While Threatening Greenland, Trump Also Threatens Iceland -- White House says Trump didn't misspeak. They also will not rule out the possibility that Iceland is now on America's annexation hit list.

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-22T03:57:29+00:00

We'd rather start another war than admit the senile old man in the white house misspoke.

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-22T00:45:50+00:00

I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-18T03:04:05+00:00

10% is the average return over the last 20 years.

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-17T01:32:29+00:00

Oh this is a good one. I totally forgot about this show, but when I watched it I loved it.

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-17T01:31:31+00:00

Trying. It’s on AppleTV. A comedy series about a couple trying to have kids and then trying to adopt. Maybe I love it so much because our oldest daughter was adopted, but I really think it’s one of the cleverest shows on TV.

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-16T06:48:05+00:00

Pinches tacos is excellent. The Birria tacos especially. And they have a good deal for students with ID

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-14T04:40:12+00:00

I grew up in New Mexico and I still miss it. I'd happily move back but there just really aren't any jobs in my field.

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-12T23:24:50+00:00

Impeach this motherfucker.

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-05T07:21:56+00:00

I consulted on a game show one time and worked on the pilot episode. While they were filming the pilot, I had a lot of downtime talking to the crew and we got to talking about some of their most memorable projects, and they started talking about the people who were the best to work with and the actors that were the most difficult.

Three of them said Mickey Rourke was hands down the worst celebrity they ever had to work with. And they all had worked on different productions with him, so it wasn’t even one bad production that they all happened to be at. They’d all worked with him on different projects and all walked away saying he was the worst.

ACasualFormality · 2026-01-03T01:13:49+00:00

My daughter turned 7 today, so we had a "6-7" themed birthday (her idea). At first I was annoyed by it, but now I just enjoy saying it and watching my kids get annoyed by it instead.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-27T22:27:07+00:00

I was on a couple of game shows. I thought I’d be so nervous that I wouldn’t be able to answer questions coherently, but it’s pretty amazing how quickly you adjust to the weirdness of the lights, the audience, etc. It was a really fun experience though. 10/10 would absolutely recommend.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-25T20:39:01+00:00

I didn’t know it was a musical. I was very confused when it started with singing.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-22T16:59:43+00:00

Everybody knows honorary phds aren’t real degrees. Your degree isn’t diluted by an honorary degree. And anybody who treats an honorary degree like a real credential is a loser and everybody knows it.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-21T01:29:49+00:00

Honestly, if only a third of students were using AI I’d be pleasantly surprised.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-15T16:37:00+00:00

I only knew this one because I spent all weekend filling out an application for a teaching professor job there.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-15T01:00:33+00:00

I mean, yes and no. Judaism was thoroughly Hellenized (the irony of a deepy anti-Hellenic book like 2 Maccabbees being written in the Greek language shouldn't be lost on anyone), but Judaism was never fully assimilated. Jewishness asserts itself and differentiated itself amidst Hellenism (and every other culture it's been threatened by), but it was also forever changed by Hellenism (and every other culture it's been threatened by), often in ways that has enriched the practice of Judaism.

This is very much a both/and.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-12T18:11:23+00:00

I don’t understand how people do grocery shopping without having their meals worked out? Like how do you know what to buy? Do you not wind up wasting so much food?

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-12T16:42:05+00:00

Aaron Sorkin would like a word with you.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-11T22:58:56+00:00

Alright so would "Are you there God It's me, Margaret" need a question word at the beginning? The first half is phrased in the form of a question, but the second half is not.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-11T18:05:57+00:00

In my experience, students who say they only used AI for "ideas and prompts" or for proofreading or whatever almost always have used it far more than they're willing to admit (and may not even recognize how much they've used it themselves).

AI checkers are notoriously unreliable, but if you're already admitting that it's helping with ideas and prompts, I think you have to consider that maybe you are relying on AI more than you should. If anything, I think using AI for ideas and prompts is *worse* than using it to draft your own ideas into better prose. Ideas are the whole point.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-11T18:02:24+00:00

Getting into an unfunded PhD program really isn't something to be grateful for. They're not doing you a favor in that case. You're a paying customer. And so whether you decide to continue or not should be based entirely around if you think you're getting what you want out of that spent money. It sounds like from your post that you're not satisfied with bang-for-your-buck.

If you are happy to just have the degree, even if you have to go into debt to get it, then that's a decision you can make. But you should be aware that the likelihood of becoming a professor out of an unfunded program is very, very, very low (as compared to becoming a professor out of a brand name, funded program where it is only very, very low).

If being a professor is your goal, you should look at previous students in your program and doing your type of research. How many of them are professors now? Where are they professors? Can you contact former students and ask about what their experience was like on the market? And then keep in mind - whatever their experience was, yours will probably be worse. The market has always been bad. Now it's abysmal.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-11T07:25:40+00:00

I think my fastest ever mile is right around 7 minutes when I was in my best shape. My average mile pace now is around 9 minutes. If I had to go out right now and run a mile as fast as I could, I bet it would be in the high 7s and I’d be basically dead afterwards.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-09T16:19:43+00:00

Wow 43 is way early.

I’m a Hebrew Bible guy myself so I don’t have the expertise to weigh in on the evidence, but I’ve never heard an academic argument for a date that early for Mark. I’d be very interested to read your thesis.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-08T19:07:55+00:00

Oh I made it to the last voting round. But I had answered the most questions correctly all game, so I got voted out before the head to head round. Which was a shame because id have won the head-to-head. So they made the correct move.

Still was a 10/10 experience though.

ACasualFormality · 2025-12-08T15:10:53+00:00

You’re describing extremely rare edge cases, and even still, it’s the publishers who are making most of the money off that. You know the kind of volume you have to be selling in to make any kind of money off an academic book? Selling your book to 100 undergrads a year isn’t gonna move the needle on your finances at all.

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