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  1. I mean the Old Guard has been at every presidential event since before most of us were born. Every inauguration, state arrival, etc. Those guys in blue are all active duty infantry soldiers. Whatever your thoughts about Trump are — hopefully mostly bad — calling active duty soldiers cosplay is pretty ignorant and shitty.
  2. I agree; you’ve posted way dumber stuff. Also, I have no idea who that Andor chick is, but those pictures look like a strung out Reece Witherspoon.
  3. https://apnews.com/article/badar-khan-suri-georgetown-immigration-case-65e9a9675c29ebe91b39eb647d1d6f18
  4. I’m in academia, but even usually get called Dr. in most social settings outside of my academic colleagues; I also never refers to myself as Dr — just my first name. I don’t advertise the doctorate. I live in a community that seems to place a higher value in formality than many places. The only place that calls me Mr. is the doctor’s office. The only people that call me by first name are my parents and a few colleagues and close friends. Everyone else says Dr., which was weird for me when it first started happening, but now it’s weird if I hear anything else. My wife has other names for me depending on other factors. Love you
  5. It’s time for the Surley PAC to get to work. We’ve got a target-rich environment here. Secretary of State Derka solving the Middle East crisis seems as reasonable as anything else that’s happened in recent years.
  6. Besides the dishonest misquote, most of the book of Proverbs consists of lessons on how to live a productive, Godly life. It very clearly says that how we act, think, do business, etc., directly impacts our quality of life. Taking some fatalistic view of religious life from that book in particular is madness. At least pick Job or something where you can at least put together a case for it. It’s not surprising that things would be so corrupted: bad company corrupts good morals.
  7. So you’d say that the thread titles on this site are deteriorating and getting worse? I bet there’s a thread to discuss this phenomenon; if only the thread titles made any sense. College professor perspective: I’ve changed most of my writing assignments to prioritize thoughtful student engagement with the materials. AI really likes to tell you about things, but so far, doesn’t do a great job of engaging with things in a meaningful way. There’s a difference between a student thoughtfully considering and struggling with new concepts and a machine telling me about everything that’s ever been written on the subject. On the surface, the AI version looks smarter, but it demonstrates no real analysis or human thought. It’s just a catalogue of ideas. Also, its tone sucks. I like to run important emails through AI just to make sure it hates my tone. I’ve have learned a new appreciation and respect for students who are bad writers, since they are likely not cheating and failing honestly. — For this thread, the iPhone keyboard is getting worse every year. I have more and more typos and it sometimes randomly inserts several words in place of one or two letters.
  8. Some think that the worst part is the hypocrisy, but I disagree. I think it’s the raping.
  9. As a reminder from slightly less crazy times in 2017: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-page-organized-protest-texas-different-russian-page-l/
  10. Semi-connected thoughts: 1. I’d recommend reading and rereading the Sermon on the Mount. Contemplating everything in there and its application could be a lifetime exercise. Actually following it would make for a life well-lived. 2. We should remember that church isn’t a commodity or service that we shop for and purchase — or at least it shouldn’t be. If your church community is actively living out the Sermon on the Mount, it might be worth it to deal with services that don’t move you. If the purpose of the music is to worship God, then your feelings on the music aren’t all that important. 3. That said, church meetings are important for a healthy church. Congregational singing is important for a community and for our own spiritual well-being. It’s harder to hate someone if I’m engaged in music-making with them, even if the music feels asinine to me. You don’t have to jump around or act super emotionally, but I’d recommend making yourself sing along, even with the sillier songs. 4. I used to count the lyric references to self (I, me, etc.) vs. the reference to God (You, he, God, etc.) and see which was more. I figured that if we’re singing more about ourselves, we might be worshipping ourselves. I don’t do this anymore and think it’s probably unhealthy spiritually and overly cynical, but I still agree with the general premise. There are modern hymns-writers that don’t write the in the style of Cartman’s Faith +1. Maybe see if you can turn the worship folks on to them. They are much better sing along songs.
  11. I’m a bit behind on this thread, but in short, an external threat is like space aliens or something, and existential threat is Jean-Paul Sartre pulling a gun on you. It’s a pretty simple distinction.
  12. USB stands for universal, so why is it so hard to find the right USB cord?
  13. I teach at a small NAIA college. Some realities that I had never considered before coming here: 1. There are certainly some good athletes and high performers, but a less gifted or relatively unskilled kid could get a scholarship as well. They might never play though. A kid who will be relatively headache-free and help the coach meet their recruiting goals will be appreciated. An ok high school player could certainly find a spot on our rosters. 2. Scholarships are discounts off the sticker price. The school knows how much on average they need to get per student and scholarship accordingly. There often isn’t some magical pool of cash they are drawing from — instead they are just balancing out average costs. Tuition at lots of private schools is so high in order to allow the schools to offer bigger scholarships. 3. Even at our level, the student athletes are busy. It is a lot for them to keep up with. 4. At least at my institution, the coaches are good about supporting academic goals. If a student-athlete isn’t getting it done in my class, their coach is usually the first person I reach out to. 5. At least at my institution, while they celebrate winning, there isn't the same pressure like the higher levels. Coaches surely have been let go, but I don’t think winning or losing has been a big part of that equation.
  14. Blaming the reporter; another example of that conservative personal responsibility they love to crow about. Obviously our country has a stupidity problem, but it goes hand in hand with the run away character problem.
  15. I get unsolicited text messages all the time but I usually just ignore them. How many times have I ghosted the Secretary of Defense trying to send me not war plans? It feels rude of me to just ignore the guy. At least in the iPhone App Store, I was disappointed to find no mention of this in the app reviews.
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