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Wendyvainity: Tom R. Toe
12/31/11, 05:17
This stuff doesn't work for me like her earlier work did. |
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Jeb Corliss 'Grinding the Crack'
11/17/11, 09:03
It's pretty much a constant that if you're into this sort of stuff you have terrible taste in music. My guess is that the high levels of epinephrine damage that part of the their brain. |
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The Avengers Trailer
10/13/11, 20:36
Yeah! We're going to fuck that trailer up! |
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The Jagermeister
09/17/11, 15:21
In the space of one YouTube video, Jagermeister has gone from being a bro-dude drink to being awesome again. |
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Japanese breakdancer doing his thing.
09/17/11, 12:56
Yeah, fuck that bullshit. I want to see children getting hurt. |
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Mitchell and Webb - The Evil Vicar
09/17/11, 12:46
I'd consider converting to Christianity if there was a church like this in real life. |
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Daniel Songer Comedy Act 206
09/17/11, 02:57
He has a rather expressive voice. |
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Pat Robertson: caller asks about wife with severe Alzheimer's
09/15/11, 09:04
You keep saying "her" like there's a person in there. Alzheimer's can last for over a decade, and by the end there's less detectable cognitive activity than a zombie. Robertson gave the perfect response, that Alzheimer's is a form of death and it's not the neighbor's right to judge.
The fact that you think this belongs here is indicative of a huge loss of perspective on your part. |
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Left Behind 3: Rise of the Antichrist
09/08/11, 21:26
Opps, wrong subthread. |
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Left Behind 3: Rise of the Antichrist
09/08/11, 21:25
To be fair, I don't think I've ever seen a YouTube video that was improved by the comments. |
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A Middle Eastern American Films His Neighbors
08/29/11, 07:49
With razor-wire, and South Korean guards who make regular patrols. |
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Richard Feynman - I don't like honors
08/28/11, 03:28
The ghost of Richard Feynman is not pleased with your inability to find obvious duplicate submissions. |
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Never Ending Story:Death of Artax
08/27/11, 16:19
I was really young when I saw this movie, and don't remember any of the details, but I do remember it being traumatizing enough that I ran out of the theater. |
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My Strange Addiction- Huffing Gasoline
08/25/11, 01:21
I always thought this was supposed to annihilate neurons faster than any other addiction, yet she's been doing it for thirty years and seems to be doing pretty well.
Maybe she's just not getting enough of a dose to get more than a placebo-high? |
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Side act at the 2011 Gathering of Juggalos
08/21/11, 20:09
It's hard to tell, but I think they sound slightly better than ICP, and their costumes are a little less ridiculous. Red shirt kid is probably just an autistic musical savant who gravitated to the least-terrible band at the gathering. |
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Nickel and Dimed from The American Ruling Class!
08/11/11, 11:47
Yeah, I thought it was quite good in showing how people with limited resources can get trapped in shitty jobs that are almost impossible to escape. However, the fact that Ehrenreich's wrote it with an activist's bias makes me more weary of trusting her account. I'm concerned that she may have been inclined to exaggerate how hellish conditions actually were.
I think Nickel and Dimed was a good book, but it could have been a great book if she approached it more impartially. |
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Nickel and Dimed from The American Ruling Class!
08/11/11, 04:20
I don't think you're arguing against the case I've made. My point is that Ehrenreich says we should use solution X to resolve something we all (you, me, and her) agree is a problem. My issue with solution X is that a lot of the people whose job it is to understand things like solution X say it will cause more problems in the long run.
It seems to me that the reasonable option here is to come up with a different solution, or explain why solution X won't have unintended consequences, or maybe even explain why the people who say it will have unintended consequences shouldn't be trusted.
Re-categorizing solution X into a moral imperative does not fall under these three options. In fact, I consider it to be rhetorical slight-of-hand, designed to separate a policy issue from any consideration of its possible consequences. |
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Nickel and Dimed from The American Ruling Class!
08/11/11, 03:14
I read Ehrenreich's book. I thought it was pretty good until the conclusion, where she attempted to bypass the economic argument that instituting a minimum wage would result in fewer jobs, and would cause more misery in the long run. She brought it up, and then completely ignored it, stating that the case for raising minimum wages was a moral argument, and thus trumped economics.
I thought this was basically insane, as she was attempting to divorce whether or not an action was good from its consequences. After that I mentally assigned Ehrenreich to the fruit-basket, along with the tea-partiers, PETA, and seasteaders. |
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Dude, you just got owned by Matt Damon
08/02/11, 19:13
He was supposed to teach classes on Fridays. Apparently his students kept showing up, only to find that no one was there. |
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Dude, you just got owned by Matt Damon
08/02/11, 17:35
I teach college, and the summers off are definitely a factor for me. It isn't the only factor, but I'd say it contributes between 10 and 20% of my interest in the profession. I need time to work on my personal projects, and the summers are a fantastic time to do that.
Regarding tenure at the college level, there are a handful of people who go into "fuck you" mode at some point after receiving it. When I was in graduate school, one professor in my department closed down her lab and stopped doing research after being tenured. She taught the occasional class, but aside from that she just sat in her office and became increasingly unhappy. It didn't seem like a very rewarding life, and most of her peers didn't seem to respect her.
I've also read about a case where a tenured faculty member saved up a decade worth of sick days, and used them to take every Friday of the semester off. His students were pretty pissed about this.
That said, those people are a very small minority, and the amount of tenure abuse is incredibly small compared to the opportunity for it. |
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