You are the Devil.
I mean you really are, you tempted people into sin and then laughed as they were damned for it.
Why are these pictures always so difficult to read? The text is all scrambled!
If you’re using an app, you may need to adjust image quality in the settings. For Boost, there’s an HD button on the image by default.
Yep, that work better, thanks!
This is why fizzbuzz exists
What’s TA?
Teaching assistant
*Bad. Fuck you.
“Bad; fuck you.” would have also been acceptable.
Anon’s prof is a G.
On the one hand: awww, poor cheater world’s smallest violin meme
On the other hand: expulsion from the university for a first offense seems… harsh.
universities take plagiarism very seriously. Friend of mine teaches stage craft (how to make sets, props, costumes, lighting and sound design/planning/execution/engineering)
First semester, first test, easy pass: Someone pokes their head into the class and my friend goes to the door to answer them, stepping outside for like ~30 seconds
comes to mark the papers:
“In a proscenium theater, what is the very front of the stage called?”
Real answer: apron
55% of the student answers: the same made up word that sounded vaguely Portuguese with no hits on Google.
even though it’s super dumb and super easy and barely matters at all and is a one word answer to a basic question - the students ended up being investigated by the university and my friend had all his classes audited.
I may be dumb, but to clarify: they were assumed cheating because the word was fake, and the only reason for so many duplicated fake answers would be if they shared a faulty answer sheet. Right?
yeah, I mean a forgivable wrong answer would be “downstage center” “the front” “the lip” “limelights” “footlights” “wing” “leg” “curtain” “pit” - like close but wrong terminology or similar guesses.
The fact that loads of them said the same weird wrong answer was very sus.
Just wanna say I took a stage craft class as an elective many, many years ago when college was affordable enough to do such things.
We didn’t do anything hands on, just learned how stuff works.
It was one of my most favorite classes. I was a beer chugging, skirt chasing, never went to class burnout back then, but I enthusiastically went to that class every time.
I’m going to allege that such “educational” institutions’ focus on “cheating” is harmful and dangerous for their students.
I’m a flight instructor. Students would show up to my class actually afraid to be caught writing things down to refer to them later. They were afraid to be caught using checklists. They would overwhelm themselves trying to commit entire technical manuals to memory. That’s not how anything actually works. The FAA prints all these references so pilots can read them. We don’t take them away from you when you pass your practical.
Checklist usage in the cockpit is a required skill to pass a practical test. The examiner has to see you using a checklist during the test in order to pass you. Writing things down so you can refer to them later, like flight planning and ATC clearances, also a required skill. Schools make people afraid to do these things.
If you’ve got a kneeboard that has the tower light gun signal chart printed on it, and you lose the radio and need light gun signals, you’re not going to have your license taken away from you if you use that quick reference. Too many students bring that pressure into flight training with them. It’s a fun bit of deprogramming to do.
I’m going to allege that such “educational” institutions’ focus on “cheating” is harmful and dangerous for their students.
I won’t disagree that the overall anti-cheating mentality goes too far, but this example was students literally plagiarizing their first project.
That mentality sounds like instructors aren’t properly setting expectations for students. If going over checklists is a required skill, students should be informed regularly that they need to be doing XYZ and should be writing that down. When I was still trying for my CS BS, that was something my profs did regularly. We could bring notes to the final, but you were still expected to write your own code (by hand) on the final.
That mentality sounds like instructors aren’t properly setting expectations for students. If going over checklists is a required skill, students should be informed regularly that they need to be doing XYZ and should be writing that down.
Yeah, that’s what I meant by “it’s a fun bit of deprogramming to do.” Especially younger students are strongly conditioned to think of tests or performances as “closed book” unless specifically informed otherwise and often demonstrate actual fear of being caught using reference materials or god forbid open a reference manual. Breaking them of that habit often takes more than “setting expectations.” It can take some effort to get students to realize the game we’re playing here isn’t “You have to know everything in all the textbooks,” it’s “You’ve got to know which book to find which answer in.”
Having gone back to college after becoming a flight instructor, I’m strongly under the impression that college just doesn’t matter. There is no certification or accountability requirements for professors; no legal requirement for them to study the fundamentals of instruction, hell I’m not convinced anyone actually interviewed some of my professors before hiring them.
I had an English professor tell me she “likes to give students enough rope to hang themselves with.” I want you to imagine hearing that out of a flight instructor.
College professors seem to see themselves as gatekeepers rather than guides. Their classes have to be hard so that only the worthy graduate. Flying an airplane is already complex enough, my job as a flight instructor is to make the process of learning that complexity as easy and safe for my students as possible. What even is college if not corrupt?
I think it’s more that it’s in their master’s capstone class. In undergrad, definitely too harsh. But for a master’s program I get it
Yeah, that makes more sense.
Who TF is copying out of github for their masters, though, honestly?
People who relied on it to get there in the first place and now are stuck not knowing how to do anything without it.
