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   Albastı (pressure@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 14:53:25 JST Albastı
   I've never heard of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in my life, but it's proudly advertised as a "top 50 public university" (#48) and ranks #105 overall, which makes it a dumpster-tier institution. Accordingly, financial management is apparently so incompetent and inflexible that they reduce a faculty member to begging online. This is an extraordinary story, in part because nobody at Miami University could muster any reasonable advice for this gilded clown, but mostly because a PhD is too financially illiterate to have any savings, or a line of credit, or to get a short to medium term loan to alleviate this laughable financial situation. Imagine having a PhD in Media and Communication, insisting on being called "Dr. Cutesyname" and making 42k a year. Jesus.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 14:53:21 JST NEETzsche

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     There are some guys on our side of the aisle into debtmaxxing but it seems too risky.

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 14:53:22 JST Microchimera

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     @pressure I’m not a big economics guy. I avoid debt like the plague and live only on what I have, as best I can. I was raised all simple like that.
     
     That said, it’s funny and stereotypical how these financially ignorant e-beggars are exactly who you’d expect them to be. Libs and academics (but I repeat myself) have no concept of money.
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     Albastı (pressure@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 14:53:23 JST Albastı

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     @opphunter88 Oh I did a typo. Thank you, typos are as bad as food in teeth. I want to know.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 14:57:22 JST NEETzsche

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     If you want a serious answer, these “new” approaches are being tried because staid conservative conduct isn’t working for most of us. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all. It just turns out that a lot of those inventions are pretty retarded.

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 14:57:23 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure Why can’t we just be sane? 😭
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 14:59:31 JST NEETzsche

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     Well, we live under systemic Judaism, so learning Jewish financial sorcery is by extension pretty practical. I’m in put city right now btw

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 14:59:32 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure I just want to fish and hunt all day every day and come home to the land I grew up on with a wife who knows how to cook.
     
     This money shit is gay. I DID NOT CONSENT TO ANY OF THIS MODERN FAG SHIT
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:05:25 JST NEETzsche

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     How good are you at maff?

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:05:26 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure I am literally too stupid to manage money beyond basic saving and conservative spending. My IQ is average as shit. I don’t understand banker magic and never will.
     
     I just want to live a content life 😭
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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:08:39 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure I dropped out of college after a week because I couldn’t keep up with the most remedial algebra course they had. I especially can’t do math.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:08:39 JST NEETzsche

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     Don’t worry my son I will edumucate you on maff

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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:14:22 JST NEETzsche

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     The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

     t. euclid

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     @NEETzsche @pressure I have some kind of learning disability, I think. I scored fairly high on IQ tests when I was younger, but there’s a layer of complexity with some things like finances that I cannot break through that the people I surround myself with can.
     
     The information I’m good at applying is history and philosophy, which as it happens, is useless in most professions.
     
     Sucks to suck.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:16:02 JST NEETzsche

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     He just needs to get over his orthocuckoldry 😔

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     Albastı (pressure@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:16:03 JST Albastı

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     @opphunter88 @NEETzsche
     Unironically you seem to have a mind well-suited to academia. I know that's a grave insult or whatever but maybe it's something worth considering. There aren't many people out there that pour over archaic theological texts with genuine enthusiasm.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:18:04 JST NEETzsche

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     What happens when you try to read about this abstract mathematical shit?

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     @NEETzsche @pressure At least I’m sentient enough to know my limitations, which is better than the nigger cattle.
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     @NEETzsche @pressure That’s great and all but I’m still basically retarded by modern standards so it doesn’t help me at all.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:27:38 JST NEETzsche

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     I have a compsci degree from a research university and I did a lot of “undergraduate research.” So, I’m acquainted with academia. I can tell you right now that a lot of math is just practice. By this I mean, they explain a concept in class, and then you have to do six gorillion exercises that suss out all the weird little “gotcha” scenarios that come with it. You memorize formulae by writing them out every single time you have to do one of these exercises, doing it dozens of times. This is the drudgery segment of a math education.

     However, once you get algebra, calculus, set theory, and graph theory down, other, supposedly more “advanced” mathematics are actually easier to pick up. It goes from learning how to do algebra and calc to just memorizing a new formula, and once you’re out in the “real world” you never even need to do that.

