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sounds like they need a lawyer :p

"you should have become a lawyer" is the more common thing I used to hear

i have never related to something more in life

LOL

@ACuriousMind you know I'm going to use this information against you by saying tschau tschau all the time now :p

@ACuriousMind "pointlessly duplicated" otoh chinese languages will duplicate everything for cutesy-ness or familiarity hehe

i learnt iirc the portuguese tchau (its been a while) and very shortly after a friend (german) would say tschuss and i just assumed it was so similar it had the same etymology!

@ACuriousMind ...no way!!

@ACuriousMind wait wait it's not tschuss?

:O thats much cooler than god-be-with-you -> goodbye

@Feynmate belated congratulations on your graduation?

guten tag~

o no we're ranking elements today

if you were writing a quality research paper, you'd probably get similar comments if you started randomly citing textbooks or encyclopedia britannica as much as wikipedia - unless you specifically were pointing out e.g. frequent misleading pedagogical material :p

@SiddharthKuchimanchi the real reason not to reference wikipedia isn't simply because it's not reliable, but because a) it's a tertiary source and anything you find on wikipedia should have primary/secondary sources which you should be citing instead for a quality report (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… , davenport.libguides.com/research-how/sources) and b) there's no easily attributable authorship when citing wikipedia

@Slereah did you just imply you've been alive since the 17th century? hehe

a french friend always insists he can spot all the french tourists where I am, and when i ask him how, he insists it's because they wear a backpack. and im just like how, many tourists and locals wear a backpack...

@Slereah even with a low student teacher ratio, wouldn't you want standardised testing (and things like blind marking) to make things as fair as possible though?

we had this discussion before too

I mean, I hate exams as much as anyone, but aren't standardised tests a necessary evil? And once you have that, it's a bit like the tragedy of the commons because students who dont get taught to the test presumably do worse on the whole

@Slereah bbc.com/news/videos/cz63n6j7407o

@Slereah one of my fav things youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8

@ZeroTheHero en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law ?

lou reed is classic sad-boy-music. like the smiths

WOOF

things I did not expect to be linked on hbar lol...

@JohnRennie fun to replace rabbit -> hobbit

i had a pet rabbit when I was little, there was a neighbour cat that got into the backyard and scared it I think

@Feynmate should we call you FeynAlice next?

(that may or may not be advisable)

my solution was to ignore the critics :p

@Feynmate for what it's worth I got accused of the the rabbit hole thing a lot too

@Feynmate aggressive honk?

@Feynmate apparently rabbits honk when happy youtube.com/watch?v=9d8JViSZ9vY

they both have the twisty passages quote :)

@JohnRennie zork.fandom.com/wiki/…

@JohnRennie likely to be eaten by a grue?

ah it's on the wikipedia page in the final paragraph

@JohnRennie apparently he didnt arxiv.org/abs/1208.1030

@DanielSank planetofthepaul.com/asian-tilde-mark-texting

@DIRAC1930 depends what you mean by "working independently"

xD

are we schweggumming?

i think there was a hank green video about an explosion that was like that

@SirCumference well, it used to be more so the realm of conspiracy theorists. now with so much AI content people don't want to seem dumb by being "fooled" by something AI-generated, so you have average people on the internet commenting saying something is AI-generated rather doing the actually responsible thing of checking sources etc.

and also the reverse problem, where people deride actual real or historic artefacts, documents or video footage as "obviously" fake because it doesn't conform to their preconceptions of how things "should" look

@ACuriousMind :'(

@Slereah i did some of those classes in my early uni days cos my family was like we'll disown you if you do just physics... and i did much worse than in maths and physics courses