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It’s interesting that the phrasing here is that the younger people shouldn’t be allowed to date the older people. The issue with this kind of age gap is the imbalance of power, and whether you realize it or not you’ve just placed the stigma at the feet of the person who’s most likely to be victimized.

Anyway, banning this kind of thing doesn’t work. It happens at a scale that would likely be unenforceable, not to mention that rebellious people will do things because they’re banned

A better approach to harm reduction is education. Meet people where they’re at without shame and explain the risks realistically. And even then, some people just won’t learn until experience teaches them

At the end of the day, if your daughter wants to work out her daddy issues by getting railed by an older man, no amount of pearl clutching is going to prevent that

So it bothers you when people vocalize their question marks, eh?

“There’s no way we evolved from monkeys, and I’ll prove it: humans are good at holding bananas!”

Can’t make this stuff up

Only on the fediverse can I expect to see someone explain how to manage their kitchen with a computer analogy and not the other way around

It’s good advice though, I have no notes

I think it’s historic, I suspect the letter grades predate using GPA

To be honest, I didn’t even know we did GPA at all until after I got my high school transcript for applying to college. Our report cards gave us our percentage and a letter for each course

As the meme suggests, the whole system is pointless and frankly kind of foolish

We have them in Canada, I assume they work the same:

When your work is assessed, you get a letter grade in the range from A-F. E is absent, although some regions will use E instead of F. Your letter grade is determined by your percentage.

Letter grades aren’t super useful to show your overall results, and are difficult to average, so they can be converted back into numbers. You start at 0 for F, then skip over E to get to D which is worth 1.0, C is 2.0, etc. GPA doesn’t go higher than 4.0 at A, or 85%, so there’s actually quite a lot of margin for error to allow people the maximum GPA if they test well.

Oh, and your letters might get a + or - to show you’re on the high or low end of a grade. There’s a lot of range between a C and a B, but C+ is close to B-. A + is worth 0.3 on your GPA, and a - is worth -0.3

Also, your letter grades and therefore numeric GPA is a non-linear scale, and the conversion for what percentage converts to which letter might differ depending on the institution, school district, or region.

Isn’t it so simple?

Valedictorian is a bit easier to understand. At graduation, one student is selected to be Valedictorian, and their function is to give a speech at the graduation ceremony.

Traditionally, it’s the “highest performing” student, but GPA caps out at 4.0 which means that two students with an 87% and 98% average have the same GPA and are therefore equal. Their social achievements are then considered, so the valedictorian will usually be someone who was very active in extracurricular clubs or sports.

Basically Valedictorian is usually the most popular student who got straight As.

It’s a common turn of phrase that people use when explaining something to someone who seems unclear on a subject.

I hope this clears things up.

The market is saturated with crap that doesn’t sell under its own merits. In theory a review signals that not only did that product sell, but somebody actually cared enough to leave a review.

An online market is especially tricky for consumers because you can’t really look at the product to judge it for yourself. You have to make do with a product description, specifications, or photos. All of which might be incomplete, poorly translated, or photoshopped / AI-generated.

So reviews tell you what other people thought. It’s their first line of marketing after SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Of course, unethical companies are out there using paid and fake reviews, so it’s not like a savvy shopper can even use the reviews to judge quality.

Anyway, as someone else said, don’t engage with these emails. You’ll just end up with more emails if you do.

HtWFaIP - How to Win Friends and Influence People

Bad person, probably not. That’s a harsh descriptor to apply for a single transgression.

I’d call this behaviour to avoid though. Most people don’t like being lied to or ghosted

Sometimes you can’t really avoid it, like if safety is a concern. But if you lie and ghost because feelings are messy then it causes other people to have messy feelings

I thought about commenting, but then I was worried we’d make small talk

Err, I meant to say- same

“Giving lip” is like “talking back” or maybe even “chewing out” but basically it means to talk shit about someone.

“You want lip too” is what I might expect to hear from my boss after telling him that it’s not okay to berate the staff

My interpretation is that people hate AI, but an individual’s rage against the machine isn’t enough to hurt it. Something I agree with.

Then it goes on to say that AI is just here to help, which I think is supposed to evoke sympathy for something that was unfairly demonized. Something I don’t agree with.

If you try to distill it further, I read this as dissatisfaction against AI is futile and unjustified. It reads as though AI was a benevolent force designed to help people, which unfortunately just isn’t true

Being miserable all the time sure is turning me into a miserable person.

I’m supposed to be a silly goose dammit

I got back together with an old tabletop group recently.

Five or six years ago we wrapped up the campaign we were running to take a little break. Scheduling became tricky, a couple of people were expecting their first child and some others were starting new jobs. Without a common meeting, the group just kind of faded out.

Anyway, a couple months back I bump into one of the players and we start talking. Shortly after that, he starts up a new group chat trying to get the band back together.

My mental health has been an absolute shitshow the last several years, so I really agonized over whether I wanted to try to get back together or embrace the solitude that I desperately crave for my free time. Well, I went against my initial judgment and it’s been awesome playing with likeminded people again.

A couple of friends still can’t really make it, the schedule is too difficult with young kids. But we brought in a couple new players too and the funny thing is that even with new people it still feels like old times.

I think in Cube it was razor wire, but they may have upgraded to lasers for Cube 2

If you’re clumsy, you might be described as all thumbs.

Unless you’re clumsy enough to get into a thumb-separating accident, then I guess you’re no thumbs

I, too, yearn for the unattainable

I’d be scared too if I had to come back to work after being a victim in a hit-and-run

Satan’s not kidding around