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  1. Georgia did it through years of voter registration drives. It takes lots of people willing to see the long game and persist in their efforts over a number of years to make it happen.
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    Term Limits

    https://www.brookings.edu/articles/five-reasons-to-oppose-congressional-term-limits/
  3. He’s not the father of bro country, but I’d call Kid Rock it’s dirty uncle.
  4. This post reminded me of this: Some of us live in small towns, so yes, we’re bored.
  5. It got me to listen the song, so I guess the PR worked. I don’t think I’ll be listening much more. There’s a Michael Jackson Beat It quote in the guitar towards the end, which makes for some interesting imagery. He’s from Macon though? So not exactly a small town guy. I live in a small town in Georgia and his vision of small town life doesn’t align with my experience in 2023, although the Sons of Confederate Veterans and their giant flags are ubiquitous.
  6. Since both hypocrisy and Norm have been mentioned, who can forget this gem:
  7. Mine did about 6 years ago. I didn’t even know laser was an option. The visit with the doc took about 5 minutes and the snip took about a second. It was really no big deal.
  8. I’d also like clarity on this, but don’t have any interest in searching for “testicular implants.” Can you get magnets installed so you can carry nuts and small tools? Vibrating balls? Heated balls?
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    The Supremes

    Forgive me for perpetuating a stereotype, but I suspect that the LGBTQ community is mostly unconcerned with the prospect of conservative Christians blocking their access to high fashion.
  10. This aligns with my experience working in higher ed. Telling a kid that they got a big fat “scholarship” really moves the needle even though it’s really more like buying a car and dealing with the sticker price. Sometimes kids go to worse situations for more money because they got a bigger fake scholarship. It’s a prisoner’s dilemma for schools.
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    The Supremes

    Princeton TubaChristmas needs numbers to spread TubaChristmas cheer. The Harvey Phillips Foundation isn’t interested in playing games.
  12. These alternate lyrics to We Didn’t Start the Fire suck. They don’t even rhyme and the rhythm of the lyrics really don’t fit the tune.
  13. Isn’t that the core idea of the simulation theory? That eventually we’ll have the computing power to simulate reality, so there will be lots of simulated realities in our reality; eventually those realities would also go through the same process; eventually there would be billions upon billions of simulated realities many realities deep, I guess up to the limits of whatever are the limits of the “real” reality’s computing power. Since there would be many billions of simulated realities and just one “real” one, probability would lead us to believe that we are unlikely to be in the real one. At least that’s my understanding of the theory. I’m not a proponent, but it’s a fun diversion to think about in the off season.
  14. One of my favorite Yo-Yo Ma clips for the history: His Silk Road group is a pretty worthwhile listen.
  15. Yea, we all agree that you like to repeat yourself. There’s a disconnect in terms of purpose here though. The goal of a student paper or assignment isn’t to make something that anyone will ever read — I had a real moment of clarity when I defended my dissertation and realized that no one on my committee had read past page one. No one really cares about your great paper you wrote in that one class that one time. The goal of student assignments is to learn something. There’s a presumption of original work when an assignment is given. A student reusing a paper isn’t learning something and certainly isn’t doing original work. The expectations are different than normal work life because the purpose is different. It’s also typical in normal work life to take our hard questions to experts and let them solve it for us. I don’t think anyone honestly would defend a student sending another student to take their exams for them. Different goals carry different expectations. The most common form of self-plagiarism that I see on the appeals committee is where a student is retaking a science lab and uses data from the previous semester.
  16. At least where I teach, nothing automatically triggers. I can’t imagine how that would work without lots of false accusations. TurnItIn comes up with possibly plagiarized passages and possible sources, but context would tell you if it is or isn’t plagiarizism. There are plenty of scenarios where an assignment that triggers lots of flags wouldn’t be plagiarized as well as scenarios where an assignment triggers nothing is obviously plagiarized. My institution doesn’t want us handling these issues off-the-record. If a student plagiarizes, we report it and go through the procedure. We don’t work out arrangements on our own for students to make up for the cheating. There have been situations where a student seemed to perpetually work out ad hoc arrangements and skated by with lots of plagiarism. This way it’s tracked. We have a pretty well-defined policy to determine the punishment — it’s a combination of the severity and frequency. A one off like the violation in the OP would just be a zero on the assignment and some training. I don’t always bother asking the student for their side of the story. If the plagiarism is obvious and unambiguous, I’ll just send them a notice, give a zero, and report it. There’s no point in it, just a chance for them to make up some dumb story and debase themself. I encourage them to use the appeals process if they’re unhappy they got a zero for copy/pasting from Wikipedia. A self-plagiarism case like this would be pretty straightforward, so I’d probably just notify and report. Unless it’s a major assignment or the student is a repeat offender, I wouldn’t expect major ramifications. Self-plagiarism gets covered in our intro to being a college student class as well as first semester English. I suspect most institutions are similar. A returning student after many years would likely fall through the cracks and would be more likely to accidentally commit the offense. Our policy is that ignorance is no excuse, but first offenses on minor violations are mostly teaching moments rather than a chance for punishment. And lulz at a board full of lawyers talking legal options because someone might be punished for violating a clearly defined policy. I’ve served on our appeals committee for a number of years. We’ve had a few lawyer-assisted appeals and it has never helped the student.
  17. I don’t know anything about the law, but it seems like great marketing for the shirts.
  18. Is there a flag for those of us who rigidly adhere to the US Flag Code? Maybe a US flag with black and white stars since we see things in rigid black and white?
  19. From Edward Maunder, The Astronomy of the Bible: Treating the observable universe as a created thing under one God — rather than something that acts irrationally based on the whims of competing gods — is pretty transformative in developing a scientific understanding of the world. You can study the created thing; the competing personalities of various gods doesn’t really allow for that.
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