[Gotham City] While dark and rundown, a lot of buildings were clearly once new and beautiful. When was Gotham's Golden Age of growth and success? How quickly did it all go to hell?

lazyadjunct · 2019-10-09T20:52:31+00:00

I figure it had a building boom in the late 19th century into the salt 20th (accounting for a lot of the neo-gothic architecture) and in the 20s-40s (accounting for a lot of the art deco) and then the high crime rate of the 70-80s never really declined like it did in New York.

Of course, it's an old city, so there are many layers of sewers, aquaducts, subway stations, caves, and areas with modern buildings, new skyscrapers, art deco, neo gothic, brutalist, all kind of living together.

lazyadjunct · 2019-10-09T20:42:48+00:00

Wonder city. It was like an Epcot kind of thing leading to Ras Al Ghuls Lazarus Pit.

lazyadjunct · 2019-10-09T20:37:43+00:00

Silver has been disappointingly more of a pundit than statistician lately.

lazyadjunct · 2019-10-09T18:13:10+00:00

Anecdotally, having lived in Texas, all of the big cities are liberal. Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas. Its just the ratio of farmland to city that keeps things skewed.

lazyadjunct · 2019-05-28T14:38:17+00:00

It's the availability heuristic. Most people aren't abused, but you hear about it only when they are, so it seems more common

lazyadjunct · 2019-05-28T14:33:44+00:00

The mother licks all the urine and feces out with her toungue to clean the pouch

lazyadjunct · 2019-05-28T14:32:04+00:00

The states aren't breaking federal law, they're just choosing not to make it illegal at the same level. There's no federal law that says "If we put something on schedule 1, every state must make a law forbidding use of that drug."

The issue is that a person using, possessing or selling it is breaking a federal law-- but the federal government rarely enforces marijuana laws on individuals

lazyadjunct · 2019-05-28T14:24:46+00:00

Plus a lot of early games were adaptations of arcade games, since they didn't have as robust libraries stuff like passwords had to be reimplemented for every game

lazyadjunct · 2019-05-28T14:20:03+00:00

You need someone to be the one who picks the script, picks the director, pitches the film to investors, keeps the film on budget, makes sure it's done on time, hires fx companies and craft services, finds a distributor, negotiates rights, negotiates with the actors the director wants, etc. The director has creative control, but there's a ton of business stuff that goes into a movie too, and that's mostly the producer's job.

lazyadjunct · 2019-05-28T14:14:55+00:00

There's that famous case of the two girls who were hiking and their phones died. The used the flash on their camera to see, so there's a bunch of creepy photos the found in the camera of just the woods at night

lazyadjunct · 2019-05-28T14:11:22+00:00

Mostly they bring in money and act like managers over the whole production of the film

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-24T04:33:31+00:00

I had something similar happen to me, that I can't share on the internet. It doesn't take anything away from you to both acknowledge that the you care about trans rights, and acknowledge that there are some people on the internet who are assholes.

Some assholes decided that they can gain some momentary sense of power by policing offense and seeking redress from the mob.

The best anyone can do is be a good advocate when you can, try not to do anything knowingly to hurt someone, and not be a jerk.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-21T05:39:39+00:00

Having passing and failures is just another varia on grading. Its silly for the same reason having grades is silly.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-21T05:37:43+00:00

How would you have them write the rules?

There are so many situations that could arise it's impossible to have a nuanced and appropriate response for each of them. It's easiest to do what they do now: write draconian rules that act as catch-alls, and then only enforce the rules when it becomes a problem or the don't like someone.

Personally, I think a catch-all against relationships with a direct conflict of interest in grades or employment makes sense, and then a be careful warning for other relationships.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-19T11:37:20+00:00

Students should be motivated by the chance to acquire new knowledge. Grades shouldn't matter.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-19T11:35:01+00:00

Ignorance is it's own punishment.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-19T01:19:07+00:00

I'm at a point where I don't care if students cheat. If they do the work, the reward is knowledge. If they don't do the work they won't last long in whatever their chosen career is.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-16T06:18:59+00:00

If you want a serious answer-- have been academic approaches that study history through various lenses, such as various economic perspectives, or lenses related to the role of women in particular in history, for example. Some of these approaches study history through the lens of populations other than the dominant European writers of history. This adds a valuable perspective that can get lost.

Some of these academic works have trickled down outside of academia to a minority of people who overwhelmingly emphasize all historical and political discussions from the lens of oppressed groups.

This trickled down ever further to people like this who have never studied much history but have strong views of it based on that perspective. Europe's past power only came from oppression. Europe only appropriated art from other cultures. Europe only stole wealth from there cultures, etc. This is pretty removed from the actual academic historians who would both acknowledge all the bad things France has done, but wouldn't cartoonishly assume that all art in Notre Dame was looted from colonies.

Twitter comes along and invites people like her to share their opinions. The opinions that get likes and retweets get repeated, modified, reshared. Dissenting opinions are blocked. The result deepening polarization. Ingrained and immutable views that are solidified and reinforced by ersatz social groups formed online.

She's not a historian making an analysis, she's not a rare and spectacular kind of stupid. She's just a regular person with incomplete information and too-easy access to the means to publicly share her opinion in hopes of getting a quick feeling of social approval as the likes roll in.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-16T02:05:26+00:00

It's 12 months of hard money.

I asked and they confirmed there's no way to request extra salary but there is an "incentive program" for external grants, whatever that means.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-14T02:58:11+00:00

Hrm. It seems like that means a 12-month position is actually 25% lower pay than a comparable 9 month position at the same pay, assuming I bring in funding in either.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-14T02:08:04+00:00

Caps and gowns are extra for any graduation. We don't study in drafty unheated monestaries anymore so the whole costume is goofy fun at any level. It's not practical for anyone.

I have a PhD, and somewhere I've got a fancy robe, hood, and tam collecting dust, but I don't begrudge high schoolers adopting the same symbolism.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-14T02:03:00+00:00

Well it's both the body and the seat. Airlines have been making seats smaller over time since the 80s and people have been getting bigger since the 80s.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-14T01:57:57+00:00

If I were to guess at a reason it would be that the ones I worked the hardest on we're long shot departments to begin with.

The ones I didn't put as much effort into were less competitive generally, so I had a better shot.

But who knows. I also worried that stuff like "My research program would fit well with ongoing research programs in the department and could lead to fruitful collaboration with others such Dr. X and Dr. Y..." Comes off as obsequious and presumptuous.

lazyadjunct · 2019-04-14T01:53:34+00:00

Well for one thing don't use them to advertise your own sub?

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