you know you got it when chatgpt starts using emojis too

asked chatgpt to roast me.

"your gpa might be 4.3, but so is your height in feet"

"oh and that cat your roommate got? bet you are the type thinking, finally a creature that understands me. newsflash: that furball judges you harder than I ever could."

"IELTS 7.5? yeah because the examiner felt sorry for you."

"you're probably the type who calls a "natural tone" in their personal statement what the rest of us call "basic"."

"if that's your flex, then it's like bragging about being the tallest kid in the kindergarten - impressive to you only."

that was fun ngl

did y'all know that "spa" is actually an abbreviation???

solus par aqua - healing with water

in 1967, a new history teacher at Cubberly High School in Northern California named Ron Jones was teaching his class about the Holocaust and Hitler's rise to power. At some point during the lesson, many of his students began to ask why the rest of Germany had stood by and done nothing, and how afterwards they could have said they didn't know. Many said that they would never allow something like that to happen, but most simply couldn't understand how the population had allowed it back then.

This made Ron curious: what was the answer? Why had so many Germans joined and tolerated the Nazis as their neighbors were dragged away? He realized there was no way of knowing, not without being there, and certainly no way of teaching it unless, maybe, they could experience something similar.

The next day, Ron came in and began to command his class differently than usual. He had stricter rules.He said it was a lesson on discipline and the phrase "strength through discipline" was written on the board.
The students, shockingly responded positively to the stricter rules; it was as if they had just been waiting for this and wanted more. They worked as a team and answered questions correctly, even sitting quietly until Ron dismissed them at the end of class.
In the next two days, the phrases "strength through community" and "action" appeared on the board. Ron announced to the class that their new rules and ideas were now the cornerstones of the group called the Wave.

Everything was going well in this experiment: Ron was increasingly seen as an incredibly important leader, the kids were being more well behaved, they were ahead in their studies, all good things, so Ron decided to continue the Wave.

In class, he gave the students Wave membership cards, some of which had red x's on the back. The x's indicated that those people were to monitor the other members of the Wave and report directly to Ron if someone broke a rule.

Later that week, there were over 200
members of the Wave. The pep rally became an official Wave rally where dozens of new members were sworn in. As the group grew, most everyone joined. However, if someone did not join, they were likely to find
themselves very alone and possibly being threatened or hurt by Wave members.

By the 5th day, Ron knew things had spiraled out of control. He had grown into a mythical leader, and the students carried out his orders without hesitation, even if these orders never existed in the first place and were grown from within the Wave. He decided to tell the students that there would be a televised announcement of the Wave's candidate announcement for the presidential election, and that all members should attend the rally later that day.

When they arrived, the hundreds of students were greeted with a blank screen and Ron. He told them the true nature of the Wave; how it had been born as an experiment that had grown exponentially until he had to end it.

The students were shocked, and some even cried. They had all believed in the Wave wholeheartedly after just 5 short days.

The Wave is terrifying because it is real. Not so long ago, a history teacher fresh out from college was able to turn a school into a military state in just 5 days.

We as humans are so easily led into fascist dictatorships and we so rarely question what goes on around us. The Wave is a testament to that, and a scary one.

if any of you guys have actually read it all, just know that I'm really grateful haha

#review #longread

we'll be talking about this tonight

-sometimes i drink liters of water in an hour and sometimes I go without drinking a cup for days.

Odysseus killed all of the suitors after he came back, btw

nothing beats the feeling u get when someone compliments your cooking, ngl

word of the year - brainrot
source: oxford university press

is a minute actually a short period of time or do we underestimate the length of it?