this is putting the cart before the horse. i mean - sure, anyone wrongfully detained and mistreated should be able to sue to recover financial losses incurred. but the way to make that possible is by assuring *citizenship* to all subjected to ICE abuse.
11.03.2026 18:40
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why don't they just go buy identical shoes in sizes that actually fit them, and wear those instead. is it that they've so fully persuaded themselves he knows best. i wonder
11.03.2026 18:09
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how else would they be that type of guy, tho?
11.03.2026 17:41
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happy for you, liam. i speak for all of us here
11.03.2026 17:31
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such a banger, that one
10.03.2026 22:15
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game-changer
10.03.2026 21:48
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oh wow now you have to tell us more Daniel
10.03.2026 21:32
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went to pick up some blue books for today's midterm and the dept admin hands them to me and - they're full-size, 8.5" x 11" pages?!?! hadn't imagined that such a thing was even possible.
who says everything is getting worse. here's one thing that's better.
10.03.2026 21:31
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(Roy Tsao, vintage star-wars opinion-haver)
10.03.2026 21:22
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yep
10.03.2026 21:20
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(Roy Tsao, vintage star wars opinion-haver)
10.03.2026 19:24
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I remember when i was a kid I initially found it wildly implausible that luke could get all the way from hoth to the dagobah system in just an x-wing. only later did i understand that the whole point was that such things are not, after all, normally possible.
10.03.2026 19:24
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tbh i do think this site would have gotten much bigger by now if they gave it a normally-pronounceable single-word name
10.03.2026 19:16
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lol that's exactly what i thought of your thread about it earlier
10.03.2026 17:41
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how my day is going, yes
10.03.2026 17:34
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see, but the topic of the workshop is about 'what to do with our writing-intensive curriculum in the age of chat gpt.' so, like - hey look plato says writing is dumb anyway.
10.03.2026 17:30
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person in this zoom who had started the workshop off by grandly quoting Plato's Phaedrus is now saying: 'instead of having them write an essay, you can have the students turn in the thoughtful conversation they had with ChatGPT.'
keeping my mic on mute for this one
10.03.2026 17:22
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fire alarm pretty apt tbh
10.03.2026 16:54
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so i'm in this zoom faculty workshop on dealing with AI and the person presenting just put up an image of a more upbeat, AI-generated redo of Goya's "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters," and I'm trying to be a good sport here but sorry I just can't
10.03.2026 16:31
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this is (part of) what's wrong with the last star wars trilogy, imo. like, jumping to hyperspace used to be *difficult.* you couldn't just warp your tie-fighters at will to low altitudes on some random planet halfway across the galaxy or whatever
09.03.2026 16:44
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in light of the fact that he and his gang have now already done just about every *other* horrible thing that we feared they might do if he got back in officeβ yeah, afraid so
09.03.2026 16:37
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Yeah. Iβm not saying itβs an easy lift. But weβre living in a different world now, and weβre never getting out of this mess without a half dozen institutional reforms that few would have thought remotely feasible just a couple years ago- this one is relatively straightforward. by comparison
08.03.2026 00:16
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yeah, all true. nothing happens in the absence of a future US admin that were amenable to allowing it, and honoring an interpol warrant. *If* that condition were met, Iβd like to think jurisdictional question would get sorted out.
07.03.2026 23:56
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On the one hand, itβs true that the US never signed the Rome Statute treaty establishing the International Criminal Courtβs jurisdiction. On the other hand this is also true of the Philippines, and look where Duterte is today
07.03.2026 23:36
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word-and-thought-defying stupidity of evil
07.03.2026 17:26
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honestly at this point i think this should be true even for any principled *liberal*. i mean, if they want to 'call' the next reconstituted thing they're hoping for "the US," then fine whatever.
07.03.2026 17:17
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yep
06.03.2026 18:10
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congrats!!
06.03.2026 18:03
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yes, do write this up! sounds delightful
06.03.2026 17:51
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lol that store is in my neighborhood. pretty sure it's been there since the '90s.
06.03.2026 17:22
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