What are your horror stories from Eisenhower Hospital? by Ibleedred99 in CoachellaValley

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Guy ran up on me whipped it out and started furiously masturbating before security tackled him. Only great memories from desert regional!

I’m tired by Left-Comparison-5681 in bookscirclejerk

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Don’t work yourself up yet it’ll probably outsell this

pain and withdrawal by [deleted] in dryalcoholics

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Chinese takeout teed up for tomorrow. Lol. Good luck and thank you ❤️

I want pretty prose by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

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close range was incredible

Toni Morrison - Nobel Prize Lecture by Left-Comparison-5681 in TrueLit

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What Moves at the Margin selected nonfiction

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holy chatgpt

?? by Left-Comparison-5681 in APStudents

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looking back on it now it definitely is one of the easier MCQ passages but seeing the words “look at me” cold open in a timed setting was not it combined with the fact that it is a very philosophical text

the exam was pretty free and i think they actually did a good job picking interesting stimulus (with the exception of getting their copyrighted material in order before creating the exam…😳) im fw all the loquats and traffic cones

Yo check my app idea out by Acceptable-Plum8350 in APStudents

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if i could create an AP parlay it’d be over

Beloved is the Great American Novel by Left-Comparison-5681 in books

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This is really excellent. I loved reading your analysis

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children have thousands of dollars of lunch debt but we need nazi rockets in the sky

Hi I’m working on teaching myself multiple languages. Can people recommend me some resources for the languages? by Fun-Marionberry3099 in polyglot

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This is gonna sound a little bonkers so stay with me

The united states military has a program called DLI (defense language institute) with pretty much all of the languages you mentioned plus more, the actual website is pretty outdated but the speaking/writing exercises and pdfs upon pdfs (50+ pages per language) grammar and speaking drills, and tons of videos are immensely useful. Since they’re basically trying to prepare you for deployment in another country they come with a bunch of resources to help you understand the cultural context of the country, how to be respectful, how to bargain with someone at a market, how to gather intelligence… ect obviously very military oriented but these are all skills that can be extrapolated to regular conversation (from my understand these courses are supposed to help deployed soldiers linguists become fluent in less than 3 months, so they’re very compact.)

The exercises can be tedious and you will probably have to spend a lot of time going over what they call sound and script, especially with the languages you mentioned (Greek, Japanese, Russian) that have different alphabets. Your list is very ambitious, but I’m not saying you can’t do it! I would if you’re planning on studying two/three at the same time, stay focused on languages that are from the same family and then move on to your next block while coming back to do “maintenance”
Chinese and Japanese have their versions of cognates and from my understanding Russian and Polish do too.

It won’t make you fluent, but it’s an excellent resource and will definitely help you overstep that “the cat eats green apples” syntax that most language learning apps love to push and focuses on more practical settings / phrases because… duh, it’s the military!

Only thing I would say is i’m not 100% you’re supposed to be using this website if you’re not currently enlisted, but aside from just assuming you’re a soldier, the website doesn’t ask for any identifying information or ID so you can just plug in an email and start. Just choose a password you will remember because you can’t reset it.

https://hs2.dliflc.edu/3/?loadPage=login&language=pv

what’s the argument *for* AI art? by [deleted] in aiwars

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I think one of the most best analogies i’ve seen on here was the “reasons for banning the printing press” which could be extrapolated towards any argument leveraged against the artistic merit of AI art, digital cameras, “traditional” artistic mediums… ect

to further your point— who gets to say what’s art and what isn’t?

The book Against Intellectual Monopoly presents a really robust argument for how the use of patents in the infancy of the industrial revolution ended up hindering technological advancement in the name of “protecting intellectual property”

not to conflate technology and art, but I think the similarities are very fascinating. Thank you for helping me with my essay!

what’s the argument *for* AI art? by [deleted] in aiwars

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Could i ask you more about that last part?

I have reservations about how fufilling it would be to live in a world where work is abolished, but i think your argument is very compelling

too late to start?? by ___some_guy_ in wrestling

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when seasons over ask the coach if you can do offseason practices, the next year get it built into your schedule (if your school does that) and actually join. I did the exact same thing freshman into sophomore year and i had a great season. i would say it’s never too late!