It’s a masters program, I have no issue with high level cheaters getting slapped with consequences. When I was in undergrad, first offence was an immediate F in the class, with a second being expulsion. Given the requirements for masters/doctorate (my MIL got both while I was dating my wife), getting an F is probably going to bounce you from the program anyway, so it’s not that much difference IMO.
Nah fuck em
On the other hand: expulsion from the university for a first offense seems… harsh.
I love seeing my favorite plunderphonic in the wild! :D
That boy needs therapy.
Purely psychosomatic.
I’m afraid expulsion is the only answer. It is the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is
criminally insanecheating!Well, now, that will be haunting my dreams for years to come. Thanks!
I hope my Uni had this. I have never cheated, but cheaters sometimes have better grades than me.
I guess that would harm you if the class is graded on a curve. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be caught and penalized, only that expulsion from the university is a harsh penalty. Automatic failure of the class would hurt plenty, without utterly destroying someone’s life.
It is not harsh. Cheating is immoral and unfair, and every adult knows that. It is in nature a forgery of your degree. Honesty needs to be highly valued and respected. We have cooperations and politicians lying everyday because of this.
Cheating is taken VERY seriously at every decent University. As it should.
Still, cheating to some extent exists everywhere. This just weeds out the real lazy or stupid cheaters. Which is also some kind of quality check, I guess.
To cheat properly, I’ve has to be a bit clever and shrewd, which is a valuable character trait. Maybe not the most moral one, but real life isn’t all moral either. 🤷♂️
Sometimes the best and most efficient solutions are created by just cleverly combining the work of others.
Doesn’t mean it has to be tolerated.
If a school is known to go easy on cheaters. Why would anyone actually trust a degree from that school?
You don’t learn by just copying someone’s github repository and presenting it as your solution.
As someone said. “You copied that function without understanding why it does what it does, and as a result your code IS GARBAGE. AGAIN.”
I will say up front that I am not a cheater - not because of good moral character, but because I am a terrible liar. It’s less stressful to me to risk failure, than to risk being caught.
That said, a lot of cheating is excellent preparation for work in corporate America. I don’t like that it is, but it is. My main beef with capitalism is that it encourages, breeds, and rewards the absolute worst attributes of human nature. There’s literally nothing in capitalism that speaks to anything good in people. Knowing how to cheat, cheat profitably, and (most importantly) avoid being caught is perhaps one of the most useful skills in the American capitalist corporate space.
Not getting caught is less important than always having a scapegoat ready. A successful office worker is just like a politician: talk a lot, confuse the issue as much as possible, and in an emergency, deflect blame on someone else. The actual work delivered matters very little, and ideally you can just appropriate the work of someone less well spoken anyway.
Your bosses will praise you for your open communications and dealing well with trouble.
And this is a global truth, not just in the US. I have encountered many a successful worker that contributes nothing to their company or society. And while more noticable at boss and manager levels, this goes all the way down to minimum wage line work, although there it’s more difficult to hide.
🤝
I only qualify it for the US because that’s where most of my experience has been; I don’t doubt capitalism brings out the worst in people in all cultures.
This is equal part fucked up and you get what’s fucking coming to you
*Asocial.
1: Blah blah blah linguistic shifts
2: How would you know if he’s not using correctly? You think a 4chan shit poster is above having a head in a fridge?
- Blah blah blah you smell.
- Good point - this is most likely the case.
France has an authority for their language and its three main domestic dialects.
It’d be nice if a similar but global body gate-kept the drift in English. The current system where high-school cliques decides what’s Fetch and Mirriam-Webster’s monkeys just write it all down with no cohesion is not a basis for progress.
Language people: English has surprising inconsistencies.
Also language people: ‘literally’ now also means its exact opposite because Ashley said so.
Lmao, imagine using France as an example for what to do.
Is there some frequency (weekly? monthly?) with which drift has impaired your communications, impacted your work?
It’s OK if it’s just a general frustration, I’m only curious.
Wish more teachers had that dedication to something, in general.
At university most teachers have serious dedication. It’s just not for teaching, lmao.
But once you do your thesis, discussion in their respective fields of research or general expertise is really awesome.
It’s just not for teaching, lmao.
Exactly. The “Ugh, these annoying students are keeping me from doing something useful” is very strong with some of them.
I mean, depending on their agreement with the university that might legitimately be the case.
I have a feeling that people are confusing asocial with anti-social.
when a professor does this they’re “based” and “brainpilled” but when I pretend to sell crack on the benches outside, all of a sudden the judge claims it’s “entrapment” and “illegal” smh…
Based and apathetic-about-internet-slang-pilled.
At this point I’m only hoping to emerge from the other side of the “based” fad although I’ve never understood what it meant. WTaF is “brain pilled”?
Groovy. Tubular. Fetch.
Groovy
I can’t explain it, but this one feels very different from the rest.
