It’s an extremely bad path that academia is following of evaluating the validity of truth claims based solely on who makes the claim.
If they think that’s going to go well for them…well, I guess delusions are all many of us have left these days. The whole edifice probably needs to be brought down and replaced with something less insular and better-prepared to deal with the world as is.
Damn that’s an ugly house. I’d want out too if I were in that aesthetic blight.
As someone who has learned significant amounts of both languages, French is far easier. The grammar of French is simpler to handle. It’s more similar to English and just in general faster to learn. Meanwhile, German has grammatical gender plus a case system. This alone makes it 2-3x as complex. And then the travesties it commits on verbs and word order…best not speak of it.
Also, the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute rates French as easier. And that’s pretty authoritative.
So-called pickup artists were hated because their techniques and training worked, not because they were misogynists. Women viewed the movement as unauthorized and undesirable men getting an unfair advantage, similar to how many liberals see working out and staying fit as cheating. It’s the same mindset. Idiotic, yes, but I’m just describing, not condoning.
So many people are moving away from leftism because it’s difficult to align with a belief system that calls you “fascist” if you do not welcome a pack of appropriately-colored third-worlders gang-raping your daughter.
Most normal people don’t want anything to do with that.
I think something both rightists and leftists miss about CEOs is that a high-quality CEO unless they are truly exceptional like Jobs doesn’t help all that much, but a low-quality CEO is corporate suicide.
So (and empirical studies demonstrate this) avoiding having a terrible CEO is a lot more important for long-term company health than having someone really amazing.
Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On Anne Hathaway.
Over 170,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? Yes.
Membership Fees Are Coming for Your Doctor’s Office.
The Danube is drying up. Europe still has no plan.
The Bond Market Is Finally Functioning Again, after 14 Years of Financial Repression.
Scientists Recreate the Melting ‘Diamond Rain’ of Neptune and Uranus. It May Help Fusion Power.
He’s right. We need to be sinking those boats; the invasion must be stopped. A few .50 cals and/or Hellfire missiles would do wonders here.
Europe is probably totally fucked anyway. But definitely is unless they take extreme measures.
Germany plans a €12B missile program to deter Putin.
How the A.I. Borrowing Binge Helps Drive Up Government Bond Yields.
America Is About to Get More Expensive.
Stagflation, the Scourge of the 1970s, Is Back.
Zero Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets.
Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US.
Saab Unveils Stealthy Supersonic ‘Fighter Drone’ Concept.
China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization.
The One Big Issue That Connects the Data Center and Flock Backlash.
Simone de Beauvoir: the Best Romantic Partners Celebrate Each Other’s Freedom.
China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?
If rising rates were enough to end a bull market, we’d have entered a bear market long ago.
Trump’s FTC Wants You to Call Surveillance Pricing ‘Personalized Pricing’.
1) Women in this sport and most sports can wear whatever they want already. There are literally no restrictions. Clownishly wrong fucking take. Women wear those outfits because they want to.
2) And my problem isn’t that you cannot see her butt, it’s that it’s a worse shot! It’s zoomed in too tightly to get any context. Just objectively it’s an inferior shot for the purpose of ridiculous prudishness. I hate this timeline.
3) If women are not allowed to be shown in their actual athletic clothes while doing their actual sport, they should not be permitted to wear that attire at all. Simple as that.
Nearly all the people I’ve seen dragging Audrey for how “hideous” she is have been women — it’s actually women who have higher standards than men, even for other women.
As for me, I’ve liked Audrey for a while. I had no idea she was supposed to be some super hideous freak to many people. I cannot understand why. It looks like she’s having fun and she has some good pop songs. Women, leave her alone.
Sister, I can assure you that women are capable of really bad sex. For instance:
1) A woman who used more teeth than anything else during a blowjob. That hurt and left marks. She was genuinely trying, just terrible.
2) A woman who bounced around like a crazed gorilla and almost broke my penis. I was just a human dildo to her. I might as well not have been there for all I got out of it.
3) A woman who stuck her finger up my butt without checking with me first. If I did that to a woman, it’d be called “rape.”
There are more, but that’s a good sampling. This is another example of “women are wonderful, blameless, and cannot be held accountable for anything.” I think women are probably bad at sex more often than men, to be clear.
My honest and historically realistic land acknowledgement:
You used to be here; now you’re not. The land you dwelled on was taken. You were not strong enough to hold it so it is now ours. You lost. We won. History’s tide sweeps all away eventually. Thus it ever was and ever will be.
Alas that is probably true. Because that’s the way it always goes, like all the doofclowns now writing “authoritatively” about the 90s who are too young to recall that time.
When you advocate for copyright in the modern age, you are advocating for artificial scarcity that is a deadweight loss to the entire civilization. I do not care what your “good” reasons are. Every argument you make ultimately reduces to prioritizing extortionate rent extraction from things that cost nothing to copy. Culture is a commons, and you are fencing it off so a middleman can charge admission at the gate. Call it what you want and cry all you want. It doesn’t matter. It’s still a tollbooth built on infinite abundance.