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the only good thing about a 'max to mercedes' move would be that he'd likely interact with valentino rossi. who would be forced to endure max's neurodivergent ass talking to him about marc marquez like nothing ever happened.

there's something to be said about how we take max verstappen a little for granted. he's been working casual miracles for years now, driving and winning a championship with a car checo could barely FINISH a race with, and now also has wholesome(ish) energy.

also no race winner wins with the style he does. lando's podium champagne bump is cool, and my favorite wins are charles wins for obvious reasons but also because he stands on a podium like a monarch anointed by god and sanctified by a populace but when max wins he looks like he'll fight god and win. and no one's doing that but him.

me logging in to call old men gay online

when ur murderous puppy dog of an ex-boyf defends ur honor or something

imagine looking in your rear view mirror and you just see this

Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor, activist, and band chief of Cree and Iyarhe Nakoda descent, as Cecil Delaronde in Canadian TV series Blackstone.

[image description: two stills of Gordon Tootoosis, captioned, “Leadership is about submission to duty, not elevation to power.” end description.]

This is one of the most profound statements on leadership I’ve encountered in a long time, and it really landed a hit on me. It’s difficult to discuss without getting a little weird about it, but for a long time I’ve been of the mind that the privilege of having a large readership implies the duty of giving back in specific ways – I just never thought of it in terms of leadership as submission to duty. 

look at my posts on company time, boy

aquarium advertisments say stuiff like discover the longtooth grouper this friday

I see that, and raise you my local aquarium's advertising.

Vancouver Aquarium has similar ads!

They also have some SERIOUSLY inventive ones:

(High and Low Tide ^)

the only type of advertising that should exist: "ooooohhhh you want to come look at the animal"

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.

Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.

I'm a faculty advisor for the "honor council" at my school, which litigates cheating accusations. A new teacher this year brought with him a revision history add-on, and it's obscene the number of cases we got after that that were literally just "well, the revision history showed a copy/paste job, that must mean it was copied from an AI!"

It's damn frustrating, is what it is. Teachers, if you suspect cheating, please bring me actual evidence and not just the faintest wisp of a hunch.

And the take-away for students is: if you're not plagiarizing, please keep your drafts because there are teachers who will see that you pasted a block of text into the Google doc or whatever and immediately assume the worst. It sucks that some people think you're guilty until proven innocent, and it shouldn't be that way, but because those people exist you need to be able to cover your ass.

i feel like we don't appreciate these days how much the twin towers sucked, like, design-wise

they were contemporarily hated for just being these giant grey monoliths

like there probably could've been an easier way to get rid of them, but they probably needed to go either way

crying at this. the curb is brutalist. the sidewalk is brutalist. house made of concrete bricks is brutalist. lmao??

I genuinely think Philomena Cunk interview questions are academically valuable in that 1. They force experts to consider ridiculous scenarios they never would have thought of having to deal with and 2. They test the ability of academics to explain their fields to laypeople and challenge the idea that “everybody knows xyz.” I think part of all higher level degree programs should involve having to get interviewed by Philomena Cunk

Yes yes I know this too shall pass but christ alive man it's passing like a gotdamn kidney stone

How many people do you think have lezzed out in Antarctica

not enough

millions of penguins probably have

This is so true and such a good point

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there