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miserable offender. communicant of the protestant episcopal church. a projection of your own comfortable nihilism.
New York, USA
Joined October 2019
actually
quantamagazine.org
June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honor.
Yes, we all remember the folks who arrived at college on an English track, couldn’t hack it, and went into engineering or premed.
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maybe the issue here is an overly short-term focus on political capital. obama was president for 8 years – compare what xi accomplished in china in his first 8 years from 2012 to 2020.
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like, is this *actually* a problem in china? it seems to work fine in practice. we're letting reluctance to make individual unpopular decisions get in the way of making improvements overall.
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okay, but nobody actually knows how to build a reasonable regulatory state in the west. so failing that, it seems better to lean toward deregulation rather than stagnation.
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taylor’s main line of argument seems weak. early modern western europe is far from unique in having office-holding elites and “byzantine” courts. the intensity of interstate competition seems more distinctive and more relevant as an explanatory factor.
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taylor seems to draw way too sharp a line between premodern and modern nationhood. did the greeks not act together against the persians?
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let's compromise and issue everyone a 2011. glocks and berettas are unamerican anyway.
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it's really not that nice of a church. it didn't look any better on the inside, either.
In Greenpoint, a church destroyed. All from one tacky landlord and a lot of white paint.
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what's the point of only bringing around 48 rounds? did the guy only have a single 30-round PMAG? or is australian gun and ammunition control just that effective?.
A heavily armed Chinese man was just arrested for driving around Sydney in a fake Chinese police car. He was immediately bailed. I like how he misspelled “POLICE” in English. “Upon questioning, the man allegedly produced a fake document claiming the vehicle was being used to
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the obvious materialist critique of robbie-georgism is that the robbie georges of the world get much of their prestige from being big fishes in small ponds. george himself is great, but the james madison program model presupposes that conservatives remain an embattled minority.
That's why we should ignore conservative scholars - they are stuck in an abusive relationship and just want their SO to maybe hit them a little less.
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famously, physicists also can't learn relativity without reading einstein in the original german.
And this is about Adam Smith who, no offense to one of my best dead academic friends for the past 8 years or so, is not that difficult compared to other thinkers. If you think you're "learning" Aristotle or something by conversing with ChatGPT, you're too far gone.
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you would not be misled by this argument for a millisecond if it were a right-wing professor teaching schmitt.
universities are not assigning foucault because they think reading discipline and punish will make you gay anarchists they're assigning it because he's a highly influential figure and a humanities student should have at least a decent grasp of his key ideas.
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oh come on. given the ideological composition of human nature and the way that instruction works, it’s much more likely than not that the prof will be happy if you come out agreeing, and more likely than not that you will be influenced toward such politics and ideology.
still don't know how to explain to people that when a course assigns texts like the prof isn't expecting or even hoping that you'll agree with them. it's just that these are the most important texts in social theory from the last century lol.
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this reads like a criticism of abundance, but it doesn't work. nobody has a working politics of re-enchantment, and it may not even be possible to build one nationally. it simply *is* a good to let families afford housing, &c. – to enable the preconditions for meaning-making.
The worst thing about the "Abundance" discourse is that the focus is entirely on material abundance—none on abundant life. In the techno-political superficial framing, all of the most important questions fall away about what any of those things are even for.
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woodstock, vt is well on its way there
@johnmilbank3 And the wind shall say: "Here were decent Godless people:.Their only monument the lovingly preserved white colonial.And a thousand zoning regulations preventing anyone else from moving in.".
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imagine being this skeptical a few generations ago about penicillin or insulin. stagnation really has given us stockholm syndrome.
All claims of NET positive sum outcomes, let alone cost free ones, must have bring rigorous receipts and explanations. In God We Trust. All others must bring data (and logic).
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RT @fathergarlick: Indeed. Although it’s a shame the photos are not of our 1662 Book of Common Prayer but the US 1979 one. .
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is “seven shots is too many” the new version of “78° F is too hot”?.
I didn't think anything else about the situation at Bangor Cathedral could shock me. Then this, reported by BBC Wales:
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it's interesting to think about how this argument works if the books in the library are not rare. can we really talk about the death of humanistic learning when there are still many more professional scholars than there were before postwar mass higher ed?.
A university is like a library: it preserves learning that might otherwise die. Also: The finances of particular programs are complex; it requires the exercise of judgement by an experienced leader to know what should be cut and what can stay.
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they do have a nice rifle range, though. goes out to 300 yards.
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