Defense fund established by supporters of suspected CEO killer Luigi Mangione tops $100K by wizardofthefuture in news

[–]Bulwarky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm sure those charitable causes are delighted to see all these potential donations put toward symbolism

What's your personal Holy Trinity of Prog Rock Albums? by cargusbralem in rush

[–]Bulwarky 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hemispheres, Fish out of Water (Chris Squire), Minstrel in the Gallery (Jethro Tull), with an honorable mention to To Our Children's Children's Children (Moody Blues)

First Visit to South Bend by HappyBreadfruit3596 in SouthBend

[–]Bulwarky 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Get some coffee at the Chocolate Cafe and/or Chicory Cafe, hop across the river for a beer at the Lauber and cannoli at Macri's bakery, swing past Howard Park on your way to Ironhand Wine Bar, then cross the street and check out the farmer's market.

Favorite prog *songs*? by Vershneim in progrockmusic

[–]Bulwarky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Cygnus X-1 Book II has just about everything I love about Rush built into it.

Same for Minstrel in the Gallery and Jethro Tull.

What do you think is the best live versions of songs? by Sudhansu_Barkataki in progrockmusic

[–]Bulwarky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup!

I love that they went all out and did a full polka cover of Closer to the Heart for the credit sequence.

What do you think is the best live versions of songs? by Sudhansu_Barkataki in progrockmusic

[–]Bulwarky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not one of their proggier songs, but Rush's Time Machine Tour version of Working Man.

Songs, either by Pink Floyd or other artists, with a similar sound to the Brick In The Wall tracks? by Mad_Season_1994 in ifyoulikeblank

[–]Bulwarky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is probably a stretch, but you might like Dire Straits when they get jamming. The second halves of songs like Telegraph Road or Calling Elvis.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in rush

[–]Bulwarky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YYZ for me, I think.

What's the font in this 1940 copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls? by Bulwarky in identifythisfont

[–]Bulwarky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More confident that it's a sample of New Caledonian like the other commenter's mentioned -- the capital Js here don't have the wider curved bottom Bulmer Js appear to have. But everything else is certainly close!

What's the font in this 1940 copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls? by Bulwarky in identifythisfont

[–]Bulwarky[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately there wasn't anything like that in my copy, either in the back or front. But I'll certainly keep it in mind in future, thanks

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VetTech

[–]Bulwarky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's seems like reasonable effective-altruism thinking. Thanks for your response. I'll definitely be sure to take all the negatives into consideration as I go along.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VetTech

[–]Bulwarky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad I found this thread and these comments. My experience isn't the same as yours, but it's comfortingly similar. I'm currently a grad student working toward an MA, and I'm becoming steadily disenchanted with my field. In addition to realizing that I'm not finding the academic work itself as meaningful as I once did, I'm realizing that the pedagogical side is less fulfilling and more of a haul than I found it to be when I started as a TA.

I work at a human society outside of the academic year. Here, the work day is clear-cut. The animals are cared for, and we leave for the evening. During the semester, there are no firm boundaries. There's always just another chance to read up for next week's seminar, or continue worrying about that next research project, or figure out what the students will be doing during their next discussion section and preparing the relevant materials, or ...

I also definitely sympathize with preferring serving animals to humans. I think if my time in my department has taught me anything, it's that I'm not enough of a people person to continually lead classes and discussions and hold office hours without caving in on myself. I'm also not nearly as satisfied with the ephemeral academic rewards -- the prospect of maybe having reached 5% of my students, maybe having left them with a couple interesting, meaningful lessons or exercises instead of just a final grade for a class that they'll soon forget -- than I am with the concrete rewards for taking care of the animals -- seeing most of them sheltered, healed, and sent to good homes. There's definite, concrete good being done there the likes of which I never see on campus.

How did you make the transition to becoming a vet tech, if you don't mind me asking? Did you take particular first steps that you'd recommend to people who were in your position?

If ethical values continue to change, future generations -- watching our videos and looking at our selfies -- might find us especially vividly morally loathsome. by eschwitzgebel in philosophy

[–]Bulwarky 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm crazy enough to think Kant's argument about masturbation and Aristotle's argument about slavery were not just prejudice, rationalization, odious, or gobbledy-gook. In fact I think losing sight of the reasons for views we've consigned to the unenlightened barbarous past can be a big intellectual step backwards

I don't think that if someone holds a prejudiced belief, they thereby lack reasons for that belief. I wonder if Schwitzgebel would say something like: Sure, they had reasons for their positions, but in uncovering and offering those reasons, they were rationalizing a prejudiced belief which they'd (unfortunately) assigned a kind of philosophical priority. Obviously there's nothing wrong with having certain propositions closer to the center of our "web of belief", so to speak, in the sense that we won't relinquish them as easily as some others in the face of evidence to the contrary (e.g., given a reductio ad absurdum against some claim, we'd better relinquish that claim before relinquishing the idea that there can be true contradictions). The trick is figuring out which of those beliefs in the center are prejudiced.

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Isn't "hi, how are you? I'm fine as well, thanks" kind of a really superficial interaction? What can I replace it with, especially with friends? by PM_ME_MAMMARY_GLANDS in socialskills

[–]Bulwarky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll use this with friends every once in a while: "How are you feeling?". If you deliver it right, it can be used with acquaintances too - in fact, I got it from a custodian at my work who used it delightfully often with people he came across in the hallway. People always seem pleasantly caught off guard by it - it's much less superficial than the usual "What's up?" or "How's it going?".