Steve

I do. Any questions?

The current version with reversed colors, is all that's needed. I wouldn't change it beyond that.

when I first log into Lemmy or Kbin, despite me having my settings set to show me only subscribed stuff by default, it totally ignores that setting (and what communities I’ve blocked) and just shows me the equivalent of /all

That sounds like a problem with the browser your using. Try clearing cache, going back to default settings. See if it happens in a private window, or different browser altogether.

Convincing people to leave Facebook Messenger isn't that hard. Just let them know Zukerberg and everyone at Facebook can see everything they send.

It is easier with a whole group of friends. If none of your friends known each other, you should work on that for other reasons. Groups of friends are better in general.

If you suppress it, letting it fester, you're right. But that's not what they're talking about.

They're describing actually letting it go. Letting the emotions wash over you and dissipate naturally. It may look the same on the outside, but internally it's very different. It's by far the best skill for your mental health.

This always struck me as strange thinking.
Are most people really unable to understand and use different messengers with different contexts and groups?

Honestly I use a few myself. My job has Tiger Connect. I use Signal with all my family and friends. Then I use SMS for some companies automatic notifications. It's pretty simple and easy.

I usually just ask them, when I wan to see what my favorite people are up to.

Mastodon is organized around individuals. Lemmy is organized around topics.

The Lemmy way is far superior.

There is a save feature.

There's no such thing as "raw" sausage. Uncooked maybe. But never raw, like carots or stake can be raw.
Sausage is ground meat mixed with all sorts of spices and things. Including yes almost always sugar and salt. Without the extra spices, it's not sausage anymore. It's just ground beef, pork, turkey, venison, whatever.

I tend to find them funny, and entertaining.
When a persons response seems far outside the norm, I know it's not about me anymore. Then I just try to enjoy the show.
When they calm down, I might ask what it was really all about. Which can be constructive sometimes, or just it'll just send them into another performance. Either way is a different kind of win.

Your example doesn't really fit the scenario proposed by @CyanFen@Lemmy.one. You're conflating multiple things. (Lots of people in this thread are)
Getting credit for the GPT essay, is unrelated to getting credit for completing the assignment.

In your example. The student would not get credit for completing the assignment. However they would get credit for creating the GPT generated essay. OpenAI does not.

If the assignment was to create a still life drawing, and the student turned in a photo. They get credit for the photo, not Canon who made the camera. The only issue is that the photo isn't a drawing, so they don't get credit for doing the assignment.