Lay Off the Almond Milk, You Ignorant Hipsters
Eat more deliciously - eat like a man!
Let's be intimate
yum fall!
Looking forward to looking back
Responses
1. I assume by that you mean, pay money as customers so that the bank can pay back money it allegedly owes minorities to people who may or may not be minorities, correct?
2. I had read this article as well and it's chilling. The Black Lives Matter movement is likely causing more black deaths - but at least they're at the hands of other black people!
3. I can understand. It's like my mixed feelings of the Billfold. Except the Billfold is not well written, researched or edited and they don't pay the writers well. =P
4. Do we know why it took so long? Is it guilt?
5. That dean has a hard job.
6. Wapo had an outlook piece defending the protesters (of course it did) but it didn't make an argument beyond the usual "feel our pain" and I guess "this is justified payback for the media not covering our news in the way that we would have liked."
I saw one article that gave the students a pass for not knowing the law, but I don't think that's acceptable. You are over 18 - you better know the law. These aren't children.
I guess it's a sidenote that the photographer is not a person who can claim "white privilege" but I'm not sure what to make of that. If he were black, I guess he'd be called a traitor.
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3. Why does "Comedians Getting Coffee" make you soft? Also, why are all pop stars loathsome? I have no negative feelings towards Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and Jessica Simpson (except for perhaps the latter's music). And we do love Party in the USA. I guess that leaves Katy Perry and Selena Gomez, both of whom I'm tired of, but overall I'm pop-star-positive.
4. Link is fixed!
5. This is not a complete solution but it would work in moderate temperature areas to help some people. I guess it just gives us hope that people can make things happen.
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4. But who would boycott Legos? Then you'd have to give your kid those cheapo blocks that don't work.
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4. I guess it goes towards "what does it mean to be bad in bed?" And I think you're bad in bed if you're not communicating or if you don't care. Of course, I understand that the woman in this article seems like the type of person who would be upset if the man wasn't perfect from the get-go.
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2. That seems to be the argument we have with respect to every liberal argument. I stipulate that the problem exists and is important but your method of solving it is nonsensical.
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1. I think you can make choices in dating that seem flimsy to other people but are extremely important to you or that you interpret as being meaningful in a larger sense, whereas other people wouldn't. For instance, a man with cats to you is a yellow flag, but for me, it's immaterial. I would find it hard to date someone who loved the NY Giants/the Olive Garden/California or someone who went to Tech. I dumped a guy because he was bad at bowling (also, he was bad at everything). People are idiosyncratic and I don't think that's necessarily bad. I think it's bad when you dismiss people based on societal norms that typically exclude certain types of people (race, baldness, height, weight, occupation, education, wealth).
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Social Studies
I can't believe that they have to pay money based on this flimsy... everything, really.
Perhaps social media is deadlier than we previously thought.
This comes a bit closer to describing my mixed but definitely positive feelings towards Grantland.
There it is.
These kids are horrible.
As are these kids.
Responses:
1. I guess this is why marketing is a thing.
2. People do say that being present is the way to increase happiness. I guess this is another way of saying that, and with science.
3. She seems like an interesting enough person with a reasonably good head on her shoulders. I think stories like this make me move her out of the category of "loathsome pop star" (which is where I assume most pop stars reside) and into the category of "possibly undamaged successful celebrity." I've been watching a lot of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee recently, though, so maybe I'm going soft.
4. I think this link is broken.
5. Lots of people have suggested that affordable housing is something that only the government can fix, but solutions like this one make me think that they are wrong.
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4. The fact that people will associate Legos with his expressive art in my view allows Lego to decline the bulk sale, even if they won't stand in the way of his acquisition of Lego materials through alternative (and more difficult) means. I would feel differently if we weren't currently in the middle of a boycott craze where people seek to punish people with whose views they disagree.
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1. It was funny as a picture, but it would be lame as an actual costume.
4. I'm not sure that saying you're cut off if you're bad in bed is good as a first position, if only because people get better with practice, but there's no way to get better without communication. I think men who have an attitude of wanting to figure it out to get better have the right attitude, but I suspect that trial and error will get you only so far without some input from the woman. As awkward as it is to have to talk about it, though, I think it's more awkward to be lying there afterwards feeling disappointed and frustrated.
