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Mole

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  1. Operation Eisenfaust would have terrifying.
  2. One case for a third party vote is that over time, popular third party ideas can be taken on by the major parties. I think the Bernie approach has been more effective in shifting the national consciousness, but some ideas and personalities might not fit within a major party at this time. I’ve voted for numerous third party candidates under the belief that certain non-mainstream ideas should be elevated. This is a long term strategy that the fringe but good ideas of today might eventually become mainstream. It’s effectiveness is debatable, but it’s a coherent approach. This year, it seems like the national question is whether or not we should continue to destroy the country. Given the dire situation, it seems ill advised to play the long game of supporting fringe ideas.
  3. Once we all get COVID, no, probably not.
  4. That antifa/Nazi trick-or-treat gone bad is wonderful example of how powerful a lack of context and effective framing can be. We really have no idea what’s going on because we have no idea what led up to it. In the close up video, little miss Nazi pushes an antifa first before Mr. Antifa aggressively tries to borrow her armband. Of course, her push is proceeded by lots of shouting and laser beams in little miss Nazi’s eyes. So violence and aggression begets escalating violence and aggression. Nothing new. The implication in the tweet is that the antifa hordes are now roaming residential areas looking for more indiscriminate violence. I think the Nazi arm band is a pretty good indication that the tweet isn’t honestly framing the issue. Whether anyone is in the right here or they all are terrible is up for debate since we only see a small slice of this wonderful meeting of the minds, but the idea that antifa is on their way to your neighborhood for riots and violence doesn’t seem well supported by a front porch squabble with a Nazi where there is no evidence that anyone was actually hurt. The armband may have been damaged and you can’t just get those of the rack at Montgomery Ward anymore, so I guess there will be some repair costs.
  5. You don’t get the extra points for putting them in the correct order. Person woman man camera TV.
  6. Hurt the Bible, hurt God... I think he’s misquoting Circle Jerks lyrics: no religion to comfort your mind, the Communist Manifesto will be read all the time. It’s also one of the most transparently pandering statements I’ve ever heard.
  7. The quantity of first-person getting killed videos on this thread is a bit upsetting.
  8. The job market at least in my corner of academia has been terrible since 2008. Any full-time position can start to look appealing compared to the piecemeal adjunct life. Crazy with salary and benefits has its appeal, even with year-to-year contracts.
  9. The escalation from discussing the minutia of the budget of a hypothetical person to everyone calling each other racist was impressive. Good work everyone.
  10. I order my groceries on an app. The next day, I drive to the store, pop my trunk, and then they load my groceries and sign for me. If I lived in a less rural area, they'd deliver my groceries by mail. If the grocery store will accommodate basic and reasonable precautions for my liquid smoke order, surely the government should do the same for something as sacred as the right to vote. Using COVID to accelerate the systematic disenfranchisement of large portions of our country is just another cynical and disgusting sign of our times.
  11. If Georgia has to resort to intimidation, then the voter roll purges were failures. It’s far easier to quietly send people home for not being on the list. Kemp “won” his election without any implied violence, just purely bureaucratic power.
  12. Focusness, people.
  13. Define peaceful transfer of power. Post-election politically motivated violence seems almost inevitable. Everything is so ramped you right now and it seems likely to become more intense. I’d expect a fair amount. No matter the result of the election, mainstream voices will be calling it illegitimate. No matter the result, foreign countries will keep picking at everything and amplifying the chaos. We’ve already seen that Trump largely traffics in conspiracies and division and I’d expect a Biden win would only intensify this. At a minimum, multiple acts of “lone wolf” violence seems like a sure thing. That’s a bit different than Trump’s secret army trying to capture Biden, which is pretty unlikely, but no longer completely impossible.
  14. I can’t remember most of my login info. That’s what password managers are for.
  15. Wait, that’s allowed?
  16. Mole

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  17. Just practically speaking, in order from best to worst: 1. Pick a different route ahead of time and simply stay out of the protest area. The best kind of road rage is the kind that happens far away from me. 2. If a protest materializes right in front of you, as they apparently often do, find a quick detour. Obey traffic laws, keep your eyes out for people walking at unusual angles, find a reasonable way out, and generally don’t be insane. 3. If you’re stuck, wait patiently, proceed slowly like a normal person would, and turn on some music (Rage Against the Machine if you’re surrounded by BLM and Lee Greenwood if they’re Blue Lives Matter folks). Unless it’s an anti-car protest, the protesters have no idea whether or not you secretly love or hate them. 4. If a confrontation starts, deescalate like a normal person. If you picked the right tunes above, they’ll think you’re on their side anyway. Depending on the protest, a well placed comment in support of defunding the police or backing the blue should be enough to blend in 5. Tell them you heard the car behind you use a slur. 6. Use your car as a weapon. 7. Start waiving and shooting your firearm that you usually keep pointed at the gas pedal. Then drive away quickly.
  18. I’m a bit more optimistic than most on this thread I guess. I think the social media misinformation pain is largely temporary. We’re still pretty new at dealing with it and it’s largely an issue of critically evaluating sources like this. How many people critically evaluated Cronkite? Is that a reflection of how good the media was or how naive our culture was to issues of reliability? Or some of both? Misinformation is with us to stay, but eventually our culture will get better at coping with it, as we have with previous developments. The ship has largely sailed for many older people, but younger generations that grow up dealing with this in their interpersonal relationships as well as the news will become better at intuitively evaluating sources.
  19. This and not showing up to the WWI memorial service in France are two things that I agree with him on. He has no place at anything honoring people sacrificing for the greater good. The contrast is just too stark. He doesn’t belong there. I’m sure they won’t have a clown making balloon animals in the Capitol either.
  20. When we moved online in the spring, I figured testing would be a disaster and that most students didn’t have the mental bandwidth for normal tests anyway, so we refocused to single, bigger projects such as papers for most of my classes. My approach was to have them do one thing well instead of fail at a million things. They wrote way better papers/projects than normal and I think the courses were just as rigorous if not more so. There were some tests, but they were pretty much projects in disguise. It feels absurd to me to give students access to the internet and not expect them to use it during an unproctored test. The gen-ed that I teach stayed with my original model of testing/homework with highly modified tests to make any plagiarism obvious. It ended up with a massive plagiarism headache at the end of the semester complete with angry emails from parents, ducking them with FERPA, getting FERPA approval from the student, and then dropping the hammer of what actually happened. It was a huge waste of my time, but it resulted in no appeals since the cheating was absurd and plainly obvious. The gen-ed has always been a plagiarism magnet, but I’ve slowly modified it over the years to make it more of a hassle to cheat in. All of that came crashing down once the students were stuck at home. Idle hands and all.
  21. The creativity of the defensive tactics here and in Hong Kong recently is amazing. Leaf blowers, umbrellas, traffic cones, and milk are the weapons of the day. The younger generation is pretty brilliant.
  22. If you want to write great songs, you have to burn through a lot of terrible ones as well. Part of genius is volume. I think My Sweet Lord is a good song, but it feels a little strange to hold it up to demonstrate his song-writing prowess considering its history and connection with He’s So Fine. Imitation and inspiration have a fine line between them, but sometimes it’s pretty clear. I’ve been meaning to start a plagiarism thread for the past year or so. There’s a ton of meat in that topic beyond everyone suing Ed Sheeran.
  23. B L I P P I spells Blippi! Don’t forget to hit like and subscribe and don’t ever check out my Harlem Shake video! I’m an excavator....
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