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Teaching writing and ethics to engineers, writing a book on George Eliot.
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In other words… the Star Wars universe is a more realistic presentation of war than Saving Private Ryan.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

A FEMA director saying he’s unaware of hurricane season is like an NBA referee admitting he’s unaware of flopping.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

At the risk of projecting, I think most Americans - not on this website, but most Americans in general - assume if something this terrible happens and an American service member pulls the trigger that There Will be Consequences. Some sort of inquiry or court martial.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"jesus" is french for " i am sus"

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

Brought to you by my new Foundation For Moral Coherence: the median voter's judgment "I do not want you to commit suicide, but I also do not want to respect your dignity or your choices or permit you opportunities for meaning and achievement."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This makes way more sense to me than egg prices—a small but electorally crucial group of younger men thought inflation was insane because their various real money video games actually were.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Speeding is drivers exercising their anarchist muscles and the left should be encouraging it.

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Wahrheit und Methode (Gadamer, 1965), kürzlich:

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7:04am at the airport, two people at the gate next to me are having the most passive aggressive corporate language fight I have ever heard “so let me ask you Mark, our vision alignment meeting was two weeks ago. if you had these goal concerns why were they not raised then?”

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

The data also just could not be clearer that the problem is *not* young white men, it's young Latino men.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One upside of the death of microblogging is that, in a world where every academic is expected to record short-form video as a part of public dissemination of our ideas, we can probably deduct our gym memberships and hairdresser bills as work expenses.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

you hear a lot about chocolate and peanut butter, but not so much about peanut butter and maple syrup, and definitely not much about peanut butter, maple syrup, and spicy pepper jelly.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Pit bulls, watches, libraries, and Gaza: the Four Horsemen of the Cancelpocalypse.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

[Explaining burgers to an american] imagine a burger

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The PodSave guys had a version of this take too, and it’s nuts to me. If one’s opponent runs on “mass deportation” and there’s a 17 point swing *towards* them in the immigrant community, there’s something wild going on in that community!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

We have got to make honest Christian atheism self-aware.

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