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A professor with the wrong kinda views

Joined April 2023
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Academics are like cats, almost totally worthless and easily distracted by shiny objects.
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Yeah, but it's bifurcated. Same as ever, just the cheating method has changed. The bottom half do whatever they have to do to get a C. The top half wants to learn the right way. Life as a teacher gets infinitely better when you stop caring about the bottom half.
I cannot imagine the sheer volume of AI slop that teachers and professors are dealing with right now. Your whole job must be just sifting through this crap. Nightmare.
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Honestly, I don’t want technology to advance any further. I think we need more gardens, more front porches and fewer screens.
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TheOrneryProf retweeted
A Europa será destruída por mulheres que projetam naqueles animais a maternidade que cabia aos filhos que elas abortaram.
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TheOrneryProf retweeted
the idea of having 4-5 kids is very intimidating, but the families I know with 4-5 adult children now seem to be having more fun than anyone else I know
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You cannot comprehend how indoctrinated the youth are until you have a student use a human baby in the womb as an example of a parasitoid in humans.
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My wife was speaking remnants of her German knowledge at dinner last night. Toward the end, my youngest son goes "Shreken ze doich" 😂
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Elon Musk flips a vehicle upside down and everyone claps and cheers. But when I do it, suddenly I'm "recklessly endangering children" and "unfit to be a school bus driver".
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Gotta love that in addition to getting screwed by CC companies for transaction fees, we also now lose a few cents of each cash transaction because there are no pennies.
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Born to explore.
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You might think this is a first grader writing "prayers." You'd be wrong. It's a college kid writing "prairies."
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An 18 YO freshman who's going to be a PT 🙄
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A farm boy came into class today with a shirt that said "America Needs Lesbian Farmers" 🤣
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One of the greatest tragedies in life is putting the ice cream scopper in the sink, turning on the water, and it hitting just right to shoot back out onto you.
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TheOrneryProf retweeted
It’s always a message of fear. My entire life. Nuclear winter, killer bees, acid rain, global warming, rebranded climate change, Covid, now AI. Reject the demonic spirit of fear.
2006 vs 2026 “Be worried. Be very worried.” I remember when they said all the polar bears were going to go extinct and Miami was going to be underwater due to melting ice caps.
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If you want to understand how bad things are in academia, our director of engineering didn't know the difference between Romex and fiber optic wire.
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The more I learn about science, the more obvious it is that it's all God's plan. There are too many coincidinces. The amount of "luck" needed for all these things to have occured is improbable.
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What if we just ordered a new Congress from TEMU? It would still be garbage controlled by foreign countries, but it would probably be cheaper.
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Gotta love the grout I accidently dropped on the tile and didn't see is like concrete in the presidential bunker but the stuff I purposely fill in might as well be putty.
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TheOrneryProf retweeted
Forty years ago, nobody carried water everywhere. You left the house at 8 AM with absolutely no hydration strategy whatsoever. Somehow you survived until dinner without a 40-ounce emotional-support tumbler.
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People don't believe that tech has made their lives better. Dressing people down for opposing data centers is a loser. "We have to beat China!" On what? Online gambling? AI slop memes? YouTube Shorts? Obviously there are bigger issues at work, but hello - bad messaging!
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