On Did You Eat The Bones?
@Kjle Risch
Uhhh, or the caloric content of the chicken's feed would keep them alive for several days? Amazing what facts people will ignore to get to an end result that makes them comfortable.
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On Austin Has Changed A Lot Since My Last High-Profile Appearance Here In 2012
They just keep coming! How do they find this post? Do they not read the comments before adding a response?
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On Austin Has Changed A Lot Since My Last High-Profile Appearance Here In 2012
@rexmanningtralala
Please, never stop!
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On William Shatner, Reddit, And The Complications Of "Free Speech" On The Internet
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On Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken
@deepomega
I very much agree. I think the appeal of MOOCs for many people is that they seem democratizing, when really much of the function of higher education is essentially elitist sorting (through networking, or through education being a barrier to the poor or lazy), and it's just too uncomfortable to face up to that. Let's pretend that everyone can have a degree and it will make everyone better off!
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On Venture Capital's Massive, Terrible Idea For The Future Of College
Higher education serves one of three purposes:
1. Elite signaling: going to Yale doesn't make you smart, but employers know that Yale generally only admits smart people who accept directions to work hard.
2. Citizenship development: if everyone is going to be able to vote, everyone should be able to understand policy debates.
3. Job training.
MOOCs can't serve any of these purposes, except perhaps partly the last one.
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On Ladies Finally Can Die Just Like Men From Cigarettes (And Fighting Wars)
@BadUncle
Wasn't someone going to remake that movie? I sure hope that happens, because there are so, so many unnecessary remakes that a truly merited remake would be a breath of fresh air.
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On Where Is This "Mali" Where Frenchmen Are Having Wars?
@PoignancySelz
Absolutely. Brilliant. Thank you.
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On Is San Francisco The Brooklyn To Silicon Valley's Unbuilt Manhattan?
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On How To Desensitize Teen Boys
Well, unless you've got some brilliant plan for all those Afghan, Pakistani, and Yemeni civilians to kill themselves...