TIL that

Affinity graduations are optional events typically led by students to celebrate different student identities and ethnicities. Commonly held ceremonies often honor Black, Hispanic, Asian, first-generation and LGBTQ+ students.

That doesn’t sound any more controversial than campus clubs for specific minority ethnic groups. Are colleges worried that they fall into the “racist if white people did it” category? (I would argue that they don’t.)

plant has mouth

humans put words in the plant’s mouth

Rude.

Well, it is kind of stupid to complain publicly the way that this guy is doing. He’s wasting the little good-will from Trump that he did buy.

So is referring to a woman as “Barbie” not sexist if she works for Trump, or is it still sexist but it’s ok to be sexist towards women who work for Trump?

(I’d ban Daily Beast links if I were in charge.)

No portrait-orientation video is worth watching.

Edit about the article of clothing: men’s legs and feet look weird and so I don’t like going out in public without long pants and shoes.

I don’t think they stomped loudly (except when they ran) but I don’t see how they would be able to move through the undergrowth without snapping a lot of branches. (Or how they could move through dense forest at all.)

I have a hard time imagining a stealthy t-rex. He’s going to be making some noise even if he tiptoes.

Having a private office would be a nice symbol of status but I don’t think I’d actually enjoy working in one - in grad school, I was really happy in my shared office since the other guys there were my friends. I graduated a year after them and that last year was not fun. Of course new people took their spots but those people were strangers to me.

no assigned seating

One professor in my department was so protective of her lab’s space that when she noticed me sitting at a desk assigned to one of her students, she went and complained directly to my advisor. The desk’s owner was a friend of mine and on a month-long international trip at that time and I wasn’t even making a habit of using his desk - it was just a convenient place to sit while talking to another one of her students.

How did you guys share computers? My work was 100% on the computer so we would have had to work in shifts if there had not been enough computers for everyone (but there were).

7x7ft is tiny but 7x7m would be remarkably big.

Is that from a robot mower?

They say so, right above “Never: come in without knocking.”

How do you get the impression that this is a grad student?

He’s working on his dissertation.

Now that I think about it some more, I do recall seeing places where grad students did have their own personal closets…

I did a science PhD so I also got paid, enough to live modestly but comfortably. I shared an office with four other people but it was a big office. The incident with the chair probably had more to do with the struggle between the professors and the university to avoid paying for things like that than it did with an absolute lack of funds.

Dissertation? This grad student has his own personal office? With a door? I wasn’t even issued a chair. I had to get my own.

As for dogs: when I was in grad school, one of the professors had a dog that sat quietly next to his desk all day, at least as far as the professor knew. When he went to the bathroom, his dog would run into the hall and play with people, but the dog was listening for his footsteps and was always back in his office in time. This didn’t last long because the department head didn’t like dogs and complained :(

I suspect that as Nate Silver says, Trump is doing this sort of thing because he wants to fight about immigration rather than his other, less popular policies - he thinks he has the public support to win on immigration.

That’s my whole point. Might things be a lot worse in a couple of years? Yes. Are things as bad as this article is all about saying they are right now? No, clearly not.

“The American democratic republic is in danger of dying” is true.

“The American democratic republic has died” is histrionics, and histrionics are particularly counterproductive at a time when what’s actually going on is so serious.

The U.S. is survived by a country of the same name, the United States of America, now a presidential dictatorship.

This gets an eye roll from me. The USA is certainly in a lot of danger but anyone who calls the current situation a dictatorship is ignorant of what a dictatorship is.

Here’s a hint for the author: you wouldn’t be getting an article like this one published in a dictatorship.

I get that the quest is trying to force you to defend a location outside of your base, but the royal really should stay in the crashed shuttle until the rescue shuttle comes.

Trump destroyed with facts and logic at Pope’s funeral.