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But there’s this popular post going around about how OP is boggled that anyone could ever plagiarize because when they went to school their introduction to the concept was being warned that if they ever plagiarized their head would end up on a spike and it’s Very Bad Evil Terrible to ever plagiarize so they never even DREAMED of doing it.

And while I understand and agree that plagiarizing in order to profit is bad. Absolutely. Still—

Did y’all really never plagiarize in school because you were told it was bad? Really?? Plagiarization is one of those cheating tactics that’s actually very useful because you have to rephrase what you’re stealing in order to not get caught and rephrasing someone else’s ideas is an Excellent way to better understand them (and an excellent way to quickly do assignments when you’re struggling with a large workload). Obviously you shouldn’t do it for everything, but it’s not practical to do it for everything anyway because there are plenty of tests where plagiarization isn’t an option. And it’s not good to do it for actual published papers, yeah, but even not for essays? Especially in the lower grades?

Y’all really just…were told by a teacher not to do something and then never once even tried to do it? I thought this was the website where we all at least pretended to question authority!

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Plagiarism is disgusting.

Anyone who would do it has a weak character.

So no, I have never once plagiarized or even been tempted.

It's not wrong because some petty authority told me it's naughty: it's wrong because it's intellectually dishonest and a person who will allow themselves to be intellectually dishonest once will do it again.

Doing it in high school won't generally hurt other people, but that was never the problem. Same with all other cheating in school. The fact that you would try to defend this is repulsive.

Mace: That’s the Chancellor.

Leia: He’s a Sith. He’s ready to blow up entirely planets for the fun of it as soon as he’s got the weapon built. I can prove it.

Obi-Wan: And how do you plan on doing that?

Leia: Hm…

[five minutes later, when nobody’s close enough to tackle her]

Leia, her laser sword in one hand and a blaster in the other: HEY SIDIOUS

So the queen takes over and ruthlessly sets things to rights. Fires several generals, hangs nobles, redirects wealth to the peasantry. It isn't long before the first assassination attempt, which she expected.

10h

@vaguelyabnormal I'm a chronically-ill now-disabled former healthcare worker, so... let's unpack a few things, shall we?

KRON4 (major Bay Area news outlet) says:

California pharmacies are reportedly making almost 5 million medication errors a year [...] Nearly 91 percent of pharmacists in a recent survey conducted by the California Board of Pharmacy report that staffing was not high enough to provide adequate patient care. Meanwhile, over 83 percent of pharmacists reported that they did not have sufficient time to provide appropriate consultations to patients to make sure they understand how to safely take their medications. Medication errors can have serious repercussions for patients leading to severe illness, permanent disability, and death [...] Decisions about staffing and safety are usually made by the management of a chain store rather than the pharmacist who has undertaken years of education to safely provide sometimes dangerous medications.

Two different recent medical literature reviews found no clear evidence of increased patient mortality or morbidity (illness / negative health outcomes) due to medical staff strikes, in large part because medical strikes typically require the continuation of skeleton staffing to address emergencies. Medical ethics generally agree that labor strikes must be a tactic of last resort -- and that they can be the most ethical of bad options, sacrificing short term suffering for long term public health and safety.

Everywhere I worked, I saw the real impacts of medical understaffing on patient care. Healthcare companies & institutions are often motivated too much by profit & not enough by the on-the-ground needs of patients and providers. They rely on that "I can't let my patients down" ethic to pressure workers into persevering under unsustainable conditions. Caregivers who are routinely and systematically denied the resources they need (time per patient, equiptment, living wage within sane hours, etc) burn out. They fuck up. They get sick. My own disability was partly driven by chronic overwork.

I have seen too many patients suffer directly because their care providers, including me, were stretched too thin to do our jobs adequately. When you work hospice/hospital and make a mistake someone spends extra months working through complicated grief, or develops a much more serious condition because the early signs got overlooked, or has a painful or lonely death. I carry human-suffering weight of my mistakes. I always will. This isn't abstract. As I write this, I'm thinking about specific people who my coworkers and I failed because we were running to look after twice as many patients as we could handle, and management refused to listen to us.

It's impossible not to make mistakes when you're constantly exhausted and stressed.

If your retail pharmacy has one pharmacist working that day (which is....basically everywhere I worked, barring one place), you are there all day, open to close, alone. The pharmacy cannot remain open if the pharmacist is gone. So that means that if you are the pharmacist on duty, you cannot leave the store.

You can't leave if there's an issue with your child. You can't leave if the only toilet in the store stops working (happened to my store once!).

Most importantly, you can't leave if you are having a 10/10 "I need to go the ER immediately" medical emergency. You have to call your boss, who has to FIND someone to cover for you, and THEN you have to wait until they are there (and because of the way the chain stores are, and how they sort into regions, waiting 2 hours for your coverage to get there isn't uncommon).

so often i've seen big-ass Stupid Bullshit News about Stupid Bullshit become absolutely nothing after like 3 days. i'm so fucking tired of it because it means that nothing changes, since we've forgotten what we need to change.

now amazon is getting sued. awesome! this is the first time i've heard of it. the suit was filed presumably somewhere between a few hours and a day ago, so that's understandable.

is this really, really going to be covered after, i dunno, three days? i honestly don't reckon so. amazon has enough money and probably apathy to make this not as much of an important lawsuit as it should - and maybe could - be.

i would love to be reminded every day for weeks and then months that amazon is being sued for operating an illegal monopoly. i want to read every joke, hear every update, see every move that's made until this shit is wrapped up. i don't just want to operate on hope and, inversely, a lack of faith on this one.

He was about to lift his bicycle to cross the gangplank when a voice called out, "Luka! Luka Couffaine?"

Turning to look over his shoulder, he spotted a girl around his age hurrying down the stairs to join him on the path next to the Seine. She hopped down the last two steps in her haste, Luka hitting his bike's kickstand with his heel so it could stand upright while he spoke to her about whatever he wanted.

He opened his mouth to confirm that he was indeed Luka and ask her what she wanted, but she'd already advanced on him. She gripped his arms, looking at him seriously as she asked, "Do you know who I am?"

He blinked, caught entirely off guard. He would naturally assume that someone who would step into his personal space and grab him like that must've known him, but he couldn't put a name to her face. He eyed her black hair, her blue eyes, and her white, black, and pink clothes, trying to put together anything at all. Maybe she was one of Juleka's friends?