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Wait. He’s in earth orbit, and his cloak is flapping? WTF? Do they not know that there’s no atmosphere to speak of up in low earth orbit? Did they not follow Commander Hadfield? Are they dead inside?
Am I a bad person because my reaction to this was “what are those interesting rooms George Takei is standing in in these photos?”
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Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
Flicks lighter in Generation X’ general direction…
(Source: New York Magazine)
It is the last thing in the world that I want to do to continue the debate over the prosecution of @aaronsw. But my colleague, Phil Heymann, father of the line prosecutor, recently delivered a paper at a faculty workshop criticizing my views and others. A number of people have asked me for a response. Here is the response I circulated, and all I’m going to say just now.
Sigh.
They called it a “coding error”. This made it sound like they were sequestered in a bunker surrounded by black screens on which a continuous parade of figures flickered past.
Instead it was just someone using Excel on a laptop who was highlighting cells for a formula and released his index finger from the left-clicky button of his mouse too soon.
The debate has raged - well raged is a strong word, perhaps sulked? - since Monday about the significance of the calculation mistake made by Reinhart and Rogoff in their 2010 paper for the American Economic Review, Growth in a Time of Debt.
Did the conclusions about debt, growth and need for painful correction send the politicians of the world to the special cabinet to dust off the scourges?
That debate is meaningless because the last five years of economic prediction have told us one thing: No one knows anything any more and the people who say they know something know even less.
The main point to take from this debacle is the truly awesome power of Excel. Not its processing ability, just its ubiquity.
As much as oil and water, our lives are governed by Excel.
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BBC News - The mysterious powers of Microsoft Excel (via new-aesthetic)
Oh bullshit. God, I hate this kind of reporting. Person A made a mistake when studying X. Therefore, all persons studying X make mistakes. Therefore we know nothing about X, and might as well keep doing what we are doing.
Your bankster overlords thank you for this bit of logic-impaired propaganda, BBC.
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Church, I got to go to the Macklemore concert on Friday night. If you want to hear about how that went, ask me, seriously, I want to talk about it until I die. The whole thing was great; but the be…READ THIS
Sadly, this young woman got fired from her job as a Church camp counsellor because of this article.
Yeah.
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Michigan needs more scoop shops!
How about this for a Vermont problem: like most Vermonters who don’t live in the Burlington area, you don’t live anywhere near a Ben and Jerry’s scoop shop, which means that all the best Ben and Jerry’s flavors—the ones that are only available in scoop shops—are a rare treat you only experience when changing planes in Dallas. :(
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I suspect what a lot of guys who use “friendzone” feel isn’t love. Maybe love of sex.
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It’s not even love of sex (speaking as someone who used to think in terms of the friend zone). It’s the belief that a connection with a woman will complete you, and that this woman will be the one to do it.
It’s something we are trained to believe from an early age. We are so desperately unhappy, and we think she will fix that. Nobody ever tells us the truth: that nobody can make me happy except me.
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Seriously. Welcome to Happily Ever After, Rosaline.
You live in a united and prosperous Verona. And you don’t have to hang out with people who get married within hours of meeting.
You won the freaking Shakespeare tragedy lottery.
p.s. I hear that Paris guy ain’t half bad. Oh, he’s dead, too? YEAH MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS THEN.
Clearly the only man in that play for me is Mercutio. Oh, he’s dead, too?
Might I recommend Benvolio?
So true.
(Source: imnotan-option, via suite303)
So one of my ‘friends’ has recently been a total asshat to me saying that my hair is ‘ugly’ and that I’m not a ‘real woman’. And it honestly hurts. That’s me up there with my hairstyle that he hates so much.
Guys, I really want to prove a point to him. Please reblog this if you don’t think that ‘real women’ have to have long hair. Please.
The lack of notes on this post is depressing.
Wait, what?
did not know I’d lost it …
rifa:
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Biking is tiring.
This is totally what Sam and I should look like all the time.
Art fuel!
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