Joe Simons

"Dear Dr. Westgate,

We are writing with regard to your application 'Duz size matter? Stikk-mouf dynamics and automatik arboreal evaluayshuns'. We were a little surprised by this departure from your prior work, as well as the 3 page digression on the moral failings of cats"

Now if she can just find a way to get them to write grant applications...

"Why do you always check Trending Topics?"

"I'm looking for an obituary"

"An obituary? Those don't go viral"

"The one I'm waiting for will!"

Frequent references to Lorgar's <many> failed prior careers

"Roboute, I may have committed a little <light> heresy"

Cognitive psych, quantitative psych, social psych

A 40k Arrested-Development-style sitcom where the primarchs are portrayed as the spoiled sibling scions of a booming family business

"Nuanced vision" in the sense it encompassed both killing people <and> breaking things?

History simply lousy with Those Guys

Did you ever see Perfect Host? He's underrated as a villan

Anticipate getting ever-more use from this post

Not before David Hyde Pierce gets a shot at it!

Gritty's evil, shaved cousin

That "Did it work for them? No but it might work for us!" meme, except it's an Iron Warrior talking to a Night Lord

Paddle-boarding across the Delaware

(which was the connection to your original post)

Not sure it is a position I'd defend, but in awe at how it kicks out supporting struts I hadn't even noticed

Currently without a uni library, so going off now-decades-old memory. Broadly, part of a Wittgenstein-inspired attempt to root social ontology in conversations and conventional rules. His point was variables are in themselves an analytic frame. Probably has been argued by others in sociology.

I was always partial to Rom Harre's argument that to express things in terms of relationships between variables brings with it a whole set of metaphysical commitments

"Also, there have been <zero> conserves, jellies or maramalades"

The view from an ANTIFA landing craft June 6th 1944

(Just in case you were in the market for a nickname)

Said with affection: she looks like Abbath

"But that's trivially true!"
"Ah, so you admit it's true?"

No it's the fit statistics. More variance explained is more causal.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. Congress has not authorized the use of military force

Wake up Maggie, I've something I've got to say to you
It's late September and my revision is overdue

Missed that verse in the Rod Stewart song

Oops didn't see your other thread!

Am I reading it right that actually fertility bottomed out for people born in the early 50s and has, if anything, rebounded a little since then?