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by rkk3 5y ago
Ironic since their department, Anthropology, is one of the most politically-correct and female academic disciplines.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Ah cultural differences, didn't occur to me. Both terms are significantly more offensive in the US when applied to women.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> aren’t they both gender neutral as derogatory terms? At least in modern times? Assuming you aren't trolling, No they aren't gender neutral, they have significantly different implications based on who you say it to just like
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by rkk3 5y ago
Do you think career criminals go around town throwing eggs during Halloween ? Vandalism implies actual damages...
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by rkk3 5y ago
IDK they probably would have been better off if they ended the conversation earlier rather than "giving their manager a piece of their mind" & then hanging up. If a conversation is getting too heated, excusing yourself and tak
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by rkk3 5y ago
I thought the Harvard Professor's take was pretty out of touch > “It’s my pretty firm belief,” says Gilliard, “that the police should not be called unless someone’s life is in danger.” Sure it'd be extreme to call the police fo
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by rkk3 5y ago
"Snow White" was a hit movie in 2012 but who knows.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Are Google & FB also "fools" for buying Youtube & Instagram or are they outside your fanboy distortion field?
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by rkk3 5y ago
You said the business was a "sinking ship" offloaded to a "bigger fool" when its grown 240x since then and is one of the most successful acquisitions ever...
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by rkk3 5y ago
> He made the business sink....so much that the board had to fire him and install Thiel instead, who did the only sensible thing: clear the deck, secure the hatches, give it a paintjob and offload the sinking ship to a bigger fool. Yeah
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Musk’s seed capital—the result of an early payday investing in payments processor PayPal Investing in PayPal.. C'mon Forbes he made the Business. "Why did only two get rich"... they really mean billionaries not rich Sim
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by rkk3 5y ago
Agreed, I don't think his premise of "families keep producing such talent, generation after generation" is solid. On a side note, I was also surprised the Bernoulli Family wasn't mentioned.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I'm curious why you and OP are equating "not monogamy" with "single-parent?" What about polygamy? Or Infidelity...
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by rkk3 5y ago
> There is no essential carbs. Fiber is an essential Carb
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I don't really follow where you are getting your data. The link in this comment only seems to show Covid data and no Spanish flu data (unless I'm missing something) and the Wikipedia article indicates we don't have firm
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by rkk3 5y ago
For 1918 Flu 99% of deaths in US were people under 65 vs 24% deaths under 65 for Covid-19... "nearly half the deaths the were people 20-40" in the US, compared with 2% of deaths for Covid The chart says people less <1 or >85
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by rkk3 5y ago
Taxable income would have to be in the tens of billions (has this even ever happened?) for a local income tax to be in the 3 hundred million range... And who knows if Kalimazoo is even their claimed residence. They clearly aren't fina
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by rkk3 5y ago
Huh? The person giving hundreds of millions of dollars isn't working for the community? That quote was expressing his concern about a municipal death spiral of Higher Taxes & Austerity because the city's budget was so underwat
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by rkk3 5y ago
Not necessarily, the 1918 Flu Pandemic for example mostly killed young adults rather than elderly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Mortality
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by rkk3 5y ago
Not that relevant since at UCSB the "winter" is a chilly 60 degree's... And FWIW I went to school in a similar climate to yours and was never "stuck in a room for days". How did you get to class? How did you get foo
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I’ve been in a windowless prison cell, it sucks. That doesn't sound pleasant but college students aren't prisoners locked in their dorm rooms.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> future is kids will be raised by the state and given an equal playing field. This seems dystopian...
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by rkk3 5y ago
> how to make education equal? Instead of setting up quotas maybe we should simply switch teachers. Let the teachers rotate among schools so that every kid gets a random selection of teachers and every teacher gets a random selection of
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by rkk3 5y ago
>I would expect a huge portion of that Room & Board is actually the "Board" component, i.e. food, utilities, maintenance, etc. "Huge Portion"... not really its about 2k each semester for food. https://w
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by rkk3 5y ago
It's not as though they won't ever see the sun, they just need to leave their room, its SoCal ffs They will be living in a vibrant college community, with common areas, beaches, parks, libraries etc... I've lived in a room wi
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Does that strike anyone else as insane? That's like 330k per room It is expensive but Room & Board is 16.5k for 9 months at UCSB, so it will break even in 30 years or so depending how you model it. https://www.fina
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Housing Crisis Is Leaving UCSB Students on the Streets(kcrw.com)
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by rkk3 5y ago
Or the many UCSB students who withdraw from college because of housing, or sleep in their cars. https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/van-life-street-m...
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by rkk3 5y ago
Thanks, you're right, wording confused me, I thought there were 3 Nathaniel whites.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Confused since the only piece about damages to the victim are for the person the Discovery Channel erroneously identified as a serial killer. It doesn't mention Nathaniel White of Florida suing or implying damage was done by Wikipedia,

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