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2. The problem is that most politicians don't understand how science should work, and most scientists don't understand how policy works. And most Americans don't understand how either works. The claim that climate change science is irrefutable is similar to the claim made by some liberals (especially during Supreme Court nomination hearings) that Roe v. Wade is "settled law." Each side wants to take something that is absolutely subject to change (subsequent peer review studies in the case of climate change, and a contrary holding in the case of Supreme Court jurisprudence) and claim, for political purposes, that it cannot change, and they use practically useful but philosophically arguable reasons (scientific community consensus in the case of climate change, super-stare decisis in the case of Roe) to beat back any attempt by newcomers to disrupt the status quo. There is no doubt in my mind that an overwhelming majority of the scientists who have studied climate change and answered that poll truly believe that the science backs up their conclusion that climate change is happening, and there is no doubt in my mind that the studies and experiments they have done or reviewed back up their conclusions (to the extent that such conclusions are narrowly tailored to the performed experiments), but that does not make the 97% number relevant as an argument in and of itself. Science isn't democracy. Moreover, even stipulating that the science is there, that does not therefore mean that the policy proposals put forth by those who agree with that 97% of scientists with respect to their scientific conclusions are necessarily appropriate, necessary, effective, or otherwise worthy of our support.
3. I guess some people just suck.
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1. Choosing the criteria by which we date people is of course fine. But when we think about things like morals and ethics, and when we think about what we want for ourselves, we of course have rules and judgments. Politically, I am often a libertarian when it comes to these things. But that doesn't mean I'm an existentialist. I would never advocate for any law or regulation requiring people to date some diversity of people or be polite at speed dating events by meeting with everyone. But there is a huge difference between saying that people have the right to choose a certain way and saying that that choice is good, whether with respect to that person or with respect to ourselves. I fully concede that people make dating choices based on sometimes flimsy criteria, and there is probably no way to stop that in the short or long term. But despite that, when people choose to date or not to date people on the basis of trivial characteristics, they are making bad choices, and while I do not feel the need to call them out on it or prevent them from making those bad choices, they are still bad choices.
To put it more simply by way of example, people may believe that activities such as recreational drug use, prostitution, gambling, or even abortion should be legal, but it does not follow from such belief that people think that their own participation in such activities is consistent with their moral codes.
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Perhaps social media is deadlier than we previously thought.
This comes a bit closer to describing my mixed but definitely positive feelings towards Grantland.
There it is.
These kids are horrible.
As are these kids.
Responses:
1. I guess this is why marketing is a thing.
2. People do say that being present is the way to increase happiness. I guess this is another way of saying that, and with science.
3. She seems like an interesting enough person with a reasonably good head on her shoulders. I think stories like this make me move her out of the category of "loathsome pop star" (which is where I assume most pop stars reside) and into the category of "possibly undamaged successful celebrity." I've been watching a lot of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee recently, though, so maybe I'm going soft.
4. I think this link is broken.
5. Lots of people have suggested that affordable housing is something that only the government can fix, but solutions like this one make me think that they are wrong.
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4. The fact that people will associate Legos with his expressive art in my view allows Lego to decline the bulk sale, even if they won't stand in the way of his acquisition of Lego materials through alternative (and more difficult) means. I would feel differently if we weren't currently in the middle of a boycott craze where people seek to punish people with whose views they disagree.
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1. It was funny as a picture, but it would be lame as an actual costume.
4. I'm not sure that saying you're cut off if you're bad in bed is good as a first position, if only because people get better with practice, but there's no way to get better without communication. I think men who have an attitude of wanting to figure it out to get better have the right attitude, but I suspect that trial and error will get you only so far without some input from the woman. As awkward as it is to have to talk about it, though, I think it's more awkward to be lying there afterwards feeling disappointed and frustrated.
