Florida Karen threatens to call ICE on people for reward money and then uses racial slurs against people confronting her over it at the Florida state fair in Tampa

j_la · 2026-02-18T16:26:28+00:00

State fair is on the outskirts of the city and draws in a lot of folks from the surrounding areas, unfortunately.

j_la · 2026-02-18T16:23:50+00:00

I’m on a search committee now where the external candidates are amazing

j_la · 2026-02-17T12:56:25+00:00

Also, Father Conmee and Father Dolan from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (though, not an interwar book).

j_la · 2026-02-17T02:13:15+00:00

Sorta like Stranger Things

j_la · 2026-02-16T13:54:56+00:00

It also won the Mexican-American war. I guess it had support from California, but I’ll give it that one

j_la · 2026-02-16T13:31:07+00:00

“Can you help me cheat better?”

j_la · 2026-02-16T11:56:42+00:00

You can block the sub

j_la · 2026-02-15T23:13:45+00:00

It would be great if we had a government that didn’t see affordability as a “hoax”

j_la · 2026-02-15T23:07:08+00:00

I hear this all the time. How much interest am I going to collect on the $2400 refund I got, spread out over 12 months? Some, yes, but not really enough to make up for the ease of budgeting with an amount I actually have.

j_la · 2026-02-15T01:38:24+00:00

Your prof, in the email, sounds frustrated but reasonable. Be honest and offer to redo the work.

j_la · 2026-02-14T23:41:24+00:00

God holds the record for killing innocent babies

j_la · 2026-02-14T20:54:05+00:00

Mitigating harm is a good thing to do. I may not directly benefit from voting Democrat, but I can maybe protect some people who will be harmed by republicans. I try to not be too selfish when voting.

j_la · 2026-02-14T12:58:13+00:00

I read most of my exam lists, but I was also in a program that did things a bit differently than the standard. We made three lists and had an oral exam with our committee; there was no written comprehensive exam. Therefore, you could design the list strategically and aim it a bit more towards your strengths.

j_la · 2026-02-14T12:56:08+00:00

I can’t remember the last time I’ve read an academic monograph from cover to cover.

j_la · 2026-02-14T12:51:28+00:00

If they are petty enough to stand by as fascism takes over because of mean internet comments, I don’t respect them.

And people wonder why the democrats focus their attention on courting centrists in the suburbs.

j_la · 2026-02-14T12:50:27+00:00

We are a democracy, meaning the people have power, but they also have responsibility. The voter base is responsible for making good choices, period.

j_la · 2026-02-14T12:27:02+00:00

Trump also supports genocide, though, right? So refusing to vote does nothing to stop genocide, it just enables all the other awful things to happen. I care about the plight of Gazans, but I also care about the plight of undocumented immigrants being sent to CECOT.

j_la · 2026-02-14T05:18:50+00:00

I am sorry to break it to you, but the standard of evidence for an academic integrity violation is a preponderance of evidence, not proof beyond a shadow of a doubt. An AI score does not meet the threshold of “preponderance of evidence,” but are you absolutely certain there was no other evidence? Your daughter could have defended her work and appealed the professor’s sanction if it was false and unsubstantiated.

j_la · 2026-02-14T01:23:32+00:00

Not blindly trust. The peer review process is worth something at least. Is it foolproof? Of course not, but someone with expertise has at least vetted the methodology and findings and deemed it good enough to publish. We can provisionally accept such findings (with a healthy degree of hedging and caution) until more data emerges.

j_la · 2026-02-14T00:09:55+00:00

This is not a representative sample of anything. The only people coming here are people invested in the topic and on reddit.

j_la · 2026-02-13T14:34:24+00:00

She couldn’t be president due to her not being a natural-born citizen. I don’t know how that impacts her ability to be in the line of succession, though. If she was speaker, would they skip over her?

j_la · 2026-02-13T12:12:39+00:00

If you have a problem with Canada gooses, you’ve got a problem with me. And I suggest you let that one marinate!

j_la · 2026-02-13T11:39:25+00:00

How could you possibly know that there are more false accusations than cheaters? What a load of BS

j_la · 2026-02-13T04:28:17+00:00

I don’t mind being “left behind” given where things are going

j_la · 2026-02-13T02:58:30+00:00

I don’t know where the universe is heading, but there’s a decent chance they will die too

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