• @Poayjay@lemmy.world
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      Imagine sitting through class presentations and some incel tries to bully a girl, badgering her with questions and a “this is common knowledge” attitude all because he is so fucked in the head he thought she was mocking him.

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      I don’t know, kind of sounds like they learned something and that’s a win.

      Sometimes indignation can lead to amazing things, somebody told me in 2000 that I couldn’t make a 3D game for the web using 2D software and I felt so challenged and pissed-off I actually programmed a 3D rendering engine using that tool so I could make a virtua tennis style game playable on the web.

      A world first out of spite.

      Edit: In case anybody cares the tool was Macromedia Director which was a 2D raster authoring tool that you could use to make Shockwave games. And the feature that came out in (I think) patch 6.5 made 2D sprite skewing a thing which enabled me to make this!

    • @rengoku2@lemm.ee
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      Getting her crying is satisfying enough.

      Can totally understand that. Been preparing to destroy someone for 3 decades. The end will be glorious.

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        If you’re three decades into trying to destroy someone, and you haven’t done anything yet, you’re just lying to yourself.

    • @metallic_substance@lemmy.world
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      Also, they are still dwelling on it after leaving college. I guarantee that it didn’t go down like they say and there’s either embellishment going on or it’s what they wished they would have done, but it never happened

    • @areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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      Learning is never a waste of time, even if it’s for petty reasons like this. Not only does he get his revenge, he also now knows more about a topic he wouldn’t learn about otherwise.

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    Something similar: knew a girl that was wrote her bio master and she was like “you’re all below me”, one day she asked me to read her work for spelling mistakes, took a week intensively researching the topic and made several remarks on wrong sources/ better sources, found data assignment mistakes and content errors and wrote a comprehensive critic to the work. I’m feeling kinda sorry for what I did, she never handed the work in & is now a single mom. I’m far from the only reason for it, but I think that it pushed her over the edge with the decision to give up her academic career for good. Ooopsie.

    • credit crazy
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      Considering that is sounds like she was a pretty unlikable person so I’m surprised she got enough into a relationship to have a kid

        • Stamets [Mirror]OP
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          I really don’t understand what drives people to make these type of comments.

          Bro whether it happened or not doesn’t really matter. They’re not trying to sell you a scientific study. It’s an anecdote. Even if it is fake it’s not going to destroy your life or financially bankrupt someone. Do you yell at Comedians saying that they’re lying about a funny story? Do you question everyone in your life and call them all out too if you don’t believe them?

          The absolute worst that could come from lying about a random funny story is causing someone to let out a disappointed sigh if they find out it is fake. Compare that to the disruption of someone always showing up and saying “It didn’t happen.” I know which I prefer…

      • @SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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        52 years ago

        Why do people act like assholes don’t get into relationships? Have you taken a look at real life? They get into abusive relationships based on constant resentment that often break fairly soon, but they do get into relationships.

      • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        She has a vagina. A lot of dudes will put up with a lot of shit in exchange for sex. Doesn’t take long to get someone pregnant if you’re not careful (barring medical issues of course).

        • A university is a college but a college is not necessarily a university. (At least in the U.S)

          Community colleges and State colleges vary from Universities usually that Universities require graduate programs. Not sure all the specifics but if you want an Associates degree you can usually get one at either. A masters degree you can’t normally get at a State College. (Exceptions might exist, I’m sure someone will shit on my breakdown and correct it haha)

          • I wish this was as straight forward as this tries to make it. In the US there has been a shift to re-designate colleges as universities based on the number of graduate and non-graduate programs, requiring at least one of each as far as I can tell. The side effect is that a lot of state colleges are now state universities with individual “colleges” within them for the specific program groups.

            Which is to say that some state colleges were correctly rebranded as universities, but you can go to a state college and have it be a university.

            (And yes, even further exceptions exist and I look forward to being enlightened about the various universities in the middle of nowhere serving 15 people.)

        • I think it’s already been explained for the most part in other comments but yes, here (UK) there’s a difference between college (post-16 A-level equivalent) and university (post-18, requires college or A-level first)

      • @Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works
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        It doesn’t matter where you live. I just hate the term “uni”. Say “my university”, “NYU”, “Princeton”, or something like that. I don’t have an objective argument against it. I just don’t like it. It’s like the word " ain’t ". It’s in the dictionary now and technically acceptable, but I hate it.

        • @Youki@feddit.de
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          You realize that universities outside the US and UK only have a very nondescript moniker or some obscure title that would nor help you identify it in the slightest, right?

          I could say “Back in TU Heidelberg” and you would look like a personified questionmark.

          • @Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works
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            Then say “at my university”. I think people will understand that you don’t own a university, and you are referring to the one that you attended. Again, it’s purely a subjective issue. I get that I’m in the minority, but I still hate the term.

            • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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              Are you really asking all but a few countries on the planet to stop using the word they’ve been using for ages because being exposed to it bothers you personally?

              I’m actually interested in how this plays out.

              • @Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works
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                I’m not asking anyone to do anything. I’m just saying that I hate the word.

                If I said I hate spaghetti, would you assume I want all spaghetti around the world banned and destroyed?

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          Ain’t was always a valid contraction for “am not”, but too many people misused it until grammarians convinced everyone it wasn’t a real word. Besides, words aren’t handed down from on high. If it’s in the dictionary it’s because it was already in use. What’s the point of a dictionary if you can’t look up the words people are using?

          • @Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works
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            In the 70s and 80s we were taught that it wasn’t a proper word. Of course, whether it’s proper or not, I hate it.

            I also hate “irregardless”. If I said that word to my English teacher I would have been slapped into next Tuesday.

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      So I trained four days and on the day of her presentation I knocked her right through the wall.

      Better?

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    62 years ago

    Read through the comments, and still not sure if the title is a typo or a joke…

  • Norgur
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    You didn’t “research the topic”, stupid. They gave a presentation about the inner workings of the porn industry. Worker’s rights, contracts, the whole thing.You spent four days watching the inner workings of the porn industry. Not the same.