Fuck off proshippers

In support, they're helpful tools to realign with customers and get their problem solved, but for a general conversation? It's undue flattery that will make one feel overly important. "The customer's always right" is bogus, and we speak to customers that way so they'll feel superior, intelligent, and continue giving us money.

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I've spotted a huge decline over the last two years. What's upsetting is how so many of our current third years have declined since their first year. I did a seminar with them the other day, on the topic of the environmental impacts of different diets. One guy told me confidently that there would be no additional agricultural lands if we all went vegetarian.

"Cool," I said. "What's your source for that?"

"I'm sure I read it," he said.

"Fair," said I, "go and look it up. Find an academic source, let's assess it to see if it's robust."

The first thing he did was go to Google, and then read the AI summary.

"That's not a source," I said. "Find me a source."

Five minutes later, he happily tells me that a Guardian article says so, and mentions the World Economic Forum.

"Okay," I said. "Neither of those are academic sources, and the WEF is secondary anyway. Go to Google Scholar, and find a journal article."

Ten minutes later, he tells me he can only find articles that say it's a very complex issue in spite of pop cultural received wisdom, and we don't actually know.

A THIRD YEAR. This man has a dissertation due in THREE MONTHS. This is a skill we taught him in first year, and it's all dribbled out of his ears in the quest for easy summaries from an autocomplete algorithm. And I dearly wish I could say he's an exception, but Jesus Christ, that would be a lie.

I'm currently writing a lecture for the second years for their research methods module, and I normally wouldn't need to do this. But I'm having to re-introduce them to the basic concepts of how to actually analyse findings rather than lazily take whatever they seem to say at face value. I'm trying to find a good paper that had Surprising findings, because I want to show them a research question and a set of results and then get them to speculate and research on why they found something so different, but that's a difficult thing to search for.

This, as I said in the post, is a noticeable and significant problem in the last two years. It is affecting students who were fine three years ago, and now aren't. It is a very specific issue that is affecting very specific skills, including previously very intelligent people

This is already attested in the literature. Meanwhile, the for-profit education system has not changed in the last two years

Additionally, prior to the last 2-3 years, I had failed one student ever, and flagged one student ever for plagiarism. This year we've had to deal with five separate plagiarism cases on the Masters course alone, all of whom admitted to LLM use. Not one of them can analyse information worth a damn; all of them had excellent prior undergrad scores.

When you see people engaging in this sort of behavior, all it represents is a mirror to centuries worth of women “punishing” other “women”/women (and in some cases between older women and their “sons”/sons) who doesn’t adhere to strict cisnormative gender expression (whether it be trans men/mascs, butches, trans women/fems, or anyone else who fell into a category of gender non-conformity.) It represents a mirror of centuries worth of people being forced into dresses, into marriage, into pregnancy; being directed at some of the most violated victims of it. This is not to say everyone mentioned wasn’t victims of this system (they most definitely were) but that cis women are engaging in the exact same rhetoric and oppression that kept both them and trans people down simply because they’ve found a target that’s open to their bashings.

These same systems that have and will keep ruining the lives of billions will keep their strength as long as people wish to play this game of “who can I oppress in exchange for my pain?” Because to some people this is ultimately about finding a group that allows them to fit in than liberation, and you can see this as clear as day in groups like TERFs, gay separatists, transmeds, etc.

And the ironic part of all this? So much of this behavior in the present day online emerges from people who heavily engage with modern repackaged misogyny ranging from the girl math/dinner nonsense to those girlbloggers who constantly joke about having female hysteria or getting a lobotomy. Jokes which are inherently built upon the suffering of queer people, often times trans men, mascs, and butches. People who find the patriarchy to be a funny thing to be laughed at rather than an oppressive system that’s still stifling millions of women and trans people to this day.

Liberation cannot mean a thing when it comes at the cost of another being the gum on someone’s iron boot. It does not mean anything when the sorrows of others are nothing but a joke to you, when your only end goal is comfort, when it’s a chance to ignore the pain of others as long as you can twist your logic far enough to justify it.

it's always this specific wording. and granted, they're not wrong, there is a significant overlap. but it always follows up with this

DO NOT APPLY!!!

This is made by TERFs and other transphobes, who peddle "ROGD", among other things

我们的天空 by 西瓜

This album is CRIMINALLY short with only three tracks, the last of which is my favourite. Really good screamo vocals in this one, and some electronic elements that compliment the instruments super well.

军臣 by 军臣

Better described as sludge metal, there’s a great combination of both scream and normal vocals, with some absolutely banging drumming and electric guitars. Like the last one, this is also a mini album, but luckily not as short.

Hypocrisy (Original title: 眼镜蛇 or Yanjingshe) by Cobra

Okay I lied, not all of these are hardcore metal. This is a rock band from the 1990s that combines certain traditional Chinese elements to a more 80s sounding soft rock/city pop, but I’ve been a fan of this album for years so I’ll never pass up an opportunity to recommend it. Cobra was also a pioneering girl band in the Chinese rock scene (I’m pretty sure they’re considered the first) so like… go listen to them!

Thanks by The Ugly Biography

Like I’ve stopped correcting my family because, no joke, my MAGA-pilled transphobic cis brother admitted to my mother in private that I have more hair and generally appear manlier than he does, and he not only genders me correctly because of it, he gets upset when others get it wrong. Which means

The men in my family are actively comparing themselves to me and losing in their heads

Any implications that I’m not a man also insults them by proxy since it implies they’re somehow even less of a man than that