It’s the perfect time for this Moby Dick passage.

(I must say that I have never had cranberry sauce for thanksgiving before, but I’m French Canadian; we eat tortière.)

Really tall wedges or short cylinders?

Truly. My dissertation is basically “we should read Plato this way because of some facts about Greek gymnastic.” It’s amazing and I love it.

Yeah, how dare you have human opinions?! As a professor, you are obviously not living in the world! 🤡🤡🤡

Skill issue. I wake up at midnight and have perfectly normal human relationships.

No, you were right initially. Now that Mamdani won, they renamed it.

Does this mean that the brits are subs? Checks out.

What’s really cool is that while we know the silk road as such, the major commodity going in the other direction was glasswork such as this. Greek and Roman glasswork was the envy of the world back then.

Millikan’s selected effect function makes nonsense of actual evolutionary processes, which aren’t adaptationist. But more specifically with language, she asserts against all evidence that linguistic items (such as indexicals) can only have a single proper function, which is laughably far off.

I’m reading this right now. It’s great.

I’m asking the same thing. I just applied for a terrible job in French because, well, there’s not much else. My French is almost certainly not good enough.

You might get fewer with a good igloo! Snow is a very good insulator.