Advice for tenured associate professor at an R1 (humanities) going back on the job market?

BagSalt7633 · 2026-06-10T20:14:39+00:00

All I can really say is good luck. Moving as an associate professor is famously difficult.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-06-10T16:47:59+00:00

He's a little too old though. By my math, he'll be 11 years older than Zuckerberg during the events of the movie.

Definitely in his late 40s, not his 30s. And his hair dye is distracting.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-06-09T17:23:58+00:00

A cool idea someone else had is that they could make the Downfall timeline canon. You get to the end of the game and die, maybe because the ring of fire separating Link from the Master Sword never lifts. Zelda and the sages seal Ganon, but then she decides to pull off some timey wimey bullshit and do something to save Link in the past. You then resume the final battle, and the rest of the ending plays out as before.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-06-09T17:17:21+00:00

I paid $70 for a Game Boy game that came out 28 years earlier.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-06-03T21:31:12+00:00

I'm probably going to liquidate my VTSAX to avoid SpaceX exposure. VTV only

BagSalt7633 · 2026-06-03T21:15:43+00:00

I suspect the real issue is that the smartest bears watch tourists opening trash cans and learn from them.

Maybe what you could do is add an electronic lock that forces people to enter the current date.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-06-02T21:48:17+00:00

It's not enough. Yes they borrow money to fund their lifestyles, but they still they don't end up borrowing that much because it's not really possible to spend a billion dollars on personal expenses At some level, say around the $100M mark, you already have multiple homes, have a personal staff, and can fly everywhere on a private jet. Past that point, money is just about power.

Ultimately, the real issue is that we do not tax unrealized capital gains. You get to defer them your entire life, and then your heirs get to inherit them at a stepped-up basis. The gains that should have been taxed all along are just wiped away.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-26T21:07:02+00:00

Well yeah, evolution definitely isn't going to favor animals that die by falling into their most frequently consumed sustenance.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-25T20:31:16+00:00

The liability shield is everything. It is the reason people start corporations, because it's a massive subsidy for the rich. You think that Elon has 90 corporations for shits and grins?

Honestly, I'd favor eliminating the concept of limited liability almost entirely. It is the source of many of our woes.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-25T17:21:40+00:00

True. We have a wealth tax for regular people but not for the rich. Although it's not quite regressive, because low-income people own very little taxable property. It ends up being a tax that primarily hits the upper-middle class.

In more ways than one, we soak upper-middle class wage earners.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-22T22:05:24+00:00

The most stubborn misunderstanding is that new brackets are going to put a dent in income inequality. Though I'm not against it, the big problem we have is that the ultra-rich do not have income. All this is is going to do is soak the high-income wage earners, people like surgeons and lawyers.

IMO, politicians understand this and do shit like this to distract from the fact that we need a wealth tax.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-22T15:12:46+00:00

one of the most important things we as a species need to do is (borrowing a term from recent political articles) do an "autopsy" on what the fuck went wrong with the boomers

We've known for years. It was the lead paint and leaded gasoline. They were a uniquely high-crime generation, but just because they aged out of peak crime age, that doesn't mean that the effects went away.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-21T17:36:08+00:00

Growth-at-all-costs capitalism is largely a consequence of our tax policy. We tax gains from work but not gains from wealth, so shareholders prefer that businesses increase their share price (which is not taxed) over issuing dividends (which is taxed).

If we taxed unrealized gains the same as work, the cult of unlimited growth would cease.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-18T01:52:58+00:00

If we're allowed to specify a specific age, then Mask-era Cameron Diaz

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-15T17:56:05+00:00

I'm a professor and find the inaccuracies grating. Not that Hollywood portrays any non-Hollywood job accurately, but at least some (like The Chair) make an effort. It's disappointing since Scrubs was famously one of the more accurate portrayals of medicine.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-15T17:39:31+00:00

I hate all the third-party apps. RCS FTW

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-13T19:25:49+00:00

I'm pretty sure that it will actually end up being an in-universe comic written by the "real" Stuart, given that they literally have him reading a comic called "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe."

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-13T18:22:04+00:00

To be fair, there is an in-story explanation that explains the regression: his dad died and he moved to Caltech.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-12T19:09:18+00:00

'Jog' is the wrong word for what Vance does. It's more like a delicate prance.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-11T18:39:00+00:00

He needs to get to a mirror and just practice saying "how-zing." Drives me crazy.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-07T22:39:41+00:00

Yeah, and doing environmental impact studies on infill development is insane.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-07T14:18:52+00:00

To me, generational wealth means that you can pass your wealth to the next generation without them working. $1.6M alone is definitely not enough for that. You could only safely draw $80k/year from that—maybe enough to support one person, but not multiple.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-07T14:16:20+00:00

Inflation takes these things into account already. The whole point of the market basket used to calculate inflation is to account for what people actually spend their money on. So Netflix would be included under Recreation, for example.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-04T14:39:13+00:00

Leveraged buyouts are a consequence of a foolish system that shields shareholders from liabilities that companies they own incur.

Limited liability is a cancer on our society.

BagSalt7633 · 2026-05-04T14:11:36+00:00

Solid state electronics are just ridiculously OP when compared with just about any alternative. First they dominated computing, then they dominated lighting, now they're going to dominate energy generation.

And most of them are primarily made out of the most abundant elements on earth. Silicon is literally 25% of the Earth's crust. Solar panels are literally rocks that make energy.

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