So I’m reading the teachers subreddit for my daily dose of misery and sense of doom about the future when I come across an unusually worded comment.

As an educator, I’ve got to agree - while crystals and essential oils can be lovely, they won’t replace a solid IEP or therapy. Let’s save the throwing for the baseball field, not the classroom!

~ /u/mohsinali- (343 Karma pre Suspension)

This comment reeked of ChatGPT. This is exactly the way an un-tuned AI writes, so I follow the rabbit hole downward to see what this is all about.

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We’re living in the cyber dark ages. The primary way most people interact with the internet is through social media. This is the default space people not only listen to others, but also try to make their voices heard - which is sad, because social media isn’t very good for that.

It is liberating to have complete control of your own cyberspace. I’ve been running lagomor.ph, or some derivative of it, for almost ten years, and it’s been an incredibly fulfilling project - Without it, I would have missed out on countless opportunities to express myself and interact with interesting people - the number of friends I have made on account of this blog are countless.

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I categorically refuse to believe anybody actually enjoys ricotta cheese. For those unfamiliar, this Italian cheese comes out of a mistaken way to boil milk in the Bronze age, and for some reason hundreds of years later, it’s still an ingredient people try to eat.

It’s tasteless, so all you really have to go off of is its texture, which is chewy, grainy, and offputting - it has the same consistency of curdled milk (because it is), except unlike curdled milk we’ve somehow been convinced we’re supposed to eat it.

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