theyre inventing the opposite of ozempic that actually makes you happy. and theyre calling it yummy foods and treats

Do you think the Jack of all trades and the master of one explored each others bodies

There should be an extension where every single Mario Kart World image that gets posted to social media has text superimposed on it that says "Okay but...this game costs 80 US dollars."

Artist Rendition

— Harold Kushner, To Life!: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking

The point in Judaism isn’t to transcend our humanity through some sort of “salvation.”

It’s to fulfill it.

buddhism does something like this too - it doesn’t have “rules”, it has “training precepts” to train you to become an habitually more decent person, and the language used isn’t remotely to do with “sinning”, it translates as skilful or unskillful behaviour, because the idea is to become skilled at being a decent person

My fave thing to tell folks who are a lil flabbergasted that there’s no Jewish concept of hell is that the goal for humans in Judaism is to become complete

At this hour, Losel Yauch

don’t worry everyone the doctor who wiki has everything under control

was??

me after bottom surgery

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Preservation is dead

I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

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If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

middle aged lady on my bus just called someone's partner "your whimsical idiot boyfriend" over the phone . with sincere frustration might I add

Very obsessed with how lowkey passive aggressively this sign is worded

“But my senator is a Republican”

Gamergate was like 200 people. And now look where we are. “A lot of emails” on a topic to congressional staffers is like, 20. Are politicians spineless idiots? Yes. Use that to your advantage! Is this the only thing you can be doing? No! But it can be the first.

The internet has completely short circuited our sense of scale. The number of people required to move almost any needle is remarkably low. Your involvement in local causes, political pressure WILL have an impact.

Ok, get out there.

Need some help/inspiration calling your republican reps? Check out Red State Scripts

Also, while calling may have more of an effect than emailing, email doesn't have zero effect, so if that's all you can do, do that. Every bit helps.

So, I follow this “bad commercial interior design” Facebook page and-