This Maryland college student outsmarted his teacher on test day - "Tuesday was the first test day of the semester for assistant college professor Reb Beatty and his accounting class at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland. As always, he let students cram as much information as they could onto a 3x5 notecard. The problem was—he didn’t specify that cheat sheet had to be 3x5 inches. “Today a student shows up with this,” Beatty wrote on Facebook."
She followed the rules : r/technicallythetruth - "the handwritten cheat sheet wasn't to allow the kids to cheat btw. It's to trick the student into thinking they're allowed to cheat, so they look through the material, try to think of what would be on the test, and writing it all down. In other words, studying. A test really only checks to see if the student studied correctly, so it's a real 5 head move from the teachers. It's like the classic joke about a kid memorizing the textbook so that they can cheat on the exam, and never being caught."
She followed the rules : r/technicallythetruth - "I had a Networking and Security class where every test was completely open Internet. The teacher said, "if I write questions that are easily Google-able, then I did a bad job." The tests involved sending you a VM where he hid the answers in various places you had to be able to locate and occasionally crack open. Actually a 10/10 class"
She followed the rules : r/technicallythetruth - "Reminds me of some madlad in university. Our teacher allowed us to bring a cheat sheet, with the only rule being that we could only write on one side of it. Well, this guy walked into the physics exam with a cheat sheet that he glued togehter to form a mobius strip."
"When I was TA at an university, the Professors allowed you to bring whatever you wanted, provided it was a dead tree edition (no electronics besides what we gave ya). Folks with 1-3 sheets of handwritten notes passed just fine, but folks with actual books spent waaay too much time in them and didn't have time to complete the test."
"We had exams like that, used to be called "open book exams". You could bring every bit of non-electronic help you wanted. I usually brought quite a bit of notes, a folder filled with all the test exams and other questions I used to prepare myself, and the relevant books for the subject at hand with me. I never felt you could bring to much, as these exams were always done in the same way: you could only ever hope to pass them, if you had a solid understanding of the subject and everything you needed to do for each task. So basically, you had to know what you wanted to look up and where to find it, otherwise just looking trough the books wont be of any help, especially because of the very limited time in these exams. Honestly liked those exams the most however, as its the closest to my actual day to day engineering work I do now. As I always like to say "I might not know the exact answer off the top of my head, but I sure know exactly where to find it"."
Man went on a four-month bender after discovering ATM glitch that gave him millions - "A bartender in Australia briefly lived a life of luxury after discovering an ATM glitch that saw him spend A$1.6 million (£944,000). Dan Saunders worked out the hack could give him unlimited cash, and for four months he lived the life of Riley, splashing out on private jets and high-end restaurants... For four months, he lived the dream, partying and travelling the world. He chartered private flights, paid off friends’ student loans and even paid for homeless people to have a place to stay for the night, saying he “felt like a rockstar.” Although the bank would call every now and then to make sure certain transactions had been made by him, they hadn’t noticed the glitch and never mentioned or questioned it."
Meme - "The extent of the destruction in Gaza is truly horrifying. My apologies, this is Detroit."
Meme - Helen Hywater: "single men in OHIO send me a private message ,, am looking for LOVE and companoinship"
Patricia Hannan: "I think you commented on the wrong info. We are praying for a beautiful 21 yr old girl, in ICU fighting for her life."
Helen Hywater: "she would want me to be happy"
Meme - PSYCHOLOGIST: "I don't diagnose you with depression"
14 year olds (Thanos): "Fine! I'll do it myself."
Meme - 🏛 Aristophanes 🏛 @Aristos_Revenge: "Lawyer friend just commissioned into the reserves as JAG, and these were his first thoughts on his first time at a military base while in-processing:"
"Almost every square foot of workspace had something on it reminding soldiers not to rape, not to be racist, not to lie, not to be racist, not to be racist, not to kill themselves, not to be sexist, not to be racist. No wonder morale is so terrible. It's a neverending fire hose of a message that the military is a terrible place to work. Even the bathroom (in terrible condition) had a dozen posters in it. Are soldiers really getting pimped and human trafficked? Awareness campaigns beget MORE of what they want to stop."
