Clarence Picard

@nealjclark1 In high school I owned a DMX CD. Now I don’t even own a pair of sneakers.

Every white millenial has a bit of the wigger in them. Some over indulge and some over deny. We all see it. Gen X has a bit too but not like you losers.

@mashatisa @drantbradley In general, yes, but I don’t think this is what’s impacting Duke. Your factors hurt the small liberal arts schools that rely on locals & legacies, along with small state schools. The schools above waste a ton of money on campus life, and as things tighten something has to give.

I believe this trend is also driven by people choosing to enroll in community colleges for practical degrees. Many now prefer trade school careers over investing time and money in potentially unnecessary four-year college degrees, which can cost around $40,000 annually, compared to about $2,000 at a local community college.

Clemson is $1.5B in debt. Syracuse is closing or pausing 93 programs, UNC-Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89M over 3 years. Duke recently let 600 employees go in a $350M budget cut. Indiana public colleges announced a plan to eliminate or merge 580 programs statewide.

@drantbradley Who will be the first college to go fully AI education while maintaining their country club lifestyle on campus? Huge money to be made.

@owenbroadcast Great series featuring bears

average library experience: hey, looking for a book about a bear for my daughter, she’s 2. “we have narcan”. uh no just need a book about a bear. “we have a book about depression”. anything with a bear. “stinky toilet monster?” any bear. “uhh well heres bears first depression”

@RealJohnDios The two things I often forget when interacting with people online is that unless explicitly stated, they are younger than me, they don’t like their father, and they voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 democratic primary. *Everything is downstream of that.*

A lot of relationship discourse on here, both romantic and otherwise, is directly downstream of the average dissident on here possessing a low-trust libtard framework. I can't really imagine gender war and generational resentment as factors in how I manage personal relationships

@xwanyex It started during COVID to keep people inside. It also shows the temps about 10° colder.

@steelydante I even use it to conclude the songs I sing my baby to sleep.

@FrenlyOfficer Six months of CDs? $10,000,000? Columbia House always gets you when you forget to cancel. But on the plus side, it’s how I ended up with Talking Heads “Sand in the Vaseline.”

I put it all in 6 month CD’s so I can touch it and live as normal

@sabrecav @RedemTheTimes @L0m3z Pretend you’re picking a country club to join, and that’s how most students select their liberal arts college. They’d make more money firing the faculty and setting up as a residential spa. You’d need some networking opportunities and mixers for the parents to foot the bill.

@RedemTheTimes @L0m3z Curious to see what the non academic spending is? Hiring non educator admin would be criminal in an economic state where you are forced to cut professors.

Last month my college informed their unionized faculty that they would all be let go at the end of the term. The claim was that it was about budgets, in spite of the fact that they've increased spending on admin/other areas. Consider signing the petition the union drafted.

@jarvis_best Literally what my great great great grandfather did, and his son became mayor.

The way I picture it a bunch of pioneers were like WE'RE GOING TO CALIFORNIA and they go in their little wagons with the sheets on top all across Nebraska and Kansas and eastern Colorado and then they arrive at the base of the Rockies and then were like eh this is fine.

@HQNewsNow Insane. Home of astronauts, presidents; the birthplace of aviation and the American rubber industry; the cradle of coaches; and not to mention Jessie Owens, LeBron James and the world famous Ohio State Buckeyes.

Ohio Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy slams Ohio: "Ohio is a good state, I can't say it's the best state."

@ElliotRoberts5 I blocked that account for some unknown past transgression - posting like a moron obviously - and I’m feeling vindicated after reviewing the list.

Not including Paul McCartney in the top 20 is crazy. Then I checked and he’s not even in the top 100! He didn’t make the list! In what world is Paul McCartney not within the top 100 best vocalists of all time??!! This will now be a thread of Paul McCartney’s top vocal moments!

@prairiesmoke414 @celinedionysus_ My grandfather & uncle were Clair and it’s my son’s middle name.

@celinedionysus_ Even older and some of them are named claire too!

one thing i love is when old southern men have names like shelby and haley and paige. like okay. you are a white girl born in 1992 also i get it

@ThomBrady5 @SuitablePolitic Another opportunity to share my belief that all combat veterans of the GWOT should have come home with a gold bar and lifetime supply of free gasoline and heating oil. @TheRealArtWood

The appropriate punishment here is like 50 lashes in public and letting the soldier keep the $400k (which he earned by helping kidnap Maduro; America profited billions from the oil) but we have a stupid feminine legal system that wants to send this guy to prison for 50 years.

@SethLargo An advancement office at a liberal arts college would eat up her resume

The main reason I don't feel sorry for her is that she could easily find an administrative job elsewhere if she were willing to move away from NoVa. But she won't. She's hoping the gravy train starts rolling again in a couple years.