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2. The problem is that most politicians don't understand how science should work, and most scientists don't understand how policy works. And most Americans don't understand how either works. The claim that climate change science is irrefutable is similar to the claim made by some liberals (especially during Supreme Court nomination hearings) that Roe v. Wade is "settled law." Each side wants to take something that is absolutely subject to change (subsequent peer review studies in the case of climate change, and a contrary holding in the case of Supreme Court jurisprudence) and claim, for political purposes, that it cannot change, and they use practically useful but philosophically arguable reasons (scientific community consensus in the case of climate change, super-stare decisis in the case of Roe) to beat back any attempt by newcomers to disrupt the status quo. There is no doubt in my mind that an overwhelming majority of the scientists who have studied climate change and answered that poll truly believe that the science backs up their conclusion that climate change is happening, and there is no doubt in my mind that the studies and experiments they have done or reviewed back up their conclusions (to the extent that such conclusions are narrowly tailored to the performed experiments), but that does not make the 97% number relevant as an argument in and of itself. Science isn't democracy. Moreover, even stipulating that the science is there, that does not therefore mean that the policy proposals put forth by those who agree with that 97% of scientists with respect to their scientific conclusions are necessarily appropriate, necessary, effective, or otherwise worthy of our support.
3. I guess some people just suck.
R2R2R2R2R2R:
1. Choosing the criteria by which we date people is of course fine. But when we think about things like morals and ethics, and when we think about what we want for ourselves, we of course have rules and judgments. Politically, I am often a libertarian when it comes to these things. But that doesn't mean I'm an existentialist. I would never advocate for any law or regulation requiring people to date some diversity of people or be polite at speed dating events by meeting with everyone. But there is a huge difference between saying that people have the right to choose a certain way and saying that that choice is good, whether with respect to that person or with respect to ourselves. I fully concede that people make dating choices based on sometimes flimsy criteria, and there is probably no way to stop that in the short or long term. But despite that, when people choose to date or not to date people on the basis of trivial characteristics, they are making bad choices, and while I do not feel the need to call them out on it or prevent them from making those bad choices, they are still bad choices.
To put it more simply by way of example, people may believe that activities such as recreational drug use, prostitution, gambling, or even abortion should be legal, but it does not follow from such belief that people think that their own participation in such activities is consistent with their moral codes.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Pretty Packaging
Michelle Obama, take notice. It feels a little bit like cheating but packaging is what sells the product.
Thinking about your own boring life is better than imagining a better one.
I don't think either of us has ever linked to a celebrity profile in a fashion magazine but here's a start. It helps that it's by Chuck Klosterman and I only learned about it because it was linked by Penelope Trunk in a career article.
I like this idea of non-zero days.
A cool (hot?) solution for housing woes in Bangkok
Responses
1. Ugh the death threats make this a sad story. It was a very happy story that this movie tanked. Maybe the next time they take over a beloved cartoon, they will incorporate some of the plot elements.
2. Ha!
3. A new way to fall asleep.
4. If Ai Wei Wei asked for some kind of discount for buying in bulk for his art, then I totally support Lego in saying no. I don't really see the problem selling the blocks to him at full price. Then again, I don't see why Lego should have to be associated with the art if it doesn't have to. It does not chill his speech and their blocks could be used to make something really atrocious that they have no control over and which they would be blamed for. Lego is in a hard position.
5. Gah I try not to think of them because another commercial jingle will just sneak its way in if I do.
6. I think you need a touch screen tv for this to be a large iphone. I do like the ability to use Siri to find things though.
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1. You said it was funny here but then told me in person it was lame!
3. Pretty sure that if people read the weird things people post on social media, our jails would be even more overcrowded than they are already.
4. This is often the problem with modern feminism: they want men to solve the problems for them. The answer to the wage gap is for men to disclose their salaries. The answer to rape is for drunk men to stop for the benefit of drunk women. And so if she is unsatisfied in bed, the man has to figure that out and take the stand that she won't. (interesting that her knight in shining armor is an abstainer ("We won't have sex again because you're not satisfied!"), rather than a fixer ("I will figure it out and make it better!")). Why can't women just say, if you're bad in bed, we won't sleep with you again? Men would figure it out themselves and it wouldn't make women look so weak.
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1. It seems like what James Taranto would put under his heading, "Fox Butterfield, is that you?" The headline would be: "More black male deaths by police officers despite more black men confrontations with police."
2. I just note the article because everything I've ever heard about global science is that the science is irrefutable and that every scientist in the world believes in nit.