Wolf Bronsky on X - "This is true and they know it. I had a friend who participated in a VA funded study in grad school, after he got out. Suicide prevention. Part of the study was reaching out to "at risk" vets via phone on a regular basis, to ask about suicidal ideation and offer support. This constant reinforcement of the idea that the "at risk" population was at risk created the idea that these people *should* be, or had reason to be, considering suicide. The constant drumbeat of "are you thinking about killing yourself?" actually caused the suicide rate in this cohort to spike over the control group. They had to discontinue the study."
"Awareness" can be a self-fulfilling prophecy
Kelsea - in Christ on X - "We're doomed. I just saw a post where most of the people in the comments LEGITIMATELY thought it was a form of injustice that people can't get maternity leave for when they get a new puppy. That it's not fair to those who don't want or can't have kids to not have comparable time off to "get their new puppy settled" because "their pets are their kids." I hate pet culture so much. And I have a dog and a cat that I love. But when people call their pets their children I want to vomit."
Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "That sinking feeling about America's future when you find out that only the less educated from each racial group are above the population replacement rate and the most educated are well below it."
Meme - "Not Just Bikes sent you a message. Twitter is being run into the ground by fascists. Anybody that gets the blue check is obviously OK with that, so I'm OK to block them. But it's irrelevant anyway; I'm not on Twitter anymore. I'm on Mastodon and Blue Sky though."
Everyone who isn't on the far left is a "fascist"
Meme - "Armor from a freaking coffee commercial *Nespresso The Quest with George Clooney, with detailed armour*
Armor from multi-milion dollars tv shows *Nilfgaard armour from The Witcher, Galadriel in Rings of Power, Saxon armour from Vikings, Ser Arthur Dayne in Game of Thrones*"
Actual Fact Bot: Revived | Facebook - "Ridley Scott tried to make Gladiator (2000) an authentic representation of Ancient Rome. An early script had Maximus doing a product endorsement for olive oil, which was historically accurate for famous gladiators to do, but the detail was left out in later scripts for being too unbelievable."
Meme - Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil: "The Wikipedia donation scam. Begs for donations, but actually has 250+ million dollars in the bank, and growing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_"
Meme - Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen: "Katherine Maher was formerly the Wikimedia CEO. Wikipedia frequently asks for donations:
These donations are naturally assumed to be for Wikipedia, and to keep it running. However, Wikipedia has large reserves and income, and doesn't need your money. Instead the money goes to Wikimedia staff, which has ballooned from $4 milllion in 2010 to $100 million today:
Another large item is grants, the recipients of which include explicitly left-wing interest organisations, such as Borealis Philantropy, or The SeRCH Foundation which makes this type of content:
The History, Politics, and Science of Black Hair,
Decolonized Mentoring
This foundation is clearly massively bloated. And it is borderline unethical how it uses the donations that are explicitly given to Wikipedia."
Shared post - The Wiki Piggy Bank - "Wikimedia grows rich as Wikipedia donations are used for political causes...
The Wikimedia Foundation received over $50 Million dollars more than they spent in 2021. They made $50+ million in profit...
Q: Does Wikipedia desperately need your donations in order to continue operating?
A: No. Not by a long-shot. If donations dropped significantly, there would be no hit to Wikipedia operations. Certainly not for quite some time.
When Wikipedia tells you they need your $5 donation to keep running? They are lying to you...
Is it strange that Wikipedia donations are being sent, by the Millions, to be handled by a political orgainzation? Yes. That is, most definitely, strange. Considering Wikipedia has repeatedly stated the importantce of neutrality... incredibly so. But it gets... even weirder. Neither Wikimedia nor The Tides Foundation publish details about how those funds are being used. It appears to be a secret. But, considering what The Tides Foundation does, it is something political. And only on one side of the political spectrum. Not neutral, like Wikipedia says they must be... Whatever your thoughts around any of those statements, it should be noted that Wikimedia is spending $4.5 Million dollars worth of Wikipedia donations to further those goals. Money that is not being spent on running Wikipedia. In fact... it is worth noting that the dollar figure being allocated towards this "Knowledge Equity Fund" is twice the size of the yearly Server Hosting costs for all of Wikipedia. Regardless of what any of us think about the specific political spending of Wikimedia, one thing is crystal clear: A significant portion of donations -- solicited for the stated purpose of the running of Wikipedia -- are being spent furthing political goals. Not on running Wikipedia. All while Wikipedia is claiming to be barely surviving. And Wikimedia is getting rich in the process."
