they're not even trying to pretend anymore, they're just like "yeah we think you're all stupid and will buy anything with our brand on it"

I almost shrugged this off as just silly until I saw how much they cost. We are, indeed, in Once-ler territory.

I DID.

It's crazy because I wasn't in college/grad school THAT long ago, and that's not how we were taught to teach children how to read. I wonder if I would have bumped into curriculum issues that went against the best practices I learned if I had gone directly into teaching.

Making moves!! Also I finally have some actual allies that aren't just like...regular degular people with cardboard armor and homemade weapons 😅

Yeah I'm always like, I can read on my couch for 3 hours or read hooked up to a machine for 3 hours...and then get a free snack!

I did a cartoonish gasp when I saw that!

She genuinely made me wonder if there was such a thing as court-mandated platelet donation, or a medical condition where you need to purge platelets, because she was acting so put out by something that is usually 100% volunteer-based. Karens gonna Karen, I guess.

I did consider it haha

One of the responsibilities is, "Identify awkward or off-putting tones and refine outputs to improve personality consistency and appeal."

OR you can pay me $100k a year and I'll just write things that didn't sound awkward or off-putting in the first place??? Because I'm not training your robots.