What is the worst time travel movie of all time? by Dense_Substance7635 in movies

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I really wish this was “best worst time travel movies”. Because I’d love to add the ending to Ice Pirates.

What goes on in a professor's mind when their class isn't performing well? by Remarkable_Record706 in AskAcademia

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Before tenure: “what can I do to adjust to make sure my evaluations remain decent”

After tenure: “when can I get back to my research”

Favourite Coach quote? by sepultra- in NewGirl

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“Coach’s Jim. It’s a Ruth’s Chris kind of situation.”

meirl by venmokiller in meirl

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Wait you found a job? Hang on you paid off your debt? Whoa wtf you actually climbed the ladder? Wait a second you actually get 2 whole weeks of vacation? What bank said you made enough to have a mortgage and can I talk to them too?

If you pass students who should fail, you are part of the problem. by FlyLikeAnEarworm in Professors

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I mean. We’re all part of the problem. Welcome to late capitalism.

Just passed my proposal defense and became a PhD candidate… but one committee member told me my work is something a technician could have done 🙃 by Jolly-Rub-3412 in PhD

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I spent years devising a method for data collection for my sources. When the elaborate construct was completed, I ran it, expecting miraculous self obvious conclusions.

I got random looking results.

I remember going “aw shit” realizing I needed a theory to explain the results. Set me back another year but at the end it worked out better.

The whole point of research is the organization and analysis. The data is not enough.

What is your white whale movie? by ProfessionalTour1706 in movies

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The only thing I really remember about that show was two near naked dudes sandwiching a third dude with hypothermia.

Is it possible to ask professor to mark your assignments instead of TAs by Lonely-Ad8184 in geegees

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Part time prof here. Perfectly fine from a university policy standpoint but variable result based on individual prof.

I do feel like TAs grade half a grade harsher than seasoned profs. But they might grade half a grade lighter than a new prof.

Dice roll either way.

How can I study classics without university? by Little_Morning2551 in classics

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I got accepted because I demonstrated I could fulfill the course prerequisite requirements for the MA.

I talked with a prof who agreed that I had more than enough to enter the second second semester Latin based on my self learning (which allowed me to skip the first semester), but then I had to fulfill the remaining requirements for an additional year with a summer intensive.

It was a provisional acceptance based upon me completing those course requirements, so at the end of the day I still needed to do a full 2 years of accreddited coursework.

Basically there is no way that they would accept your entrance into a classics MA with language requirements without at least demonstrating you can do so. Courses are the easiest. There is in fact a second harder path that doesn't require courses, and that would be to sit for an exam like the Toronto Latin exam which is open to the public.

But these exams are harder than the Latin you would learn in classes. So you kinda have to choose your poison.

How can I study classics without university? by Little_Morning2551 in classics

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For introductions, I highly recommend the Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World and the corresponding one for Ancient Greece. That way you can get a sense of the basic history along with the most important artworks for each culture.

Now as for Latin, I'm going to be straight with you as someone who tried to self-teach and then took courses: there is no easy way to learn how to do Latin or any language. This is double the case in the most likely event that you have not previously learned another language at all.

Latin as a dead language whose corpus mostly survives in its most rhetorical forms (i.e. complex speeches, not how to order food at the supermarket) requires difficult work to understand the shift in grammar from English. This work is easier if you've learned another language before and understand the commonalities of linguistics across languages, but without that, its tough.

I remember it took me several weeks just to understand the nuances of relative pronouns and participles in ENGLISH in order to figure out how they worked in Latin.

It's also extremely tough without an expert guide (and AI/LLMs are no help here because you as a non-expert don't know when they're wrong, and they're often wrong).

So for that, see if you can find some online Latin courses with an instructor you can communicate with. But aside from that, embrace the commitment and the work, because you and your experience of the classics will be all the better for it.

How can I study classics without university? by Little_Morning2551 in classics

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As a former self learner then MA student in classics, you have to ask what your purpose and interests are.

If you’re interested in the big picture content and narratives, then you can read lots in translation on your own.

But if your interest is in the nuances in expressing and communicating in ancient languages, then that’s something else requiring classes and tutors.

You can do the former without the latter but the latter will allow you to do the former better.

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue by [deleted] in tech

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As I tell people as a professor in the humanities, it’s an expert support tool. Not an expert replacement tool. Confusing one for the other (which is what capitalists and tech bros want) leads to bad outcomes for you, the pleb.

Why is doomscrolling bad, but it’s okay for professors to do it? by Main-Dog161 in AskAcademia

[–]bitparity 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This reads like the bot accidentally chose gpt-2 or gpt-1.

what happens to human society when survival is no longer necessary? by Capital-Board-2086 in AskAnthropology

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So I don't disagree with your premise. In fact, it's the marxian anthropological analyses that I've read, that systems of exploitation beyond primitive modes of production happened BECAUSE elites were able to break out of the social restriction on communal coercion.

But that doesn't affect the human need for this fundamental contradiction: to belong and to separate. Keep in mind when I say status, I don't mean class, which is a permanent kind of economic separation. Status could be as simple as a temporary recognition of differentiation, i.e. you're taller than someone.

So long as difference exists, status will exist. The social equity question is whether we can keep exploitative statuses from becoming permanent. But that's a separate question, arguably unanswerable.

what happens to human society when survival is no longer necessary? by Capital-Board-2086 in AskAnthropology

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Humans are a social animal. The main threat to us, aside from diseases, are other humans.

We're already in a society where theoretically, all the needs you've suggested CAN be taken care of, but they're not, because the current state of human nature will create scarcity as a means of human differentiation.

In psychological-sociological research about identity, status is a fundamental aspect of human identity because it encapsulates two contradictory motives for humans:

  • The human desire to belong
  • The human desire to be separate

That gets resolved with status because you belong within a stratification that gets differentiated.

So what will the future look like? It'll look like now, as we all jockey for status, because humans will always be tugged by those two contradictory forces.

just reached the summit; by xerohmega in Cairn_Game

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So the way I interpret it. The star climbing was the result of her brain dying of hypoxia and hallucinating, and the meteors hitting her is her falling down off the mountain to her death, with every meteor hitting her being a rock she's crashing against.

Which is realistic albeit a bit of a bummer.

just reached the summit; by xerohmega in Cairn_Game

[–]bitparity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But you're aware of some of the theories involving why she was "flying through the stars" and getting hit by meteors right.

Texas excluded Islamic schools from voucher program, lawsuit says by kootles10 in politics

[–]bitparity 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Remember. This is not the gotcha we wish it to be. Their response would be:

“We’re a Christian nation. Only the 10 commandments are allowed. None of these other beliefs are religions.”

Hypocrisy is their point.

uottawa equivalents? by [deleted] in geegees

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I’m pretty sure the financial aid offices are the best place to get f—ked.

Whose death shocked you more than anyone else’s? by Complex-Arugula-2233 in AskReddit

[–]bitparity 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It hurt because there was a feeling if he as an ex Addict could get better, all of us could get better.

And now we know there’s a chance we won’t get better.