And then you eat two desserts out of counter-spite. Win win.

Lemme tell you about Gambia’s relationship with Senegal

Being able to identify what parts of a text serve what purpose… is a part of the skillset of more advanced literacy.

A person with a broader vocabulary definitionally has a superior level of literacy

You’re digging in your heels on something you’re fundamentally wrong about. You’re still talking about the nuts and bolts of syntax and grammar and vocabulary, which is an element of literacy but a dimension that isn’t particular all that important past a “good enough” threshold, at which point other dimensions start to predominate in terms of the broader look at what constitutes advanced literacy.

Being able to identify text is just a stepping stone towards being able to identify author intent, subtext, humor, artistic value, references and homages, metaphors, etc.

So what you’re talking about is important for literacy, but it’s still pretty far down the ladder of what many people would consider “advanced” literacy, and kinda a demonstration of the opposite of what you intend to convey: the fake LLM comment was making a joke, and you showed that you lack the more advanced literacy of being able to evaluate the text and the context for the underlying subtext, which was to be funny. Your decision to engage with it at face value entirely misses the point, and is itself a demonstration of failing a test of higher level literacy.

There’s a documentary series, “How To by John Wilson,” that’s on HBO (at least in the US), and it’s basically a Nathan Fielder style absurdist look at the world, with a bunch of real world footage edited together, sometimes with a voiceover, for comedic effect.

But one of the episodes has him going out to figure out why people roll coal, and he interviews a guy who does it, who cannot string together any coherent thought behind it. It’s amazing television.

The main reason why people don’t want to be paid directly in food is because food is inconvenient or even costly to store and transport, and may not retain its value over time (potential loss to spoilage).

But if your local currency is also inconvenient to store and transfer, and doesn’t retain its value over time, maybe food is the better store of value.

Once I understood this, school really started to click. Too bad it wasn’t until I had baked in a shitty undergrad GPA.

Who said anything about scamming? At most, it’s an accusation of trolling for the lulz. Which is actually quite common on the internet.

Oh here’s another:

They’re just not easily searchable (many of the most popular ones are just reposted on pinterest or reblogged on someone else’s tumblr).

Yeah, that’s a good one. I also like this one:

https://sarahcandersen.com/post/726092139029774336

But most of what I’m thinking of is more than 10 years old, from her first two books (I have them in this house somewhere). Lots more angsty youth in those early collections, including some stuff about insecurities and self image.

Extrapolating from the plot of the Fugitive, I think it’s safe to say he’s murdered 4 people!

I just read it as an artist saying “hey I can draw in this style, would you like to see more by paying me money at my Patreon or paying for a commission or something like that?”

Flicking beans is back on the menu I guess

I definitely know at least one woman IRL that would post like that.

Aight let’s do a quick lesson in Bayes Theorem, here in a shitpost community.

Imagine there is a disease that exists in 1% of the population. Medical science develops a test with 90% accuracy (both in false positives and false negatives) on whether a person has the disease. Your doctor orders the test, and it comes up positive and saying that you have the disease. What is the probability that you actually have it?

Well if you test an entire population of 1000, 10 of whom have the disease, it will correctly positively identify 9 out of 10 who have the disease, and incorrectly give false positive results to 99 out of the 990 who don’t have it. So among the 108 people who get positive results, you only about 8.3% chance of having the disease.

My Bayesian priors for an anonymous prolific poster of thirstposts in a shitposting community on a heavily tech-centric social media platform is that they’re about 90% likely to be 30+ year old men. Claiming to be an 18 year old woman might move the needle a little bit, but not as much as you might think.

Sarah’s Scribbles is one of the better comics for drawing the author’s self as pretty cute in most comics but knowing how to draw herself as an ugly goblin when the comic is making a point about insecurity or embarrassment around physical appearance.

That comic is basically the gold standard for how to convey those ideas in an otherwise cute art style.

Some startups are trying to synthesize edible fats from non-biological feedstocks, using just energy, water, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen, through the Fischer Tropsch process.

Personally I’m more interested in seeing whether that can expand into just manufacturing hydrocarbons with excess solar energy, rather than synthetic food, but it’s still cool to see that people can do it.

I can do that. I’ll keep track of everyone’s food, you know, in exchange for food.

I’ll defer to your personal experience, but when I walk into a place like that (usually as a guest of someone who is actually staying there) I’m always like “ok I don’t belong here.”

I make good money but also don’t think I’d physically be able to swing some of the spending required at places like that. Like, I just wouldn’t have the funds in my bank account.

Most of the stuff in this thread

We probably need to talk about what one’s definition of “rich” is. I suspect the commenters in this thread are all over the place.

When I was growing up, my idea of rich was private schools and McMansions and overseas vacations and new BMWs for 16th birthdays, basically the kind of lifestyle accessible to only the top 5%.

But now, 20+ years later, I’ve been around 0.1%ers, desensitized to upper middle class stuff that the things I used to believe were signifiers of wealth barely register for me anymore. I’ve also been around descendants of former 0.1%ers who carry some cultural baggage from their families despite having “only” ordinary upper middle class income.

I read this thread and wonder where each commenter sits in how they evaluate richness.

Kinda depends on the price of the place, right? A $500/night hotel might have a few upper middle class folks on a splurge (a honeymoon, some kind of points-based play on their credit card, etc.). A $2000/night place filters out the merely rich and leaves only the ultra rich. And a $10,000/night place isn’t even accessible as a bucket list item for even the 1% but not 0.1% types.

If you’re hanging out at the pool or some kind of lounge reserved for hotel guests at a place like that, you’re gonna have a pretty high probability of running into money.

I assume in your city, $4/month/sq ft isn’t considered “crazy expensive,” though. In a place like San Francisco or New York, a $2000/month apartment that is 500 square feet wouldn’t register as anything notable.

If it’s not considered “crazy expensive,” people wouldn’t assume you’re crazy rich just by living there.