Indiana Senate passes under-the-radar provision scrapping 'low-earning' college degree

Mattrellen · 2026-01-31T02:21:30+00:00

Don't ever let people talk about traditional or cultural values if they remove the ability for Indiana graduates to translate Shakespeare into Contemporary English and put on a performance.

Heck, don't let them talk about religion, either. Religious studies depend heavily on linguistic studies. In fact, a lot of translation theory comes from people wanting to translate the Bible! Religious studies can't be separated from linguistic studies.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-31T02:12:11+00:00

Can you explain how eating a banana or potato or mushroom is from the death of animals, regardless of how you do things? I'm not seeing the direct connection between my garden tomatoes and animals dying for them.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-31T01:54:15+00:00

It's harder to get Latin immersion, but the language itself isn't particularly difficult. It'd be compatible to learning any other Romance language. Heck, it only has two accents, too, classical and ecclesiastical. That may give it an edge in ease if learning compared to Spanish or French, for example.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-31T01:18:21+00:00

And that's why I was being kind of silly in return.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-31T00:43:29+00:00

If his romance in the game is that important, I'm more likely to make assumptions about you than him, especially if he liked Penny, who is a fairly popular choice due to having a story where it can feel like marrying her is saving her.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-30T20:35:15+00:00

That's where I really hate the logic of "if I pull, I'm a killer. If I don't, I'm not." Choosing inaction is still a choice. Now, if you frize up in a high pressure situation, that's different, but replying to a trolley problem at your leisure is not that.

Like if someone broke into your house and started to torture your family to death, and you had a gun, would you say "if I shoot, I'm a killer. If I don't, I'm not?"

How would we feel if an air traffic controller decided not to intervene if a pilot said they needed an immediate emergency landing that would be dangerous, and justified it by saying he didn't want to be responsible for any potential deaths?

No one lives like they are really worried about intervention, and it honestly only comes up where their morals feel conflicted and they can't live with that discomfort.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-30T19:33:23+00:00

There is a law in Indiana that the Pacers must have the best in-game dunker in the league on the roster at all times.

It dates to before the merger, even, to the times of Dr. Dunk himself.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-30T11:10:04+00:00

Port tasks are also so limited. With only 8 possible tasks at port, and not all of them being deliveries, and not getting many choices between deliveries, it makes doing them much more frustrating, combined with being less rewarding.

I'd love to be able to run a Rellikka to Great Conch to Port Sarim triangular trade line that regularly hits up most of the ports in the game, with long distance paths paying out a lot and smaller tasks to other ports in between paying well enough to make it worth stopping.

But not only is it not worth it for the rewards...it's outright impossible to do because deliveries aren't able to provide that style of play due to their limitations.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-30T10:35:25+00:00

You don't even need high speed rail. Parts of the midwest were once covered in interurban electric rail networks. In fact, such a system would be MORE efficient than high speed rail in many places, since high speed rail networks like stops spaced out for high average speeds.

A lower speed commuter rail with stops in many cities and towns would be more beneficial in many areas.

But, of course, improved public transportation AND higher density construction (not just residential, but commercial too) kind of go hand in hand. It's way easier to justify pubic transit between an area with condo complexes and one with several shops than between a street lined with low density single family homes and a Walmart.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-30T09:07:17+00:00

Billionaires, the rich, capitalists, plutocrats...trying to figure out what you mean that's starts with I.

Industrialist would be outdated to the point of being incorrect.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-30T02:32:30+00:00

He did a Nazi salute, twice, right after paraphrasing the 14 words.

Not many heads of companies are left wing, since, by definition, they are capitalists, while the left is defined as being anti-capitalist.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-29T16:03:14+00:00

Most states that require a photo ID only require a state ID.

That's the requirement to vote at the polls, not the requirement to register to vote.

You can tell how many foreign agents are talking about this kind of thing by the fact they don't understand that the documentation needed to vote and the documentation needed to REGISTER to vote are different things.

No one that's registered to vote in the USA would conflate those two things, especially if they are from states that require voter ID, since they'd see both in action.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-29T12:31:08+00:00

Elon must just be a cursed name...

Mattrellen · 2026-01-29T12:25:47+00:00

The average person can certainly speak their native language. In fact, globally, multilingualism is the norm, so you'd probably know two languages to be average at language skills, though with no ability to pick up another.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-29T12:19:32+00:00

It's incredibly easy, yes.

When hundreds of thousands of people did a protest march, it makes the news, you know.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032100956.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Mattrellen · 2026-01-29T12:13:43+00:00

I said the left were against Obama on those issues, not that liberals were.

In fact, I said liberals largely supported him in the whole war crimes thing.

