Clarissa's Blog
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An academic's opinions on feminism, politics, literature, philosophy, teaching, academia, and a lot more.
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3h ago
From the same novel: Then she grabbed a Clif bar and a Diet Dr Pepper for breakfast. The “she” in question is my age and in a high-pressure, high-earning profession. I’d already be dead three times over if I had such breakfasts as she routinely has. Not that I would want anything this chemical in ..read more
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10h ago
In a courtroom drama I’m reading, a female district attorney is woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call about a suspect getting arrested. She dresses formally in a business suit and is “out the door within five minutes.” That’s how you know that the author is male because otherwise he’d ..read more
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14h ago
This is extraordinary: Again people will say this isn’t great technology but, people, it totally is amazing technology. When you started watching the video, you couldn’t have possibly predicted how it would end. This is very stunning ..read more
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14h ago
The shamelessness of these people has no bounds: I wonder what her immigration status is that she can engage in political lobbyism like this. It’s also clear now why The New Yorker has come out with a cover image glorifying Navalny. The fascist aesthetic of the picture is very appropriate: All this is making Harris’s ..read more
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1d ago
Knew it. In his diaries, Columbus explains how hard it was for him to scare up even just 3 puny little ships for his expedition but studiously avoids mentioning what happened to all the other ships and what they were busy doing. This was the time of the expulsion of Jews from Spain. Only a ..read more
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1d ago
Everybody is mocking this pro-Kamala ad but what I don’t understand… … is why almost all men in it hold their hands in such a weird way. These are professional actors who should know how to not come off as weird in a short video. But the hands look very uncomfortable. And eerily similar to ..read more
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2d ago
Two duck legs cost $15. And if you’ve seen a duck, you know that those legs are not large. Even in mega-overpriced Montreal, a whole duck is $20CAD. I understand that demand is higher because people have more sophisticated palates than in STL but still. I don’t even like duck that much but I wanted ..read more
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2d ago
The number one problem in this country is that the concept of disparate impact is an accepted legal reality. It creates enormous issues in every area of endeavor. The second most important problem is that immigration applications are accepted from people in the country illegally on the territory of the US. Both issues require a ..read more
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2d ago
What will happen with the people robots will replace? They’ll be sold for parts ..read more
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2d ago
Amazing technology, that’s for sure. I didn’t understand Elon’s vision for the retail uses of the Optimus robot, however. The domestic tasks the video showed Optimus performing are kind of trite. Optimus as a retail product is aimed at the high-earning, high-achieving people in creative jobs who are over-scheduled and massively into productivity. For such ..read more