Lol one of the last things I did on Reddit was get banned for mentioning “death of the author”

No u

And civil disobedience that breaks the law in multiple ways: trespassing on private property, disrupting a private event, terrorizing Cornell’s guests on its own campus, and destroying those guests’ private property, has consequences.

Cornell is completely within their rights to expel all of the students involved, and I strongly support their decision. Violent and aggressive acts of civil disobedience have always had consequences, and if people choose to participate, they must be ready to accept those consequences.

If this guy had stayed outside and actually peacefully protested, he’d still have a position. But he didn’t, and now he’s kicked the fuck out of his grad program and out of the country.

What?? Peaceful protest my ass - they violently broke into the Statler Hotel past a whole ring of security and completely trashed multiple career fair tables in the middle of the crowded career fair. The company reps and the students trying to make professional connections fled the hall in fear, and the event had to be completely cancelled.

This guy (and all of the other students being kicked out) deserve every bit of what they’re getting, and this kind of bullshit one-sided reporting completely justifies my ever-increasing skepticism whenever I hear people bitching about consequences at so-called “peaceful” protests.

As far as I’m concerned they’re preaching to the choir.

Can’t wait to hear the tankie apologetics for this one.

Cuz he’s an obnoxious, blatantly incendiary grifter (but he’s a grifter who shits on the people we don’t like, so we gotta stan him here because tribalism!).

Whenever I open a post and see Jeff Turdrich’s face, I immediately close without reading, and downvote the post.

More like those Ancestral Archers down in Siofra. They’re hitting me with railguns travelling at Mach 12 from halfway across the map.

Well this would have been fun if the stupid title hadn’t spoiled the whole thing.

The millennial version of minion boomer memes.

Dunno why Pythagoras would be mad, since the Pythagorean theorem was known for at least a thousand years before his time.

Having undesirable jobs doesn’t make Communism collapse.

True, but it does show that the OP is just bullshit propaganda.

This is why we should start moving the main communities like memes and world news off instances like lemmy.ml

Wouldn’t it then have to be a “boostershire shot”?

The ‘p’ is only silent in English because English doesn’t allow syllables to start with ‘pt’. It was perfectly fine to do so in ancient Greek, where both the ‘p’ and the ‘t’ would be pronounced, but when English borrowed the ‘pt’-initial words, the ‘p’ gets deleted to make the word pronounceable.

But, it’s perfectly fine in English for one syllable to end with ‘p’ and the next to start with ‘t’, so English speakers have no problem saying ‘cop-ter’.

Same with, for example, ‘tsunami’ vs. ‘Mit-subishi’ (which in Japanese is actually syllabified ‘mi-tsu-bi-shi’).

/c/badlinguistics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_arson_damage_during_the_George_Floyd_protests_in_Minneapolis–Saint_Paul

Multiple individual residences and at least two apartment buildings in Chicago, for starters, and that’s just the first examples I found in a ten second Google search.

The other historians have never had any friends so they can’t relate to close platonic relationships.

Fun fact: while a much more often occurrence than once in a lifetime, “Thursday the 20th” is tied with “Saturday the 20th” as the least-likely combination of days of the week with the 20th day of the month, even though you’d think the chances would be exactly 1/7.

Here’s the math about the Gregorian calendar that explains why. (Even though the post is about Friday the 13th, it straightforwardly can be applied to any other day/date combination as well.)