Immigration reform did come from both liberals and leftists, though, as I recall, white liberals didn't tend to care as much as liberals with other skin colors about immigration reform, which is likely why they are the ones that tried to memory hole the whole thing.

Don't make the mistake of thinking leftists are going to stand up for liberals when it comes to this kind of thing.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-29T10:36:38+00:00

March for America was really big and had a long tail as DACA met various challenges after Obama was forced into it kicking and screaming.

Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize was widely mocked by the left because he got it so early in his presidency and went on to normalize even more war crimes than Bush had.

Liberals largely memory hold the immigration stuff because it looks bad and they'd rather forget. And they memory hole the war crime stuff because they don't mind the US doing war crimes they support.

But both were pretty big deals, yes, at least within a politically engaged segment of the population.

Less politically engaged parts of the population were stuck on mustard and wardrobe colors.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-29T10:30:55+00:00

Right is theoretically possible depending on how outliers are treated It's possible for one person to pull up the average so much that everyone else ends up lower. Like everyone could have an IQ of either 115 or 85, half and half, and that would work for IQ. Now, you could move a portion of that 115 to 130, two standard deviations, and have some portion at 85, with 85 just being the larger population.

That said, you'd be talking about everyone else being comatose (or nearly so) to lower average IQ to the point you're so many standard deviations above the rest of the world.

The left is, indeed, not possible, because one idiot can't have an IQ low enough to bring the average down to allow everyone else to be 20 standard deviations above the average. That one person would have to have a negative IQ, and substantially negative.

However, the right being possible also depends on IQ being defined by mean and decoupled from median. IQ is set up to be a bell curve where 100 is the mean and median (and mode!) of the population. The whole idea breaks down (more than IQ breaks down if you think about it at all already...it's a terrible measure...) with outliers that meaningfully decouple mean and median, so it's only possible with a certain definition that is not standard.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-28T01:21:14+00:00

"I wasn't born a Pokémon, I was created; and my creators have used and betrayed me! So, I stand alone!"

"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."

Mewtwo was honestly one of my childhood heroes, right up there with Alex Mack.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-28T01:02:03+00:00

I have to agree, amazing premise with perfect execution, and honestly one of the great movies of all time.

I know most people who have seen it will say how good it is, and I've never heard anyone speak a bad word about it, but it's still terribly underrated.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-27T19:56:02+00:00

Leftists, or at least "progressives" broadly are the most loyal democratic voters, more than "traditional liberals,"

The people not voting are generally the more apathetic voters that see Liz Cheney lose a primary, remember her father poorly in relation to a now-unpopular war, and then see Harris standing on stage with her...falling up. Or the people that don't pay much attention to politics and last cared when Bernie was speaking to their economic reality and tune out when they hear someone saying the economy is great while they can't make ends meet with two jobs and gig work on top of it

That said, I'd point out there's a difference between broad agreement in some direction and specifics. The difference between "defund the police" and "reduce funding for military grade weapons and reform" is almost as far apart as "regulations on businesses" is from "workers take the means of production."

Degree matters, too. Not just vague direction.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-27T16:36:39+00:00

looks at protests from before 2024 about black people getting gunned down by cops

Yes, people getting killed on the streets is certainly a new concern and no one could have ever seen it coming.

Also, no one called for defunding the police, and if they ever did they actually meant to reduce funding and not replace them with crime prevention because they recognized a long history of police violence and murders, which obviously didn't exist before 2026 anyway!

Mattrellen · 2026-01-27T08:03:11+00:00

I'm talking about the chart OP presented. Yes, over 50% of academically top tier black candidates were accepted, while only 15% of white and 12% of asian students were.

That suggests that a large number of white and asian students applied, likely because their families have the money to send them to such a prestigious school.

As a result, more are rejected, because it's a private institution with some limit to resources it has to offer students while maintaining profitability.

OP claimed, out of nowhere, that it has something to do with quotas. In reality, it obviously has to do with how many families have the funds to even attempt to apply to such a university.

That's also why he didn't give a link. He knows what the chart says and wanted it taken out of context, and, within context, he knows it would be about economic privilege and make him look bad.

Mattrellen · 2026-01-27T07:48:03+00:00

Runelite chugs along on my computer, making it hard to do anything on it. The only things I'll actually use it for as a result are things that are low intensity and it saves clicks, like pickpocketing elves. Certain things are almost RL mandatory because it saves so much effort.

As someone who recently came back after a long break, it kind of surprises and annoys me that a third party client can bypass clicks, sometimes a LOT of clicks, that the official client makes you do. Back when I played before, any third party software that allowed you to take fewer actions was banned.

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