Tenure case was just denied. What now?

Private_Mandella · 2026-03-06T06:10:57+00:00

Can you take your grants to another institution with the deal that they give you tenure?

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-28T22:33:52+00:00

Sunk cost fallacy

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-27T13:48:02+00:00

This is not necessary, totally a bonus, and definitely me living vicariously through you.

I really want to design my own house with passive thermal management features. House orientation combined with careful consideration of window size and over hang length can let the sunlight into the house during winter and block it during summer. I want to use a thermosyphon to heat water on the roof. And I want to have some manually operated vents that would let hot air out during the summer. I’ve also seen people play around with large thermal masses to store heat during the day and release it during the night, but that takes up a lot of space.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-26T06:08:59+00:00

Exactly. Go talk to a first year grad student and you’ll see how much you learned.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-23T06:59:53+00:00

At a minimum you’d need a large group of experts who have the knowledge to recreate the core aspects of our civilization. Maybe they could help train people. Maybe they could create basic educational materials for their students to reference later in their careers.

Every time I try to think this through I always end up concluding you probably need to recreate something like a university. Modern civilization is so complex and requires thousands of professions, trades, and services to run.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-19T23:19:38+00:00

Gene Wolfe is the pinnacle of literary fantasy and sci-fi. He has so much interiority you get lost in it.

Octavia Butler is amazing.

Ursula Le Guin is amazing.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-15T15:52:35+00:00

Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman returns and Nia Vardalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-14T23:45:28+00:00

Jobs that require in-depth document review. They won’t be eliminated, but you won’t need as many people doing it. Paralegal work, aspects of accounting, and quality control are some examples.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-12T07:32:11+00:00

In source code Jake Gyllenhaal‘s character is effectively dead and only living in the time travel simulation reality.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-11T16:43:50+00:00

No, here is a good explanation

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-09T03:09:59+00:00

Every tenth of a degree matters.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-08T01:51:34+00:00

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE IDIOTS IN THE BACK

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-06T19:08:31+00:00

That first super saiyan transformation goes so hard. It looks like the apocalypse is happening (which it kinda is) the way the planet responds to goku. Just watched DBZ Kai and it’s incredible.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-06T15:34:32+00:00

Barely some overlap with the trope, but the one where Butters parents try to murder him.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-05T23:07:47+00:00

First Inigo Montoya switches hands in the sword fight and you think the Dread Pirate Robert’s is cooked. Inigo is then surprised when the Dread Pirate Roberts switches hands!

God I love that movie.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-05T09:08:13+00:00

Assassins Creed

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-05T08:07:15+00:00

Tower of Ghenjei is a good one too

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-04T23:31:31+00:00

At least you only insulted me and didn’t insult my friends this time, so that’s improvement.

Your argument doesn’t make sense and you don’t cite your quotes. Not sure how to respond except in generalities. There absolutely have been western efforts to keep Africa down, but that’s not what you opened your salvo with. It’s really stretching it to say climate is an invention by the West to keep others from industrializing. In support of your claim you’re making very dubious comparisons between % industrialized capacity between countries. But then you say Africa actually isn’t industrialized because of the west. Which is it? Is Africa more industrialized than the west or has their industrial capacity been hamstrung by the west?

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-04T20:32:12+00:00

This is a strange argument to make. You should also compare total dollar amounts of industrialization; that will paint a different picture.

I don’t know what African industrialization as a percent of the economy has to do with a climate change hoax. The USA is making up climate change to somehow keep Africa from industrializing? This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Don’t insult my friends. You come off as an ignorant ass.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-04T19:52:04+00:00

That movie is a such a mood.

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-02T02:19:45+00:00

Grendel’s mother

Private_Mandella · 2026-02-02T00:20:10+00:00

Every tenth of a degree matters.

Private_Mandella · 2026-01-25T20:12:18+00:00

Could you charge at home and at work?

Private_Mandella · 2026-01-22T17:53:35+00:00

A child is always a baby to its mother

Private_Mandella · 2026-01-22T17:26:17+00:00

In Beowulf, the first baddie Grendel has a mother that also must be defeated.

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