"True north" reflects Nordo-centrism, not a technical distinction between magnetic & rotational poles. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/looking-white-in-the-face/?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region …
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@St_Rev@schakalsynthetc for the record, this is exactly why I tempered my cs degree with an English minor. I needed the fluffy playground -
@David_Hatten@schakalsynthetc If I could do everything over, I'd study Chinese religious history. But I loathed humanities at the time. -
@St_Rev@David_Hatten 99% of my loathing for humanities is disappointed faith, tbqh -
@St_Rev@David_Hatten veered to math bc it's much like semiotics & comp lit except that it has standards and engages usefully with reality -
@St_Rev@David_Hatten fluffy playgrounds are fine too as long as they don't try to pass as other than what they are -
@schakalsynthetc@David_Hatten Yeah, pomo is a fun parlor game but ffs people think they should get paid for it? -
@St_Rev@David_Hatten as much or more than empirically grounded linguistic anthropology pays, even ...
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@St_Rev as long as a baseline material security can be taken for granted, sure -
@schakalsynthetc Academia has *always* served that function though. It's a support system for theologians. -
@St_Rev historical fact. secular academia is an outgrowth of institutions of established religious authority, and it often shows -
@schakalsynthetc@St_Rev jeez, over here it's not even that much of an outgrowth. "Free" university means one that's not religious. -
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.