pataTactician
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pataTactician
1mo ago
Eh, you're hypothetically in a liberal arts course to learn how to write better.
Seems to me that the paper deserved a D (it engaged at least tangentially with the idea of the assignment, and she didn't turn in a drool stained piece of A2...) I really do think that if the TA had indeed given it a 60 and a "see me after class" Fulnecky wouldn't have had a leg to stand on .
pataTactician
2mo ago
The joke is that she's speaking as she would to a toddler - hence 'gentle parenting.'
pataTactician
8mo ago
Insult to human dignity? Elon basically asked for this; he loved it until he realized that he was just a hype man. There's a reason the DOGE Twitter is spilling digital ink crowing over defending legume studies instead of posting sober cost/benefit analyses of Social Security.
pataTactician
1yr ago
The mention of Gideon the Ninth (which I loved) and Ninefox Gambit (which I thought was just alright) got me to stop lurking for a minute, but I have a question.
What part of anything that you're saying is right-wing?
pataTactician
2yr ago
I dunno, what do you want to make fun of them for? What about atheism do you find risible?
There was a fedora-wearing Reddit atheist stereotype back in the 2010's, but that's mostly fallen by the wayside as atheism became a default position.
pataTactician
2yr ago
If anyone else is a little confused, this is a callback of this post from the Sunday thread: https://www.themotte.org/post/409/smallscale-question-sunday-for-march-12/75569?context=8#context
Anyways, I think most atheists, if pressed, will say that they're technically agnostic. Which is the position that doesn't actually require much backup, being the effective null hypothesis.
How do you figure that atheism is as absurd as wokeism? (I don't actually think that being woke is absurd, but that's a comment for a different thread)
Out of curiosity, why are you calling him an "affirmative action double diversity hire?"
EDIT: To clarify why I'm asking that question: I'm not psychic, I don't know your motives or desires. But it just seems like a mocking sneer to me, as though of course a black gay guy wouldn't get a job on his own merits. It's a claim without evidence and brings down the rest of your post, at least in my view.
pataTactician
3yr ago
I've seen Twitter posts where people (probably 4channers or sth) were just spamming slurs in response to Musk's Twitter purchase... Despite the fact that there haven't been any moderation changes, as far as I know. I doubt it's activists pressuring advertisers as much as advertisers taking the temperature of the room.
pataTactician
3yr ago
Yes, but an "I'm with her" hat would mark you as a tryhard, so that's also not a winner.
pataTactician
3yr ago
What, in your opinion, would have been the appropriate journalistic tone for CNN to take with their coverage?
DeSantis sent a bunch of asylum seekers to Martha's Vineyard, where they received befuddled but basically well -meaning help, and were essentially told "careful, it gets super cold up here and it's hard to find work."
CNN is trying to make human-interest lemonade.
pataTactician
3yr ago
Is it really a sign of leftist hugboxing when you say "That's pretty cool!" to a discord friends' mediocre blog post?
I've encountered several of Justin Murphy's takes before and don't have a very high opinion of the guy, but this actually makes me respect him a little more. Kids are a blast sometimes and kinda boring a lot of the time - I don't have them myself, but I have a lot of experience being the adult cousin and babysitter. I've never had a "blood boiling" internal reaction to hanging with small children, but I've certainly felt like doing something other than engaging with them for eight hours. Sometimes you have to just do the virtuous thing, and it's actually good that he's airing out that he's finding it difficult. It's presumably pretty disheartening to feel like you're the only person in the world who doesn't want to spend a ton of time with your kid, and so it's probably encouraging to learn that someone else is struggling with the same thing but still doing it anyway.
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