When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. βWhy? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.β
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The anticipatory swiftness with which certain organizations go along with attacks on diversity and rewritings of history suggests that maybe some of the folks in power think that these are genuinely good changes.
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An if so big it's actually an iff.
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'Putrid' and 'turpid' are both anagrams and synonyms (taken in the sense of 'morally depraved'). Very satisfying!
07.01.2025 20:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Not visible photons, anyway.
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It's crazy that for ebooks and papers piracy usually beats the proper way of getting things on UX instead of just price
02.01.2025 20:36 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Here are the most appalling clichΓ©s of modern political economy writing, that it's possible to read everywhere all the time.
1. Inequality is always getting worse and we never talk about it 1/
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