i do get the handwringing about how academia relates to the public, but fundamentally, any proposal that involves academics not saying what they earnestly believe, even and especially when it is at variance from public opinion is a nonstarter for me
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perhaps if Marcus Aurelius had showed some emotion around his kids instead of all that stoicism stuff, his son might not have turned into an insecure despot with daddy issues
Just saw a post with the string `$5' and read it instinctively as `S5' so my brain is well and truly mush.
I can't believe these fucking weirdos want to relitigate COVID on social media, the place for relitigating the 2016 primaries
One of the best parts about going home to visit my parents in Appalachia is that there are so MANY stars I can no longer make sense of constellations.
A self-inflicted earworm I get about twice a month is "What would Nestor Makhno do" to the tune of "What would Brian Boitano do" from the South Park movie.
I don’t want to say I’m a genius but I just put a shot of vodka in a slurpee and I’m a genius
"Not understanding the nature and the material causes of their own thoughts, not taking account of the conditions even or of the natural laws which are peculiar to them, these first men and societies certainly could not suspect that their absolute notions were only the result of the faculty of...
Best argument that I should watch the series beyond the first movie I've heard yet.
Dragon Cobolt@dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 4d agomy favorite part of the john wick series is the part midway through the third movie where they stop the plot to read a chapter from Debt: The First 5,000 Years, this isn't a joke
I feel like the kernel of truth to the "liberals prefer fascists" claim is that most of the old voter base for the Weimar/Wilhelmine liberal parties (the Protestant middle class) ended up voting for the Nazis by 1932. Obviously a different situation from modern US politics but still discomfiting...
Bronze age was weak. They didn't even have Darwinism.
rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · 7d agothe sea peoples did nothing wrong
I've decided I've become a bit too bogged down reading papers and such only, so I'm going to make a serious effort to read more fiction.
they couldnt make world war one or world war two today tbh. too much has changed. some of the shit in those wars just wouldn't fly in todays woke culture
So, if you live in Ohio, or know anyone who lives in Ohio, please share the news that the Acton campaign couldn't even properly hold a do-nothing "We hear you" type call about trans rights, and just flood them with complaints. This is inexcusable on so many levels. (8/8)
Hey! So, this has gotten worse! I previously shared here that Acton and her campaign were set to meet with the ODP Progressive Caucus leadership on the 28th. That's today, and it was a worst case scenario. (1/?)
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w ago1. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
mostly i'm a pittsburgh pirates fan simply because i love to laugh
my biggest critique of nolan's odyssey is how he poorly handled the women—their feats were erased so they could be mere supporting characters. like, penelope gets the most screen time of them yet nolan didn't have space for her groundbreaking scholarship on how we ground mathematical axioms
There really is an art to the first sentence of an academic article. How many ways can we come up with to say "_____ is useful for _____".
I saw someone suggest Nolan made Odysseus more brooding because Americans don't have any cultural background with the trickster hero and that might be the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of cultural anthropology
do you guys remember the scene well into the war where they experience a monumental breakthrough because Turing realizes "we should leverage known segments of the plaintext"