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OverACup

OverACup

@OverACup_

Takes best served with coffee, and likely written with some. Foodie(ish), wife-and-mom (very), and a poster most sincere

United States Katılım Ocak 2026
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SoL in the Wild
SoL in the Wild@SoLInTheWild·
“Students who spend an hour a day in intellectual dialogue are ready to write essays.” This reminds me a bit of the infamous quote often attributed to Abraham Lincoln about having six hours to chop down a tree and spending four sharpening the axe. Except in this case, the intellectual dialogue isn’t the axe I’d sharpen. Students should spend that time building domain-specific knowledge about the topic they intend to write about, and then stop wasting time on the abstract concept of an “essay.” Write for a purpose and an audience about something you know a lot about. That’s the axe I’d sharpen.
Michael Strong@flowidealism

Most kids hate essay writing. The key to getting kids to love to write essays is to have them argue a lot. In class, we read two articles by two Yale scholars on whether we should bring mammoths back from extinction. Some kids, yeah, it's so cool, let's bring them back. Other kids, oh, no, ecological disaster, let's not. After arguing with their friends for an hour, they are ready to write an essay about it. I write a lot as an adult, and writing is, for me, 95% thinking. Students who spend an hour a day in intellectual dialogue are ready to write essays. We help them take the positions they have taken in arguments with their peers and organize those positions. "What's your main point?" What are your supporting points? I see writing is largely a matter of organizing one's beliefs into a coherent fashion.

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OverACup@OverACup_·
@thatlawyerLisa Might there be relevant case law about someone with undiagnosed epilepsy who experienced their first seizure and caused an accident?
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Queen of the Mischief Makers
Queen of the Mischief Makers@thatlawyerLisa·
I love a novel argument. I have a client who may have autobrewery syndrome. Got charged with a felony DUI. Oregon is a strict liability state. And I have to figure out a way to make this work as a defense when mens rea doesn’t matter. It feels like a damn law school exam.
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OverACup@OverACup_·
@glukianoff He is either saying that HE, singularly, shouldn’t have to interact with opposing ideas, or is assuming that the student body is an ideological monolith united against Haidt. I’m not sure which implication is more unsettling.
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Greg Lukianoff
Greg Lukianoff@glukianoff·
The thesis of the book is that older people are teaching young people the mental habits of anxious and depressed people, and that will have terrible effects on them and on society. If its advice had been heeded, there would be a hell of a lot fewer suffering young people. So you don’t think there has been a mental health crisis with young people over the last 15 years? The data says much differently. But I get it. Go interact with the phantom idea of what you think the book you didn't read said, and get mad about it. And then say something truly sad like, you shouldn't have to hear words you disagree with on graduation day. No, you should be ready to hear words you disagree with by graduation day. And if you’re not, you should demand your money back.
Aristocratic Educator@TradamWest

@glukianoff Or to put it another way, you don’t need to interact with opposing ideas at your f—king graduation

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eigenrobot
eigenrobot@eigenrobot·
asking people to read ai-generated text is offensive. this is not because ai text is intrinsically bad. rather, the author has not paid a cost to write the text himself. this cost is a credible signal he finds its communication important. so: not paying that cost is telling
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OverACup@OverACup_·
@phredhope @Clare32300568 @TheRobertBshow I agree that loose grammar on X is usually fine, but when a piece of marketing for a new higher education program is this littered with errors, the program *looks* like a fly-by-night scam. Sends the wrong message about how seriously the school takes itself and its students.
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Robert Bortins
Robert Bortins@TheRobertBshow·
Classical Conversations is launching the Classical Fellowship, where students can get there Bachelors Degree and continue the great conversation. Alum get guaranteed admission. Total cost of the program < $30,000. Dedicated Mentor. Small Cohorts.
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OverACup@OverACup_·
@InezFeltscher @memeticsisyphus The defensiveness that’s going to appear in these comments will be fascinating. A very adult response would be “Haha, indeed, one of my hobbies is a little childish. My money, my time!” but I predict reading little of that.
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Foundation Father | M.A. Franklin
Foundation Father | M.A. Franklin@FoundationDads·
How to ruin playtime with your children in five easy steps: 1. Ask "what are we learning from this?" 2. Stay standing while they're on the floor 3. Correct the plot of their imaginary adventure 4. Check your phone during a sword fight 5. Say "let's do something more productive" You have now taught your children that joy and imagination are interruptions to "real life." Congratulations.
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Deva Hazarika
Deva Hazarika@devahaz·
My opinion on this is simple. If you add a 15-20% automatic service fee, that takes the place of gratuity and you can’t expect people to tip in most cases. If you need more revenue to run the business and want customers to tip normally, increase menu prices 15-20%.
M Mohan@mukund

I rarely eat out. Maybe once a month. Went yesterday to a restaurant (Italian, Mediterranean) in West Seattle for Mother’s Day last night. Total for 5 of us ( we don’t drink alcohol) with one salad, humus and 3 vegetarian pastas was $97 The check said 3.5% surcharge for credit card. Then 17% service fee, mandatory. Then tips were 20% 22% and 25% optional. I asked if I could pay in cash. No. They don’t take cash. Then how can I avoid the credit card fee I asked. You can’t. So I asked why the service charge. It pays for the employees they said. Then why the tip I asked. It pays for front office staff I don’t get it.