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:27:39 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure Well, I can do most of the basics, if I write it out, but there’s a vocabulary barrier. When I’m asked to do a certain thing or remember a certain formula, I have no recollection. Even if I just watched a process worked out, took thorough notes, and it made sense, I have no ability to replicate it.
     
     That’s algebra, but I’ve had similar problems comprehending how much money I’m going to need to do certain things in business, even if I can do basic addition and subtraction in theory.
     
     It doesn’t make sense to me, because I’ve learned other languages. I can speak and read Greek at an entry level entirely from a few resources I found online. But something is wrong with me where I just fuck up every time. I can’t explain why. Maybe I have brain damage.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:34:58 JST NEETzsche

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     Rote memorization is only useful for a few math subjects. Once you get a good algebra/calc foundation you’re basically done. Set theory and graph theory help too but only if you’re into certain things.

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     :vepi: tropical edition (goo@dobbs.town)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:35:00 JST :vepi: tropical edition

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     @NEETzsche @pressure @opphunter88 knowing what tools to use in what contexts is really getting the essence of not only math, but also programming, law, and medicine imo.

     yeah I agree that rote memorization is the key to building that intuition

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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:35:34 JST NEETzsche

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     Gotta break it down into smaller steps and ask someone what you’re doing wrong. In college, this is what office hours are for.

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:35:35 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure If you can’t successfully replicate the process even a single time, repetition won’t help.
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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:43:43 JST Microchimera

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     @pressure @NEETzsche When I was a Catholic, my spiritual father wanted me to consider the priesthood because I was so intimately familiar with these things, I would often teach him things that he didn’t know during RCIA.
     
     I left because I don’t think Catholic distinctives are true, but I still might go a similar route someday. One of the people who raised me is a cleric and taught me a lot about it.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:43:43 JST NEETzsche

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     Did you get into Lutheranism because he took the jew pill?

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:50:02 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure I became a Lutheran because I read the Bible and found that certain Catholic dogmas were irreconcilable.
     
     For example, Paul references salvation being a one time purchase of the elect, which renders the purgatory/indulgence system redundant. The use of images in worship is also frequently condemned in Scripture, and iconoclasts were considered heroes. I’ve provided citations for things like this in other posts.
     
     I became a Lutheran because I believe it’s true, and the alternatives aren’t. Though I won’t lie, Luther being one of the funniest anti-semites in history did not hurt his case.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 15:51:57 JST NEETzsche

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     Yeah well what about MUH TRADITION? Which trumps scripture, apparently. No, I don’t really believe that, but my impression of tradcaths and orthobros seems to think that they do. And it would follow if so, since the whole argument for the church’s authority in the first place arises from apostolic succession etc

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 16:11:57 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure Chemnitz addresses this in his examination of Trent. I don’t expect you to read it because it’s expensive as shit and there are no PDF’s, but the summary is: Lutherans affirm the Holy Tradition of the Church in most senses of the term. We just disagree that it can trump Scripture.
     
     The Papists tried to say that the words of Scripture have to be interpreted through the lense of whatever the Church is already doing, which is automatically inferred to be traditional because Rome supposedly has the charism of indefectibility. Lutherans contend that Scripture has a clear meaning in its own rite, and that the Papists were violating it, which disproves the charism.
     
     There’s a lot of history that goes into this debate that’s not really worth covering, because nowadays you can just point at Pope Francis and plainly see “Oh, yeah, this whole thing is ridiculous.”
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 16:11:57 JST NEETzsche

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     Is this it?

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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 16:13:39 JST NEETzsche

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     It does say Part 1. What is the version you have? You got an ISBN?

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 16:13:40 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure That’s definitely not the version I have, so I can’t speak to whether it’s abridged or not. It should be four volumes.
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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 16:27:42 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure It’s only sold in English by the LCMS publishing house: https://www.cph.org/chemnitzs-works-examination-of-the-council-of-trent-set-vol-1-4
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 16:27:42 JST NEETzsche

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     Quite the verbose work. What is it, really? Is it Chemnitz hashing out every absurdity and indignity of the Catholic Church broadly or is it really, actually just all the deets on the Council of Trent from a Lutheran perspective?

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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 16:33:35 JST NEETzsche

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     Sounds interesting. I think I’ll just drive over to the local library and ask for an interlibrary loan on it. BYU has a copy, and BYU does play ball with my county’s public library, especially if you flash the right credentials, i.e., a temple recommend and a STEM bachelor’s.

