Fortran. With punchcards. A decade later? Unix nroff and troff for printing documents to a campus laser printer (like my masters thesis).

I miss the clacky...been trying to find a modern keyboard with the same feel and sound feedback. I gifted the machine to another PhD student who wrote yet another thesis on it. I dream that it's still out there, doing a science somewhere.

This is the axe I used to hew both a MS and a PhD thesis out of solid electrons. Hello again, old friend...we did good.

On the one hand, I am deeply convinced of Umberto Eco's thesis that people who claim to know the will of the people better than a democratically elected parliament are inherently dangerous, fascist wankers. On the other hand, I think our standard for "democratically elected" should be much higher

i feel like this is the show’s thesis.

Well, I admit I'm biased because my method allows for a little less pain at the cost of flexibility and because I just made a bet with myself about whether or not I could write something book-length My general thesis is, you write thousands of words anyway, it's just a matter of connective tissue.

Mumax combines features of jellyfish and weasel. He is waiting to hear back about medical school and seeks to finish his thesis on utopian humanism and one giant monster's attempts to find a mate.

Yglesias is lucky that his thesis is too blatantly idiotic to properly register as fascist

That’s not totally true in the construction of modern America, never mind Europe after the war. Your thesis works for civil rights in the 50’s and 60’s, but not the end of slavery (which was a secondary concern of Lincoln at the start of the war caused by it) or the modern welfare state.

Gotta say, to a cynic it looks like the thing where someone online snap judges and then retroactively tries to make it look intentional when they’re called out. Anyway, I don’t think we share an understanding of the thesis, audience, or goals here, or the meaning of “liberal,” “Nazi,” or “WWIII.”