I had to leave three jobs/projects in the last three years. All of those companies were privately owned, and they weren't much interested in my previous experience or degrees and were strict with rules (dresscode, deadlines, evaluation). I think it was mostly because I didn't know anyone in those companies and there wasn't anyone to recommend me. Right now I'm working in a place where I completed a project few years ago and my profession is more appreciated in these circles. It's not a permanent solution though and not the perfect job for me, but I'm very grateful to be working there.
What made me unhappy today ?
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Catrin Lewis
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I'm so sorry to hear that!
The only saving grace of an AI checker is that it's fast. :-\ It's time for the old question: do you want it fast, cheap, or good?
I suppose I kind of understand where your mentor is coming from. If you take an entire paragraph and only change one word, then yes, by all means quote the source. But if you've paraphrased the entire paragraph, it's yours. Why bother quoting your source then? :-\
I guess the mentor is taking a "better safe than sorry" approach.
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I'm unhappy today because, while I was asleep, my phone (which I always put on my bedside desk, to use as an alarm clock) restarted itself. I've no idea why, maybe an update.
So, I was fast asleep and suddenly I heard: "HELLO MOTO." :-\ I rolled over, opened one crusty eye, saw the time is 6:39am, groaned, tried to go back to sleep, couldn't, and eventually had to get up.
What gets me is that this happened on the day that we roll our clocks back one hour. The one day of the year that we get an extra hour of sleep. And my phone messed it up. *swears in asterisks*
Catrin Lewis
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We always had to list all our sources in our university essays, whether it was a direct quotation or doing a total paraphrase.
I don't remember it being the issue before. One version of my thesis was returned because of it, and I had to add the name of the author and the year at the end of each paraphrased paragraph. Even though Pending's talking about AI checker at work (not uni), don't know if they have the same (academic?) rules.
Yeah I think the reference list should mostly consist of research papers, journals and specialized books. Don't really know how to reference articles, social media posts and similar sources. I'm not really a scientific/academic writer so I would occasionally mention them anyways, I only had issues when submitting the final work because it's more official.
GrahamLewis
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Spent the day with my wife at the Emergency Room; she was miserable, albeit not likely anything immediately serious, and came home this afternoon. What struck me more than anything else was that for all their miraculous life-saving equipment, hospitals are rarely compassionate. Well-trained and well-meaning, perhaps, but also very busy and cliquish. IMHO. Patients seem to be mostly products and projects.
Socks Fox
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Outside of forums, I'm on a couple of social media platforms just so my family knows I'm not dead in a ditch somewhere. (I'm an introvert, I hate phone calls. Text or email...preferably email.) Anywho because I usually don't post anything other than sarcasm and things about my boys (Basse and Marlowe) I get a lot of dog related social media,
There was an account with a sizable following that made a post featuring their GSD known for its outrageous behaviour wearing a 'service' dog vest. As a service dog handler myself, (Marlowe, medical alert 2+ years of training), people passing off ESAs as 'service' dogs is something we encounter on a regular basis. It's aggregating, but you have to learn to deal with the ignorance and stupidity of the general public in a reasonable manner.
Where I really got just irritated was the fact that this account was being 'satirical', but marched out every entitled ESA Karen reply in the book. The post was bad enough, what was worse was the comment section. People honestly thought the behavior was funny. It wasn't. It was ignorance that has the potential to adversely affect service dog teams because people being people will take that post at face value and assume that by spending the $49.99 they are now entitled to call their untrained pet a 'service' dog and take it everywhere. Real service animals usually have a minimum of two years of intensive training and are conditioned to work in a variety of situations, we're talking hundreds of hours of work with these dogs. For many, their dogs are more reliable than any tech out there and are usually significantly ahead of the curve when monitoring their owners. (Marlowe does cardiac function and has autodiatically picked up on when I get low blood sugar). They alert to seizures, cardiac episodes, blood sugar shifts, help their handlers determine when something is real or a hallucination, ground someone during a panic attack, etc...The list goes on. Service dogs are a different calibre of animal than a pet. They literally save lives and prevent injury. Yet they were treated as a joke and knowing the average understanding of the general public (US) at least 15% of the people who saw that post will take it at face value.
I did something I don't generally do. I said something on a social media platform. I was polite, but good grief, why do something so tactless. It is like allowing your kid to try and pet an on duty service animal or play with someone else's mobility aid. It wasn't funny. It was just plain stupidity and no one said anything. When something can negatively impact another demographic because people don't 'get' the joke, it stops being funny. That is bullying. It is ignorance at its finest.
Put a face to it: Say someone sees the post and buys the vest for their reactive GSD, which they then take to Voldemart on a busy Saturday afternoon. A mom is out running errands with her little boy (5). The little boy has Type 1 Diabetes. He has a task trained service dog to alert when his sugars go high or drop too low. The dog is always at least fifteen to twenty minutes faster than the boy's monitoring tech and more accurate. The dog is this little boy's lifeline. They walk down the Lego aisle to look at the Star Wars sets. The person with the GSD also wants to look at the Lego sets. The GSD sees the service spaniel and lunges. GSD's owner is taken unaware and doesn't control their dog. The shepherd attacks the spaniel and there is damage. The spaniel needs a vet ASAP.
While mom is trying to get their dog help and calm her hysterical child, the incapacitated dog misses an alert and the little boy into acute ketoacidosis. Due to the 'joke' of someone with a sizable platform a child and his service dog are now in a battle to survive because someone said a vest automatically qualifies your dog to be a 'service' dog. What is really sad, is that while my example is hypothetical it has happened before and will likely happen again because of crap like this. People need to do better.
