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    • helveticaH
      helvetica
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      I don’t know if anyone else here is in the lit mag world, but this serial plagiarizer dude is becoming like wack-a-mole. Why? Why plagiarize some sweet stranger’s poem or personal essay? There’s no money in this. It’s under various aliases, so there’s no sharing this with real life friends or family. What the actual fuck is wrong with you?

      Street Cred

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        GF @helvetica
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        @helvetica said in RL Peeves:

        I don’t know if anyone else here is in the lit mag world, but this serial plagiarizer dude is becoming like wack-a-mole. Why? Why plagiarize some sweet stranger’s poem or personal essay? There’s no money in this. It’s under various aliases, so there’s no sharing this with real life friends or family. What the actual fuck is wrong with you?

        I would guess envy? A desire to get the credit for an idea you wish you’d had?

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        • SolsticeS
          Solstice
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          Aw. 😕

          When you find a video game and it’s lots of fun and then you look at the patch notes and see that it’s on maintenance mode and no longer receiving updates because it failed to capture a base within 8 months of launch. Live service games live such brutal, fleeting lives.

          (Omega Strikers, for the curious.)

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              RightMeow @Juniper
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              @Juniper

              Messily with lots of four letter words. Ouch included

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                  Aria @Juniper
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                  @Juniper

                  Fun Fact: If you get the right kind of IUD, you can enjoy the benefits of not getting pregnant AND not having a period.

                  A+. Do recommend.

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                  • RucketR
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                    Getting out of the shower and looking into the hallway and wondering… am I losing my goddamn mind as something seems to be moving on the floor. Oh no, a damn scorpion 😞 These things freak me out to no end.

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                    • DreampipeD
                      Dreampipe
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                      jury duty.

                      Ask me about professional wrestling.

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                        Having had bowel surgery and having to recover from that because your bowel was wrapped around your potentially cancerous tumor and stuck to it, which apparently includes learning how to eat again and training your stomach to accept food. It’s been a rocky, painful, rollercoaster for which I hope that I’m on the other end of.

                        T-minus 3 days since I last lost the contents of my stomach due to extreme gas and bloat. Hoping to start including more foods again soon. BRAT and chicken are overrated.

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                        • SammichS
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                          I know this is probably just, like, ‘Tertiary Education’. And maybe there’s even a great reason for it.

                          But man it feels so bad when so much of what I’m being assessed on for my classes is stuff that wasn’t taught or even part of the provided course material. Like, it feels the majority of what I’m being assessed on is stuff that I have to go and research myself.

                          At which point I can’t help but wonder what the hell I’m even paying these clowns for?

                          The answer, of course, is that I’m just paying them thousands of dollars to decide whether I get the qualification at the end of all this.

                          I kinda feel like I’m being scammed.

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                            dvoraen @Dreampipe
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                            @Dreampipe said in RL Peeves:

                            jury duty.

                            That’s me, too! Mine always come in December!

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                              Juniper
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                              I’m going to have a bit of a whine about how I always speak professionally to others in the workplace but a lot of people don’t extend the same courtesy to me. It’s not that they’re rude, more that they’re ambiguous, can’t spell, and trail off with that Boomer ellipsis that makes them sound perpetually annoyed.

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                              • GashlycrumbG
                                Gashlycrumb
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                                This email is ‘encrypted’. What I am supposed to do is click a link within the email, which brings me to a website, where I can then click to choose from among the email-addresses mentioned in the email, and it will send the actual message to that email address.

                                Like a large proportion of these things, this doesn’t actually send anything to my email box at all. Thus transforming what should be a two minute task that I can do on my own schedule (reading an email for a single word peice of info) into a group effort requiring three different people at least and having to be performed during business hours.

                                Also, HOW THE HELL does that make anything more secure?

                                "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
                                – A. Bertram Chandler

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                                  Juniper
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                                  I do not think these people know what encryption is.

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                                    dvoraen @Gashlycrumb
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                                    @Gashlycrumb lol. This is practically an IT story waiting to happen, for security reasons.

                                    Encouraging employees to click links in emails that lead to (random?) websites is a security risk. Period.

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                                    • GashlycrumbG
                                      Gashlycrumb
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                                      I had no idea that I desired to wear a tuxedo while teaching until I noticed that the faculty handbook forbids me from doing so.

                                      "This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
                                      – A. Bertram Chandler

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                                      • KestrelK
                                        Kestrel
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                                        I have an extremely annoying colleague I am nonetheless incredibly fond of.

                                        What annoys me about her is the exact same thing that makes me nevertheless respect her, it’s that she’s me 10 years ago complete with all the quirks and mistakes I’ve since taken pains to iron out.

                                        The curse of having your own sins come back to haunt you in the form of a younger version of yourself has to be one of the most underreported frustrations of getting older.

                                        I want to shake this person until she stops doing all the dumb obnoxious shit I used to do to other people.

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                                          Snackness @Kestrel
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                                          @Kestrel Parenthood is also this.

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                                            Does everyone remember, idk how long ago now, when “olestra” was the biggest thing to hit food and all over the news (and the various rumors about it)?

                                            I feel like “powered by AI” is along those lines, and I’m like, “ok. In 2025 olestra is something I never hear about anymore, so when can we get past the excessive AI push that probably isn’t really AI or as revolutionary as they claim?”

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