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thank you

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  Thank you so much for keeping up with my blog posts and reading them. This will be my last one, and I just want to say how much I’ve enjoyed the experience. I know it’s probably just my professor reading these (so, hello professor!), but I still had a lot of fun making them. It was great getting to choose the images that went along with my posts, and I liked being able to take what I learned in class and apply it to my writing. Writing out these last two blogs for the week gave me a chance to think more deeply about the topics, and I really enjoyed that. Each class was interesting in its own way, and the assignments felt different from what I’m used to in my other classes, but in a good way. It’s nice when the work feels fresh and engaging instead of just the same old routine. I appreciate that these assignments allowed me to explore topics I might not have thought about otherwise. Overall, I’ve had a great time working on these blog posts, and it’s definitely been a positive exp...
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Tu Quoque fallacy

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  This fallacy occurs when someone dismisses another person’s argument by focusing on something personal about them instead of addressing the actual point they are making. For example, imagine someone who has smoked for many years tells someone else that smoking is bad for their health and they shouldn’t do it. The person being told not to smoke might respond by saying, “Yeah, well, you smoke, so why should I listen to you?” In this case, they are not responding to the actual argument about the harms of smoking. Instead, they are attacking the person who made the argument, pointing out their smoking habit as if it makes their advice less valid. By doing this, the person avoids the real issue and shifts the focus to the other person’s behavior. This type of argument doesn't actually address whether smoking is harmful or whether the advice given is good; it just tries to discredit the speaker based on their actions. It's a way to distract from the main point by turning the argume...
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cancelling

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  In my class, we talked about how people can use the internet to cancel people. We discussed the action of a professor (Professor M) at my university, who emailed a student inappropriately. I know Professor M as I was in his class, and hearing the version that my other professor (Professor J) was told (from a faculty point), it was very different from what I knew. I am a friend of the girl who got the inappropriate email, and I got to see how the school handled it from her perspective. I also had issues with this professor, but had been ignored by the school. My friend wasn’t satisfied with the school’s handling of the problem, so she took to social media. Making tiktoks and facebooks posts. These got a lot of attention, and the school reached out to her after seeing the post. They stopped the class from meeting and just told us that we would either get to take the exam or keep our current mark. The emails we got from the dean didn’t address the situation at all. If I hadn’t known...
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slippery Slope fallacy

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  The slippery slope fallacy happens when someone argues that a small action will inevitably lead to a series of worse events later on. This type of argument doesn’t consider that the future might not always unfold in such an extreme way. One example of this fallacy that I’ve heard often in my life is when a teacher or parent would say something like, “If you miss one day of school, it will lead to you dropping out because you won’t be able to commit to your education.” At the time, I didn’t really think much of it, but now I see that this is a clear example of the slippery slope fallacy. The people saying this were trying to convince me that skipping even one day of school would set me on a path to eventually leaving school for good, which is an exaggerated claim. Missing one day doesn’t automatically mean you’ll stop going to school forever, and while staying committed to school is important, their argument took it to an extreme level to scare me into avoiding it. This kind of re...
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Pessimism bias

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Pessimism bias can be kind of contribute to anxiety a lot, since it’s the tendency to overestimate a negative thing happening in a scenario and underestimate a positive thing happening. So my personal example is I wanted to join a cosplay contest but I truly thought it was a bad idea, I came up with all these awful scenarios about what would happen. It wasnt the normal thought of I’m not gonna win because I did think that but it went further. I thought “I’m gonna fall on stage”, “people are gonna boo at me or no one gonna cheer” and “My whole cosplay will fall apart on stage and everyone will laugh”. I only started thinking positively when a cosplay influencer reached out and gave me some encouragement. I had met them at a convention and they saw my story about thinking about doing the contest and they encouraged me to do it. I did end up doing it and I got first in horror but I never thought that because of my pessimism bias. So has pessimism bias ever affected you?  
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Producer or consumer

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Do you produce as much as you consume online? I know that depending on the platform I definitely consume more than I produce. I can say that for this platform (the one you are reading this post on) I definitely produce more than I observe. I only post on here, I don’t really look at other people’s blogs. But I can say on Instagram I’m kind of equal I’ll go on to post about a cosplay or something but then I’ll scroll for a bit. And on TikTok I definitely doom scroll all the time, I rarely post on TikTok, I will post a completed cosplay but that’s about it. I also just don’t have the time to constantly post things on social media. It’s very time-consuming and I have to think about what I’m posting and how people will react to it. Even doing these blog posts can be exhausting to me, I feel like I have to meet a certain word count or it has to look good and have to mean something.  
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Her 2013 (kind of, I get off topic)

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  I will admit I am biased about this movie, I find it creepy. It also reminds me of a story I read in high school, I could not find the name but it was a guy who had a machine write love letters for him and the machine fell in love with the man’s wife and the man tricked it into writing until it died. Essentially the machine killed itself because it couldn’t be with the man’s wife. That’s all I could think of when I was watching this movie. I also thought of the video game Detroit Become Human, which is an amazing game. But I personally think that we should not be working towards humanoid robots that people could potentially fall in love with. I think that we should be working of aking animals so we don’t have to keep real live animals in captivity. I also would just like a robot polar bear cub that would be like a pet. I could see wanting a pet that would never die and live with you till the end but I find falling in love with an unaging robot very odd. I just wouldnt be able to ...
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