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What my students see whenever I tell them to buy a physical textbook and not use ChatGPT
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chris arnold
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chris arnold
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#fuckthesystem PhD student at @HistoryatSU
Katılım Şubat 2010
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The most absurd academic disciplines in the US are political science and economics. The reason for the poverty of these disciplines is that they both rely on fundamental assumptions that are not merely debatable but obviously false.
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
Tyler Cowen in his new book on why economists write about topics outside their area of expertise: “The dirty little secret is that what distinguishes economics as a field, right now, is a mix of higher standards, harder work, better math, and higher IQs.” This is clearly true.
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Not an economist but I did graduate first in my class from UT-Austin with a BA in econ and a strong suspicion that I had spent the last three years studying an ideological pseudoscience that had zero predictive power and was based on assumptions so untenable it was almost funny
noah kulwin@nkulw
Economists have never had more power in governance and society than they have for the past few decades, which is why everything is going awesome!
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The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word ‘fuck’, the moon and the sea.
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@maggiewestrum as I "Attempt" to write my dissertation I find I spend hours watching YouTube videos of Dallas which I've come to realize is the 80s nighttime soap version of King Lear
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The Waltons was a well written, well acted and deeply engaging TV show
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philosophers have hitherto only reflected on the blowjob
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The Star Wars Prequels are better than the Villeneuve Dunes
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me: i didn't notice you taking a picture
friend: you were looking for food, i've never seen you so focused
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Margaret Thatcher getting cooked during her funeral.
"Don't you think she did any good?"
"Not a bit of good, not a bit. I'd put a stake through her heart and a garrot around her neck to make sure she never came back."
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On the sixth day god created resistance libs. And on the seventh he created BlueSky because they were annoying the shit out of him.
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Most online discourses about sexuality, apart from being boring, are ultimately useless in that it invariably refuses to acknowledge the humongous elephant in the room, under existing social norms/mores sexual desirability is the way of"valuing"people everything is collapsed into
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@bernardtjoy I always felt cheated the Rankin /Bass had no Beorn , but I would rather no Beorn than the lame horror of the PJ Beorn
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They should have been locked in a lead-lined box and thrown into the Atlantic Ocean.
Tolkien World@TolkienWorldG
Were we too harsh on the Hobbit Trilogy?
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The Trump administration is waging an illegal war with record-breaking incompetence (high bar) and almost unbelievably dangerous global ramifications--and the big protest is going to be another "No Kings"? Give me a goddamn break.
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If Colbert was the superfan he says he is, he would know that Tolkien tried to write a sequel but ultimately decided it would be gratuitous because LotR is the proper conclusion to his mythology. Even so, Tolkien's scapped sequel ideas were a million times cooler than this shit
Variety@Variety
NEW 'LORD OF THE RINGS' MOVIE Stephen Colbert is co-writing "The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past" (working title), which will go into production after "The Hunt for Gollum." The synopsis: "Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo - Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began." Colbert is co-writing the script with his son, Peter McGee, and franchise veteran Philippa Boyens. variety.com/2026/film/news…
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