Atlas Ministry of Purity Crimes Self-Reporting Thread

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Is this supposed to count as 'humor'?

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Is this supposed to count as 'humor'?

Yes, but of course you wouldn't get it.

It's not that I don't get it.

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People have been involuntarily committed for far less than believing in this 'regime'.

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I fully support making this the Simfan Update thread.

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As he's somebody involved in academia in the Northeast roughly my own age, and apparently with interests in roughly similar subjects, I already find Simfan's Update much easier to relate to than Bushie's, and would love to see it continue.

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Is it morally wrong of me to feel smug for having chosen a graduate program that doesn't require that you take the GRE?

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I asked if it was morally wrong of me to feel smug, not if it was wrong of me to feel morally smug.

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The three with which I am familiar all do.  I've worked in Germany and Netherlands and although I have forgotten most of what I have learned, I still remember er, es, sie, etc.  What I don't know about is cultural norms.  We say he, she, and it, but "it" rarely refers to humans.  I tend to call babies "it" and I know others do as well, but once a person is big enough to have an instantly identifiable gender--assuming Nathan doesn't show up here to point out that this is a societal misapprehension and a great cultural wrong in need of correcting, let's agree that by age 2 or 3 it becomes possible with most children to label them "boy" or "girl" with confidence--then we stop calling them "it."  Addressing a university lecture hall, for example, an instructor might say that each student should submit "his or her" exams at a certain time.  

No, not really. I mean, what else are you going to do, realistically?

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BREAKING: ORDER BEGINS TO BREAK DOWN IN UNION SQUARE

The desperate food hordes' target of choice being a Whole Foods is the most Northeastern-city thing I've ever seen.

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We've only got about six or eight inches here. It's less Snowmageddon and more Snow-battle with a death count somewhere in the three or lower four digits: A dramatic event that is nevertheless really not in any way out of the ordinary.