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The chenoweth stat makes no sense. So if 3.5% is militantly for something and 94% very against, how does the 3.5% win? Does the side supporting 1/6 not count as a 3.5% movement?

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Revolting that students are cheating this much, but understandable. I remember one of the first books I had to read was De rerum natura, by Lucretius, and so obviously irrelevant to the messages I’d gotten about college being a ticket to a middle class life.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing that Aaron Swartz caught a federal charge and committed suicide after downloading JSTOR’s archive, and OpenAI can scrape the whole internet and get away with it

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

This is pretty much the opposite of what happened during the Cold War, which was an outpouring of funding into fields like anthropology, so the us could better court allies against the Soviet Union. More proof America is currently ruled by idiots

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

First fruit fly of the season! Spring is here!!!

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Can't believe orson Scott card was right about taking over the world by blogging

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments