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Fri Nov 06 07:13:53 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> lol my butt. "usg got a run for its money the likes of which it had hoped to never see. it will not survive another one in all likelyhood, which is just as well, because november promises at least a couple."
Fri Nov 06 01:42:56 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "When we see a welfare mom we assume she can't find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn't want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as ir
Thu Nov 05 18:57:21 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> ascii_field so you hate them, that's fine, but you can't impugn the whole subdiscipline just because idiots somewhere
Sat Oct 31 18:37:23 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> just because bunches of barbarians "do without" the ablative doesn't mean they can fucking think in their pigdin
Sat Oct 31 18:33:38 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> and just because you can't see where this problem breaks shit down from where you sit doesn't mean it's not gonna. it will.
Sat Oct 31 18:33:19 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> just because you can elegantly package idiocy in sexpr does not alter what text is
Sat Oct 31 06:39:25 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> THIS is why peasant chicks wistfully wisted for l'etudiant. because it is fucking fascinating, you are seriously telling me you can ~just go~ ?!?!?!
Thu Oct 29 23:44:12 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> because - obviously - it pays the best. from the perspective of the horde of chimps wishing to be professors of nothing in particular just as long as professors.
Thu Oct 29 21:23:31 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> obviously i have no us clinical experience. i also have an apparent inability to represent how this'd work. seriously, doctor says "nope, he's acting out because of X, Y, Z, and medications aren't going to fix this" and the parent argues the point ? with the doctor ? just.... how ?
Tue Oct 27 23:40:31 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "They fake it because that pointless data gets handed over to the illusionists at US News along with other pointless data (expenditure per student, library facilities, max bench press) to generate a single overall ranking, which is just the kind of simplistic, pseudoscience objectivity that students, parents, and schools demand.
Mon Oct 26 09:34:22 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> ""He's not a bad guy, he just has a problem." Actually, you have that backwards, he doesn't have a problem, he is a bad guy. I know this because he beat up (allegedly, at least) two women. This isn't the place to get into whether the bitch done deserved it, running her mouth all damn night long, the point is his thinking about it. If I (allegedly) beat up a girlfriend, I'd feel TREMENDOUS guilt, I would really have
Sun Oct 25 08:57:00 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> way to go. ps : it isn't abuse just because it leaves you outside, feeling inadequate.
Sat Oct 24 02:23:14 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> Had it not been for the little money I do get from this blog, maybe I would not have written this post at all, because... why bother? And so all you are left with is their dogma. Search the internet, the Letters To The Editor. Anyone else saying what I just said in this post? You may not agree with my post, but you are nevertheless better for having read and considered it. I'm not saying I'm the only one who though
Wed Oct 21 03:01:40 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> derpy "social worker" just gave himself a monopoly. he is needed, don;'t you know, because parents aren't "political proxies" for their children. heck, parents don't exist at all.
Tue Oct 20 22:04:03 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "oh, im just going to drive this plow against the fluid front, creating a wave off center and all will be well because..."
Tue Oct 20 21:59:06 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> oh right right, i guess im ruined in fetlife (bdsm ?) because they banned some random people just in case we were connected. lolk.
Sat Oct 17 18:08:34 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform just because he's richer than you doesn't automatically make him not poor you know :D
Fri Oct 16 18:49:43 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "we don't poorly collect because intentionally, it's just hard to do!!1"
Fri Oct 16 18:49:30 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "i'm not fat because i want to, it's just my genes"
Fri Oct 16 15:11:17 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> well obviously it's a trick question. in pastoral communities/other situations where the land is well under carrying capacity, the young man pays, because the old folk could have just drunk and made merry, but instead they put the effort into raising the filly / rose garden / whatever the dude's gonna enjoy. so they should get something for their trouble.