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what do you mean. he did vote no.Wadtucket would have voted no. RIP Wad. Biggest loss for this forum in years.
what do you mean. he did vote no.Wadtucket would have voted no. RIP Wad. Biggest loss for this forum in years.
Wad is QUAD!?what do you mean. he did vote no.
Calling BS when I see it doesn't make me angry. I am also calling BS on the way you brush it off like that. It's one of the world's most important institutions so no intelligent person dismisses the topic like that. And i know you are not dumb.You sound angry, lol. I don't follow this stuff with the same obsession as some of you. History -- I pay attention to. Law -- I pay attention to. Random changes in university hiring processes that don't affect me or anyone I know -- I don't pay attention to.
lol I was Thisssssss close.Well, at least we didn't lose you after the forum reboot. I got something for the 4th of July this year that I think you and other like-minded Americans (@Mr Holmes, @Long Dark Blues, @Belaya Smert, @Gutter Chris, et al.) are really going to dig. It's going to blow the 2023 Thread of the Year out of the fucking water.
Well I never!Well, at least we didn't lose you after the forum reboot. I got something for the 4th of July this year that I think you and other like-minded Americans (@Mr Holmes, @Long Dark Blues, @Belaya Smert, @Gutter Chris, et al.) are really going to dig. It's going to blow the 2023 Thread of the Year out of the fucking water.
Ask him how many CEO's on the fortune 500 are women.
Like I said...you seem angry that I don't care as much as you do. And you're doubly angry that I don't care as much you want me to care.Calling BS when I see it doesn't make me angry. I am also calling BS on the way you brush it off like that. It's one of the world's most important institutions so no intelligent person dismisses the topic like that. And i know you are not dumb.
Thanks for taking the time but this is a very bizarre response. If we were to only care about things that directly affect our daily lives there would be no discussions. I am pretty sure that you don't only post about the price of gas and crime in your particular location?Like I said...you seem angry that I don't care as much as you do. And you're doubly angry that I don't care as much you want me to care.
Let me explain the difference between me and, apparently, you. I don't think this subject is particularly important so I don't pay attention to it. Why?
Because university hiring policies don't matter to me. Why not?
First, because I'm not trying to get a job at a university. Second, because hiring policies are always changing. Third, because how the university hires professors and staff doesn't change anything about what I have to do with my day or my life or even my child's life. Fourth, I went to college and grad school and the hiring policies of the universities never came up when I applied to schools, when I attended schools, or when I went looking for a job after graduation.
It doesn't matter so I don't pay attention to it.
Now, you might be an aspiring college professor and so it might matter to you. You might be a college professor recruiter so it might matter to you. But I'm pretty sure that for 90% of the population, how MIT hires professors doesn't matter one iota.
However, there is a subset of the population that cannot simply be aware of things, they must also be enraged by them so they are hyper-vigilant for information that gives them something to be enraged about. Either it runs afoul of their personal ethos or it doesn't support their personal ethos and, so to find some semblance of meaning in the news they mindless consume, they rage about these things that have no bearing on their lives. I can't join you in that.
If you think this is important, there's nothing wrong with that but it's a little silly to think that everyone cares to the same extent.
This is sophistry. Not caring about a topic because it's irrelevant to you personally doesn't mean you can't care about other topics that don't directly affect you. Let's take climate change, for example. I'll be dead before shit really hits the fan, likely, but I still care about the human cost now and into the future. The so called Woke Agenda has zero impact on me or anyone I know and I think people who are incensed by it are really fucking stupid. I don't care at all about those people. Do you get the distinction here?Thanks for taking the time but this is a very bizarre response. If we were to only care about things that directly affect our daily lives there would be no discussions. I am pretty sure that you don't only post about the price of gas and crime in your particular location?
The other guy was invoking that it doesn t affect him in his daily life so he dismisses it.i am saying that is not a criterium because we all care about shit that doesn t affect us.This is sophistry. Not caring about a topic because it's irrelevant to you personally doesn't mean you can't care about other topics that don't directly affect you. Let's take climate change, for example. I'll be dead before shit really hits the fan, likely, but I still care about the human cost now and into the future. The so called Woke Agenda has zero impact on me or anyone I know and I think people who are incensed by it are really fucking stupid. I don't care at all about those people. Do you get the distinction here?
princeofpain nominated me for poster of the year shortly before his extinction, which means he probably was blind drunk in his last months here.Since we want people brought back someone fetch princeofpain or Rusk
princeofpain nominated me for poster of the year shortly before his extinction, which means he probably was blind drunk in his last months here.
ah, in the war thread. i mean, everybody was wrong in that thread in one way or another.Nah he left due to beimg wrong about russias military and got shit on bad
Which is a shame because he was correct about europes lack of production and sanctions not doing anything to russia in 22 and 23
*sigh.Thanks for taking the time but this is a very bizarre response. If we were to only care about things that directly affect our daily lives there would be no discussions. I am pretty sure that you don't only post about the price of gas and crime in your particular location?
*criterionThe other guy was invoking that it doesn t affect him in his daily life so he dismisses it.i am saying that is not a criterium because we all care about shit that doesn t affect us.