And I still can’t read “tubular” without picturing a 90s TV show about skaters shot entirely with a fisheye lens.
I always took based to be a sort of ironic agreement with a slight political connotation, especially if something said seems particularly “bold.”
Essentially “You totally understand who you’re talking to (your “base”) and the subject at hand; This guy/gal gets it; This is ‘based’ on hard facts” (especially when seen as controversial and few will admit it.)
You can understand how this became conservative-shitpost parlance for a while but thankfully (and ironically) has become more depolarized. So now I see it like “Yeah this fellow human being understands their fellow human beings!”
“Brainpilled” is just a stupid shift from the term “Red pill”, coined by The Matrix and eventually co-opted by conspiracy theorists and others with intense socializing difficulties (that are everyone else’s fault, naturally.)
The idea being you made a choice to “see the truth” when nobody else wants to.
It eventually spawned “black pilled” which is a ridiculously nihilist idea that “I see how everything really works now, and it’s all terrible and there’s zero hope.”
And now we’re at “brainpilled”, like the movie Limitless maybe? LOL. “This person sees it from some genius angle us mere mortals can barely comprehend. They’re playing 5D chess and we’re still playing Candyland.”
I dunno, some of it is fun and descriptive. Some is braindead. Language is like any art, it’s like Bruce Lee says: take what works and leave the rest behind. :)
Here’s the real answer for based:
“Based” (corruption of base head - from someone who smokes base - street name for crack cocaine) was popular as an insult in rap / African American circles in the early 00s
Rapper Lil B got called it and decided on a whim to pretend the meaning was changed to mean something positive, started using it in this way, it caught on - mostly through the new York scene and its attendant twitter following
As all slang does in the last ~100-150 years, passed from black people to everyone.
Brain pilled is a reference to The Matrix f/t Keanu Reeves in which Morpheus - whose namesake is the God of dreams - offers to wake up Neo from his fake reality by taking the red pill - leading to the phrase "red pilled" meaning (a right wing variant of) "woke." Over time [x]-pilled became slang like how Watergate/ [x]-gate became a suffix to imply an imbrolglio.I always thought “based” was a contraction of “based on facts and logic” (or similar)
Historically based and KnowYourMeme-pilled
“X pilled” = a believer in X; i.e. they’ve taken the red pill with regard to X and see that it is true/good.
Based just means something like, “coolest of the cool”. They are unwavering in their conviction, and respectable in that regard.
Turn back now
My understanding of based is it’s a way of showing respect for someone who did or said something controversial. You could disagree with what they did/said but you respect them nonetheless.
What is TA?
Teaching assistant
Teaching assistant. They do a whole bunch of stuff for professors like grading, teaching, and the like
He’s just keeping you boys honest.
It’s so much easier to just go to class and do the assignment work.
This is just what happens when you send a bunch of people to higher education who didn’t really want to go.
Well, if the piece of paper wasn’t necessary to make enough money to split an apartment with 3 other strangers, I’m sure fewer people would go.
We really need to stop forcefeeding kids this rubbish anyway.
Your life is not over if you don’t go to college. It should be perfectly acceptable to get other jobs, and see what you want to do in life. There’s no magic pot of jobs for graduates. Office jobs are easily done from overseas. You know what can’t be done by some poor Indian earning $10 a day? Unblocking my toilet. Plastering my walls. Fitting my bathroom. Making my food. Emptying my bins.
Yeah, they’re not glamorous. Yeah, you’re not going to be a billionaire doing those things. But you know what? You weren’t anyway.
Also universities shouldn’t be required for technical jobs. They can be trained. Universities are so research oriented because they were about science and figuring shit out. Healthcare is an excellent example. We require so much education for positions someone can do with half or a quarter of the training time. An 8 year program should be for the top spots and specialists.
And your back is screwed after two decades. There’s a reason why people don’t want their kids to do those shitty jobs.
It’s interesting to me that mental effort is generally avoided by the majority of people.
They’ll go to extreme lengths to simply, not have to solve the problem themselves.
The same mentality that tries to cheat also doesn’t understand that actually knowing the material is crucial to actually doing the job.
Sure, they’ll argue that we only use about 2 weeks of accumulated college knowledge in our professional careers, and that claim apparently checks out; but it’s the very last few weeks that we’ve built on the years of pre-req that we use later on. I.e it’s just the tip of the iceberg, but it’s the tip of a fucking iceberg.
It also disregards all the secondary and tertiary benefits to “knowing the material” and those benefits of doing the work to get there.
Like honing your ability to research, skills in pulling the actual useful info out of diverse sources of vastly differing quality, speed at which you can pick up new ideas and concepts, etc.
Part of what you’re learning is how to do the boring grunt work of learning itself, and honing your skills at that through experience
The most boring days of my job are when I just need to follow well written directions or documentation. The real test is when you’re past that and you need to combine multiple things to meet your specific situation, when no one who has figured it out before ever documented it in one easy place.