Meme - Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil: "Wikipedia / Wikimedia is not the only scam non-profit operation. Mozilla Firefox too. It's even richer, over a billion dollars in the bank. Lunduke goes what other journalists should be doing. https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/f"
Shared post - Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla - "Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that's just for starters...
The head of Mozilla earned roughly $5.6 Million during 2021. The rest of the executive team ranged, more or less, from $100k to $300k. Interesting to note that the Mozilla CEO earned nearly as much ($5.6 M) as Mozilla received in donations ($7 M). Also interesting that the CEO received a bonus of nearly $5 Million… considering the precarious position that Mozilla is in (being dependent on a single client continuing to pay for Search Engine placement). Unless there’s a secret deal going on, that looks like a company teetering on the edge to me. Strange to reward a CEO for that sort of future uncertainty... Mckensie Mack is a public speaker who regularly discusses her anger at “White Colonialism” and her dislike of “CIS” men and women. The “Mckensie Mack” company website blog primarily discusses abortion and Trans related issues. Why would a company that develops a web browser want to pay her close to half a million dollars (in one year)? That remains unclear. It is, however, worth noting that this is a far larger expense than any of the executive team of Mozilla earn in salary (other than the CEO)... That founder, Neil Lewis Jr., appears to have focused his career on “vaccine acceptance”, problems with “white” people, and his theory that “white people” can not be victims of discrimination. What does this “Action Research Collaborative” actually do? Why would Mozilla need their services and be willing to pay $100,000 for it? That remains entirely unknown. While The Lunduke Journal does not like to delve too deeply into the Political Woods (tm), it should be questioned why so much money — possibly millions of dollars donated by individuals who thought they were supporting a web browser — is being funneled into highly political organizations that seem to have no involvement with the World Wide Web, Web Browsers, or any related standards... Mozilla, the developer of Firefox, gave $375,000 to a “Fund” that specifically exists to provide money and services for political organizations of one particular “alignment”. Why? In what way does this help Firefox? Or Firefox users?...
With the 70%+ reliance on Google (a competitor) for revenue, why is Mozilla spending money on projects that have no goal of being profitable (and have no relation to their core business)?
What happens when the Google funding goes away? Mozilla appears certain that it never will (based on their spending)…. why is that?
Why is Mozilla decreasing software development funding when development of Firefox is the cash cow?"
The amount of scams in the non profit industry is amazing. But of course, left wingers will never call for "taxing" rich charities - only churches (regardless of how rich they are), because they just hate Christians and Christianity
Facebook - "I WANT ALL OF THESE ESPECIALLY A DISAPPEARING STAIRCASE"
Meme - "This building looks like it was designed in Microsoft Word. *misaligned windows*"
Meme - "SCIENTIST: Let's name this spider Long Legs, for its long legs
SCIENTIST 2: Hmm not kinky enough"
On Daddy Long Legs
Meme - "Amsterdam Travel Tips and Hacks
Anonymous participant
This is a tip for Americans. Me and my wife got kicked out of a cheese store in Amsterdam because we called them out for pronouncing Gouda wrong! If you go over there beware they get very defensive over the correct pronunciations of words."
Meme - Mary Jane in Spider Man: "Peter, I don't want to hear about your 2 jobs, university, intemship, dead parents, dead uncle and 1 living related soul who is a sick old lady, financial struggles, loss of your house and your scooter that got demolished in a car accident. Why didn't you show up to my play? I haye to fuck Chad now, bye"
Meme - *Flashing Asian woman and Munch's The Scream at From Monet to Kandinsky, Visions Alive at River City Bangkok*
Meme - "My uncle 1976 Died 7 days after this picture was taken. *Happy old man beside busty woman exposing cleavage*"
Meme - *Black man and redhead at bar*
*Black man and redhead at woman's home with man overlooking her*
Redhead: "So, Is the stereotype true?"
