myself.

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