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benfell

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Ph.D. Human Science (Saybrook University, 2016), vegetarian ecofeminist (#vegan and #libertariansocialist) scholar, #anticapitalist.

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@StillPaisleyCat @hopesdead Yeah, I’m wondering if there’s a deal in the works that I, at least, hadn’t heard about.

Paramount has been too much in the news for the wrong reasons.

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If I was Kang’s wife, that’d be grounds for divorce.

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@MirrorAyako Do we have any information on Klingon divorce?

I’m just assuming batleths are involved.

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A recent study highlights the decline in disruptive science. I think most of this is due to the intellectual poverty of a mindset of current day .

It is well documented that poor people suffer from a scarcity mindset, which erodes core cognitive functions. This mindset clouds decisions, prioritizing small short-term gains over long-term larger profits by affecting planning ability. The same applies to creativity.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5

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@Runyan50 @koen_hufkens @academicchatter @FantasticalEconomics

Academically, the answer is often yes.

While college and university administrators focus on their legacies, building facilities for just about everything except learning, social science and humanities programs are deemed "useless" because we do not tell the powers that be what they want to hear and so we are starved for funding.

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs, on the other hand, produce ever more ways to extract profit from the poor. They are judged "useful."

That said, I would hesitate before extrapolating from studies of poverty, cognition, and decision-making to academic departments. Here, only adjuncts are likely to face the sorts of insecurity that afflict poor people.

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The original Monopoly was created in 1935 by Charles B. Darrow, and based on real locations in Atlantic City, with prices mirroring the one-time values of real estate. Atlas Obscura's Adrienne Raphel looks at its cultural impact, whether it's a bad game, and the nadir of the Monopoly Cinematic Universe — 2019's Ms. Monopoly, which remarkably failed to upend the patriarchy.

https://flip.it/ILRVwI

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@CultureDesk @histodons

So I guess the lesson here is, if you mean to educate people, board games are probably not the way to go.

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@DharmaCurious @SkyezOpen

It's an interesting show, but make sure you've got good sound: I found the accents difficult to parse without it. The series was abruptly terminated, so don't expect a neat ending.

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@DharmaCurious @SkyezOpen

It's an interesting show, but make sure you've got good sound: I found the accents difficult to parse without it. The series was abruptly terminated, so don't expect a neat ending.

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@DharmaCurious

It wouldn't surprise me, but I don't know off hand whether The Expanse was based on a book series.

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Cloaking is no excuse. Go!
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@ValueSubtracted

I liked . It wasn't just one big happy Starfleet crew. The interplay was infinitely more interesting for it.

By contrast, I hated because even though there should have been tension between the combined Starfleet and Maquis crews, they ruthlessly and relentlessly suppressed even the slightest appearance of it. Also, I didn't think much of Kathryn Janeway's philosophy.

But for these very reasons, most fans seemed to love Voyager and hate DS9.

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I truly do not know what to think about this situation and I would love having your thoughts on this @academicchatter
One of my papers was accepted to be published in July (after the 2nd round of reviews, 1st round was minor modifications), announced on the website, I was asked whether I wanted to buy the pinted copy of the journal etc. My co-author and I were asked to do some modifications over a 1 week period. We were off at the time and asked for a delay that was accepted. (1/...)

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@DrBiscuit @TEG @academicchatter

This sounds to me a bit like "not invented here" syndrome. I'm wondering what happened with the journal that leads to such a repudiation of the previous team that the journal itself becomes unrecognizable.

I think my own response would be to withdraw in disgust. When "major changes" are not improvements, then they are about ego, and this is not a place for serious work.

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@yildo @MamboGator

Not just humor, but a particularly cynical humor. And yes, I think you have a point: To laugh, you need to be able to laugh at hubris and incompetence.

I turn to because I have encountered these attributes all too often in a real life that much more resembles the hell that Guinan described to Jean-Luc Picard when the crew traveled back in time to keep one of his ancestors on track to launch on a space exploration than not. It just isn't funny to me because I have suffered these attributes my entire life and what captures is but the palest, most faintly visible shadow of it.

I turn to because I'm desperate for something better.

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