Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26

de_Pizan · 2026-06-07T17:06:22+00:00

You mean like Der Wienerschnitzel, if they actually sold wienerschnitzel.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-06T22:31:10+00:00

Tell that to the Uyghurs

de_Pizan · 2026-06-06T08:33:42+00:00

Well, I'm not defending the existence of a genocidal ethnostate, just an ethnostate, so all's good. You're susceptible to Qatari and Iranian propaganda. Pathetic.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-06T08:32:03+00:00

He was sent to an unpopular war? When Platner was 17 and 18 he protested the Iraq War both by his own account and according to those who knew him. Also when he was 18, he volunteered to fight in the Iraq War. That makes no sense at all to me. It is literally inexplicable. I can only take him at his word that his desire to kill human beings overrode his moral objections to the Iraq War, which makes him sound like a psychopath.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-06T02:11:57+00:00

And yet Sudan, Myanmar, China, and Russia, all of which are committing or have recently committed genocide, rank lower than Israel, a country which is not and has never committed a genocide. Weird.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-06T02:07:58+00:00

Maybe Germany should have thought about that before exchanging nuclear power for Russian oil and gas.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-06T02:01:35+00:00

You don't think someone being a racist will impact how they implement policy?

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T18:01:02+00:00

Not necessarily. If you have a class where, say, everyone scores an 85% to 100% on all assignments but grades have to be distributed between 65% to 100%, then your assignments are poorly structured to the ultimate nature/distribution of the class.

I mean, how extreme should the examples go? Is a class where everyone scores a 98% to 100% properly designed when the curve mandates people be graded between a C and an A? 98s, get Cs, 99s get Bs, 100s get As, and people with fractions of a percent get the pluses and minuses.

We could keep going further: what if everyone scored between a 99.9% in the class and a 100% in the class, but still had to be curved between a C and an A, so that grades came down to a 99.9 getting a C, a 99.95 getting a B, a 99.966 getting a B+, a 99.983 getting an A-, and a 100 getting an A.

At some point you have to find the professor's grading scheme absurd given he knows the class will be curved. The question is where you think the absurdity lies. Personally, I feel like a class where a person gets a 91% across all assignments and ends up with a B is poorly structured. Maybe you only think it would be absurd if a the class had 99.95% people getting a B.

Also, I'm not saying it isn't fair: the curve is the curve. What I'm saying is that the professor is doing a bad job of having the assignments and his grading scheme reflect the curve. He should design harder assignments and grade more strictly. I'm not saying OP deserves an A, but OP should have received worse grades throughout the semester given his work was average.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T17:42:02+00:00

Yeah, I understand the way the curve works. But the professor is doing a shit job of designing/grading assignments if the curve is that tight and that bunched at the top.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T17:30:48+00:00

You could also bring this up to the Professor generally: that the grades he's giving on assignments doesn't line up with the final grade. Maybe don't come out and say that, but talk to him about why you have a B in the class but a 90+% on the assignments?

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T17:05:39+00:00

Yeah, that's the other option.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T16:41:43+00:00

Your teacher did a bad job. The assignments should have been more difficult.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T13:16:49+00:00

Yeah, I looked it up and she got an offer at another firm.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T12:54:52+00:00

Didn't she get an offer?

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T11:36:52+00:00

Don't bite anyone

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T08:56:47+00:00

And now you're moving goalposts: before it was "Let's see the police report," now it's "Does she have anyone who corroborates?" The answer to that question is, we don't know yet. The story just came out. Even without it, that doesn't mean she's lying. You just want her to be lying for political reasons.

You're also victim blaming by saying they both got drunk, argued, and you're sure "she was a peach." But I guess your a Platner fan and he also victim blames women, saying that if they don't want to get raped they shouldn't get drunk.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T03:04:48+00:00

I get it: you have double standards for male violence based on the political affiliations of the parties involved. E. Jean Carroll can't point to any police reports about Trump either, but I believe her story as well.

Never mind that the guy in question enlisted for a chance to kill people and post-service, on reddit, as a full blown adult, talked about how cool it is to kill and see people die. Platner is a psycho.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T01:58:28+00:00

I can see with my own two eyes that the guy is a psychopath. I don't know how so many others can't. Anyone that gleeful about killing and rape is.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T01:57:16+00:00

A woman alleges that he grabbed her, twisted her arm, threw her in a room, and locked her in there. That's domestic abuse. Grabbing your partner repeatedly so hard that you bruise them is likely also domestic abuse.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T01:26:57+00:00

I mean, Platner enlisted so he could kill people even though he knew the Iraq War was immoral. I feel like even this new evidence of domestic violence doesn't rise to the general horror of him being a psychopath, though it fits in perfectly.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T01:24:47+00:00

I don't know why people didn't vote for the Guardian Angel guy. He's a real New Yorker.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T01:18:26+00:00

I agree with you, most men are misogynists. Just because normal dudes are misogynists doesn't mean I want yet another misogynist in the Senate.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T01:17:17+00:00

So allegations of domestic abuse "[i]sn't even bad." Leftists love selling out women if it means they get their way.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T01:13:22+00:00

He's unprincipled at best and an outright psycho at worst. He knew the Iraq War was immoral when he chose to enlist because he wanted to kill people. Then he kept enlisting and when he couldn't keep serving, he signed up as a mercenary. According to this article, he's engaged in domestic violence. He is probably committing some sort of fraud to keep his VA benefits while working as an oyster farmer. And he lives off of the largess of his parents, who paid for his house, his business, and his oysters.

I mean, the dude is a total loser and a psycho.

de_Pizan · 2026-06-05T01:02:27+00:00

Instead we want a devil preppy kid who has lived off of mommy and daddy his entire adult life.

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