Whoever wins SB, I look forward to the WH visit. Maybe Trump will try his yank-and-pull handshake on a 300 lb lineman.

Probably too many of the blacks in football for trump to invite them to the White House. I'm sure he won't mention it, but make a big deal about the Stanley Cup.

The Intercept has a podcast. Pretty good stuff.

https://theintercept.com/podcasts/

Good news is half the wall, or more, is going to be invisible now.

Brady and Belechick are trumpists. That's all I need.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/w...-politics.html

This is very worrying. It'd be pretty awful if this throws the French election to the National Front.

Only the legal citizens will be able to see it.

There are some people in the administration of my university who are starting to get nervous about Trump's executive order. Over the last several years (decades?), government funding has gone down, which has been difficult for finances. So, to compensate, enrollment of international students (who pay full out-of-state tuition) has gone up. Now, there's a real concern that some proportion of 2017-2018 enrollees won't be able to make it here, which could have a significant effect on the budget.

I don't think anyone really knows what's going to happen (like, can we force someone to pay tuition even though they're not allowed in the country?), but this **** has far-reaching effects.

No time to consider unintended consequences, like the loss of future revenue from the next google or Apple or Intel being founded by immigrants, or the way this order cripples our ability to attract top talent to help research science and technology. No, we've got books to burn and immigrants to hate!

I, for one, am very curious how Germany or china will do in its role as the lone world super power, now trump has signaled he doesn't want the US to have that role. Red staters won't even be able to yell "USA#1" in the near future, even though it was almost always laughable.

Hopefully China takes pity on us and gives us some nice, cheap renewable tech in exchange for the toxic goop we'll still be sucking out of the ground and polluting our air with.

Pretty sure the fatcat college admins raking in the student loan dough can cut costs by just making the adjunct profs teach more classes for the same pay.

Why pay adjuncts when there are graduate students?

i've always thought our dogs' feet smelled a certain way, and i decided to google it today. I was surprised when "why do dog paws smell like" turned up "corn chips" in auto complete. It's called "Frito Feet", and it's just harmless bacteria. But to me, it reminds me of the smell of an old vacuum cleaner, the kind with the bag attached to it. (I know these probably still exist, but to me it'll always be a relic of the early 80s)

Why the hell are you smelling your dogs' feet?

Good lord, what is it with these POGgers and their relentless turboposting?

Those kind of vacuums would typically grow mold and mildew inside the bag (usually stored in a dark, humid place like a closet) and when you ran the vacuum the mold and mildew would be shot out into the room everywhere and that's why they produced that horrible smell.

Fair enough. Just one of the smells I have tied to childhood. Like the scent of Apple Jacks cereal I sometimes smell on wet days driving down the highway with a window open.

The real question is why aren't you smelling yours?

Question about Effective Altruism in Political Entitlements.

Why don't we have this?

The left seems to pretty much go for "as much as possible" and the right seems to go for "as little as possible."

There seems to be very little cooperative effort to actually be effective and strategic with entitlements.

How about no.

Well you're half right at least.

Adjuncts are even cheaper in some cases. At the university where I'm currently employed, they pay adjuncts something obscenely low like $1700 per full-semester course. To give that number some context, one course is about 10 hours per week of work, if you've taught it before. Much more if you haven't. And all of this work is given on a semester by semester basis. So you have people with master's degrees vying like hell for this work to make a little more than 20k a year.

Those numbers look familiar. I considered doing some adjunct work a few years ago but as much as I enjoy teaching, why would I want to kill myself to be poorer than I am now? Since teaching costs are still begging to be cut, maybe there's a way to exploit undergraduates too.