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Hey, don’t feel bad for me. At the University of Chicago, a committee was formed to ponder the following important questions:
Once again, that’s University of Chicago, a formerly highly respected institution.
On the subject of ChatGPT, I would be remiss if I didn’t try to lighten the mood with this:
The administration now tells us that we aren’t allowed to write our own welcome emails to incoming students. Instead, we must all copy-paste the same text and send it under our own names.
Do you want a sample sentence from this prefab email?
“I look forward to connecting with you and igniting your academic passion.”
Really. That’s what it says.
60% of all sentences in the email end with an exclamation mark.
And I’m supposed to send this slop under my own name.
It’s quite extraordinary that the university pays good salaries to people who are professional writers and then prohibits us from deploying this skill. For which it pays us.
I mean, I’ve already been paid. I might just as well do the work for which I’ve been paid and which can’t possibly be copy-pasting text into email. Because if it is, you’ve overpaid me to a ridiculous degree.
The welcome emails I used to send were actually pretty good. I’m a fine writer. I tailored them based on what language each student was interested in. I provided specific, useful information. And I definitely didn’t say cringe oldster shit like “ignite your passion.”
And now I’m prohibited from sending my own emails or modifying the prefab one in any way. Now every incoming student will receive the same standard and badly written message. Because that’s what people want, amirite? To be treated like identical robots. That’s totally going to make an excellent impression on today’s young people.
Not.
Leftists are total pitbulls. They have been persecuting these poor nuns for 14 years and refuse to move on:
These nuns care for the dying elderly. It takes a bloody maniac to hound them for a decade and a half for being Catholic and refusing to fund abortion pills.
As Curtis Yarvin says, conservatives love power like a wine snob loves alcohol. Liberals love power like an alcoholic loves alcohol.
There are two possibilities:
The truth might lie in the middle. But it cannot be both things at once.
If Mossad is deadly effective, then why would it use as its agent a guy named Epstein? Wouldn’t it make more sense to find somebody called Jack O’Brien? Kim Chung Min? Vadim Kirilenko? What kind of morons would want to conduct a covert Jewish operation by covertly using the most Jewish name imaginable? This is truly the “Trump is Agent Krasnov” territory.
Or were Jack, Kim and Vadim unavailable?
Now, let’s assume Mossad is filled with clinical morons. Then, the theory is that these dimwits are holding several US presidencies in a row under their control without slipping up and revealing this mega conspiracy. Does that make much sense?
The belief in a deadly effective Mossad that enacts the Soviet joke about an American spy doesn’t hold water.
Also, one has got to wonder how it can be possible that so many people in US politics and business should be pedophiles. And why these people, who have normalized the genital mutilation of children, simply haven’t lowered the age of consent to 14 decades ago and solved the problem of fearing repercussions. The same people who legalized cutting off the breasts of 12-year-old girls couldn’t legalize fondling those breasts? And resigned themselves to being blackmailed by Mossad instead?
Whoever came up with this particular conspiracy theory wasn’t even trying.
Nobody is asking for my take, so I’ll inflict it on people of my own free will, although I know it will please no one.
I think that Trump isn’t releasing the Epstein files because there’s nothing to release. Nothing, that is, of what people expect.
The Trump campaign lied to people for years, spinning the story of a large pedo cabal that involved child rape at a mass scale. The plan was to inflame supporters, ride their rage to electoral victory, and then quietly move on from the topic. The voters refused to move on but there’s nothing to give them because it was all invented.
I’m sure Epstein was a mega sleazeball who did exactly what the woman in the piece I linked yesterday claimed. What kind of a pedo would put so much effort into chasing down adult women? If Epstein had access to infinity children to rape, why would he need to send out Maxwell to look for grown women? This makes no sense. Epstein organized parties where people came to engage in disordered sex acts. He himself participated. I’m sure a few of the girls brought there were underage, and Epstein should have absolutely gone to jail for that. And he did.
That’s why Biden didn’t release the Epstein files to bring down Trump. Because there’s only evidence there that Trump participated in these orgies with adult prostitutes. And that’s old news, nobody cares. That’s why Trump isn’t releasing them now because there’s zero evidence of a pedo cabal. He promised arrests of the pedo cabal for years, and there’s nobody to arrest because there’s no cabal.
This is what I believe Trump is guilty of. Creating a fantasy that inflamed intellectually limited people. This is the right’s version of structural racism. It’s the Republican BLM.
And honestly, this is the only theory that explains every aspect of the story. If there are others, I’d like to hear them but nobody made that case yet.
I have no idea why people are obsessed with regime change like it’s something bad. Is it because of Iraq and Libya? But those are savages, of course they messed it up.
Look at the 15 republics of the USSR, though. Look at the Warsaw Pact countries. They all experienced dramatic regime change far beyond Iraq. And it was fantastic. Or is there anybody here who wishes the USSR continued until now?
Germany regime-changed in 1945 and turned into a wonderful, civilized country. Even Mexico pulled off an excellent regime change in 1910, although being Mexico and all it did take 20 years and a civil war to make it stick. Spain regime-changed beautifully in 1975. The US achieved one of the most remarkable regime changes in history in 1776.
I don’t think that we should invade anybody to effect regime change. I’m against people invading other people. But that’s why I say I’m against invasions. I don’t say I’m against regime change. Because that’s a weird and random thing to oppose. Do you believe that people should be stuck for eternity in a regime that doesn’t work for them? Why? Because of one situational fail in one stupid Iraq?
Honestly, it’s not even the belief itself that annoys me but people’s eagerness to repeat these fake expressions without even trying to ask what they mean. I despise the use of verbal clichés.
By the way, after a welcome and happy pause, we are back to DEI full-speed, taking up exactly where we stopped a few months ago. I was at a meeting yesterday, and it was the summer of 2020 all over again. Every sentence for the first 30 minutes had the word “diverse” in it.
I don’t know what signals the administration received, first, to put the sloganeering on pause, and then to resume it but it works like a well-oiled machine.
The new hiring guidelines demand that we ask each candidate if they would like to meet with “minoritized faculty.”
You get it, right? Minoritized means somebody did it to them. We aren’t allowed to hire. The whole point of a two-hour training on the new hiring guidelines is to guilt-trip minoritizers for minoritizing the poor minoritized.
It never ends.
Because of getting married I gave up my habit of eating masses of raw onion and garlic.
Everything else was a win.
People aren’t doing marriage right if it’s such a challenging burden. It’s supposed to be fun, enjoyable, sexy. Having a partner in life should definitely make it easier. Emotionally, financially, and in every way. Marriage is a lifelong dialogue that often requires no words. To know that if things get tough, there’s somebody who will step in and carry your load without you having to ask really helps.
How was she “groomed” if she was 22? Is there any cutoff age for being groomed? Are you still groomed at 40? 50?
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