what i don't understand is why they don't just go discreetly buy themselves the identical shoes in the right size, to avoid the embarrassment and discomfort. like, are they not aware, or what?

also: why is it worse this year? i've been messed up all week

[sigh]

peak MJM. props

congrats! bravo

Rousseau? pas Voltaire?

what i don't understand is why they don't just go discreetly buy themselves the identical shoes in the right size, to avoid the embarrassment and discomfort. like, are they not aware, or what?

this is putting the cart before the horse. i mean - sure, anyone wrongfully detained and mistreated should be able to sue to recover financial losses incurred. but the way to make that possible is by assuring *citizenship* to all subjected to ICE abuse.

how else would they be that type of guy, tho?

happy for you, liam. i speak for all of us here

such a banger, that one

game-changer

oh wow now you have to tell us more Daniel

went to pick up some blue books for today's midterm and the dept admin hands them to me and - they're full-size, 8.5" x 11" pages?!?! hadn't imagined that such a thing was even possible.

who says everything is getting worse. here's one thing that's better.

(Roy Tsao, vintage star-wars opinion-haver)

yep

(Roy Tsao, vintage star wars opinion-haver)

I remember when i was a kid I initially found it wildly implausible that luke could get all the way from hoth to the dagobah system in just an x-wing. only later did i understand that the whole point was that such things are not, after all, normally possible.

tbh i do think this site would have gotten much bigger by now if they gave it a normally-pronounceable single-word name

lol that's exactly what i thought of your thread about it earlier

how my day is going, yes

see, but the topic of the workshop is about 'what to do with our writing-intensive curriculum in the age of chat gpt.' so, like - hey look plato says writing is dumb anyway.

person in this zoom who had started the workshop off by grandly quoting Plato's Phaedrus is now saying: 'instead of having them write an essay, you can have the students turn in the thoughtful conversation they had with ChatGPT.'

keeping my mic on mute for this one

fire alarm pretty apt tbh

so i'm in this zoom faculty workshop on dealing with AI and the person presenting just put up an image of a more upbeat, AI-generated redo of Goya's "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters," and I'm trying to be a good sport here but sorry I just can't

this is (part of) what's wrong with the last star wars trilogy, imo. like, jumping to hyperspace used to be *difficult.* you couldn't just warp your tie-fighters at will to low altitudes on some random planet halfway across the galaxy or whatever

in light of the fact that he and his gang have now already done just about every *other* horrible thing that we feared they might do if he got back in office— yeah, afraid so

Yeah. I’m not saying it’s an easy lift. But we’re living in a different world now, and we’re never getting out of this mess without a half dozen institutional reforms that few would have thought remotely feasible just a couple years ago- this one is relatively straightforward. by comparison

yeah, all true. nothing happens in the absence of a future US admin that were amenable to allowing it, and honoring an interpol warrant. *If* that condition were met, I’d like to think jurisdictional question would get sorted out.

On the one hand, it’s true that the US never signed the Rome Statute treaty establishing the International Criminal Court’s jurisdiction. On the other hand this is also true of the Philippines, and look where Duterte is today