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OverACup@OverACup_·
@FemoidFairy She said “if they are hungry they will eat,” but some kids will often be cranky/poorly fed without enforced structure around meals. It sounds like you are putting your kid to be in a position where he is actually hungry and seated in front of real food.
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femoid fairy
femoid fairy@FemoidFairy·
If giving your kid meals, making him focus at meal time, and not giving treats if they haven’t eaten real food is contortions then sign me up for the circus
Linda Frady (is THANKFUL) 🧡🦫🖤🌺🐈 ☕️ 🏝@Fradygirl65

@FemoidFairy @naurpillled I could only read about a quarter of your post because I was already getting PTSD from my experiences watching my sister-in-law with her four kids. She made herself ragged omg the contortions she went through to try to get her kids to eat. If they are hungry they will eat.

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OverACup@OverACup_·
@allie__voss Maybe this has to do with what people are classifying as a “date,” versus whatever else they do for fun? (I hope?)
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Jennifer A. Frey
Jennifer A. Frey@jennfrey·
It was clear for thousands of years that the cultivation of our humanity was the most important project we could undertake. The fact that the value of this is no longer legible to us--that we see no "point" to education beyond earning a wage--is the real crisis.
Devin Thornhill@DevinThorn10670

@jennfrey AI has given us a great opportunity to reflect on all this, and really, what's the point? Why are we making so many young americans write short essays? It's all just a make-work jobs program for humanities majors.

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OverACup@OverACup_·
@xwanyex Reminds me of Lincoln’s speech, carved in stone on the Lincoln Memorial: “Why It Is Critically Important Not to Super-punish the South”
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OverACup@OverACup_·
@TheFoxMatriarch I would feel like an overly kind review was a patronizing pat on the head. Someone telling me from afar, “Nice try, and I don’t think you can do better!”
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Anna Katherine ☀️🦊✨️
Anna Katherine ☀️🦊✨️@TheFoxMatriarch·
Writers are always like "I won't two star a book because I know it's hard to write a book" And yeah. But books be bad. I'm not going to write a huge paragraph but I'm going to rate bad books lol If i get published people can do it to mine. It's the price of putting out art
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audrey
audrey@audreystayshome·
The wisdom of knowing that different things work for different people in different seasons is one of the most valuable things that moms need to learn on this app.
𝓜𝓻𝓼. 𝓢@smalltown_wife

I can’t ever participate in the mom wars because I had one kid who was formula fed and one who was exclusively breastfed, one who bedshared for 3 years and one who was sleep trained, one who I was a working mom throughout his infancy and one who I was a stay-at-home mom for the entire time… oh and I don’t vaccinate my kids but I have hospital births with epidurals. so whatever y’all are arguing about this week I’ve literally done it all 😂

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OverACup@OverACup_·
@InezFeltscher Alternate headline: Family attempts to heartlessly ruin diners’ elevated experience
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OverACup@OverACup_·
@low_dosage Same. I read a tweet today containing “I’m bias.” “All of the sudden” comes to mind, too. I think in part this comes from people writing something as they (think) they’ve heard it, having never actually seen it written before.
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charred skeever hide@low_dosage·
I've noticed the last few years that tons of people are making mistakes with homophones in their posting: elicit/illicit, flare/flare, wreak/reek, etc. Is it because people are using voice to text more? Or maybe they're listening to podcasts and watching videos more than reading?
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OverACup@OverACup_·
@politicalmath It’s very hard to outrun one’s diet. Exercise is key for overall wellness, but is not, in the short-term, the key to creating a meaningful calorie deficit.
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PoIiMath@politicalmath·
Is it true that Ozempic basically just surpasses hunger pangs? So the classic advice for weight loss was "diet and exercise" but it was mostly "diet" with exercise playing a marginal role in this strategy?
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Brandon Warmke
Brandon Warmke@BrandonWarmke·
Last year I published a paper on commencement speeches and the kind of morality they teach young people. Long story short: it’s not great.
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