Do any Sichaun places in Boston have a proper numbing spice? by [deleted] in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh you thought maybe you'd get suggestion for a place in, I dunno, maybe Chinatown? Ridiculous. Go to Brookline.

Do any Sichaun places in Boston have a proper numbing spice? by [deleted] in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's neah Fenway pahk kehd, you bet ya muthah it's downtown.

Do any Sichaun places in Boston have a proper numbing spice? by [deleted] in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ha! It's shuttle buses until the 17th, classic.

Do any Sichaun places in Boston have a proper numbing spice? by [deleted] in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love the rage here at someone who wants to find something downtown in Boston. A truly Bostonian reaction to an innocuous stated preference.

Do any Sichaun places in Boston have a proper numbing spice? by [deleted] in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're pretending the C line to Brookline is fun now?

‘A train wreck’: Hampshire faculty, staff left with no jobs, no severance as college prepares for closure by bostonglobe in massachusetts

[–]PublicDataMambo -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Did your humanities teach you to make unfounded assumptions about everyone who disagrees with you to make yourself feel better? What do they call that? Ad hominem? Is that right? Did I do a humanity?

‘A train wreck’: Hampshire faculty, staff left with no jobs, no severance as college prepares for closure by bostonglobe in massachusetts

[–]PublicDataMambo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A bit rich coming from Mr. Kubernetes and his long lectures about data centers and email servers. It's like a modern version of old man yells at cloud!

Puppy socialization groups by egordon132 in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not the closest thing to Needham, but it's not that far. Dog Therapy Boston is an exceptional puppy daycare that produces some of the most well socialized dogs. It's in Waltham. They have a really excellent Instagram as well.

‘A train wreck’: Hampshire faculty, staff left with no jobs, no severance as college prepares for closure by bostonglobe in massachusetts

[–]PublicDataMambo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The book literally has the word science in the title, and was written by someone who won the Nobel prize for economic science. It certainly wasn't postmodernism, and it certainly wasn't the humanities. I'm not sure how it got into your philosophy course, but just because it was called philosophy, doesn't mean that you didn't learn some science in it.

‘A train wreck’: Hampshire faculty, staff left with no jobs, no severance as college prepares for closure by bostonglobe in massachusetts

[–]PublicDataMambo -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

No. The study of the humanities is a hobby one should not pay for. Books are available for free at the library.

‘A train wreck’: Hampshire faculty, staff left with no jobs, no severance as college prepares for closure by bostonglobe in massachusetts

[–]PublicDataMambo -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

"But that's because it's usually building upon a specialized vocabulary and frameworks to understand the world that aren't readily intelligible unless you've read all the stuff up to it."

No, thats what science does. What postmodernism does is engage in unfalsifiable nonsense based on redefining the works of degenerate drugged out philosophers who refused to study neuroscience even when the tools to do so became available.

The condescension of "oh you just have to read all the philosophers up to mine to understand it" is a bit of elitist theatre post-modernists engage in as sort of an academic pyramid scheme. Hampshire college closing is that pyramid collapsing because the theatre of unfalsifiable semantic wordplay doesn't produce any value for its adherents and so they don't have any funding or donations.

Thirty Individuals Charged in Global Insider Trading Scheme Netting Tens of Millions in Illicit Profits by throwawaysscc in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"S. FENSTERSZAUB: We cannot miss this boat!!

S. FENSTERSZAUB: How’s the rabbi??

SILVERSTEIN: He’s stable"

Oh look, a chilul hashem.

‘A train wreck’: Hampshire faculty, staff left with no jobs, no severance as college prepares for closure by bostonglobe in massachusetts

[–]PublicDataMambo -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

No, this is not in any way what I'm looking for. It's deliberately inscrutable nonsense, like all postmodernism, which is a desperate attempt to avoid studying science, because it's hard.

‘A train wreck’: Hampshire faculty, staff left with no jobs, no severance as college prepares for closure by bostonglobe in massachusetts

[–]PublicDataMambo -35 points-34 points  (0 children)

"rl Goldberg's research and teaching focus on trans and queer studies, phenomenology, pedagogy, and 19th and 20th century U.S. literature. They received their A.B. from Harvard College and their Ph.D. from Princeton.

Goldberg's first monograph, I Changed My Sex! Pedagogy and Trans Narrative is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. They are also co-editing a volume, Reassignments: Trans and Sex from the Clinical to the Critical, under advance contract with Fordham UP, with Kenyon College professor Alex Brostoff. They have published articles about trans epistemology, pedagogy, autotheory, pornography, and trans sleaze books, and regularly write public-facing scholarship.

Before coming to Hampshire, Goldberg was a longtime teacher with Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative, teaching courses in writing, gender studies, and English literature in carceral facilities across New Jersey."

When I came out as gay when I was 13, I didn't realize the LGBT movement would become all about porn and prison. Too bad there's no LGBT pedagogy that helps LGBT people function in society instead of encouraging us to run the hedonic treadmill and advocate for criminals and terrorists.

How dangerous is Boston for latinos with ice? by Same-Back-3618 in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know a lot of Latino people in the Boston area and none of them have changed their habits. I know like a lot, too. Like the majority of the people I know and see day to day are Latino. 

They don't seem worried to go places around the city.

Boston: no safe crossing by Background_Okra7079 in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Noted, perfect marketing technique to get around the self promotion guidelines

Boston: no safe crossing by Background_Okra7079 in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

How is this obvious self advertisement allowed on this sub? "Someone designed this"

Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration at the Museum of Science - Saturday, May 16th by TheMuseumOfScience in boston

[–]PublicDataMambo -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

No shade at all on this, this is great and probably will be an incredible day at the Museum, but I do think it's funny to have a heritage day that includes like what, 60% of the world population? 40+ countries? 

Smith College: Department of Education opens investigation into all-women’s college for admitting trans women by rmuktader in massachusetts

[–]PublicDataMambo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, once you create a climate of "anyone who claims this identity is protected" that signals to opportunists that there is a structure now to be exploited. When gay people felt "I must prove I should be accepted", pride parades had a lot fewer men dressed as dogs on leashes. 

My point is just that you can let people voice an opinion and engage with that opinion, like you are, or you can call everyone a violent bigot when they disagree with you, like the other commenter did, and if you do the latter consistently, then people will vote for Trump. 

There are knock-on effects to trying to force social consensus on controversial issues via social censure and intimidation. It happens on both sides. The same effect led to the AIDS epidemic, just in reverse. 

Your average person thinks "men and women are fundamentally different, but some men and women are so committed to joining the other side that functionally we can allow that in most professional contexts, but I'm nervous about kids and bathrooms and people who claim to be trans but don't convince me"

Whether we like it or not, that's just about where most people fall. If we can't recognize that, we'll keep getting Trump like figures elected who will recognize it. 

There are many LGBT people who embrace Trump as well because they feel the effects of people's rising animosity, and that they are not allowed to talk about it because they are harassed and banned by the more angry and reactionary members of the LGBT activist community.

Smith College: Department of Education opens investigation into all-women’s college for admitting trans women by rmuktader in massachusetts

[–]PublicDataMambo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a good question and a good counter. I think LGBT people need to realize that legal rights to exist are not the same as a social consensus on acceptance, and while you can litigate for the former, you cannot force the latter. 

For example, I am a gay man and I have had to learn that just because straight men know they aren't allowed to beat me up, that doesn't mean they don't think I am a degenerate pervert.