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Comment Re:Why is a person at university? (Score 1) 63

I guess it was even more simple and primitive: the same drive was used by several cheaters, handed to them by the guy providing the data. And the professor simply realized: he had seen this and that before or the files were even named Student_surname_student_given_name.pdf or student_id.pdf, and there were several of them.

Comment Just one asshole with really bad OpSec (Score 1) 63

There are obviously tons of people offering services like that, because there are tons of "students" that do not actually want to learn anything. Most just never get caught. Also, obviously, the students graduating this way will find their "expertise" to be worthless.

Fortunately, there are still (and probably always will be) enough students that actually want to learn and evolve their skills. We educators owe it to them to separate them from the dross though.

Comment Re:Must be mostly slop then (Score 1) 27

It gets a bit better when you systematically do "do not recommend channel" on all the YouTube slop, but it is still bad. In particular, channels pushing complete fabrications vor views are apparently totally fine for YT these days. Personally, I just have a small number of people for whom I look at content, and apart from the (rare) doom-scrolling, I ignore the rest.

Comment Re:God I'm tired of being lied too (Score 1) 117

Indeed. I think one reason is because the US is missing a really big domestic catastrophe where they cannot conveniently blame "somebody else" for it. Or at least where that blame-shifting is obvious enough that most people see it for what it is. Hence there is this completely irrational and disconnected feeling of superiority and being invulnerable. For most people, humility only comes from an experience of abject failure. For some, it never comes. But humility is critical for seeing reality, so if you do not have it, eventually you will get it the hard way. Well, most people will.

To be fair, I think chances are really good the current US administration has made sure this catastrophe will happen quite soon. If so, at least one good thing would have come out of the current mess.

Comment Re:We know how, just don't want to. (Score 1) 117

Yes. The claims they want less recidivism are simply lies. It is known how to get these rates down. It is well-known that positive reinforcement works a lot better than negative. It is known that making it easy for people to reintegrate into society, most will go for it. But they want to be "tough on crime". That is denial of reality and that never gives you good outcomes.

On the plus-side, large prison populations are good for keeping our citizens in fear and laws that criminalize everything and anything allows you to get rid of inconvenient people easily. Of course, the rich and powerful almost never have any of those enforced against them, no matter what despicable and repulsive things they do.

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