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"In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation, don't attend. People should only teach what they have learned organically, through experience and curiosity or get another job." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes (I used to see my tenure track advisor at LSU preparing for lectures a couple of hours before the start of teaching)

This J Group are serious Open Borderites, opering dozens of facilities in Central America and paying to transport illegals to the US-Mex Border.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxIsX_ASNrs

gabbar says

"If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation, don't attend.

I taught at Hampton University. Prep is not about what the professor already knows, prep is about teaching to students at the appropriate level for what the students know. The professor needs to cover what is appropriate for say, Lesson 5 of Microeconomics, and to have materials like vis-aids and boardwork to enhance learning and make the class somewhat interesting. That author you quoted must think a class is just an episode of Jeopardy.

Apple roared into the TV game with The Morning Show, a superb drama about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company that runs sweatshops in China. Well, you say you're woke but the companies you work for in China — unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a streaming service you'd call your agent, wouldn't you?

So if you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.

So if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and fuck off, OK?

richwicks says

I think it's a compilation of Saturday Night Live.

I can't believe that, because SNL has been submerged in the slime pit of wokeness for years now, and some of the clips are very based.

richwicks says

Well, I think it's a compilation of Saturday Night Live

Even the black guy was laughing at the racist jokes!

Patrick says

richwicks says

I think it's a compilation of Saturday Night Live.

I can't believe that, because SNL has been submerged in the slime pit of wokeness for years now, and some of the clips are very based.

It IS Satuday Night Live. The white guy (other than Norm McDonald) is Colin Jost.

https://www.thewrap.com/snl-weekend-update-host-colin-jost-white-house-basically-just-dead-mall-hometown-point-video/

Didn't bother to find out who the black guy is. But it's SNL.

I agree the show is mostly garbage, but there's accidents here and there.

Booger says

Muslim

With politicians like this.....but this is consistent with the skills needed to be the US Secretary.

https://empirenews.net/police-officer-in-australia-was-beaten-and-raped-by-a-wild-kangaroo/

Sounds like urban legend, but funny anyway.

Booger says

https://empirenews.net/police-officer-in-australia-was-beaten-and-raped-by-a-wild-kangaroo/

In further news, the officer was a diversity pick, and he is pregnant from the kangaroo.

Booger says

https://empirenews.net/police-officer-in-australia-was-beaten-and-raped-by-a-wild-kangaroo/

When he was lying unconscious on the ground, it was dark and I thought his head was covered in blood. Thankfully, it was mostly kangaroo sperm,” Constable Turnbull told reporters in relief.

OK, that is freakin hilarious!

I don't get that one.

Patrick says

I don't get that one.

????

https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-does-a-new-florida-curriculum-teach-that-enslaved-people-benefited-from-slavery/20971401/

Commentator: "Whooping his ass" LOL. Not the first time, Sikhs have done this. Have seen them whooping some Muslims.

gabbar says

Commentator: "Whooping his ass" LOL. Not the first time, Sikhs have done this. Have seen them whooping some Muslims.

Staged

Trollhole says

Staged

The shoplifter was arrested and charged.

Trollhole says

Staged

True, its Tom Cruise in the turban.

HeadSet says

The shoplifter was arrested and charged

Proof, please.

Trollhole says

HeadSet says

The shoplifter was arrested and charged

Proof, please.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/7-eleven-thief-pounded-with-felony-charges-750k-bail-after-viral-beat-down-from-sikh-employees-police

HeadSet says

Trollhole says

HeadSet says

The shoplifter was arrested and charged

Proof, please.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/7-eleven-thief-pounded-with-felony-charges-750k-bail-after-viral-beat-down-from-sikh-employees-police

Then if this is true, why didn't they shank the punk with their kirpans?

Because they know what they're doing.

Patrick says

I don't get that one.

Owning slaves meant you were a manager needing to keep "your property" happy enough not to rebel or organize to kill you. You could do this with the carrot and stick, too much carrot, lazy and ungrateful and no production, too much stick, angry and resentful, possibly murderous.

Slaves were people, not machines. They didn't just automatically follow orders without question. The owner depended on their property, and their property depended on their owner. It's not as simple a dynamic as we're taught.

When the American Civil War ended, a bunch of slaves were freed. SOME were allowed to stay on the property to be "share croppers", where they then rented their shacks, but stayed on. Others, the plantation was destroyed and they were discharged from their servitude. They wouldn't be hired for any work because they had no education or skills - they starved to death, in the MILLIONS.

They don't teach that in the history books do they?

Slavery was an awful institution, but we still have it. We have it in the United States, we just don't call it that.

richwicks says

Slavery was an awful institution, but we still have it. We have it in the United States, we just don't call it that.

It's called debt. Not only do you have to pay back the principal, the bank gets a cut of your future income.

Interest compounds both ways. It can help us master our life, or enslave us to the usurer.

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