yes, one might even say they are endogenous artifacts of the flow of the vote, simultaneously reflecting and thereby constituting the electorate

my brother in christ, "AI is slop" is synecdoche. yr being called a pig at the trough, fattening up before being turned into a roast.

But when I started casually talking about that kind of bullshit it as class-based microaggressions? That shut some motherfuckers right on up

Definitely been called a hillbilly to my dang face by my chair!

Never felt more like a hick than when got a faculty job at a fancy dancy NE SLAC. Sometimes I put on a little cowboy show for everyone's amusement (students and colleagues alike), since it's what they expect anyway.

Absolutely. I only know Corey a little via email, and I know he's a one-man operation with a job and a family. Still, if you started to have disagreements with your artists, that seems like the time to try and resolve it *via contract*. Didn't we invent contracts for this?

I can even understand (not necessarily approve or endorse) deciding that you no longer want to have a relationship with someone. It's the destruction of inventory after delisting the stock that really feels punitive rather than just run-of-the-mill pettiness

yeah, add a 0 to the number 1000 is an order of magnitude larger than 100 (which is an order of magnitude larger 10)

Let me know if you figure out what to do with the pencil, that’s where I got stuck

it's a little busy and cerebral (i.e., stressful) but October be like that sometimes