I share this article on a regular basis, it's a truly great piece of writing.
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I share this article on a regular basis, it's a truly great piece of writing.
I'm sure it doesn't hurt that the only thing Dokoupil is widely known for is being a huge dick to Ta-Nehisi Coates.
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm sure it doesn't hurt that the only thing Dokoupil is widely known for is being a huge dick to Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Eventually, some mayor or governor is going to find the courage to arrest these motherfuckers.
December 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Eventually, some mayor or governor is going to find the courage to arrest these motherfuckers.
It's a reference to a famous "campus free speech" kerfuffle at Oberlin College. Conservatives lied about an article in the student newspaper and it took off from there.
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's a reference to a famous "campus free speech" kerfuffle at Oberlin College. Conservatives lied about an article in the student newspaper and it took off from there.
And he blocked me. Color me shocked.
December 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And he blocked me. Color me shocked.
So, under the laws as they exist now, is it better to have more or fewer units?
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
So, under the laws as they exist now, is it better to have more or fewer units?
Ok, so under the current regime would it be better to have more or fewer units?
December 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ok, so under the current regime would it be better to have more or fewer units?
That really sounds like a dodge. If we assume that government policy continues more or less as is, then is it preferable to have more or fewer housing units?
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
That really sounds like a dodge. If we assume that government policy continues more or less as is, then is it preferable to have more or fewer housing units?
So on balance, so long as rent control isn't in place, fewer apartments are preferable to more apartments?
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
So on balance, so long as rent control isn't in place, fewer apartments are preferable to more apartments?
It was a terrible analogy. People only remember the three words "series of tubes", but the full quote is just dumb as hell.
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They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. 4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ai7ygn6xsvlth3k5k7hfs4ii/bafkreibskb3j6js52aql45fm4zoycxgsdvbmrpacgctbt424pddunk75ku@jpeg)
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It was a terrible analogy. People only remember the three words "series of tubes", but the full quote is just dumb as hell.
Public colleges used to be really cheap. That they are now very expensive is a policy choice. That choice is based on the explicit program of the Republican party, and it has received far too much support from the Democratic party as well.
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Public colleges used to be really cheap. That they are now very expensive is a policy choice. That choice is based on the explicit program of the Republican party, and it has received far too much support from the Democratic party as well.
Be as frustrated as you care to be. The villains in this story are not the people who you seem to think are dumbasses who just haven't considered that of course you know what a beaker is.
The villains are the folks (mainly Republicans) who have cut state aid to higher education.
The villains are the folks (mainly Republicans) who have cut state aid to higher education.
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Be as frustrated as you care to be. The villains in this story are not the people who you seem to think are dumbasses who just haven't considered that of course you know what a beaker is.
The villains are the folks (mainly Republicans) who have cut state aid to higher education.
The villains are the folks (mainly Republicans) who have cut state aid to higher education.
What makes you think that they don't? My wife works for a large community college, they not only talk with (and teach in) local high schools, they're constantly talking with local employers as well as four year colleges to which their students transfer.
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What makes you think that they don't? My wife works for a large community college, they not only talk with (and teach in) local high schools, they're constantly talking with local employers as well as four year colleges to which their students transfer.
I guess I don't understand this as relating to the rest of your critique. Intro classes are introductory, and necessarily cover old ground to make sure everyone's up to speed. But then, after the first semester (and even before) you move much more quickly to new material.
Is that such a problem?
Is that such a problem?
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I guess I don't understand this as relating to the rest of your critique. Intro classes are introductory, and necessarily cover old ground to make sure everyone's up to speed. But then, after the first semester (and even before) you move much more quickly to new material.
Is that such a problem?
Is that such a problem?
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The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Roberts Court is a weapon forged against the Constitution as written and amended, especially but not exclusively the Reconstruction Amendments, and either the amendments are legitimate or the court is but they both can't be. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Colleges, particularly in a country as vast and homogenous as the USA, have limited capacity to fully determine their students skill sets ahead of time. A basic intro lab for an intro course seems like a perfectly reasonable assignment to get a sense of where your students are at.
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Colleges, particularly in a country as vast and homogenous as the USA, have limited capacity to fully determine their students skill sets ahead of time. A basic intro lab for an intro course seems like a perfectly reasonable assignment to get a sense of where your students are at.
College classes both treated me as an adult and expected me to perform like one. They demanded different things of me and provided different things as well.
But, much more than in HS, they required that I be intrinsically motivated to learn.
Was that not your experience?
But, much more than in HS, they required that I be intrinsically motivated to learn.
Was that not your experience?
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
College classes both treated me as an adult and expected me to perform like one. They demanded different things of me and provided different things as well.
But, much more than in HS, they required that I be intrinsically motivated to learn.
Was that not your experience?
But, much more than in HS, they required that I be intrinsically motivated to learn.
Was that not your experience?
I must admit, I've seen you make this point a lot and I wonder if you didn't go in determined to not get anything out of these classes.
I read literature in high school, and I read literature in college, but the college classes were not in any sense a "repeat" of high school.
I read literature in high school, and I read literature in college, but the college classes were not in any sense a "repeat" of high school.
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I must admit, I've seen you make this point a lot and I wonder if you didn't go in determined to not get anything out of these classes.
I read literature in high school, and I read literature in college, but the college classes were not in any sense a "repeat" of high school.
I read literature in high school, and I read literature in college, but the college classes were not in any sense a "repeat" of high school.
Getting exposure to a lot of different things can be very helpful, not just in an abstract sense that it makes you "well rounded" but in the concrete sense of helping you learn about yourself and what you want.
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Getting exposure to a lot of different things can be very helpful, not just in an abstract sense that it makes you "well rounded" but in the concrete sense of helping you learn about yourself and what you want.
Then they did a rotation in ENT/urology/plastics/whatever, and realized that was the thing for them.
I started off as a CS major, then went poli sci, then aviation management. I was an air traffic controller for 8.5 years before becoming a nurse.
I started off as a CS major, then went poli sci, then aviation management. I was an air traffic controller for 8.5 years before becoming a nurse.
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Then they did a rotation in ENT/urology/plastics/whatever, and realized that was the thing for them.
I started off as a CS major, then went poli sci, then aviation management. I was an air traffic controller for 8.5 years before becoming a nurse.
I started off as a CS major, then went poli sci, then aviation management. I was an air traffic controller for 8.5 years before becoming a nurse.
I can dig that. What I would say is that, even within a specialized field, taking "useless" classes can be really valuable. I'm a nurse in an OR, and almost every doctor I've met has told me they were SURE they were going to be a family doc/pediatrician/ER doc/whatever when they started med school.
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I can dig that. What I would say is that, even within a specialized field, taking "useless" classes can be really valuable. I'm a nurse in an OR, and almost every doctor I've met has told me they were SURE they were going to be a family doc/pediatrician/ER doc/whatever when they started med school.