I’m within policy!

Looking like chagpt is gonna be the real PI on this one folks.

I’ve been close with people in mbe/wbe, which falls under dbe. It’s important to note that no one HAS to do anything. It’s a goal. Yeah, if you didn’t reach the goal in the last contract the contracting government has been allowed to remember it for next time. But crucially you get to keep the money

There is no policy of appeasement that ends this for us.

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Thinking more or less along these lines today. At this point it’s been too long to think this has any chance of blowing over.

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Whatever you think of what’s going on in this country, at this point it’s been about a decade. It’s not going away through policies of appeasement while sticking your head in the sand.

But I guess if you’re okay with what this country values today, you’ve been getting incremental wins.

I think the most consequential thing academia has lost is, the ability to offer a charitable and good faith interpretation of an opposing position and then explain why even that interpretation cannot be correct. We need to engage are opponents in good faith, and still win the argument. It’s both.

My impression from her writings is that Judith Shklar didn’t think that highly of 1984. She respected its influence, but didn’t think that’s how it would happen.

I don’t know if anyone could have foreseen peoples enthusiastic selection into the 2 minutes hate.

This might be controversial but I don’t think they should have added that category to the Nobels.

Reject Kierkegaard, embrace Keynes, Camus, and Shklar.

Post cats and kittens, not takes.

Ah yes, the mantra of politics is just like grandpa used to say: I don’t care who started it, only that person should be allowed to finish it and I’m going to be just as bad until they do while applying impossible standards for “finished.”

I was gonna call a landscaper but in this economy I’ll just mulch it myself.

“It has been said that death and taxes are the only two constants in life, and this text has made it clear both are deeply impacted by public policy” Still got it 😏

Call me old fashioned but I might prefer SOME shame.

You gotta admit it’s pretty crazy that all the leaders are just like “Yeah! Gerrymander it!”

Authoritarian regimes frequently struggle to govern effectively because accurate information doesn't reach the leadership. Trump is basically designing a system to create this problem.

Nice

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Realizing I scheduled to leave on a vacation Sunday instead of Saturday and I’m so grateful to myself for giving myself a day to sleep before driving to the airport at 5am.

I feel like you have to just hit a certain level of something to realize ‘Sloop John B’ is the funniest song ever written

Go back and listen to old rap through the lens of today. Everybody rapping about marijuana sounds corny today. Like I’m writing about legalization in a public policy textbook, it can’t be that cool.

Post your favorite Dr. Who.
Wrong answers only.