Enkers

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Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails (apnews.com)

A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes....

Enkers,

Thou shouldst do as thou pleases.

Enkers,

I’m a (kinda) old cis white male, and I know that they’re not talking about me, because I’m not a bigot or racist.

Enkers, (edited )

When people say that, they don’t mean it literally, but functionally it’s correct:


<span style="color:#323232;">3p   D   R D-R
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 0  92  91   1
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> 2  90  91  -1
</span>

A vote for 3rd party is one less potential vote for D, which is functionally equivalent to one more vote for R.

Enkers,

Trump supporters have way too much free time.

Enkers, (edited )

I’m not the biggest fan of genocide Joe myself, but when it’s the only thing you post about 24/7, people are going to start to get suspicious of your motives.

Enkers, (edited )

Hmmmm? So your argument is that since Trump’s ridiculousness has become a parody of itself, it’s impossible to tell the difference between right wingers and leftists making fun of Trump?

I kinda get it, but aren’t there always clues in the subtext?

Like why does the account only have marginally (arguably) leftist memes but no other pro-left content? Why don’t they comment on any pro-labour issues? Why are they on the midwest.social instance?

I think there are a lot of clues to give them away, but ofc I could be mistaken.

Enkers, (edited )

As an observer and commentator, you’re necessarily a part of the spectacle. It’d probably be better if you took your role a bit more seriously than “Haha silly man said things”.

If you don’t want to spend time with critical analysis, then maybe you should leave the speaking (or typing) to those that do.

Enkers,

Here, here. Won’t somebody think of the moderates, and their refined sensibilities? After all, they certainly didn’t personally blow up aid trucks and hospitals in Gaza.

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    Enkers, (edited )

    I was curious about the flag, so did a little reading. Apparently the “Appeal to heaven” is referring to John Locke’s writings regarding the right to revolution:

    And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven.

    (Second Treatise of Civil Government. John Locke)

    Locke’s contention was that no man had inherent power to regulate or restrict divine arbitration in civil affairs. Even in dire circumstances, he alleged, natural rights transcended the political process.

    Philanthropist who gave $30M to U Manitoba condemns 'hateful' valedictory speech, university for allowing it (www.cbc.ca)

    The philanthropist behind the University of Manitoba’s largest-ever personal donation — $30 million — has denounced a speech made by a valedictorian for medicine grads and admonished the university for letting it happen....

    Enkers,

    I think you might have misunderstood their comment.

    Enkers,

    I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!

    Enkers,

    Let me guess… hardstyle?

    Enkers, (edited )

    Yeah, I figured it was some flavour of EDM, but for some reason hardstyle stands out to me as using more of those idiomatic types of lines. Not sure if that’s actually true or not, though. :)

    But yeah, I’m sure it been sampled in lots of different dance genres.

    Enkers, (edited )

    Are all games played to completion? Assuming yes,

    :::spoiler answer

    
<span style="color:#323232;">P(A) = Sum[1/4^n,{n,1,∞}] = 0.333...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">P(B) = 1/8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">P(C) = 1/16
</span>

    One of A,B or A,C is dependent, as it’d flip the polarity of the remaining games, the other is independent, as it wouldn’t. I’m not too worried about which is which, as it’s just an off-by-one error. xD

    :::

    Assuming no, You’d have to know the distribution of when games were abandoned, I’d think.

    Enkers,

    after flipping a quarter 20 times and getting Tails every time, I’d be inclined to keep flipping if anything.

    It’s a sunk cost fallacy, it’s never too late to get bored and give up. ;)

    Enkers, (edited )

    We all know he’d bring back slavery if he could. Witch burnings? I could see it. Lead pipes? Why not. Heliocentricism? No thanks. I wonder if he’d call for a full revert to monke.

    Enkers,

    He probably had to promise a free steak dinner to at least get them out there, but his finances are in such a bad situation that he went with the cheapest thing that wasn’t a complete lie.

    Enkers,

    Can confirm. So much love went into this game. I’m always surprised when there’s more and more dialogue.

    Enkers, (edited )

    Trump and his allies are laying the groundwork to contest a potential loss

    While that’s probably true, Rubio kinda gave a reasonable answer to an unreasonable question. Of course there are possible circumstances that any reasonable person would not honour the results of an election.

    Of all the ridiculous shit these guys say, maybe don’t pick the one time they’re actually in the right. Like they tell on themselves all the time, you generally don’t have to twist their words.

    Enkers, (edited )

    I agree, it’s best to not pull at the fraying threads of democracy, but it’s not like there’s never been a controversial election before. Take the 2000 Gore v. Bush election, for example.

    If Reuters wants to expose the laying of groundwork, then they have to do more than baiting a fairly mundane statement out of a single R. They have to collect evidence of republicans doing it themselves. This is just lazy reporting that plays to peoples fears.

    Enkers, (edited )

    Where does it provide evidence to support that statement?

    Enkers,

    What’s wrong with msg? If it bothers you, you could add a dried shiitake or piece of kombu for similar effect.

    Enkers,

    I may be vegan, but the utilitarian calculus on this one is off the charts.

    Enkers,

    I was going to give op the benefit of the doubt and assume they meant this post as a criticism of the ultra wealthy and their title was supposed to be “Billionaires:”

    Then I looked at their comment history…

    Enkers,

    Did they jump out of his cake to serve him?

    In any case, happy god damned birthday.

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