It wasn’t written for them.

Do you live in a country or state where MAID (medical assistance in dying) is legal?

If you do, those laws allow for better than do-it-yourself options.

Why is it inevitable, exactly?

I haven’t exactly seen any evidence that human beings talk less today.

We’re plenty ashamed, don’t worry.

Been doing yard work for my grandparents most of the day. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday.

That all college professors are either liberals or communists.

I, for one, am an anarchist.

It’s more that the committee seems to have decided to hire their less qualified friend, but I’d bet money factors in too.

A college I teach for part time posted a full time gig in the department.

I fit every requirement perfectly and then some. I’ve been given a perfect rating on every evaluation I’ve ever had here from both admin and students. My classes tend to fill first because I’m known to be a better teacher than most.

My application was ignored. The job went to someone with an MA in our field (I have a PhD) who has been managing the student success center for the college. She took a pay cut for the role because she wants to go back to teaching.

The dissertation -> book project is a philosophy of technology.

The text book will be for world religions classes.

The project of cutting my dissertation down into a short book is almost done, and I’m hoping to start shopping it around to publishers soon.

I’ve also recently started laying out the bones for an open access textbook for one of my classes, which will be my summer project.

We used to be a proper country.

Stalker from 1979. Any attempt at it today would be a boring action movie with none of the original thoughtfulness.

It’s time for the American lake states to unite as one. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, and maybe a few others if they’re cool about it.

If I remember correctly, a good number of the people who went blind from bad moonshine during prohibition had consumed something tainted on purpose by the US government.

They’re digital yes men, mostly, and really lack in the nuance when you prompt them to answer on anything you have a deep knowledge of.

Food does have ingredients, yes.

Wise.

Reads username

Are you on crack?

This (and a lot of other reasons) is why I carry a handkerchief.