Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Gradine]

Those who can't ... devalue those who can.

Ironically, this is doubly true for educators

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Deset Gled]

The people who sue over stuff like this need to be launched into the sun.

Counterpoint: advertisers and marketeers bend every truth they can well past the breaking point. Fear of this stuff is the only thing that keeps them in line, and even that doesn't work too well.

Now, you give me a world where Marshal Dillon actually punishes corporations themselves and the fancy suits who run the departments caught lying actually face jail time for deceptive business practices, then we'll talk tort reform. Until then, we're living in the wild west of capitalism, and sometimes the only one willing to face the bandits is a madman. So sometimes I prefer to keep a madman or two at the bar with me, just in case.

 

[pukunui]

21 voters over in the best Discworld novel poll thread are wrong. Thud! is the only correct answer.

 

[Scribe]

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You know, there was already an interview where Sam Altman expressed his desire to retire to a farm. Now I see a tweet where he expresses sadness that his tools are doing what he wants to do now, better than he does it.

Other than getting god awful levels of wealth, why are 'we' doing this?

sigh

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Other than getting god awful levels of wealth, why are 'we' doing this?

Those are the terms of the contract he signed in blood at the Crossroads Auditorium. (A little on the nose there don't you think, Satan?)

 

[pukunui]

Anyone else having trouble accessing D&D Beyond right now? I've been getting various server errors for the past 30 minutes or so.

 

[Cadence]

On the plus side we use Blackboard... Einstein - AI Homework Agent

And I confess to thinking it might be a bit interesting if it is hacked by someone nefarious who blackmails all the users for bitcoins with the threat of being turned in for academic integrity violations and being expelled / having their degrees revoked.