Post #526000

2026-03-04 19:56 UTC

It’s so depressing how quickly as a society we crossed the Rubicon from “plagiarism is bad” to “mass everyday use of the plagiarism machine is good and inevitable and if you don’t get with the program you’re worthless.” It’s so hard to be a person attempting to live with integrity in this world at this time. The grind is just constant.

Replies (7)

@weirdofhermiston@toot.cat 2026-03-04 20:05

@christi3k your last couple sentences express things so perfectly.

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@janl@narrativ.es 2026-03-04 20:26

@christi3k you’re not alone <3

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@kolya@social.cologne 2026-03-04 21:07

@christi3k no no, plagiarism is still bad, if you do it.

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@aki@toot.cat 2026-03-04 21:27

@christi3k while i enthusiastically agree with your entire point, the comment about living with integrity has been on my mind about so very much of life for the past few years

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@jaystephens@mastodon.social 2026-03-05 00:10

@christi3k I have largely stopped fighting it. It would mean losing my job for a start.

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@batsify@ruby.social 2026-03-05 06:51

@christi3k This is what happens when a society rewards success, which is necessarily synonymous with personal wealth, at the expense of the interests of society as a whole - which is no longer a value.

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@falcennial@mastodon.social 2026-03-06 01:27

@christi3k what's hard about integrity? it is not as though using the plagiarism ecological destruction scam tool could ever help me with my work.

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