Is it over wether or not they can have a boom box in the lunch room?
Unfortunately, no. The Constitution says there needs to be a runoff between the top two candidates for President. This rule was waived by the current President and the candidates, which they don't have the authority to do.
It's ultimately very silly, obviously, but I can't help but facepalm at some of the arguments being made against a runoff. My favorites have to be the Bush v. Gore inspired "let's all put this behind us and rally behind our new President" and "but if we followed all of the rules then we'd have to put everyone who smoked weed on 4/20 in prison."
Is it over wether or not they can have a boom box in the lunch room?
Unfortunately, no. The Constitution says there needs to be a runoff between the top two candidates for President. This rule was waived by the current President and the candidates, which they don't have the authority to do.
It's ultimately very silly, obviously, but I can't help but facepalm at some of the arguments being made against a runoff. My favorites have to be the Bush v. Gore inspired "let's all put this behind us and rally behind our new President" and "but if we followed all of the rules then we'd have to put everyone who smoked weed on 4/20 in prison."
here is my high school student government: myself and two others trying to cat herd and make people actually work, then doing 90% of the actual planning and execution ourselves. 3 of us out of like, 12-15 depending on the day.
I am not stroking my ego when I say I am half of the reason we got anything done ever. God that was a miserable several years of extra-curricular hell.
i went to catholic school k-12 and honestly the uniform is something that i never found to be that big a deal
the "not have to worry about what you wear" component is very alluring. though i guess it's a drawback in that i never learned to give a shit about my clothes and now i look like a bum even though i'm an adult.
I have my final german exam ever tomorrow morning and I've barely studied but the bar is so goddamn low because they're all lazy morons that I thought I'd failed the last exam and it turned out I was one of about two people who made an A and most people did atrociously
the professor wrote "thank you, I needed this" on my exam so I felt pretty boss
So for all you philosophy majors out there, how do you feel about the "[Pop culture thing] and Philosophy" series?
Iron Man and Philosophy: Facing the Stark Reality
House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies
The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News
...those books? Does anybody have or have read them? They're really interesting seeming, and I've been thinking for a while now about picking one or two up, as philosophy has always been a casual interest of mine.
I have my final german exam ever tomorrow morning and I've barely studied but the bar is so goddamn low because they're all lazy morons that I thought I'd failed the last exam and it turned out I was one of about two people who made an A and most people did atrociously
the professor wrote "thank you, I needed this" on my exam so I felt pretty boss
I have my final german exam ever tomorrow morning and I've barely studied but the bar is so goddamn low because they're all lazy morons that I thought I'd failed the last exam and it turned out I was one of about two people who made an A and most people did atrociously
the professor wrote "thank you, I needed this" on my exam so I felt pretty boss
It's really quite amazing how quickly your grading standards are lowered after reading about ten assignments
I always have to go back and re-grade the first few
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I have my final german exam ever tomorrow morning and I've barely studied but the bar is so goddamn low because they're all lazy morons that I thought I'd failed the last exam and it turned out I was one of about two people who made an A and most people did atrociously
the professor wrote "thank you, I needed this" on my exam so I felt pretty boss
It's really quite amazing how quickly your grading standards are lowered after reading about ten assignments
I always have to go back and re-grade the first few
No, you bring down the hammer on all of them.
Average grade for my lab reports is ~20/30. With the way the course is curved, the good students get an easy A and the other students get the C they deserve.
So for all you philosophy majors out there, how do you feel about the "[Pop culture thing] and Philosophy" series?
Iron Man and Philosophy: Facing the Stark Reality
House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies
The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News
...those books? Does anybody have or have read them? They're really interesting seeming, and I've been thinking for a while now about picking one or two up, as philosophy has always been a casual interest of mine.
Thoughts?
there's enough of these around that i feel like they're probably churned out but the dozen to make a quick buck
never actually read one though
probably you'd be better off reading, i don't know, some good introduction to philosophy
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Critical thinking is cool but I had a lot of trouble with the Venn diagrams, even though I had a good grasp of the categorical syllogisms otherwise. I really enjoy the symbolic logic we are doing right now though. It is like a puzzle, I think they are quite a bit of fun. Optimism rising.
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So for all you philosophy majors out there, how do you feel about the "[Pop culture thing] and Philosophy" series?
Iron Man and Philosophy: Facing the Stark Reality
House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies
The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News
...those books? Does anybody have or have read them? They're really interesting seeming, and I've been thinking for a while now about picking one or two up, as philosophy has always been a casual interest of mine.
They are okay, they tend to be a collection of thematically-linked essays all covering different aspects of philosophy through the veil of a pop culture entity.
They tend to be written very open for those unfamiliar with philosophy to engage them, so you'll be good there.
And I'd actually argue that you are more likely to learn better philosophy through one of these books than an intro 101-type book.
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if you want to deal with first or second year undergrad philosophy students, this book is basically all you need
Oh my god, now they're demanding citations for incredibly simple math formulas to find the margin of victory. Addition, subtraction, and division. That's it.
I've been sucked into the stupid. Someone please kill me.
So for all you philosophy majors out there, how do you feel about the "[Pop culture thing] and Philosophy" series?
Iron Man and Philosophy: Facing the Stark Reality
House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies
The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News
...those books? Does anybody have or have read them? They're really interesting seeming, and I've been thinking for a while now about picking one or two up, as philosophy has always been a casual interest of mine.
They are okay, they tend to be a collection of thematically-linked essays all covering different aspects of philosophy through the veil of a pop culture entity.
