Thanks. I appreciate that it’s a complicated discussion.

It’s not subjective: the reason Dana Schuz is academically/professionally important, and the subject of exhibitions in New York and worldwide is because of the formal aspects of her work. This is what art criticism (worldwide) of Schutz is focused on: the process-driven aspect of the paintings, the gestures, the…

How could she have done the painting in a way that you wouldn’t be able to say this afterwards? (Other than to not do it at all because she’s white)

There’s a few things going on; first, lets be clear that Dana Schutz is one of the most famous American artists in the world right now, with her work held in collections across the United States and the world, and her work probably is already included in contemporary art history books. She has a level of professional…

If Wikileaks is to be believed, the files were already released into the wild by the time Wikileaks got their hands on it. Apparently they’d been in circulation for some time.

Wikileaks claimed it planned to release files later, but it’s press conference came under cyber attack. Whether or not that’s true, no one can know.

Regardless of exact timing though, the key information seems to be that the CIA lost control of its arsenal, into the wild. The files seems to cap out at 2016... but did…

While Assange is a douchebag who is likely to be a willing or naive helper of the Russian government, the CIA’s loss of its cyber weapons programs (like the actual programs, not just documents pertaining to their existence), is a pretty massive news story, along with the revelations that it held exploits to basically…

Jesus... these are all the same fucking guy? I know of these awful cases independently, but I didn’t know they were all the same dude. WTF.

The CBC reported on problems with judge-recruitment in Canada before. Basically they don’t have enough applicants, and while training resources exist for more senior-level appeal-court judges, they don’t at the junior levels.

What this means is that you’ve got people overseeing mostly criminal trials, despite having…

Socially it seems weird to insist on “Dr.”... but in terms of correspondences, “Dr.” is a pretty standard title? It’s like you’re asking for something patently strange like “Commander” or “Sir.”

Honestly, the pushback against the term “Dr.” is more eye-roll inducing than even the rare snooty doctors who insist on…

I think people falsely feel like it’s PhDs who are trying to take glory from medical doctors, and also North America has this anti-intellectual streak where people think “that PhD thinks he better than me, but he probably can’t change a car tire.” There’s this idea that PhD’s are kinda useless philosophers.

I think usually what happens is that the photographer gets booked by the company to do the headshots for everyone on a company photo-day. Doing individuals would probably be too small a scale for anyone but a student.

In Europe though, it’s typical to have a passport-style headshot on your resume. I’ve seen people…

I think the poster was complaining about PhD calling themselves “Doctor” which is actually the correct title. A physician has the title “Medical Doctor” which is a professional title and doesn’t denote that they’ve made the scholarly/academic contributions of a PhD... historically physicians started using the title…

I think VICE published a biography/opinion piece by a former airborne officer who served under Petraeus, and said kind of similar things, about him being petty, focused on appearances, and rather form over function.

This is pretty crazy... the East Coast in NOT European, and neither is the Midwest particularly Canadian in any way other than hockey/stereotypes. Some northern and coastal cities may be left/leaning enough to vaguely relate to Canada... but really, even if the U.S. fractioned, any of those regions are strong enough…

Yeah, Canadian dental care not being universal is kinda the glaring example of why universal is better.

Regular healthcare = you pay lots of taxes, but it works, and the quality is very good.

Canadian dentist office = Giant tvs and videogames. Oh you need a consult? That will be $150 (while in Europe it would cost $30…

I think it depends on the traveller... flying cheap is like taking a Greyhound: it sucks but its cheap and works.

If you’re a student/young person going on a cheap vacation and you know the stuff like no bags/maybe delays/short flights only, then it’s great, especially in Europe; sometimes it’s 20EUR to go Paris-Berlin.

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I’m saying the exact letter comes up, complete with all the information you blanked out. You know the specific regulations for your area, I’m not from or in the same country as you, just be mindful of people’s privacy.

Hey... I know you have good intentions, but typing portions of that letter into Google brings up a certain public university in a Republican state along the Mexican border, with a student population in the range you described. Next in identifying those people would be filtering social media with that university tag…

While that’s true, I think argueably that applies to all constitutions, since even the U.S. constitution is interpreted by the Supreme Court and by lawmakers as they draft policy.

What’s significant about the Canadian constitution, or rather the “Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” is that its recent, from 1982,…