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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Mole replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
I’m a bit behind on this thread, but in short, an external threat is like space aliens or something, and existential threat is Jean-Paul Sartre pulling a gun on you. It’s a pretty simple distinction. -
Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Mole replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
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Thinking about college athletics for my daughter
Mole replied to harpercollins's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
I teach at a small NAIA college. Some realities that I had never considered before coming here: 1. There are certainly some good athletes and high performers, but a less gifted or relatively unskilled kid could get a scholarship as well. They might never play though. A kid who will be relatively headache-free and help the coach meet their recruiting goals will be appreciated. An ok high school player could certainly find a spot on our rosters. 2. Scholarships are discounts off the sticker price. The school knows how much on average they need to get per student and scholarship accordingly. There often isn’t some magical pool of cash they are drawing from — instead they are just balancing out average costs. Tuition at lots of private schools is so high in order to allow the schools to offer bigger scholarships. 3. Even at our level, the student athletes are busy. It is a lot for them to keep up with. 4. At least at my institution, the coaches are good about supporting academic goals. If a student-athlete isn’t getting it done in my class, their coach is usually the first person I reach out to. 5. At least at my institution, while they celebrate winning, there isn't the same pressure like the higher levels. Coaches surely have been let go, but I don’t think winning or losing has been a big part of that equation. -
Blaming the reporter; another example of that conservative personal responsibility they love to crow about. Obviously our country has a stupidity problem, but it goes hand in hand with the run away character problem.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Mole replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
I get unsolicited text messages all the time but I usually just ignore them. How many times have I ghosted the Secretary of Defense trying to send me not war plans? It feels rude of me to just ignore the guy. At least in the iPhone App Store, I was disappointed to find no mention of this in the app reviews. -
Ubiquitous porn usage is probably frying some brains, but I’m inclined to immediately dismiss any article pointing to decreased alcohol use — and thereby abuse — as contributing to declining mental health. A lot has gotten worse for the kids, but decreased boozing isn’t making things worse. It’s asinine. Let’s take these depressed kids and throw alcohol into the mix and expect it to get better. Assuming the truth of the claim regarding mental health and political affiliation made by the Baptist deacon who lives out the Sermon on the Mount by belittling the least among us, it makes sense that religious people — with a healthier social structure as well as social pressure to not express mental health problems — would report better mental health outcomes. Maybe some good reasons, maybe some unhealthy reasons. And the peacocking about how virile and sex obsessed we are is satire, right? The pervs from those 80s movies weren’t heroes anymore than Andrew Tate is. Or maybe this is locker room talk? I love talking about how much sexy sex my sexy sex brain thinks about all day and if it weren’t for all of that sexy sex, I would have dropped out of school, but thanks to all of those sexy sex girls I was chasing — I’m so virile you see — I read Boethius (you see the ladies swoon when you tell them how Boethius mistranslated some Greek sources and then the panties start flying) and now am so rich and manly. I hope I’m doing it right because my manhood is at stake.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Mole replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Calling my shot here: since they like to use asinine interpretations of long-forgotten laws, we’ll see Greenland or parts of Canada claimed under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. The New York Times will soberly discuss the relative quantities of useable bird guano in the disputed territory, we’ll hear from some condescending, self-appointed MAGA fertilizer experts, and we’ll be left debating if it’s the stupidest thing or just the stupidest thing so far. -
Busy day for killing off what actually makes America great in the name of MAGA. Besides the unhinged “deweaponizing” of the justice department speech, we have a wild attack on academic freedom. Of course, as shocking as it is, it’s never surprising. AP Link
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We should change the time in the middle of the day
Mole replied to Celery Man's topic in Daily Texan
Keep fall back in the middle of the night but move spring forward to 2 pm on a Friday. Make a big thing about it celebrating human ingenuity in the face of self-inflicted problems.- 50 replies
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I like how TFG presumably started as “the former guy” but most of us never read it in our head that way. It’s a nice organic term of contempt.
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The destruction of America's public education system
Mole replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
I’m a college professor on a four day per week class schedule and it’s a great system. In hindsight, it seems obvious to move from a MWF/TTh schedule to a MW/TTh schedule. As an experienced molder of young minds, I am willing to offer my services in developing a science course for the Patriot Eagle Rifle Academy in Hybrid Domestic Equine Genitalia as well as a series of music courses covering the work of Lee Greenwood. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Mole replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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How am I supposed to understand a book where all the characters have the same name?
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I was thinking about how suddenly the news shifted from all sorts of world and national events to just one person. My informal survey is to check AP, Reuters, and BBC and count headlines. There’s been an overwhelming shift in focus, even though so much of the focus is on the profoundly asinine. Then I see the trolling here and consider how the campaign was largely a meme and trolling campaign, powered by rage and attention. Then we see the new presidential photo that looks just like Vigo the Carpathian. We used to live in Idiocracy, but we may have jumped over to Ghost Busters 2. There may be literal slime building up under DC. How long until the Ulysses S. Grant monument comes to life and starts trampling people? Can we organize a 24-day singing of Auld Lang Syne in front of the White House? My recommendation is to stay informed of actual events, advocate where you can, but to stop feeding the rage monster. It’s not just unhealthy for you, it’s his super power and provides his movement energy. If you claim Christ and are supporting this filth, prayerfully search the Bible to see what it says about the hot button issues of the day. Maybe start with Deut. 24 and 27; it’s pretty explicit and applicable. Or maybe just read the book of James and think about how we should interact.
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