Black man: "Damn right"
*Black man stabbing redhead to death and stealing her pink bag and leaving*
Meme - "Who was the behind the holocaust"
"Maurice. Fictional character" (from Madagascar)
Paul Elam on X - "Marriage based on romance has only been a thing for about 150 years, as opposed to the 6,000 years of civilization that preceded it. And romantically based marriages started falling apart completely the moment we removed the stigma attached to divorce. Romance was a fad that is now failing and fading, largely because it's a lopsided and rather childish model on which to build a marriage and a family. You can thank red pill men that the truth is coming out. #MarriageStrike"
Actual Fact Bot: Revived | Facebook - "Fort Saint-Jean in Marseille, France was built with cannons facing the city, not the sea, due to constant uprisings."
Baby on Japan store sign turns into horror poster child as ink melts in intense summer heat in recent years - "A sign outside a store in Shiga prefecture, Japan, which featured a photo of a baby, has turned into something out of a horror movie as the ink melted due to intense heat in recent years. Many people have since stopped outside the store, Hangai Nagahama, to take pictures of the ghastly sign, the store owner told Japanese media FNN... he did not change the sign immediately as Japan's Obon holidays, observed from Aug. 13 to 16, was around the corner. "I thought I'd leave it as it is for a while, so that people can enjoy it as a summer horror experience," he added."
Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete - "A former jockey who was left paralyzed from the waist down after a horse riding accident was able to walk again thanks to a cutting-edge piece of robotic tech: a $100,000 ReWalk Personal exoskeleton. When one of its small parts malfunctioned, however, the entire device stopped working. Desperate to gain his mobility back, he reached out to the manufacturer, Lifeward, for repairs. But it turned him away, claiming his exoskeleton was too old... these companies can shut down entirely, leaving a patient stuck with proprietary tech that needs specialized software or hardware to maintain. One man, for example, was forced to spend enormous amounts of time and effort to teach himself how to repair a device that managed his debilitating cluster headaches, after the company that made it went belly up. Others lost their sight when the manufacturer of a bionic eye stopped supporting the devices. That some of these manufacturers can come and go isn't the point, though. As 404 notes, the issue is the nefarious practices that many of them use to make their devices difficult to fix without their help. In absence of strong regulations called right to repair laws, manufacturers aren't obligated to share the specialized parts, tools, and guides that make third party repairs possible. In the tech world, Apple is particularly notorious for its hostility towards using aftermarket parts to repair its devices. Some manufacturers will go as far to lean on people who share independently created repair guides for their products... Fortunately, Lifeward eventually capitulated and Straight was able to get his exoskeleton repaired — but that was only after an intense campaign in which he went on local TV, got highlighted in a horse industry publication, and gained steam on social media. If it weren't for that, he could still be struggling to find a way to get his mobility back again."
Meme - Gandalf: "I've brought you a fresh one Denethor"
*Denethor leering at Pippin*
Pippin: "...Gandalf?"