@ImpericEvidence @conorjrogers You seem to have a lot of respect for congressional representatives that your fellow posters will likely not share.

@conorjrogers How much would an 11,000 member house get done, and hiw much does that funding cost for that many + staff? Completely irrational.

No one is ready for the real solution to Gerrymandering: A return to the Constitution's original standard of 1 Member of Congress for every 30,000 Americans, resulting in an 11,000-member House with city-council sized districts so small you can't Gerrymander them if you tried.

@DanClarkSports Time travel in sports is pointless unless you either choose the old timers gaining modern training, nutrition and equipment; or modern players losing it.

OPINION: Babe Ruth would be a bust in the modern era. He never played against the best African American or overseas players. He dominated an era where pitchers were mediocre, fatigued and had primitive training. He was unhealthy and unfit, and ultimately a defensive liability.

You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts.  My short story “Ender's Game” was rejected by Ben Bova at Analog back when that was the top market for a sci-fi story. Ben gave me feedback. He thought the title should be “Professional Soldier” and he said to “cut it in half.” But I knew he was wrong on both points and submitted it to Jim Baen at Galaxy. He sat on it for a year, and responded to my query with a rejection. There was some kind of explanation, but I don't remember what it was. I concluded at the time that Baen's comments showed that he had barely glanced at the story. So … I got feedback both times, but it was not helpful. I looked at Ben's rejection again. What was it about the story that made him think it should, let alone COULD, be cut in half? Apparently it FELT long. What made it feel long? Now, post-Harry Potter, I would call it the quidditch problem. I had too many battles in which the details became tedious. So I cut two battles entirely, merely reporting the outcomes, and shortened another. In retyping the whole manuscript (pre-word-processor, that was the only way to get a clean manuscript), I added new point-of-view material to the point that I had cut only one page in length. So much for “in half.” But I already knew that my manuscripts did not need cutting — if it wasn't needed, it wouldn't be there in the first place. Even the battles were still there, but instead of showing them, I merely told what happened (so much for the usually asinine advice “show don't tell”), which kept the pace going. Those changes made, I sent it to Ben again. I did not remind him of what he had advised me to do. I merely told him I liked my title, and said, “I have addressed your other concerns,” which was true. I figured he wouldn't remember what his exact words had been. My answer was a check. That revised story was the basis for my winning the Campbell Award for best new writer. Did Ben's feedback help? Yes — but his specific advice was not right, and I knew it. On my next two submissions, Ben hated my endings, and I revised as suggested. The fourth submission he rejected outright, and the fifth, and I thought, Am I a one-story writer? I went back to Ender's Game and tried to analyze why it worked. Then, deliberately imitating myself, I wrote “Mikal's Songbird.” Ben bought it, and it received favorable mentions. I was afraid then that I had consigned myself to writing stories about children in jeopardy. But in fact I was writing character stories rather than idea stories. And THAT was how I built a career, not by self-imitation, and not by following editorial suggestions. I did get wise counsel from David Hartwell on my novel Wyrms, but that was on a book that was already under contract, and it was story feedback, not style. I got wise counsel from Beth Meacham, too, on various books over the years — but again, only on books that were under contract. I also received appallingly stupid advice from the editor of my novel Saints, which temporarily destroyed the book's marketability; after that, I was allowed to go back to my original structure and save the book — now it's one of my best. Editors don't know more than you about your story. They especially don't know why they decide to accept or reject stories. YOU have to know what your story needs to be, and take only advice that you believe in. Your best counselor on a story nobody bought is TIME. Let some time pass and then reread the story. Don't even think about why it Didn't Work. Instead, think about what DOES work, and then write it again, a complete rewrite, keeping nothing from the previous draft. Find the right protagonist and begin at the beginning — the point where the protagonist first gets involved with the events of the story. Be inventive — the failed first draft no longer exists, so you're not bound by any of your earlier decisions. THAT is how you resurrect a good idea you did not succeed with on your first try.

@ErikAllyn @owroot The Aughts or the twenty-aughts.

@owroot On another note, what is the ‘00s decade called?

I wonder when we will we will stop saying the 30s, the 50s, and the 60s and start saying the 1930s, the 1950s, and the 1960s. I assume once we get there, but I guess we will see.

@danfromdc @Steve_Sailer @SeanTrende I saw the list but before I saw your post I went and checked if he was Mormon or something — he of course gained fame at a Catholic college. His father and grandfather were Reformed ministers!

@ClarencePicard @Steve_Sailer @SeanTrende He’s got the look. That’s the reason.

In the tens Jamelle Bouie (I think) got hot under the collar over a question about Black naming conventions for children because no wanted to know about, say, how Sarah Palin named her kids but nah, I’d totally listen to an explanation about this: