Zompist Bboard Again

Thank you, everyone, all good points!

"General Education" means an intro course to cover the sort of stuff they expect you would have got in high school had you taken more advanced high school (e.g. Advanced Placement) classes, to bring the kids that didn't take such courses up to speed for what they expect in college. Note t...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 1:22 pm I had a professor for a Gen Ed class in college and her /s/ was quite noticeably dental.

Sorry for going off topic, but what is on the syllabus in a General Education class? The entire contents of an encyclopedia?

I'm posting this here because I'm not sure where else to post it. It's a writing question, about something I'm trying to write (although I didn't manage it to write anything for the last few weeks). I'm putting it behind a cut because it contains spoilers for something I may or may not publish somew...

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 11:55 am

Torco wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 11:11 am what about a guy that's good at everything?

I'd say more Marty Sam than a Chad, but i probably be wrong.

I think Torco might have been responding to the debate about the French term "mec".

I just finished Rob Eastaway's Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever Ways to (Roughly) Calculate Anything , which is a generally delightful book about combining mathematics and common sense to approach question where just one of those on its own might not be enough, and doing rough-and-ready, no...

So, what do you all make of Putin's new nuclear doctrine?

What would you call such rhetorical rhymes? Do you know others? Hätte, hätte Fahrradkette "would have, would have, bicycle chain" Daarom is geen reden, als je van de trap af valt ben je gauw beneden "That's why is not a [valid] reason, falling down the stairs gets you down quick. Hm,...

I just finished Rob Eastaway's Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever Ways to (Roughly) Calculate Anything , which is a generally delightful book about combining mathematics and common sense to approach question where just one of those on its own might not be enough, and doing rough-and-ready, not...

From the position Nort was speaking of, it seems that in it the whole of one's gender role and position in society is inherent in one's biological sex and one ought to live by such biologically-determined roles, and that, say, not only can only biological women give birth to babies but that they sh...

So one part of is that every country voting in 2024 has rejected their current governments because of inflation due to Putin and megacorps. What if Putin did it deliberately? Possible, but on balance, I don't think he intended for the Ukraine War to take so long. He intended it to be over in a few ...

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:35 pm [snip]

I think Linguoboy's point was that none of that is possible if no one thinks of themselves as belonging to a gender in the first place.

It is a bottle/jar opener. Smaller lids can be put into the large opening, while you can try to get a grip on larger lids with the outer rim ridge. OK, next question. This is for the older ones among you, the ones who can remember the times before phone apps could do group chats. What do you call an...

I just explained that according to exit polls, Trump got 51% of the suburban vote. The suburbs have been a major focus for recent political campaigns, with a swing of a few points among suburban white women sufficient to decide all manner of elections. Then again, arguably one main reason why swing...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 11:13 am

Ahzoh wrote:Though, it probably will end up just being reactionary just like MGTOW is.

Well, it's off to a good start by being incredibly TERFy.

I admit that surprises me a bit. I'd have thought TERFs would be happy about recent events?

Ares Land wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2024 5:32 am (also, I'm really not familiar enough with the US to see how they define an 'area'. Is it a county? Town? Something else entirely?

I think it's Census Office internal terminology, used to be able to compare areas in different states which might use different local government terminology.

alice wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 2:20 pm

You may, and if you do, the answer will be Reformation : Europe's House Divided 1490-1700, by Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Thank you!

What do you call this?

alice wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 2:50 pm A very thick book about the Reformation.

May I ask which one?

Incidentally, I don't understand the whole "city people vs country people" side conversation going on here. The US population is over 80% urban. A third of all rural residents voted for Harris; 40% of urbanites voted for Trump. Harris also lost the suburbs (albeit narrowly). It wasn't the...