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 16:33:36 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure It's a commentary. The proclamation of the actual council is listed, then Chemnitz gives a series of responses representing the orthodox Lutheran position.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 16:39:13 JST NEETzsche

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     Yes, that’s destructive book digitization. There’s also non-destructive book digitization. Yes, I do have access to this kind of equipment.

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     @NEETzsche @pressure I would make it an actual purchase if possible, because it's not the kind of book you necessarily want to read through all the way unless you're doing a proper study. I only use it topically. It's a reference book.
     
     If you really wanted to do the Internet a favor, you could unbind your copy and scan the whole thing into a PDF.
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     @NEETzsche @pressure Ok Inspector Gadget you can do whatever you want. It's just a suggestion.
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     Actually I’ll have to call up my old fraternity (ΑΣΦ-ΒΨ) for use of the more sophisticated non-destructive book scanning equipment, and it turns out it’s been “diversified” like so much, including my alma mater. I might have to back down from this because, frankly, I do not like dealing with the cultural marxist institutions we have now, like, you know, most universities. The new chapter president is a BLM nigger, literally.

     I did end up placing an order for it, like you initially suggested.

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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 17:07:07 JST NEETzsche

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     I’m used to dealing with truly obscure texts that are out of print and have been forever, the kind where the guy scanning the document sits within earshot of the guy trying to place a date on it with radiocarbon methods, so my knee-jerk need to preserve the spine of the document may be misguided in this context. This appears to still be in print, albeit through a semi-obscure source.

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     @NEETzsche @pressure If you don't want to do it, that's fine. I just figure you won't get much use out of it long term, being a Mormon, and a radical theological liberal at that, so when you're done with it, scanning it would be an admirable act of charity, however you do it.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 17:14:54 JST NEETzsche

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     Right, but this raises the question: how can an English-language translation of such an important document go unscanned for this long? Lutheranism isn’t some obscure faith.

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     Microchimera (opphunter88@gleasonator.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 17:14:55 JST Microchimera

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     @NEETzsche @pressure An older printing used to be sold on Amazon, Idk why they moved the latest edition to a CPH exclusive. Perhaps no one except pastors and seminaries were buying it anyway, and they don’t want Amazon to get their cut.
     
     It’s probably not going out of print though. It’s one of the most important foundations of Lutheran theology, because the Council of Trent was a direct response to the reformations, so pretty much every relevant topic between the two groups is addressed.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 17:20:08 JST NEETzsche

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     Reminds me of textbook companies.

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     @NEETzsche @pressure It actually kind of is, in the Anglo world. It’s in a very similar situation as Eastern Orthodoxy, a lot of its early works aren’t translated and we have no access to them.
     
     Lutheranism has the additional problem of malicious rights holders, though. CPH makes a lot of translated books deliberately prohibitive so they can charge out the ass and make their money back quickly.
     
     Stone Choir (a traditional Lutheran podcast) addressed some of their practices on an episode when they spoke about copyright abuse.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 17:57:10 JST NEETzsche

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     The original Latin is not copyright protected. Get a copy of that. Run the whole damn thing through Google Translate. Proofread and edit it for accuracy. Publish that.

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     @NEETzsche @pressure It’s not quite that bad, but not dissimilar either.
     
     It has turned a subset of traditional Lutherans into copyright abolitionists.
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     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 18:06:24 JST NEETzsche

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     GPT isn’t really designed for translation. It’s designed for text generation, and more specifically, text completion. That’s a conversation for another time, the difference between text completion and generation.

     Now, what you could use GPT for, is the cleanup phase. You could do something like take each paragraph translated from Google, and give it the two paragraphs ahead of it two of the pre-edited paragraphs before it and another two after it. Then you can give it a prompt like: “Rewrite this paragraph for clarity to a 21st century American PhD holder.” Or maybe for a high schooler. Or a fifth grader.

     GPT actually does do very good at that sort of task. But translation itself? Nah.

     Source: I actually use these tools for this sort of purpose

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     @NEETzsche @pressure GPT could probably do a good job.
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     What makes you say that? He seems okay to me. And that’s in spite of me liking to break his balls about being a lutherkek

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     Opphunter is a big faggot