I wonder if the issue here is you don’t appreciate how stupid your own proletariat is (i.e., as stupid and vulnerable as the American populis, but not exposed to the same intense propaganda). I think humans everywhere are surprisingly gullible and illogical.

Teflon tape on the underside!

From Wikipedia:

According to the Christian writer Clement of Alexandria, Dionysus was guided in his journey by Prosymnus or Polymnus, who requested, as his reward, to be Dionysus’ lover. Prosymnus died before Dionysus could honor his pledge, so to satisfy Prosymnus’ shade, Dionysus fashioned a phallus from a fig branch and penetrated himself with it at Prosymnus’ tomb. This story survives in full only in Christian sources, whose aim was to discredit pagan mythology, but it appears to have also served to explain the origin of secret objects used by the Dionysian Mysteries.

Who’s we?

They’ll probably stay in zoos or preserves.

They were here pretty recently, their food is still here. It was cruel that we extincted them.

We do only wet food. Our last cat needed it to keep up hydration, and now we do the same with our new cats. Def more expensive, and not sure it’s worth it for healthy cats that drink enough.

Hotelling’s law

Are you in the US?

Andrew Christian

Okay, so conservative and revisionist, but not imperialist. Maybe imperial-adjacent. Thanks for the deets.

Ah, so he protected them from being prosecuted or something?

My understanding is the murder’s family was ruined by donating to the church. The murderer wrote.that.he planned to kill the church leader,.but changed.his mine cause Abe was more famous and would get more attention. I don’t think there is evidence that the murderers motivations were political, but I could be wrong. Happen to have a source?

I don’t know what this means.

I wouldn’t call him imperialist either. I think he was a pretty decent leader for Japan. He wasn’t murdered for his politics, but because of his religious affiliation.

Why was he imperialist?

I’m almost the same story. Now I have great pay, fully remote, and a position where I’m respected, without competing egos, and folks want what I have to offer.

Kinda a tangent, but my department was always having guest speakers come from “alternative careers” but none were better paying or higher status than a professorship. Usually park rangers or low paying consulting things. Maybe I just had bad luck, but it really pushed the narrative that there were no opportunities out there. I’d love to give that talk to a department of PhD students, to give them my perspective if what’s important from the outside looking in.

In the US, most professors are part time adjunct and get no health benefits. Probably make 30-50k.

Tenured faculty at major universities make 70-90k.

Considering these jobs requires at least 9 years of uni (in the US), the lifetime income of professors is still very low.

RE TAs: I US stem fields TAs work 20h and make 15-30k. That usually includes free tuition, but not in all states (e.g. in Texas, you sometimes pay tuition out of your TA pay, which is crazy)

Where do you live? I don’t believe you.

College professors. Most are part time adjunct, most make garbage pay, work their asses off, while university executives make bank.

True

To correct someone from saying “so” too much:

“Sew buttons on ice cream”

“Hey” too much:

“Hay is for horses”

“Well” too much:

“Well, well, well - that’s three holes in the ground”

Micromanage much?!?!