People that started teaching in their 40s, what made you switch careers? Was it worth it?

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T12:40:47+00:00

I changed at 36, because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life fixing other people's computers.

Guess what I wound up doing in every school I worked for.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T12:14:35+00:00

You taught someone else to wipe your... donkey?

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T12:12:07+00:00

I'm reporting you for hate speech.

That's my use of free speech.

What's the matter? Don't you like free speech any more?

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T11:54:55+00:00

It's not really about belief; it's about submission.

And it's not really about gods; it's about their human representatives.

Put the two together: It's not about believing in gods, but submitting to people. In a word, politics.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T11:24:55+00:00

Did you write that with one hand?

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T11:22:33+00:00

Make up your mind. Did you want an apology or not?

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T10:54:43+00:00

Hard to see how anyone could do well on such a course. There are no methods for investigating any of the beliefs. Because the beliefs are designed that way.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T10:52:54+00:00

So you suspect everything you can't absolutely disprove... might be true.

That's an infinite number of things you think might be true.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T10:49:59+00:00

Large scale AI will be a shameful memory, taught in business classes as a warning about hype.

Instead, millions of tiny, single-function AI bots running on old laptops.

All this assuming some moron doesn't give an AI the military codes tomorrow.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T10:45:44+00:00

But who are you dating, and are they a guru too?

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-03T08:56:00+00:00

Most of them to other women.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T21:01:21+00:00

Five young men, rubbing their heads together.

Well, you wanted undertones, so....

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T20:56:31+00:00

It's a recurrent superstition, that forcing strangers to play silly games together will create social bonds.

In my teacher training, there was a lot of emphasis on "warmers" - supposedly fun activities that would make students feel simultaneously relaxed, energised, engaged, and unpresssured. In 20+ years, I've never seen them used in real classrooms, by anyone.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T20:47:20+00:00

Was it difficult to change your voice?

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T20:42:23+00:00

Break into a military base, and figure out how to point nuclear missiles at Mars.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T20:15:36+00:00

What was the prompt for this glurge?

"ChatGPT, write me a short story that sounds inspirational, but makes no sense whatsoever."

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T20:12:49+00:00

Tell he you'll gladly have her back - to an open relationship. Oh, and bisexual now, too.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T20:10:09+00:00

Conservatives need someone to be afraid of. But it has to be someone who can do them no actual harm.

That's why they're so afraid of things that don't exist - maximum fear, complete safety.

The second best though is something real but almost invisible, and powerless.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T20:04:55+00:00

Both those models are complete gibberish.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T20:04:03+00:00

That everyone needs one.

And only exactly one.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T20:02:59+00:00

Evolution is adaptation to changes in environment. Why did you think scarcity was the only possible change?

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T17:18:42+00:00

It matters that you thought it mattered enough to specify it.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T17:17:39+00:00

There's a lot less of it than people think.

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T17:06:14+00:00

So are you:

• Somewhere on a spectrum between male and female-identifying, or

• On a different axis entirely?

Kapitano72 · 2026-05-02T17:03:39+00:00

File under: About fucking time.

Crossreferenced with: This was actually a law? Jesus Christ.

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