The Doom Thread: Gloom, Despair, Agony

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  1. Knave

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    #876 Knave, May 12, 2025
    This only works in certain circumstances and for certain purposes. Back in my old grad school days, teaching undergraduate humanities, I saw my primary job as teaching undergraduates how to think seriously and craft and edit top-notch essays. I didn't really care whether they "learned" the "material" they were assigned to write about. I always figured they'd forget everything they read within a short period of time. I wanted them to walk away from my class with the experience of thinking deeply and writing skillfully. They'd forever know what that felt like and looked like. A blue book essay doesn't accomplish that task. Blue books are to true essay writing as fast food is to fine dining. Both meals may be edible, but they aren't remotely the same.

    But it's 2025. People like me who care about the life of the mind are relics of a bygone era. And we're all doomed.
     
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  2. Knave

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    #877 Knave, May 12, 2025
    Not like there's much difference these days.
     
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  3. Sounders78

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    #878 Sounders78, May 12, 2025

    And did you have to prove there was no other computer device hiding under your desk or on your person? Because if you had another device, tab-locking doesn't prevent you from using other websites or programs. I was of the opinion that such technology disadvantaged the lower socio-economic students who might not have work-arounds.



    Another solution that disadvantages lower socio-economic students.
     
  4. chaski

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    #879 chaski, May 12, 2025
    Some day soon, all threads will be doom threads.
     
  5. roby

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    #880 roby, May 12, 2025
    When did Germy start posting? :unsure:
     
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  6. Knave

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    #881 Knave, May 12, 2025
    They already are ... they already are ... :coffee:
     
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  7. Chesco United

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    #882 Chesco United, May 12, 2025
    It can certainly get worse.
     
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  8. roby

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    #883 roby, May 12, 2025
    No shortage of optimism in this thread! :whistling:
     
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  9. Knave

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    #884 Knave, May 12, 2025
    Where? I'll stomp it out!
     
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  10. YankHibee

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    #885 YankHibee, May 13, 2025
    Just have the kids take their tests naked while locked in a giant faraday cage. If schools can do it on the same day as the mandatory gender enforcement examinations, we can kill two kids with one stone.
     
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  11. luftmensch

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    #886 luftmensch, May 13, 2025
    Stop it, you’re gonna arouse a Republican.
     
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  12. Dr. Wankler

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    #887 Dr. Wankler, May 13, 2025
    That should be this thread's tagline.
     
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  13. ElNaranja

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    #888 ElNaranja, May 14, 2025
    Doom!!!!

    Hail Grimes!!!!
     
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    #889 rslfanboy, May 14, 2025
    HAIL GRIMES!!!
     
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  15. roby

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    #890 roby, May 15, 2025
    It was either here or the Food thread...

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    #891 luftmensch, May 22, 2025
    Jeez, this thread almost dropped to the third page.

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  17. Dr. Wankler

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    #892 Dr. Wankler, May 22, 2025
    I'm beginning to think that our resident Trump supporters are in the control group on this one.
     
  18. Knave

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    #893 Knave, May 22, 2025
    I'm sorry I've been slacking.

    I will try to be even doomier in the future.
     
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  19. roby

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    #894 roby, May 24, 2025
    Your 1st name wouldn't happen to be Gus...would it? :whistling:
     
  20. Knave

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    #895 Knave, May 24, 2025
    Nope. Gus is insufficiently gloomy. His optimism is not welcome here.
     
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  21. Knave

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    #896 Knave, May 25, 2025
    We're doomed! Doomed, I tell you!

    https://archive.is/20250525214435/h...c-party-voters.html#selection-5005.0-5005.428

    Yes, let's study syntax! That's how the Dems will win back young men and save America! :unsure:
     
  22. Chesco United

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    #897 Chesco United, May 25, 2025
    Eeyore.
     
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    #898 spejic, May 25, 2025
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  24. superdave

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    #899 superdave, May 25, 2025
    I don’t post in this thread, so I might be wrong, but this thread seems the best place for this.

    if you’re feeling depressed and anxious, that’s not a sign of poor mental health necessarily. You might just be aware…woke, one might say.

    https://www.theguardian.com/wellnes.../22/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo

    And here’s a shout out to an anthropologist @Sounders78 im trying to remember you’re an anthropologist not a sociologist right?

    Anyway, the Word of the Day is Hypernormalization

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEhR7_Rge95/?igsh=MWlzeDhxcDhjNmIwOQ==

    There’s an interesting analogy to 1990s era Soviet Union/Russia, where society was collapsing and Russia’s wealth was being looted by criminals, and yet politicians had no response.
     
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  25. roby

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    #900 roby, May 25, 2025
    The wood chipper employed for nefarious purposes [means no good] such as chopping the above person into little pieces in the film "FARGO" recently turned 30! I thought you'd like to know! :)
     
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