Courtside Karenina

Basically i suspect there was some debate in the faculty about granting the degree that took awhile to resolve.

...At its worst, it's, well. You just have to see it.

Slightly OT, but I watched her video on Introduction to Psychedelics and ... given that she's presenting as an informed academic researcher on drug use, it's pretty embarrassing stuff for UBC to be associated with. At its best, it's a pretty good description by an LSD user about what LSD feels like.

It must have been part time, otherwise she would have likely gotten kicked out. But a nine-year thesis completion time at UBC is still pretty iffy.

Its also extremely rare for a thesis to take 9 years in canada.

Died at 33, too.

Nostalgia is easy and often lazy except mine which is different.

Bam scored EIGHTY THREE POINTS?

Yeah if its not going to pass it wont proceed to defence.

She's also apparently into "child liberation" despite having two children of her own. Child liberation basically posits that families shouldn't exist and raising children should be the responsibility of the community, which is why most advocates don't actually have any kids.

The Iran attack really is the Trumpies biting off more than they can chew. The Iranian government doesn't care how many civilians die -- but they know perfectly well how a US ground invasion is going to go and can probably bait Trump into it.

*First half of the 19th century. Even by the time Marx comes along, that idea is pretty much dying out because of increases in the efficiency of land use.

Literally the entire discipline of economics in the 19th century was predicated on the idea that land was the scarce factor of production so in long run equilibrium all economic surplus would go to landlords. This was a huge source of handwringing.

To say nothing of the *quality* of the leisure time!

This shit is never not wildly hypocritical.

I was in a book club once when one of the members expressed the opinion that we should not fly in airplanes and should get used to the idea that we could only live locally in the interest of the environment. This was in Vancouver so I assumed he at least took the bus to work. Nope -- two car family.

This person is having the best day of their life.

Good lord I just called Grok a "he". It.

Zero sympathy for Musk qua Musk, but the fact he's responding to prompting from an account calling itself "Muskdismembered" is a reminder that being famous has some serious downsides.

Yeah, it's very recognizable now.

People should do what they like with their bodies but I really don't understand how you're reconciling the impending end of the material world and the effort put into looking like this on your social media posts.

This woman is pretty young and has already pretty clearly already had an enormous amount of plastic surgery.

Tobias Harris is so skilled.

The Pistons' broadcast is so wholesome. They're not built for the playoffs but it would be so fun for Detroit to win it all.

Incredible.

For short stretches at least, LeBron is still so, so good.

On the one hand, give Luka all the techs he deserves. But on the other we should do away with the technical free throw. Instead, lower the suspension threshold to 10 techs and then every 5 after that.

And then whines in the post-game press conferences!

“I yelled at him, I guess. That’s what he said. But I heard three other players say the exact same sentence and didn’t get a tech. And that’s my problem, you know, I was trying not to talk at all. This is the first thing I said, no warning or nothing"

-- least likeable player in the league