There was an account with a sizable following that made a post featuring their GSD known for its outrageous behaviour wearing a 'service' dog vest. As a service dog handler myself, (Marlowe, medical alert 2+ years of training), people passing off ESAs as 'service' dogs is something we encounter on a regular basis. It's aggregating, but you have to learn to deal with the ignorance and stupidity of the general public in a reasonable manner.
Where I really got just irritated was the fact that this account was being 'satirical', but marched out every entitled ESA Karen reply in the book. The post was bad enough, what was worse was the comment section. People honestly thought the behavior was funny. It wasn't. It was ignorance that has the potential to adversely affect service dog teams because people being people will take that post at face value and assume that by spending the $49.99 they are now entitled to call their untrained pet a 'service' dog and take it everywhere. Real service animals usually have a minimum of two years of intensive training and are conditioned to work in a variety of situations, we're talking hundreds of hours of work with these dogs. For many, their dogs are more reliable than any tech out there and are usually significantly ahead of the curve when monitoring their owners. (Marlowe does cardiac function and has autodiatically picked up on when I get low blood sugar). They alert to seizures, cardiac episodes, blood sugar shifts, help their handlers determine when something is real or a hallucination, ground someone during a panic attack, etc...The list goes on. Service dogs are a different calibre of animal than a pet. They literally save lives and prevent injury. Yet they were treated as a joke and knowing the average understanding of the general public (US) at least 15% of the people who saw that post will take it at face value.
I did something I don't generally do. I said something on a social media platform. I was polite, but good grief, why do something so tactless. It is like allowing your kid to try and pet an on duty service animal or play with someone else's mobility aid. It wasn't funny. It was just plain stupidity and no one said anything. When something can negatively impact another demographic because people don't 'get' the joke, it stops being funny. That is bullying. It is ignorance at its finest.
Put a face to it: Say someone sees the post and buys the vest for their reactive GSD, which they then take to Voldemart on a busy Saturday afternoon. A mom is out running errands with her little boy (5). The little boy has Type 1 Diabetes. He has a task trained service dog to alert when his sugars go high or drop too low. The dog is always at least fifteen to twenty minutes faster than the boy's monitoring tech and more accurate. The dog is this little boy's lifeline. They walk down the Lego aisle to look at the Star Wars sets. The person with the GSD also wants to look at the Lego sets. The GSD sees the service spaniel and lunges. GSD's owner is taken unaware and doesn't control their dog. The shepherd attacks the spaniel and there is damage. The spaniel needs a vet ASAP.
While mom is trying to get their dog help and calm her hysterical child, the incapacitated dog misses an alert and the little boy into acute ketoacidosis. Due to the 'joke' of someone with a sizable platform a child and his service dog are now in a battle to survive because someone said a vest automatically qualifies your dog to be a 'service' dog. What is really sad, is that while my example is hypothetical it has happened before and will likely happen again because of crap like this. People need to do better.
Some goon attempted to make a fraudulent charge on my credit card. Cradit union caught it immediately and denied the charge, but that means my sole credit card froze the day before I started a 3 day drive from home. Found out this morning when I tried to use it to buy groceries and gas. Inconvenient, but fortunately not as devastating as it might've been. Guess who is getting a backup credit card before she goes on another trip?
Catrin Lewis
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We need a sad/crying emoji for things like this. It's unbelievable how thoughtless and self-centered people can be. "I'll lie and cheat to march around in public with my untrained pet, and ha-ha on them if anyone else gets hurt."
Catrin Lewis
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Any news? Or is it something you'd rather not talk about?
Oh, just my history class made me sad, because we hit WWII and we had a few sad readings for the class. I am glad that this teacher is assigning the readings, but it's also just really sad.
I think the next two weeks are going to be hard, too. Because we continue with WWII and then have a whole unit on the Holocaust. Which is also depressing. I think that for me, reading HOW Germany and Italy declined in to Nationalistic Fascism was hard, because of modern times. The good thing about all of this is that we ARE learning about it and learning about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Aside from the tens of millions of dead young men in WWI, the power vacuum of disposed monarchies, the complete collapse of the global economy, and the lack of centuries of liberalism and representative government that proceeded it... there's really no comparison at all. In times like these, I find my history degree more comforting than a million hugs. Imagine if they had doom-scrolling in 1933? That would have been some shit.
Catrin Lewis
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It's good you have a tender heart about it. It's so common for people to decline into the attitude of "It happened a long time ago and I don't care."Oh, just my history class made me sad, because we hit WWII and we had a few sad readings for the class. I am glad that this teacher is assigning the readings, but it's also just really sad.
I think the next two weeks are going to be hard, too. Because we continue with WWII and then have a whole unit on the Holocaust. Which is also depressing. I think that for me, reading HOW Germany and Italy declined in to Nationalistic Fascism was hard, because of modern times. The good thing about all of this is that we ARE learning about it and learning about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Recently I had more issues with my teeth than other health issues where I would need a doctor's help. I would say they're compassionate when working with kids and other vulnerable groups but more than being compassionate they need to be correct in diagnosing and treating the patients. Some of them do come off as abrupt sometimes.
Stuart Dren
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I really appreciated that my English 11 had a whole unit on the Holocaust. I can hear about it and sort of take its existence for granted emotionally, just like the creation and use of nuclear weapons, since it all transpired before I existed. That is, until I really read about it.Oh, just my history class made me sad, because we hit WWII and we had a few sad readings for the class. I am glad that this teacher is assigning the readings, but it's also just really sad.
I think the next two weeks are going to be hard, too. Because we continue with WWII and then have a whole unit on the Holocaust. Which is also depressing. I think that for me, reading HOW Germany and Italy declined in to Nationalistic Fascism was hard, because of modern times. The good thing about all of this is that we ARE learning about it and learning about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Night, by Wiesel was good too.
As for WW2 in general, I will never be able to comprehend the amount of suffering. Numbers too big.
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