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Oh I'm sure, but it seemed like a different beast. American Idol was really tuned into the characters and personal drama, there was never that much meta-drama. Almost like the Super Bowl vs. World Cup

Isn't it the inverse of that? And Hemingway always struck me as more of a "write drunk, edit buzzed" guy

As for middle school, exactly what did you learn that you think is so useful for daily life?

Off the top of my head: basic biology so I'm not dumb enough to be antivax. History subjects that require more than elementary maturity so maybe we can avoid another Holocaust. Enough physics, ecology and chemistry that I can comprehend how climate change is happening. How basic statistics work so I'm not completely lost when someone throws around misleading data.

None of that is automatic from a 4th grade education and is crucial to be a functioning citizen. Learning to take unquestioned GPT answers is not a substitute for actually learning any of those.

You either went to a painfully bad pipeline of schools or were too dumb to recognize the important parts.

Good god, if you went through an entire education and don't realize how fucked of a take that is I don't know what to say. Go try again at a different school maybe?

The problem is offloading critical thinking to a blackbox of questionably motivated design. Did you use it to solve problems or did you use it to find a sufficient approximation of a solution? If you can't deduce why the given solution works then it is literally unknowable if your problem is solved, you're just putting faith in an algorithm.

There are also political reasons we'll never get luxury gay space communism from it. General Ai is the wet dream of every authoritarian: an unverifiable, omnipresent, first line source of truth that will shift the narrative to whatever you need.

The brain is a muscle and critical thinking is trained through practice; not thinking will never be a shortcut for thinking.

Nothing catches cigarette tar better than an asbestos filter 🚬👄

Forgive my American ignorance, but do people actually watch Eurovision as entertainment? I feel like I've only ever heard of it as an arena for politics/protest/controversy, never "hey listen to this great song that won". Is the controversy part of the draw?

Hard to tell from the pixelation, but pretty sure that's a white 3062a.

Fun fact: cringe comes from an Old English word which meant to crumple or fall in battle. So power word cringe must be a synonym for power word kill 🧙

I know it's 1/48 cup but that's a stupid fraction and doesn't follow any logic, one of the main reasons it should be thrown out

Well, it could be sarcasm but:

1. It doesn't make sense, what is the witty commentary?
2. Their post history is abrasive and aggressive about silly stuff like this

There's nothing inherently more natural about cooking in the metric system, people just prefer base 10 these days. People balk at 4 quarts to an arbitrary gallon but love 1 liter being the arbitrary cubic volume of 10 ten-millionths of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole passing through Paris [but not quite].

Cooking by volume was natural before everyone had accurate kitchen scales. You didn't have a digital tare button in the 1800s but you did have a bunch of containers in common sizes.

what happen when you need 3/4 of a cup ? Or 1.5 cup ?

Generally you have 4 sizes: 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4. You just use a combination of 2 sizes (1+1/2) or multiples of your smallest size (3x1/4).

You usually don't need high precision for cooking, common ratios are good approximations (1:1, 1:2, 1:8, etc...). Baking is a different beast and I don't know how people did it before weight.

Also, fuck tablespoons and teaspoons. They should just be replaced with 1/16 cup and 1/32 cup.