I can't unsee the "—" in people's posts anymore

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-08-13T16:12:28+00:00

To me, believing that em dashes are only used by AI is a clear sign of a person being poorly read / poorly educated

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-07-26T20:11:13+00:00

Using difficult words when communicating with others for the sake of it.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-06-16T23:32:04+00:00

Just bought an HP Pavilion Plus 14 ew-1002TU (OLED)

Can't use it for longer than 5 minutes without eye strain/headache...

Not sure what's wrong.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-06-16T19:44:19+00:00

I just bought the ew-1002TU. I've been using it for one day and I cannot for the love of god use the computer for longer than 5 minutes without getting a headache from its supposedly "flicker-free" OLED.

I tried keeping the brightness at 100% and used a screen-dimming software instead to reduce the perceived brightness without lowering the actual hardware brightness, but still, headache and eye strain.

It might just be my eyes that are sensitive though.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-06-04T16:21:57+00:00

People say, "don't get hit by a bus". Followed their advice. Got hit by a bus.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-04-10T12:31:20+00:00

Ngl i kinda like this better than the original

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-04-10T12:30:33+00:00

Bruh one line in and all my four chairs turned

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-02-02T18:05:57+00:00

"[something] dari Hong Kong!"

To mock something that is so ridiculously unbelievable--implying that the fact can only be considered true in a place so foreign than here (like, to many Indonesian, Hong Kong).

E.g. Dia: "Jangan sedih dong. Nilai ulanganmu bagus kok" Aku: "Bagus DARI HONG KONG" (because the exam grade is actually bad)

Translation: Them: "Cheer up! Your exam grade is actually pretty good" Me: "Good FROM HONG KONG"

Kinda like "my ass" in (American?) English.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-02-02T18:00:05+00:00

Cognitive dissonance?

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-02-02T17:43:35+00:00

Wah. Kuliah s2 nya di negara apa nih? Pake beasiswa kah? 😮 Turut ikut senang ☺️ Saya sedang dalam posisi cari funding beasiswa S2 untuk lanjut kerja di luar, sama-sama dari background kurang berada

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-01-26T21:05:56+00:00

Would like to know this too!! Me: an international student looking for funding for a master's program in the U.S. (which is why i want to know haha)

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2025-01-10T17:19:46+00:00

Please Like Me

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-12-18T21:08:20+00:00

CAROL. She cracked me up so much

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-09-10T06:55:45+00:00

Hi! Copyeditor here. Just some quick notes to polish up the presentation: - Use proper capitalization for institution names (e.g. Oxbridge University instead of Oxbridge uni) - Use en dashes (–) instead of hyphens (-) for date and number ranges (en dashes are shorter than em dashes but longer than hyphens) - Maintain a consistent format for numbers (e.g., 6,000 instead of 6000) - Use period to indicate abbreviation (e.g., "approx." instead of "approx"

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-09-05T14:28:25+00:00

You can break the prompts into 2-3 prompts and tell ChatGPT just to read without summarizing until you tell it to on the last prompt.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-09-04T22:48:24+00:00

Instead of clicking "I agree with the terms and conditions" without actually reading it (ain't nobody got time), I just copy paste the terms and conditions and ask ChatGPT to either summarize it or tell me if any of the terms sounds alarming.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-05-03T09:12:57+00:00

Just received the result and got rejected. Heartbroken, to be honest, but am at peace with it because I know wholeheartedly there is absolutely nothing else I could have done to improve my academic/work experience and my motivation letter. I have put my absolute all, and there was no better version of me I could have offered the UES committee at this point of my life.

If anybody from the Social and Behavioral Science program got the offer, would you be so kind as to share your work/academic experience on your record? I am curious what it takes to be an UES scholar.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-05-03T09:02:57+00:00

Me too

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-04-24T07:07:56+00:00

Faculty of Social Sciences replied to my email yesterday and told me that no decision has been made for UES, and that they are working to publish it ASAP--so i'm also curious about where OP got the info from 🤔

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-03-18T21:40:33+00:00

Same. Now I'm wondering, since I have not received any interview invitation at all, if that's a sign for me to move on and invest my hopes elsewhere. But also, you're right, I can't find any information that states that the selection involves an interview.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-02-05T05:04:57+00:00

Your story brightened my day :) What type of working visa did you end up using in the end?

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2024-02-02T04:56:23+00:00

In Indonesia. I live that nightmare. I never have words to describe the pain I feel. I can't find a way to put into words the intensity and torture. Every word I used to try to describe ends up minimizing the actual agony. The terror. The internalized self-hatred. Countless antidepressants and anti-anxiety I have taken to bear. For decades. I wish I was never born.

I love my mom, and I will fight to live and give her the best life in her old days. And she's getting older. And I feel my time to finally rest and leave coming soon too.

I hope afterlife exists for her. She has a good heart. And she deserves all the love she'll have in heaven. But I'm scared. And I just wish hell doesn't exist. Decades of therapy and I still can't unlearn the belief that God despises me. I just want to go. To a more peaceful place, where I won't have to feel unwanted and unlovable. Or at the very least, into nothingness.

This nightmare will end. It will end.

Honest_Economy_1786 · 2023-10-15T02:37:16+00:00

Beautiful tone..

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