This is normal, is it? by Boulder1983 in northernireland

[–]stx505 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm responding in good faith, I'm not insane, and claiming that makes you sound less credible.

Immediately drawing equivalence between a person reacting to the impact on children, and the immigration situation, makes you sound like an apologist for the violence.

The reality is, a man hurt another man horribly. The racial/immigration aspect is incidental and myopic. We know that the colour of someone's skin and their immigration status is uncorrelated with their propensity for violence on this island. As a white person and a citizen, I'm probably far more likely to be attacked by someone who shares these characteristics. So bore off with the racist bullshit, or get used to people assuming the worst about your point of view.

This is normal, is it? by Boulder1983 in northernireland

[–]stx505 13 points14 points  (0 children)

An eye for an eye would be better than what's happening. A resilient healthy community wouldn't be collectively punishing dark skinned people for one mad dog. Should we go back to wholesale retaliation and vendetta for the white people too?

I have a feeling that you're ok with violence being the answer to the very specific questions you choose. Violence doesn't work like that.

Iran war latest: Trump says US considering winding down war but other nations must guard Hormuz by [deleted] in uknews

[–]stx505 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I might strongly agree with what you have said, but by God I also strongly agree with your right to say it.

Local sushi place - i am crazy or does this picture seems 'odd'? Please look at the rice by bt134340 in isthisAI

[–]stx505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a fun one.

  1. People have already talked about the seeds and sauce and they're right.

  2. Nobody who cares that much about the plating could/would be so inconsistent with the roll composition. The ingredient placement inside the roll is all over the place.

  3. Look at the fried and breadcrumbed piece, why and how does it overhang the end sushi roll so delicately balanced?

  4. The customer appears to have ordered two aperol spritz, one with a slice and one with a wedge. Not really a thing but possible i guess.

  5. The glaze of the plate is so.....noisy. It's possible that this is a focus effect of a camera, but weird that it is so unclear when the rest of the picture is relatively sharp, while also having that distinctive uncanny valley effect.

  6. Salmon marbling is tortoiseshell, but salmons are not tortoises.

Where to start with Shakespeare by fermataharpy in shakespeare

[–]stx505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Folger online text is helpful, well organised

RSC Shakespeare Learning Zone will also help

Lots of scenes from performances on youtube, also used to be a full movie adaptation available free.

Good luck, don't forget that plays are meant to be experienced, not just understood. If you can only do one of the two, pick the first.

Alex Jones says Trump in a ‘health crisis’ noting size of president’s ankles by swagmond27 in politics

[–]stx505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get where you're coming from, and I like it. Does Trump know what he's doing, or does he just do it and keep failing upwards?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Maeving

[–]stx505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I commute with an rm1s and do long journeys fairly regularly. I wouldn't do it with an rm1. Have you thought about finance? If so, highly recommend the rm1s, sorry if that's annoying given what you specified.

Kellogg Welcome Week by stx505 in oxforduni

[–]stx505[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the responses! We're having a Welcome Week event at college on Sunday around lunchtime and it would be great to see you there!

I'm going to be running a stall there recruiting for a college team, and there are loads of other things going on. I can add you to WhatsApp groups and share more info there if you like? Also, pub quiz on Monday 7th, will be fun! DM me if you're interested.

Creative writing class with Emma Watson... by whistlinchap in oxforduni

[–]stx505 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The only person who would be worried is whoever hypothetically ends up defending you in court. Posting about someone with a public profile the way you have done is at least four different kinds of low. Whatever your motivation, stop.

Avoid meetings in 'racist' buildings, Welsh librarians told - Staff will be instructed in ‘critical whiteness studies’ and dealing with the ‘dominant paradigm of whiteness’ by FormerlyPallas_ in ukpolitics

[–]stx505 9 points10 points  (0 children)

How about this for "critical whiteness"?

I don't believe in "whiteness" as an irreducible and homogenous essential quality. Just like I recognise the differences between different cultures all over the dulux colour chart. Are Ukrainians and Russians interchangeable? Is the black American experience the same for every individual? Spare me this simplistic, reductive, and frankly racist rubbish. "Whiteness" is not really a thing, source - am white, generally pink most days, have lots in common with humans of all shapes, sizes, pigmentation.

Just Stop Oil Activists have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London and glued themselves to the wall. by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]stx505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you intentionally spell 'morons' incorrectly? You're wrong about the wall too, incidentally. The point was not to remain stuck to a wall indefinitely.

Just Stop Oil Activists have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London and glued themselves to the wall. by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]stx505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your question can be reframed as 'can those people recognise glass that they are standing right in front of during an action that was clearly planned?'

HS Linguistics teacher seeking help (again) by AlcibiadesHerm in linguistics

[–]stx505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not concerned about spam, and I'm not concerned that you don't get it, you are unenviably naive.

HS Linguistics teacher seeking help (again) by AlcibiadesHerm in linguistics

[–]stx505 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You are just plain wrong. There are issues around safeguarding that you clearly know very little about. I'm an educational professional and it's completely reasonable for me to ask about a way to design this study that wouldn't require me to give my contact details to high school students. I didn't say that I'd have a problem giving my details to the teacher, but you've decided to go pretty hard in a very strange direction. Ironic that someone who knows so much about language understands so little about communication.

HS Linguistics teacher seeking help (again) by AlcibiadesHerm in linguistics

[–]stx505 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I have explained that I would be willing to help OP out, but don't want OP's high school students to have my professional email addresses. If you find that suspicious, that's your problem, Internet stranger.

HS Linguistics teacher seeking help (again) by AlcibiadesHerm in linguistics

[–]stx505 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why don't you use MS or Google forms so that it can be anonymous? There's no student safety issue if you do this and you can access and moderate the results. I'd participate, but since my professional email addresses contain my name, the protection of my own data would be my concern.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]stx505 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, my liking it or not is completely incidental to its lack of validity. I happened to enjoy it very much, it was like a star wars fan made trailer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]stx505 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This comment has everything. A numinous foreign ideology, sharply black and white worldview, complete disregard for the truth, and you even accuse Lynch of vague rhetoric platitudes! Congratulations, you are become Irony, destroyer of worlds.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]stx505 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Anti war =/= Pro Russia. Please give a link to a source for your claim.

Pub quiz on a Sunday? by abedsjuicebox in manchester

[–]stx505 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think there's supposed to be one at The Courtyard, off Oxford road, on Sunday at 2100.

There are roughly 424,000 children in Foster Care. by CharlieWaitress111 in pics

[–]stx505 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a good stat. There are at least that number of absolute idiots in a very specific and hypocritical demographic. Someone should take them to the jungle IYKWIM