Did they have to get Damian Lewis to pack on 200 pounds? 🤣

More seriously, the show never quite grabbed me, but it was pretty good and maybe I should revisit it. I also once listened to a podcast, though I can’t remember if it was the AskHistorians podcast or the 5-Minute Medievalist’s podcast, but they had on the show’s costume consultant to talk about the show and her academic work with Tudor material culture generally, and it was great.

Some may hope to somehow limit damage and protect at least some students.

Even something as simple as defending the idea that “tenure means tenure,” and riding it out until DeSantis makes that a lie would be laudable IMO.

Reed may be somewhere on that path; they emphasize interdisciplinary programs and narrative grading. I think Oberlin is more of a traditional curriculum, but it’s been a progressive community since the days of the Underground Railroad. I pretty exhaustively researched colleges in the mid 90s (then promptly chose the one that offered the biggest scholarship and three months later fell back on the best in-state option still available), but my mental data is pretty stale by this point.

My daughter is neurodivergent, but she’s only eleven and so far still claims she wants to attend the nearest physical campus to our house and never move out, which sounds alright to me because she’s fun and cool. We will see how the teen years affect this mindset, LOL.

I went to a public college in Florida, and New College was known to be full of the state’s smartest hippies. My Spring semester bed in the honors dorm after my first foray to Texas was freed up because the former occupant transferred from UF to New College.

It’s a travesty what’s happening to it. Students with means or a favorable FAFSA might find some joy at a place like Reed or Oberlin. Evergreen seems like a good option on a similar model. New College being public with that traditionally low in-state tuition was such an important option for some and symbol for others, though.

What’s doubly sad here is that New College was not “just” a public Liberal Arts college. It was an educational laboratory and countercultural bastion in a state that has always had a pretty wide conservative streak. There were no set majors, and there were no traditional grades, just granting credit or not and then a narrative statement on your performance. It was so small it didn’t make any significant dent in the Florida educational scene, but it was an important place for its community and an important symbol about the state’s relationship to education. It was always known as a place for kids who were bright-to-brilliant but didn’t fit the mold.

I went to a different public university in Florida (which has been dealing with its own meddling from DeSantis’s ghouls), but I was low-key proud New College was there. This is like shoving a needle under somebody’s fingernails, intentional torture that’s painful out of all proportion to the measurable damage.

Gabriel: He’s gonna put his dick in it.

God: I put my dick in it!

Joseph: Who put his dick in it?

Mary: Don’t worry about it.

Sweet Tea. The Southern US kind, black tea brewed with more and more sugar until, ideally, it’s actually a supersaturated solution. Then served cold over ice. Literal diabetes juice.

I don’t have it often, but it’s the best tea in the world because, on the whole, tea is garbage water.

Fight me. 😂

I’m pretty basic, but Tetris and Duck Tales come to mind.

Why not keep it simple? [email protected] or [email protected] seem like they’d be welcoming.

That really was one of the good things about Agatha All Along. All you really need to know is that we open with Agatha imprisoned in her own mind after trying to manipulate an extremely powerful witch who’d gone mad with grief. The rest is optional if you’re willing to roll with a few otherwise weird ideas that arise out of the MCU-ness of the show.

I like the Knives Out movies. I like Rian Johnson. I like Daniel Craig. I love Benoit Blanc as a character.

The movie’s going to be in theaters exactly long enough to qualify it for awards, and I would rather watch a light murder mystery romp at home anyway.

Upvoted partly because it’s funny, but largely because it still scans.

Mormon theology also pretty much just cuts the Gordian knot proposed in this post by saying, “Fuck yeah he’s got a dick. Uses it ALL THE TIME.” I believe that a “perfected body” was the verbiage I was taught in Sunday School. Tritheistic heresy, Shmitheistic Shmeresy…

Also, pretty much everyone I’ve known into model railroads is into HO scale, so who is even going to buy this?

Sounds like some of them nerds need to go big or fuckin’ go home!

Looks like it’s built to model railroading “O” scale.

EDIT: Oh, duh. It says so right in your picture. I guess if you want the sweet authenticity that only product placement can buy, this is your set.

Top-two primary and/or ranked choice voting to start. I’d also like to see the popular vote compact come into play for the presidential election. Eventually, for Congress I’d like a hybrid system that accepts the existence of parties so it can manage their worst impulses and give representation to smaller constituencies.

For the remaining geographic regions, set a certain standard for mathematical compactness; this doesn’t have to be too aggressive, as a long thin district can be completely sensible, but we don’t need the devil’s fractals many places have now. Also/or require districting committees to try to draw districts that would roughly approximate the state’s popular vote percentages. We know they’re excellent at isolating voters by party, so let them, but force them to play around on the edges to get one seat here, or get out front of some changing demographics here, not the wholesale cracking and packing we see from both parties now.

It also all needs to be legislated at the federal level or even by constitutional amendment, but honestly we’re kind of fucked. The people who need to be reined in the most very much live in states where they are overrepresented in voting power, and I don’t see them giving it up.

Intensifiers, goddammit!

This. All of us Reddit Refugees (me included) fucked up when we arrived and put the cart before the horse. Lemmy is like a small town; you may simply not get all the specific communities you want, but there’s probably somebody with a similar enough interest that they’ll talk to you about the stuff you like, and they probably have things that you would like to talk about if you saw it. Higher-level categories should do fine unless and until a certain type of content starts to annoy other users by its sheer prevalence.

As someone else said, Lemmy is the niche community.

As long as you know what it is, consensus as to okay-ness or better, then it’s still a decent metric. Still, “universally okay” is not always what I’m after, nor is it quite the achievement the studios will proclaim.

If you’re inclined to take reviews seriously (and it’s a whole other discussion, but I very much believe criticism and analysis are worthwhile when done well in their own right) , still better to find a few sources whose takes tend to line up with your own.

To take your question seriously, yes, virtually the only way to deprive an American of citizenship is if an immigrant lied on their application in a way that would have made them ineligible for that citizenship. It’s extremely rare, often hard to prove, and generally not worth the trouble, plus risks creating a stateless person who could instead just be prosecuted for fraud, but it does happen.

Guess which president considered weaponizing it in his first term?