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Kids are saying "FiveThousandAndSixFiveThousandAndSeven" now.
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Kids are saying "FiveThousandAndSixFiveThousandAndSeven" now.
Do you have a link to the assignment, please?
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Do you have a link to the assignment, please?
This one, apparently:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Relations Among Gender Typicality, Peer Relations, and Mental Health During Early Adolescence
The current study examines whether being high in gender typicality is associated with popularity, whether being low in gender typicality is associated with rejection/teasing, and whether teasing due ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This one, apparently:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Evading the point here.
I'm not arguing that this is a good essay - far from it - but academics should try to avoid lazy bias - of any variety.
I'm not arguing that this is a good essay - far from it - but academics should try to avoid lazy bias - of any variety.
December 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Evading the point here.
I'm not arguing that this is a good essay - far from it - but academics should try to avoid lazy bias - of any variety.
I'm not arguing that this is a good essay - far from it - but academics should try to avoid lazy bias - of any variety.
"demonic" is related to the phrase "Society pushing the lie".
Can you point to where the essay calls other students in the class "demonic"?
More importantly, wd you really deduct all marks for such an observation?
Academic objectivity needs to be applied.
And no: I certainly wouldn't suspend the TA.
Can you point to where the essay calls other students in the class "demonic"?
More importantly, wd you really deduct all marks for such an observation?
Academic objectivity needs to be applied.
And no: I certainly wouldn't suspend the TA.
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"demonic" is related to the phrase "Society pushing the lie".
Can you point to where the essay calls other students in the class "demonic"?
More importantly, wd you really deduct all marks for such an observation?
Academic objectivity needs to be applied.
And no: I certainly wouldn't suspend the TA.
Can you point to where the essay calls other students in the class "demonic"?
More importantly, wd you really deduct all marks for such an observation?
Academic objectivity needs to be applied.
And no: I certainly wouldn't suspend the TA.
Thanks, John.
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Thanks, John.
it could, and no time like the present... or this present... or this pr...
ah, well...
ah, well...
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
it could, and no time like the present... or this present... or this pr...
ah, well...
ah, well...
Yes, this is very powerful - & persuasively fatalistic.
However, I prefer to go with those physicists who are questioning the tyranny of the Second Law - as well as the BB Theory, for that matter.
Makes no difference to the approaching anonymity of my own dust, so thx for expressing it so clearly.
However, I prefer to go with those physicists who are questioning the tyranny of the Second Law - as well as the BB Theory, for that matter.
Makes no difference to the approaching anonymity of my own dust, so thx for expressing it so clearly.
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Yes, this is very powerful - & persuasively fatalistic.
However, I prefer to go with those physicists who are questioning the tyranny of the Second Law - as well as the BB Theory, for that matter.
Makes no difference to the approaching anonymity of my own dust, so thx for expressing it so clearly.
However, I prefer to go with those physicists who are questioning the tyranny of the Second Law - as well as the BB Theory, for that matter.
Makes no difference to the approaching anonymity of my own dust, so thx for expressing it so clearly.
Dean you're kind. Thank you.
I went back to it to fix the grammar.
I went back to it to fix the grammar.
November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Dean you're kind. Thank you.
I went back to it to fix the grammar.
I went back to it to fix the grammar.
Hm... you noticed the eternal trick and bossed it here.
btw, did you ever read Duffy's "Mrs Lazarus"? Morbidly funny.
btw, did you ever read Duffy's "Mrs Lazarus"? Morbidly funny.
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Hm... you noticed the eternal trick and bossed it here.
btw, did you ever read Duffy's "Mrs Lazarus"? Morbidly funny.
btw, did you ever read Duffy's "Mrs Lazarus"? Morbidly funny.
I speak only from lived experience, shared observation & humankind's wide thinking
The dark times feel really grim, despondency inexorable, future impossible, but keeping on from day to day, doing what you can & leaving what you can't, you will pull through -
& look back from the better times ahead
The dark times feel really grim, despondency inexorable, future impossible, but keeping on from day to day, doing what you can & leaving what you can't, you will pull through -
& look back from the better times ahead
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I speak only from lived experience, shared observation & humankind's wide thinking
The dark times feel really grim, despondency inexorable, future impossible, but keeping on from day to day, doing what you can & leaving what you can't, you will pull through -
& look back from the better times ahead
The dark times feel really grim, despondency inexorable, future impossible, but keeping on from day to day, doing what you can & leaving what you can't, you will pull through -
& look back from the better times ahead
My neighbours have a teenaged daughter named Audrey.
I'd been wondering for years.
I'd been wondering for years.
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My neighbours have a teenaged daughter named Audrey.
I'd been wondering for years.
I'd been wondering for years.
Oh, those mangled times...
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Oh, those mangled times...
Shocking that, all these years after Grenfell, businesses still use flammable materials on people's homes.
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Shocking that, all these years after Grenfell, businesses still use flammable materials on people's homes.
with apologies for the duff grammar - i'll work on it
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
with apologies for the duff grammar - i'll work on it
Take care, Alan.
There is a future, despite it all...
There is a future, despite it all...
November 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Take care, Alan.
There is a future, despite it all...
There is a future, despite it all...
We must keep on keeping on
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We must keep on keeping on
A big statement coherently set in a jewel case.
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A big statement coherently set in a jewel case.
Thank you, Jan.
I guess I'll work further on this stanza; I'd originally envisaged the piece as having three.
I guess I'll work further on this stanza; I'd originally envisaged the piece as having three.
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Thank you, Jan.
I guess I'll work further on this stanza; I'd originally envisaged the piece as having three.
I guess I'll work further on this stanza; I'd originally envisaged the piece as having three.
The handshake is the least "awkward" part of the whole clip.
Did you have trouble in finding somewhere to insert the adjective?
Did you have trouble in finding somewhere to insert the adjective?
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The handshake is the least "awkward" part of the whole clip.
Did you have trouble in finding somewhere to insert the adjective?
Did you have trouble in finding somewhere to insert the adjective?