Andrew Wittstadt
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Poet, Writer, Genius Host of Heavy Bored @HeavyBoredPod
Joined August 2020
lol. yeah, it "allows us to understand a deeper truth" that everyone making fun of it already understood very well
Everyone had a good laugh at @MattBruenig's misunderstanding of risk and reward. But in fact, his mistake allows us to understand a deeper truth about fairness and risk: anything that is fair ex ante can't be fair ex post, and vice versa.
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Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.
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The thing that's really frustrating about the "forever neutral centrist" types is that they think we can "go back" to the good old days of political discourse/ engagement and are just over the horizon if we just climb over the ledge--but that world is over. been over for a decade
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i swear--this is all based on twitter vibes while Williams is scrolling--even the evidence presented isn't even in the same ballpark in terms of scale and sweeping initiative/cancel campaigns that the aftermath to Floyd took shape as. really bad faith
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"Vice President J. D. Vance guest-hosted Kirk’s popular podcast and encouraged listeners to snitch on anyone who profaned the dead." a little bit of a stretch imo--but not as egregious as the other examples Williams provides as evidence. (but once again someone saying something)
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"Trump ordered flags at half-staff. Congress enacted a “National Day of Remembrance” for Kirk. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan compared him to Saint Paul." one of the examples Williams uses to claim this is the same as the Floyd aftermath (1 of which is someone saying something)
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Williams compares someone at TPUSA saying they want to establish a chapter at every high school in America to the 1619 project roll out (one is something someone said, one is mandated by school boards as curriculum)
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the problem everyone isn't addressing in this Williams piece is that the scale of the two events isn't even close--and it is extremely bad faith to equate the two events or the aftermaths. I am begging journos to stop using twitter vibes as a source--
“Today, like five years ago, a controversial man has been transformed overnight into a one-dimensional saint, marshaled in a culture war that precludes measured thought. Once again, Americans are being asked to genuflect before an idol.”
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yes, bad shows aren't talked about very often
People just kinda forgot about this show. For a show made by the creator of The Simpsons and Futurama nobody really seemed to care.
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ebooks are fine if you are reading the latest beach read, even some classics--but when it comes to any serious academic/research work many are unusable--cheap copies of pdf's or old scanned versions of crooked pages--there will be/is a severe loss of knowledge gathering b/c of it
I find ebooks (which research libraries acquire instead of hard copies now) absolutely impossible. Today I have attempted to use two and had to give up. One has no page numbers and is virtually unnavigable. The other won't allow you to copy and paste. /
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you can get a phd in literature without having read a single book published before 1960
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wish i had thought ahead and scheduled a pod episode for it, but i didn't. will update with my thoughts when I finish.
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100 pages into this and it's incredible. A small birthday present I bought myself--started reading it as soon as it came in the mail. Thomas Mann was a master of the craft.
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A big problem with education now is that most people can not name a book written before the 20th century--
The Greeks had the Iliad and the Odyssey, we have To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye, we are not a serious people.
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it's crazy to watch him do this knowing full well that teams hand out scripts, etc for media comments that say things like, "its a team effort" or "i'm proud of my teammate and support him fully"--you know--normal responses to these types of questions
The audio is not messed up, Shedeur Sanders reacted to Dillon Gabriel by mouthing a response?
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people have no idea how psyoped the boomers are from instagram reels and youtube shorts--it's bad
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