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Mole

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  1. Depending on the context, that book looks awesome for smart, thoughtful, and educated kids. Reading things that challenge you and piss you off is the hallmark of a good education, even if you end up rejecting those ideas entirely. It’s not indoctrination; it’s education. In my fantasy world, public school teachers would be treated more like college professors; requiring very high educational attainment, self-policing accreditation standards, and intellectual freedom in the classroom. For example, I’d much rather my son learn a series of challenging historical perspectives from brilliant teachers than a uniform version of history that doesn’t upset the loudest and least educated among us. I’d also eliminate all statewide testing and trust my highly trained and highly paid professionals to teach well.
  2. With a half million documents, it seems like a nightmare keeping track of what is what. Hopefully those are indexed and annotated into some sort of master Bates list.
  3. Mole

    Tinnitus

    I’ve had it for the past few months. I went to the ENT and they saw some dead skin on my ear drum. Hearing tests showed that my ear was perfectly healthy. They gave me some ear drops and today they peeled the skin off. It was painless and as far as I can tell, the ringing is gone. We’ll see for sure tonight, but it’s definitely much better. Any tinnitus sufferer who hasn’t gone to a doc about it, it might be something dumb like mine.
  4. W took up painting; I assume that Trump was taking up Papier-mâché sculpture.
  5. Wordle 234 4/6 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The difference between getting it in two and four was pretty much random.
  6. It’d be cathartic to push them into insane medical debt, but I don’t think that’s helpful for all of us long term. Vengeance might feel good, but it’s probably not helpful. Since the problem is mostly filling up hospitals, maybe revising triage standards or instituting Uber-like surge pricing for the unvaccinated.
  7. All of this fuss over a podcast. The only podcasts I listen to are the 30 year old episodes of Car Talk that NPR uploads a few times a week. Click and Clack still hold up with relevant advice, good humor, and enjoyable puzzlers. I wonder how the JRE will sound in 30 years.
  8. Almost the same as you, although two different starting words. By try 5 I was thinking about whether or not it was possible to go 0 for the last 4.
  9. Turn off notifications for rep. It’s really strange to have a notification every time someone likes or hates what you write. I’m not sure which one is worse. Ignorance is bliss.
  10. If neg reps bother you, just turn off notifications for rep. I could be getting fatwa’d for making a bunch of pro-Stoops takes and I’d never notice. Constant feedback for negs and pos reps isn’t really a healthy way to function.
  11. If you’re pushing the “they tell me” or the stuttering stuff as some nefarious sign, you’re either arguing in bad faith or you’ve been duped by people arguing in bad faith. It’s a fundamentally dishonest way of framing things — right wing troll culture run amuck. Be better.
  12. What kind of odds can I get on the pipe bomber getting on the presidential ticket?
  13. Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”
  14. I mean that the existing writings from the first few hundred years of church history generally hold a negative view of abortion — to the extent that it’s discussed. I brought this up as a counter to the growing trend seen here and elsewhere suggesting that opposition to abortion is somehow unsupported by Christian doctrine and ethics. It’s absurd, but we live in an era where winning arguments supersedes dealing with the issue honestly. Whether it’s possible to make a historical or theologically informed prochoice case is a separate issue. There’s a reasonably well-supported case that many (most?) early Christians saw abortion as a practice contrary to Christian ethics. Arguing or suggesting that a pro-life position means that modern pro-life Christians don’t understand their own faith is simultaneously arguing that many or most of the earliest Christians likewise didn’t understand their own faith and it’s practical application. This is absurd on its face. It’s the same nonsense that evangelicals pull telling other faiths what those faiths “actually teach.” This is somewhat distinct from a connection between evangelical support of the pro-life movement and opposition to desegregation and all the other arguments that the position may be disingenuous. But yes, practices and beliefs would have varied in ancient churches.
  15. You’re not wrong, but pulling quotes from Numbers as some “gotcha, they don’t even know their own faith” isn’t accurate either. Hypocrisy and selective reading aside, there’s a certain elevation by evangelicals of the early, pre-Constantine church and the early church was largely against abortion to some degree. The quote was pulled for its character and surlyness, but it’s far from alone in presenting abortion as something bad or sinful.
  16. It gets complicated and messy pretty quickly, but the early church generally held a negative view of abortion. Claiming that anti-abortion Christians lack an understanding of their faith or are coming to their conclusions ignorantly or flippantly is somewhat intellectually dishonest. The early church’s view was somewhat diverse, but fits within a view that we’d mostly call pro-life today. This is separate from the issue of how to handle the issue in a pluralistic society, what the proper “Christian” response to the issue should be, or how Christians should balance this issue with other moral and social issues. Some of those ancient negative views were expressed quite colorfully. Apocalypse of Peter:
  17. A pastor friend of mine refers to the vibe in certain parts of the evangelical community as “Trump coming in on his white horse.”
  18. Agreed. Also, a lot of early hip hop is just disco grooves in a different context. Some great grooves came out of that era.
  19. Team post COVID tinnitus here as well. Ent told me that my ears and hearing are in perfect health, although there’s some dead skin on the ringing ear’s drum. They’re gonna scrape it off in a few weeks. If that doesn’t work, she thinks it’s a benign growth or some weird disease that won’t kill me but will make life increasingly unpleasant until something else kills me.
  20. 1951 through the end of 1960 gives you early Miles, peak Coltrane, most of Clifford Brown, and early Elvis. 1896-1905 gives a bunch of Mahler Symphonies, a couple of great Strauss tone poems, and Sibelius Finlandia. Turn of 19th century gives you late Haydn and early-mid Beethoven. You miss Mozart though.
  21. A graying hard boiled egg rolling around next to 4-day old hot dogs sounds wonderful.
  22. Catching up on this thread: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-austria-orchestra-nazis-idUKLNE92A00O20130311
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