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4y ago
My political enemies are wrong, stupid, an evil.
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4y ago
It functions as a religious cult, and the goal is power and control. See justification for use of power because they project that their opponents goal was power first.
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4y ago
Selective here means it adds a single OH (alcohol group) to methane and not two, there, four. If you keep adding alcohols (otherwise known as oxidation), you would end up with CO2 and waters - the same as burning methane. There is a massive
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The orbitals of the lowest elements on the periodic table are the largest in diameter and most flexible in bonding and rebonding. Their ability to easily make relatively short lived bonds is the key. These metals are often super poisonous f
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anoxor
5y ago
I'm currently grieving a large loss and reading an amazing book "finding meaning, the sixth stage of grief". I cannot recommend it highly enough!!! The writer is a grief researcher and counselor who lost his adopted son to an
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5y ago
thanks for the polite and engaging discussion BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, People of Color Anyways, one final thought. What I presented above isn't a fringe and extremist thought on college campuses anymore. It's what has to be open
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5y ago
I would like to point out the underlying thought behind your comment - that truth is more on the left then right. If a professor doesn't tow the line, they will lose their funding, reputation, and job. As someone who was a chemistry pr
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5y ago
Even the hard fields are falling. Your racist if your grad students diversity isn't as diverse as the surrounding population, which is pretty much every grad school given factors of history and current distribution of capital.
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5y ago
98% of professors who register a party register democrat. Which party do you think given that data?
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5y ago
I have a few older friends that struggle with tech, but have learned their phone apps well. For them, this could be a benefit to not have to learn the differences between the app and website.
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6y ago
Yes, this.
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6y ago
If you don't make solid money, you move out of the city because it is too expensive. The minimum wage law is less than 2 years old, and it's possible for Seattle to continue it's boom momentum despite recently policy. If the
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6y ago
Having been a part of a union I was mandated to enter when I took the job until the supreme court ruled that wasn't legal, actual unions are a far cry from how they are portrayed as helping the worker. I would honestly do anything in m
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I was literally discriminated on the basis of color of my skin and my assumed family of origin, and that seen as perfectly acceptable and it seems that is what you are argueing for. If we can't have shared definitions enough to say tha
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6y ago
to quote from "how to be an antiracist" - a best selling book during this last year https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/08/10/ibram-x-k... >The defining question is whether the disc
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6y ago
Because I was told by my dean of STEM that "it's not advantageous for this position that you're a white scientist" followed by "You came from a well-educated family right?". My lower class farmer dad that that
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6y ago
I totally agree. I have a chem PdD and have seen the imperfections of the system. I would also suggest that corrupt approval rings being a problem is evidence of defeatablity - although a very messy one. You lose your job if shown to be cor
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There is a whole lot of nuance and middle ground between gender essentialism and what is currently put forth as scholarship in the humanities. Criticizm of that scholarship and field is well warrented given the mess it is making. The eviden
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6y ago
Removing fingerprint unlock and add face unlock and then months later facemasks are manditory, and you can't unlock your phone without pin.
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6y ago
The issue is accreditation limits the number of disruptors that can come into the market and makes the bar very high for that. College is 100% right before disruption, but difficult to do.
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6y ago
This is extremely rare, worth media attention, and rightfully outcry and pursuing justice through legal means.
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7y ago
But hurts all the small businesses and people who are laid off due to prolonged closings.
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7y ago
College has become massively political to the point that professors swing 90+% in one political direction often without 1 in 100 or 1000 registered in the other direction. The political side that college swings now wants college free and mo
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7y ago
A whole lot of bootcamp coders making a few hundred thousand may disagree with that or people who started profitable businesses without degrees.
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7y ago
I had to secure a summer loan against my grandparents assests to graduate 6 months earlier because my parents didn't have the credit. It's likely if I had to secure my entire loan debt that I likely wouldn't have gotten a phd
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7y ago
If your 18, you have the ability to destroy or build up your life. At what age should someone be held to a 100k they took out in loans?
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7y ago
Or just work a job you don't like for a few years. I have a few lawyer friends doing that now and have tons of options open to them now they they are debt free and have a massive income. A few made transitions to careers they liked aft
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It reads like the guy had the ability to pay off the debt, but left a job he didn't like. I feel like he made a mistake going into a field he didn't like or just started at a bad company and could have used those skilled he borrow
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7y ago
Rent control means there isn't a true housing market when only a tiny fraction of apartments are at market rate.
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Unless rent control happens and only a tiny fraction of the apartments are at market rate. If that's the case the messed up portion of the market will just keep exploding.
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