Keeping the fundies on a pseudo pro-Israel stance is in the best interest of the militarist wing of the Israel govt. Why? because it means that until an act of god happens (i.e. never), they will have a voting block in the US 100% favourable to keep the military help to Israel. Military help they will in turn use to…

I get why the Americans would celebrate the Cinco de Mayo, as that battle put Mexico firmly in the US sphere. I have more trouble understanding why Mexicans would celebrate it.

He KNOWS that Ramsay is a psycho, you can’t be Littlefinger and not know that.

Yeah, if you get on well with them great, if not... either they have a good professional integrity or you are screwed. And the academia is not more likely than any other career to host people with good professional integrity.

That’s true, in such cases the anonymity would be merely nominal. It is a problem.

Yes, the bias in the name/institution when it comes to reviewing can be strong and undetectable for the referees themselves.

Yeah, peer-review is a flawed process... it’s the best we have but it has so much room for improvement (double blind reviews, for example).

That’s a very good way to put it. We are so used to being “defined” by being men or women that we don’t realize that we don’t need to be. Our gender is part of what we are, not who we are.
Let’s see how long it takes us all to get there. Hopefully not too much.

It’s not that it’s more difficult living as a man, but that it is more difficult being a man. While women are becoming liberated of their former social role, men aren’t. Meanwhile, men’s social role has been becoming obsolete.

There’s a reason why i used left-wing rather than liberal. Despite American politics, both terms are not exchangeable, and very often a liberal approach is closer to the right-wing than to the left-wing.

Yes. It’s how jobs with shitty conditions keep attracting so much people, despite how libertarians say “it’s fair because it’s mutually agreed conditions”. Less money than what is necessary to live will always be better than no money at all, and an unfulfilling job where they treat you badly will always be better than…

The need for money is coercion.

The only place where feminists and left-wing people in general support the hijab is the US. I’m going to be blunt, but you guys in America have this strange worship of religiousness, even among the left and among atheists, as if you were trying to apologize for being left-wing or atheist.

He didn’t age nearly as well as his father, Sean Connery.

TESB, TRotJ and TRotS, right? Those are the best 3 ones.

Seriously, the original “Star Wars” was quite boring, watching “The Phantom Menace” will be an improvement.

So, the idea is that cats don’t love destruction for the sake of destruction. They are just honing their torture skills for whenever they get the chance to seize a prey.

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Sometimes people don’t lie about “what” happened, but lie about “who” and “how” it happened, in order to protect the real perpetrator, when they feel bound to it.

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