3. I guess the GAL mother seemed like this. Incapable of really evaluating her actions or taking any responsibility. She said she was so upset that she couldn't find the baby's Halloween costume that she wouldn't let either of her children trick or treat. Did not seem to register that this might be incredibly disappointing to her children, who were already decked out in costume. Not saying she will pimp out her children later but it all starts somewhere.
4. I've never really partake of any of the incentives that stores bring to shop slower unless I'm already going to buy something (see: engagement ring shopping). The only exception is Barnes & Noble where I typically guilt buy stuff for all the time I spend browsing. But now that store is closing. =(
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3. Keep sharing!
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1. I guess if someone said some weird quirk their dating partner had, then the original person would seem too picky - just like Seinfeld. We want to believe we are better people and won't discount someone just for having a bigger head or man hands. But there isn't anything necessarily wrong with drawing the lines at weird places.
3. Crispy potatoes!
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4. Still have not heard from Howard girl....Criticism is important for litigators. It's not exactly a soft industry.
Thinking about your own boring life is better than imagining a better one.
I don't think either of us has ever linked to a celebrity profile in a fashion magazine but here's a start. It helps that it's by Chuck Klosterman and I only learned about it because it was linked by Penelope Trunk in a career article.
I like this idea of non-zero days.
A cool (hot?) solution for housing woes in Bangkok
Responses
1. Ugh the death threats make this a sad story. It was a very happy story that this movie tanked. Maybe the next time they take over a beloved cartoon, they will incorporate some of the plot elements.
2. Ha!
3. A new way to fall asleep.
4. If Ai Wei Wei asked for some kind of discount for buying in bulk for his art, then I totally support Lego in saying no. I don't really see the problem selling the blocks to him at full price. Then again, I don't see why Lego should have to be associated with the art if it doesn't have to. It does not chill his speech and their blocks could be used to make something really atrocious that they have no control over and which they would be blamed for. Lego is in a hard position.
5. Gah I try not to think of them because another commercial jingle will just sneak its way in if I do.
6. I think you need a touch screen tv for this to be a large iphone. I do like the ability to use Siri to find things though.
R2R
1. You said it was funny here but then told me in person it was lame!
3. Pretty sure that if people read the weird things people post on social media, our jails would be even more overcrowded than they are already.
4. This is often the problem with modern feminism: they want men to solve the problems for them. The answer to the wage gap is for men to disclose their salaries. The answer to rape is for drunk men to stop for the benefit of drunk women. And so if she is unsatisfied in bed, the man has to figure that out and take the stand that she won't. (interesting that her knight in shining armor is an abstainer ("We won't have sex again because you're not satisfied!"), rather than a fixer ("I will figure it out and make it better!")). Why can't women just say, if you're bad in bed, we won't sleep with you again? Men would figure it out themselves and it wouldn't make women look so weak.
R2R2R
1. It seems like what James Taranto would put under his heading, "Fox Butterfield, is that you?" The headline would be: "More black male deaths by police officers despite more black men confrontations with police."
2. I just note the article because everything I've ever heard about global science is that the science is irrefutable and that every scientist in the world believes in nit.
3. I guess the GAL mother seemed like this. Incapable of really evaluating her actions or taking any responsibility. She said she was so upset that she couldn't find the baby's Halloween costume that she wouldn't let either of her children trick or treat. Did not seem to register that this might be incredibly disappointing to her children, who were already decked out in costume. Not saying she will pimp out her children later but it all starts somewhere.
4. I've never really partake of any of the incentives that stores bring to shop slower unless I'm already going to buy something (see: engagement ring shopping). The only exception is Barnes & Noble where I typically guilt buy stuff for all the time I spend browsing. But now that store is closing. =(
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3. Keep sharing!
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1. I guess if someone said some weird quirk their dating partner had, then the original person would seem too picky - just like Seinfeld. We want to believe we are better people and won't discount someone just for having a bigger head or man hands. But there isn't anything necessarily wrong with drawing the lines at weird places.
3. Crispy potatoes!
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4. Still have not heard from Howard girl....Criticism is important for litigators. It's not exactly a soft industry.
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