“Self-plagiarism is fraud and goes against the core principles of ethical writing. Papers are assigned for students to demonstrate evidence of learning. If a paper is reused from a previous class, the student is not demonstrating new learning.”

https://azhin.org/cummings/plagiarism/self#:~:text=Self-plagiarism is fraud and,is not demonstrating new learning.

Gemini AI’s pro argument that self plagiarism is a problem: Misrepresents effort: It’s an act of trying to pass off old writing as new and original. Misleads readers: It can mislead readers, colleagues, or supervisors who expect fresh insights and updated information.

These are consistent with my old philosophy of law Professor’s opinion on the subject, but other academics I’ve discussed it with since seem kind of split.

Why would you include both caps lock AND shift but omit A and Z?!

An old professor of mine would be very angry with Nathan. We had a big disagreement about whether using parts of your own prior work was plagiarism.

The joke is that something Elon’s companies make actually works reliably.

And. stop. there.

Humans, Reporters, and medical care in a hundred years?

Funny comic!

Sure!

So how about this climate change huh? Ecological collapse in just a couple of decades from what I hear. And really no one with significant power anywhere doing anything but speeding it up.

Discuss.

Everyone is going to die.

You can sit in the corner of a padded room and live off protein supplements to maximize your chances of staving off the inevitable by a few extra years, usually the worst ones anyway according to most that get there always volunteering “don’t get old” safely existing, or you can live.

No wrong answers, it’s a personal choice. Just know you’re almost certainly filled with life shortening microplastics regardless of your decision.

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I understand intimately, my friend!

Yeah. It’s carved to be vilified, which is hypocritical not just because there are other equivalent harms we allow young people to pursue for pleasure, there are several considerably more harmful harms we allow young people to pursue for pleasure.

All because an old newspaper magnate’s paper pulp business interests were threatened by hemp and it became tradition.

You can cause severe brain damage and kill people with alcohol, tobacco, and concussions. The studies I’ve seen about Marijuana in teens handwring over <5 IQ points with chronic use.

It’s inconsistent to the extreme.

It’s not realistic or even reasonable to avoid all pleasurable activities that come with risks, which weed falls under, until an entire third of your life is over, no.

We let people under 25 play contact sports, drink alcohol, and consume large quantities of sugar, all indulgences potentially more detrimental to the body than Marijuana.

Look at all the research on contact sports and the massive risks they bring, it’s weird to me those are still legal for kids.

How is it a strawman? Even the person I replied to said it isn’t realistic to follow the letter of the overcaution.

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No one’s getting out of here intact and alive.

Don’t run in front of any buses, but when hit with a statement of overcaution, I usually blurt out “you’re right, we should all sit in the corner of an empty padded room, eat saltines, and wait patiently for a safe death.”

Beyond the point of being a good student, excess intellect at this stage of civilization is more curse than blessing.

Honestly if they’re a good student and otherwise aren’t a troublemaker, I didn’t see nothing.

Until they turn 18, then pass that shit son.

We literally spend most of our lives fighting over fancy pieces of paper we’re deluded into valuing more than one another, talk about a waste of time.

The unexamined life is not worth living. In the US at least, we are discouraged from asking the questions that can provide us some semblance of meaning based on what we actually value during our brief existence, because considering the big questions about the nature of being distract us from collecting more fancy pieces of paper for the master’s next penis shaped space rocket.

IMHO, the ability to ask and really feel the importance of why is precisely what makes our existence more meaningful than an ant’s. Rejecting philosophical inquiry and living a life of mindless acquisition and gluttony makes one about as sapient as said ant. You’re just following someone else’s script, and that someone usually has an agenda of maximizing your productivity and consumption with that script, so your life is more their life to spend than yours to experience at that point.

I personally have pity for rank and file Republican voters.

They were simply easy marks our education system intentionally failed to teach critical thinking and reason to because obedient laborers don’t need that, and were then spoonfed sensationalist lies that appealed to their fears and anxieties, the easiest avenues for indoctrination, for the last half century under the guise of being “news” for the private profit of private shareholders and to turn them into useful idiot dependable votes for those same private shareholders to effectively capture their regulators and government that was once meant to protect us from them.

As just one in an ocean of examples, Fox “News” has been telling these poor sad bastards that “man made climate change is a hoax for scientists to sell books!”