They tend to be written very open for those unfamiliar with philosophy to engage them, so you'll be good there.
And I'd actually argue that you are more likely to learn better philosophy through one of these books than an intro 101-type book.
Sweet. Cuz there's a chance that I'll be taking a philosophy course down the road when I'm working on my 4-year, so I don't want to learn anything that's academically unhelpful, but I also don't currently have enough interest to just jump right into something like a textbook. If I was going to do that, I'd just read Neitzsche.
I have my final german exam ever tomorrow morning and I've barely studied but the bar is so goddamn low because they're all lazy morons that I thought I'd failed the last exam and it turned out I was one of about two people who made an A and most people did atrociously
the professor wrote "thank you, I needed this" on my exam so I felt pretty boss
It's really quite amazing how quickly your grading standards are lowered after reading about ten assignments
I always have to go back and re-grade the first few
My brief experience with peer review in a historical research class convinced me that I'd probably be too harsh to be an effective university professor.
I did give the rambling, incoherent essays higher grades than the rambling, incoherent essays that cited no sources whatsoever, however.
So prom is this weekend, and this gay guy I know was talking behind me how last year they wouldn't let a gay couple go to the prom and that they should've gone to the <organization here I don't remember shut up> and they would've won and that if they do that to him next year when he's a Junior that's what he'll do.
Always good to remember I live in Texas and that this shit happens.
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Unfortunately, no. The Constitution says there needs to be a runoff between the top two candidates for President. This rule was waived by the current President and the candidates, which they don't have the authority to do.
It's ultimately very silly, obviously, but I can't help but facepalm at some of the arguments being made against a runoff. My favorites have to be the Bush v. Gore inspired "let's all put this behind us and rally behind our new President" and "but if we followed all of the rules then we'd have to put everyone who smoked weed on 4/20 in prison."
barf
oh man i am going to make so many snarky posts that are just disguised links to this article
aka the Thomas Friedman fallacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McLeroy
I wonder how it must have felt to be a girl student in attendance of these meetings.
Whole school obsessing over how much leg you show
it was cool but it was focused entirely on propositional logic
which doesn't have a lot of practical use in day-to-day life
i can't figure out how these meetings would have gone down
does everyone in the school get a say? does it degenerate into a free-for-fall before coming up with 'not that short'
the "whole school" was like 150 people students, grades 6-12
it was a charter school
it was a really stupid school
the rule they ended up at was "wherever your knuckles fall on your leg when your arms are at your sides and your fists are clenched
which since that is a ridiculous ruling ended up being puritanical on some girls and pornographic on others
high school government is dumb
Hahaha shiet thats stupid
that wouldn't even cover my balls
here its like, one credit card length above the knees
unless religion became involved
pentacles were banned because some christian gal got upset about it
the obvious rebuttal ("Um, I'm non-christian and I find crucifixes offensive.") was ignored
I'm not sure what was up to the student government. They didn't seem to do much.
we had school captains, is that the same thing? they did fuck-all
I am not stroking my ego when I say I am half of the reason we got anything done ever. God that was a miserable several years of extra-curricular hell.
they should have made him turn it inside out because the chilli peppers are a bunch of dumb buttheads but w/e
I'd like for it to be done now yes please thank you
the "not have to worry about what you wear" component is very alluring. though i guess it's a drawback in that i never learned to give a shit about my clothes and now i look like a bum even though i'm an adult.
the professor wrote "thank you, I needed this" on my exam so I felt pretty boss
Iron Man and Philosophy: Facing the Stark Reality
House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies
The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News
...those books? Does anybody have or have read them? They're really interesting seeming, and I've been thinking for a while now about picking one or two up, as philosophy has always been a casual interest of mine.
Thoughts?
Now they're arguing "majority rules." The whole point of a runoff is that the candidate with the highest vote total did not receive a majority!
hahaha that is excellent
speaking of unexpected success
I got a 4.0 on my english midterm, apparently
I figured I would get like a 3.5 at best
It's really quite amazing how quickly your grading standards are lowered after reading about ten assignments
I always have to go back and re-grade the first few
No, you bring down the hammer on all of them.
Average grade for my lab reports is ~20/30. With the way the course is curved, the good students get an easy A and the other students get the C they deserve.
Student teaching in different grade levels wrecks your ability to judge age-appropriate writing, I'll tell ya what
there's enough of these around that i feel like they're probably churned out but the dozen to make a quick buck
never actually read one though
probably you'd be better off reading, i don't know, some good introduction to philosophy
Hey @Tox!
They are okay, they tend to be a collection of thematically-linked essays all covering different aspects of philosophy through the veil of a pop culture entity.
They tend to be written very open for those unfamiliar with philosophy to engage them, so you'll be good there.
And I'd actually argue that you are more likely to learn better philosophy through one of these books than an intro 101-type book.
I've been sucked into the stupid. Someone please kill me.
Sweet. Cuz there's a chance that I'll be taking a philosophy course down the road when I'm working on my 4-year, so I don't want to learn anything that's academically unhelpful, but I also don't currently have enough interest to just jump right into something like a textbook. If I was going to do that, I'd just read Neitzsche.
My brief experience with peer review in a historical research class convinced me that I'd probably be too harsh to be an effective university professor.
I did give the rambling, incoherent essays higher grades than the rambling, incoherent essays that cited no sources whatsoever, however.
w/e i have another month to learn this
Nietzsche is pretty easy to read, he's probably one of the best writers in western philosophy.
Always good to remember I live in Texas and that this shit happens.