Sometimes I wish people who’ve never been to the South would stop trying to formulate these “nuanced” takes on the people and culture there.. like yeah the South isn’t a monolith so on and so forth but do you actually understand what makes it complex… prob not without going
Been thinking thoughts… people are so weird about Dolly Parton’s roots as if her wonderful soul didn’t give her all to show the world Appalachia/the South is not some politically hopeless wasteland
Research journals incorporating ai overviews is kind of insane considering it genuinely just makes shit up… like entire citations it makes up names and papers