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Oh jeez. Look, I'm not happy about the election either. But what is it about Randall and so many other babies lol If shutting up and taking it is what you think characterizes adulthood, I'd hate to see the kind of world those adults would create. that think it's a good idea to keep dwelling on it, ...

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Or it could just be that you're really clumsy with your drinks.

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Is he wrong to draw a comparison between transgendered people and Dolezal? Maybe. Is this transphobic? No. Nowhere in his post does he express any hatred, dislike, disapproval, etc. of transgendered people But it's not about a given individual's personal feelings! What matters is the broader system...

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There's objectively something to be said about students who go above and beyond. If the essay question was 'discuss the sociopolitical elements that lead to the rise of the Third Reich' and you list those elements, sure, that's the right answer. If your listing is organized, supported with specific...

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Is there a place in the economy for the skills that you are learning? Why in the hell is that relevant? It's not a goddamn trade school. The importance of the humanities is very closely related to the fact that it is not directly transferable to economic benefit for the capitalist class. The humani...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four. Holy shit, what utter trash.

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Austin City Limits or the guests on Prairie Home Companion, usually.

I used to be able to say Letterman, but

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Last concert: LA Philharmonic, about two weeks ago.

Next concert: Steely Dan, in Albuquerque, about a month from now

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Well, I'm a Graduate Teaching Assistant in mathematics at my local university. Starting in the fall I'll be teaching a course full time. I'm caught debating what to have the students call me. Mr.? Professor? First name? I have my students call me by my first name. However, some feel uncomfortable w...

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Moved to the School subforum where it belongs. How would it affect the education? Not the stuff we learn but how we "learn" it. I took my father's schoolwork and compared it to my schoolwork and his was short and straightforward, also requiring him to do the work. Mine was just underline ...

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Rocket propulsion.

0/10 Not funny. Disapprove. -ST

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I'm afraid I don't see the relevance. Yes. Racism is a thing. It needs to be reduced, and people should act racist less. This seems...trivial, and fairly far afield from gun control. ? Racism isn't individual dickishness--that's "merely" prejudice. Racism is systemic and structural--it's ...

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I'm afraid I don't see the relevance. Yes. Racism is a thing. It needs to be reduced, and people should act racist less. This seems...trivial, and fairly far afield from gun control. ? Racism isn't individual dickishness--that's "merely" prejudice. Racism is systemic and structural--it's ...

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I thought Gone with the Wind made a decent argument for why an armed society might actually be pretty civil. Not because someone might draw their gone and shoot you dead (that would be murder and you'd probably end up hanged), but knowing that you might face serious consequences for any egregious i...

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Jorpho wrote:Ah, the last year of high school. I sometimes feel a twinge of regret that I didn't take something slightly more useful

Fuck "useful."

It's not a goddamn trade school.

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I thought Gone with the Wind made a decent argument for why an armed society might actually be pretty civil. Not because someone might draw their gone and shoot you dead (that would be murder and you'd probably end up hanged), but knowing that you might face serious consequences for any egregious i...

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Orientalism - Edward Said The Order of Things and The Archaeology of Knowledge - Michel Foucault Dialectic of Enlightenment - Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds. The Social Construction of Rea...

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I wouldn't hire someone with 5 degrees, it screams "I have no desire to work" I wouldn't hire someone with 5 STEM degrees, it screams "I have no interest in the fact that there's a world full of people who by and large are not me and who have experiences and subjectivities different ...

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There should be a rule that if you fail a lawsuit, you pay a small percentage of the damages you were seeking. That would curb these ridiculous demands, and the over the top suing culture in general. What an utterly nonsensical idea. There are plenty of cases that might lose but nevertheless are le...

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Odds that John-Theodor: Anderson is a "sovereign citizen"?

The weirdly-punctuated name is a common thing for them.

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Everything I know about orbital mechanics I learnt from playing Orbiter, oh and the sources I dug up while I wrote much of the key material in most of the relevant articles on Wikipedia, like: Oberth effect, Rocket, Rocket engine, and these articles likely helped the people that wrote Kerbal; so so...

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bachaddict wrote:
Eutychus wrote:Randall needs to revise his theology. The Bible describes Hell as a place of punishment for the devil, not somewhere he rules over.

It will be where satan lives/exists eventually though.

The Eastern Orthodox churches, and an increasing number of Catholic thinkers, will probably disagree with you.

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Title text: "Tonight's top story: Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, died in his home this morning at the age of [unintelligible rune]. Due to the large number of sharks inhabiting his former kingdom, no body could be recovered." Randall needs to revise his theology. The Bible describes Hel...

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There's also a problem with arguing that the intuitive, "common law" definition of theft includes taxation - most people don't consider taxation to be theft, so, if your formulation of "theft" includes taxation, then it doesn't match the common intuition about theft. All that ar...

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Furthermore, since all people are entitled by the mere fact of their existence to an equal share of social wealth (as everyone who's not a freedom-hating collectivist already knows), that means that if anyone's stealing anything, it's those who have more than the social mean stealing it from those ...

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Erm, theft is dishonestly appropriating someone else's property. Dishonesty is a really important part of the definition, as you will find if you're ever trying to prosecute people for theft. Furthermore, since all people are entitled by the mere fact of their existence to an equal share of social ...

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Hmm... I guess if you're living in the US, you have at least some motivation to get acquainted with Rand... That might be the reason for the disagreement. I don't think the Tea Party can call themselves libertarians truthfully. I don't think anyone who advocates capitalism can call himself a libert...

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The way her views get expressed (at least in the parts of the US I have been in) can be summarized as somewhere between "look after yourself, and don't worry about anyone else" and "screw the poor/non-creatives! They are holding us better people back!" Among other things, she ha...

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One thing Randall seems to ignore, though (unless I didn't read carefully enough) is, if you drop Mt. Denali from space, how much of it would actually be left to impact once it reached the surface? I have no clue on what order of magnitude the loss due to ablation would be, so I don't know if it wou...

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Pretty sure the ring is Fermilab and the shaft is I-55, though I-55 is more like 290 miles than 260.

Still.

WTF is the winch, though? The arch/Busch Stadium, somehow?

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Really disappointed that there was no Clint Eastwood mention.

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Iranon wrote:Ouch, this hits close to home.
I've gotten used to notation being horribly butchered in the social sciences

Huh?

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There was a single reply that made my co almost break down in tears "just google it." What makes these sorts of responses even worse is that there is literally zero reason to assume the person hasn't already googled it. A Google search for an answer, if successful, is much faster than pos...

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Anton Chekhov

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Anna Akhmatova

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miles01110 wrote:Bolero?

Indeed. A single, fourteen-minute-long crescendo.

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Moderator: DON'T BUMP OLD THREADS MAKE A NEW ONE *LOCKS THREAD* I have yet to see a valid explanation of this rule. I suspect it's just for the moderators' own egos, so they can say "I moderate an Internet forum with 10,000 discussion topics" rather than "I moderate an Internet forum...

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Euphonium wrote:New England is a region consisting of several states, not a state itself.

And Maine is one of them.

I never said it wasn't.

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Oceania's mainly used as a sociological term, isn't it? I've never heard anyone seriously call it a continent. I was educated throughout high school (geography is mandatory until age 16 in the UK) that Oceania/Australasia is a continent and have never heard it not considered one before now. If Aust...

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Also, where's Sakhalin?

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