Gandalf: "I wish there was another way Pippin. We need Gondor"
*Denethor strokes Pippin's cheek and then looks down [implied blowjob?]*
Planets could be the reason early humans revolutionized farming - "Hunter-gatherers were better off than Neolithic farmers, diet-wise — until Earth was hit by seasonal extremes caused by Jupiter's gravity... There are a lot of Grand Theories about the multiple Neolithic Revolutions, and a new one by a 40-year-old Italian economist, Andrea Matranga, is the talk of econ Twitter this week. Matranga’s paper, “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” has been accepted by the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which is in itself a reputation-making achievement. It’s all the more impressive because the paper is sole-authored, and Matranga’s current academic platform is an assistant professorship at the unprepossessing Chapman University in Orange, Calif. Matranga’s own explanation for the invention of agriculture is: “Believe it or not, it is down to extraterrestrial forces.” Yes, that’s an actual quote from a cheeky Twitter thread in which Matranga summarizes his hypothesis colourfully. The real idea is that the period of the Neolithic Revolutions coincided with a time when seasonal temperature and rainfall differences were maximized by coinciding features of Earth’s orbit — features attributable mostly to Jupiter’s gravitational tug on us... the local Neolithic Revolutions coincide with maximum local seasonality, and then he builds some economic models of primitive society to suggest what effect this might have had on social organization and population evolution... For it’s not just the average that matters. In a world that was more or less the same year-round, hunter-gatherers didn’t have to worry about food storage: they could migrate cyclically within a small range, following wild game, to keep up with modest seasonal effects. But if the seasons then got more intense, food storage would become more important to the long-term survival of the group: one winter could now finish everyone off. Those hunter-gatherer skeletons from Neolithic times really are bigger and stronger than those of the farmers, but they are also marked noticeably, Matranga says, with “Harris lines” like the rings of a tree — a biological signal of periodic starvation. Those sedentary idiots eating grass — ancestors to most of us — might have been hungry year-round, but they prevailed, and eventually stumbled their way into civilization. For better or worse, as some would say."
Let’s be honest… the Conservatives are deluded - "Labour’s extraordinarily short honeymoon and the prospect of a new leader mean sunnier days appear to be on the horizon. There is perhaps even a sense of schadenfreude that the new government finds it just as hard as they did. In the immortal words of the leading philosopher of our age, Kamala Harris: what can be, unburdened by what has been. The trouble is – also in the words of Harris – the Tories don’t live in a coconut tree, they exist in a context. The last election result was their worst in their nearly 200-year history, a damning indictment of 14 years of Conservative government. The public lost trust in their competence, and that’s extremely difficult to regain from opposition."
Andrew Lloyd Webber condemns dynamic pricing for concert tickets - "Asked about dynamic pricing potentially being used for theatre tickets, Lord Lloyd-Webber told The Sundays Times magazine: ‘I don’t think theatres should be in the business of trying to push prices up. ‘You need to break even, but I don’t like making theatre inaccessible... ‘People just don’t realise the value of the arts,’ he said... 'I really believe that for every penny spent on music in schools, you will save it in policing costs related to knife crime, drugs, behavioural issues.’"
When you don't realise that dynamic pricing means the starting prices will be lower, and - either that or with static pricing there's a shortage (as there is today) and you have scalping and/or shortages, as we do today (and that is also condemned)
One in ten civil servants should be in prison because they were so bad, says Badenoch - "Kemi Badenoch claimed that up to 10 per cent of civil servants were so “very, very bad” that they should be in prison, claiming they leaked official secrets, undermined their ministers and agitated against them... Asked if he missed Boris Johnson, Stuart Andrew, the Conservative Party’s Chief Whip, replied: “I’m not getting in on any of the conversations about who should be the candidates. “You know I have to be impartial. I’m really pleased that we have got four excellent candidates.” When pressed on if he missed Mr Johnson, Mr Andrew said: “I’ve got four brilliant candidates to choose from. I’m happy with that.” Challenged again, he replied: “Everybody misses him.”... Kemi Badenoch has claimed that “a little bit of adversity” in life is good for mental health, writes Genevieve Holl-Allen. The Conservative leadership candidate said that not having “adversity” to overcome “is actually very bad for the human spirit”. Speaking at a hustings event last night, Ms Badenoch said:“The mental health crisis that we’ve been facing in the country is something that a lot of people talk about but I don’t think we’ve really got to the roots of. “It is not a function of income, many of the people with the most severe mental health crises actually live very comfortable lifestyles, some people call it ‘affluenza’. “That it’s just not being able to feel a need to do anything that is actually very bad for the human spirit. That we all need to have a little bit of adversity to help us cope. Those who don’t have any actually do badly.”"
Meme - "Mommy, what were you doing bouncing on Daddy's stomach last night?"
"I have to do that, or Daddy's belly gets very fat. Bouncing keeps him skinny."
"That's not going to work."
"Why not?"
"Because Tina the babysitter keeps blowing him back up again."