Bleep Bleep Bloop

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
raychleadele
tdjackson12
theodysseyofhomer

odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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oh, you meant they literally did, ok

theodysseyofhomer

would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?

tdjackson12
thehungrycity

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bonecouch

what made them think it was always right?

smoqueen

they are stupid

atalana

orrrrr they just grew up in this tech focused privacy lacking world

current university students, assuming they went to university at 18 (which would be most of the first years) were maybe 4 when smartphones got popular? the world they have grown up with is one where apps are the only way one interacts with technology, where social media increasingly demands personal information, where someone who refuses to go along with those norms automatically has something to hide, which means everyone polices themselves as if their every fashion choice or sentence structure is subject to judge and jury, because it is

we live in an age which discourages asking questions, where every question is met with offense and "just google it", while google itself fills its entire first page with ads and misinformation

and tumblr is the only place i've seen critique chatgpt. i've had windows 11 (which every laptop comes with these days) advertise chatgpt to me as a search engine

it's not a search engine. frankly, google hardly counts as one either these days. but if you're not surrounded by people telling you chatgpt is bad and fake, how are you supposed to know? when your computer and your phone and your relatives who don't know much more about technology than you all think it's a search engine with a voice, it wouldn't occur to you that all of them are wrong

and they're clearly not stupid! that's the point of this as an exercise - their teacher is telling them for the first time that chatgpt might be wrong. your job is to find out if chatgpt is wrong. and they did the assignment! they had a reason for the first time to question chatgpt, and all of them came to the conclusion that yeah, it is lying to us, and so is everyone else who said it was always right

and they'll go forward now not only knowing they can't blindly trust what computers tell them, but they'll spread that message around, which will decrease misinformation on a bunch of levels

this was a win for the students and a win for the teacher, i think an exercise like this should be mandatory in all schools if we ever hope to combat where technology's going these days

megpie71
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Cars and Independence

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elodieunderglass

Raising kids in a walkable town really underscores the inconvenience and dependence of cars as well. The reality really is completely opposite from the belief. It’s hard to really get across that using a car is a barrier/limiting factor when you have babies and small children. And it’s hard to get across what a much higher quality of life you have when the stuff you access most often - daycare, school, train station, coffee shops, toddler groups - is within a ten-minute walk, so you just wrap the baby in a carrier, fall into step with a friend and go do it. I think that car-centered parents in America are living a much harder and more isolated life, and I’m sure it ripples outward from there. I think that the children in turn have more independence, more relationships, more control, more feeling of ownership of the spaces they move through.

megpie71

I'll put it this way: when we were staying with my in-laws briefly, I was able to get out of the house easily, and access the main shopping area near us due to a combination of good public transport, and easy access to same (free bus just across the road which came around about once every half-hour). Meanwhile, our car (which I shared with my partner at the time) was parked across the road as well. But it was more convenient to catch the bus, because all that needed me to do was take a couple of shopping bags with me, and hop off the bus when it got to the destination. When I was finished, I just found the nearest bus stop, and waited for the bus again, and it dropped me off within easy walking distance of home. Whereas taking the car meant getting the car out of the parking spot we had it in, driving into town, finding another parking spot and paying for it, getting the shopping done with a time constraint (had to be done by the time the paid parking expired), then driving back home and finding a third parking spot for the car in the car park across the road, then lugging the purchases home. The actual physical load of the journeys was about the same, but the mental load of using the car was much higher (because there was the anxiety of driving, the anxiety of finding parking, and the whole question of whether or not this would even be possible).

When I'm living in a suburb which requires me to be car-centred, I tend to be much more of a stay-at-home than in one where I can get up and walk to things, or easily catch public transport.