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  • A very long time ago, and much less technologically advanced:

    I went to boarding school. We had a little bit of a propensity for sneaking out of the dorm at night.

    New dean comes in our senior year and installs alarms on all the exits.

    Our senior year time capsule contains the controlling keypad to that alarm system that wasn’t even functional for twenty four hours.

    I’ve no doubt that today’s teens possess the ingenuity to bypass if not completely disable this thing.







  • Got_Bent@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzUse Zotero
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    1 year ago

    I’m so old that the last time I wrote a research paper, it was on a word processor with no Internet connection or spell check.

    Given such constraints, I can’t fathom the concept of waiting until the end to add all the references. If I didn’t do it as I went, I’d have surely died.

    I should add that we always read each other’s papers before submission to get a second set of eyes for errors, misspellings, and grammatical quagmires. It was mutually beneficial as the reviewing made us all better. Is that still a common practice?







  • Got_Bent@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzKids
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    We don’t do that.

    My kid is twenty three years old. I raised her alone. Crazy, I know, but she and I are pretty close.

    To this day, I get dozens of adulating text messages on mother’s Day for “playing both roles.”

    On Father’s Day, total utter crickets except from my daughter herself.

    Fathers are here to donate sperm and fund other lives. That’s it.