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jit bull transpile posted:I mean, what else can you do when you have a university that shelters a rapist, and a government that covers the university's rear end by locking the victims out of fighting for change if the want deserved compensation? That's a virtuous cycle of institutional corruption that can only be fixed by tearing out the roots. Correct, except the hard thing about tearing out roots is that they're tangled up with everything else's roots and also there are already a bunch of seeds laying on the ground so the same thing is going to grow back the next spring anyway.
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# ? May 22, 2018 22:27 |
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General Dog posted:Correct, except the hard thing about tearing out roots is that they're tangled up with everything else's roots and also there are already a bunch of seeds laying on the ground so the same thing is going to grow back the next spring anyway. That's why you use fire. There's some sort of prairie metaphor in here somewhere.
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# ? May 22, 2018 23:31 |
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Why is the government trying to cover the university's rear end? They should be the ones helping to nail the pricks responsible to the wall.
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# ? May 22, 2018 23:32 |
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PT6A posted:Why is the government trying to cover the university's rear end? They should be the ones helping to nail the pricks responsible to the wall. It's a public university and there's a revolving door between government and high paying university admin positions in most state college systems.
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# ? May 22, 2018 23:42 |
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jit bull transpile posted:It's a public university and there's a revolving door between government and high paying university admin positions in most state college systems. I see... well, I think that can safely be burnt entirely to the ground.
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# ? May 22, 2018 23:57 |
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jit bull transpile posted:That's why you use fire. There's some sort of prairie metaphor in here somewhere. I’m involved in prairie restoration so if you want me to extend the metaphor by referencing seed banks, uncontrolled vs controlled burns, microbial biome, and European invasives, I’m there.
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# ? May 23, 2018 00:00 |
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jit bull transpile posted:a virtuous cycle of institutional corruption i don't think that term means what you think it does
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# ? May 24, 2018 07:05 |
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suck my woke dick posted:i don't think that term means what you think it does I think he may be using it in a sarcastic fashion.
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# ? May 24, 2018 11:28 |
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TheBalor posted:I think he may be using it in a sarcastic fashion. She, and no. "virtuous cycle" means a cyclical process that is self perpetuating. I know some prescriptivists argue that cycles with negative effects should only be called "vicious cycles", but I ain't no prescriptivist.
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# ? May 25, 2018 00:01 |
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jit bull transpile posted:She, and no. "virtuous cycle" means a cyclical process that is self perpetuating. I know some prescriptivists argue that cycles with negative effects should only be called "vicious cycles", but I ain't no prescriptivist. Given I've actually heard vicious cycle in the real world for exactly that meaning many many times that doesn't exactly strike me as a prescriptivist position. Honestly "no no the CORRECT term for that is still 'virtuous cycle'" strikes me as an even MORE prescriptivist position. (Which is not to say you can't use whatever you yourself prefer, it just struck me as funny reasoning.)
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# ? May 25, 2018 01:24 |
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WASHINGTON — The former head of USA Gymnastics pleaded the Fifth at a congressional hearing on Tuesday, refusing to answer questions about his role in the sex abuse scandal surrounding Olympic team doctor and serial predator Larry Nassar. How fun
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# ? Jun 6, 2018 00:56 |
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mastershakeman posted:WASHINGTON — The former head of USA Gymnastics pleaded the Fifth at a congressional hearing on Tuesday, refusing to answer questions about his role in the sex abuse scandal surrounding Olympic team doctor and serial predator Larry Nassar. I for one am surprised. /sarcasm
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# ? Jun 6, 2018 05:25 |
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jit bull transpile posted:She, and no. "virtuous cycle" means a cyclical process that is self perpetuating. I know some prescriptivists argue that cycles with negative effects should only be called "vicious cycles", but I ain't no prescriptivist. You've got that backwards. Vicious cycle is the actual expression, virtuous cycle has (very) recently been coined to mean a positive one.
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# ? Aug 20, 2018 17:26 |
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Oh, look who decided to pop up in the news again https://twitter.com/deadspin/status/1034181886694834177?s=21
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 22:21 |
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skaboomizzy posted:Oh, look who decided to pop up in the news again There’s a Starr Report that won’t see the light of Day.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 22:24 |
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Good lord, that's some god tier level scum.
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# ? Aug 28, 2018 06:16 |
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A good new article exploring how people were deceived and deceived themselves: https://www.thecut.com/amp/2018/11/how-did-larry-nassar-deceive-so-many-for-so-long.html
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# ? Nov 13, 2018 03:57 |
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FYI the USOC is revoking recognition of USA Gymnastics: https://twitter.com/TeamUSA/status/1065285339365949440 Seems like they could either give it back once they get their poo poo together or create another organization and have that become the new national governing body.
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# ? Nov 21, 2018 17:59 |
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Just let the women compete under the IOC flag at this point. The USOC doesn't deserve to get even the slightest credit for anything they achieve.
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# ? Nov 22, 2018 03:58 |
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USA Gymnastics just filed for bankruptcy. The article states that this puts a stop of discovery and depositions, which is some bullshit.
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 15:25 |
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That is bullshit, those need to keep going even if I also want them obliterated as a company
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# ? Dec 6, 2018 18:51 |
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Barudak posted:That is bullshit, those need to keep going even if I also want them obliterated as a company It's almost certainly why they declared bankruptcy in the first place, as apparently preexisting insurance covers the damages. They want to quash the possibility of additional lawsuits by silencing the victims.
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