"widgets" must be a euphemism for "opioids"
jonhendry
joined 1 year ago
"And then I made the demons build a half pipe the size of the grand canyon, and I did tricks that have never been done before, and the girls all watched and were impressed."
Going by the illustration of characters at the top of that page, "Kelthar" is a dead ringer for 80s Phil Oakey.
It directs my life not because I think it sounds pretty or prosocial, but because it’s tasty.
Who wrote this, Hannibal Lecter?
“Kidding on the square” as they used to say.
The African slave trade of slavs? I think she means Arab. Or Arab/Muslim-osphere.
I wouldn't think sub-Saharan Africans ran a lot of ships up to the Baltic or the Black Sea to capture slavs for enslavement. Ottomans, yes. Barbary pirates, perhaps. Of course some of the most prominent of the Barbary pirates were actually raised Christian or Jewish in Europe, and joined the pirates as adults.
And I wouldn't be surprised at all if Europeans also captured slavs for sale to the Ottomans.
Why the hell would anyone think about Cyrus the Great every day, let alone fondly.
Also the paper is a decade old.
And redolent of 'emerita disease' although I don't think the authors have technically achieved that honor.
A PhD student got an opinion piece published on the hill dot com.
Also of course he has his own EA organization / grifting engine.
Which looks like they probably use Twelve Monkeys as a role model.
He has quite possibly written more words about Harry Potter than She Who Shall Not Be Named, herself.
Thinking it's bad: not controversial. Thinking something should actually be done about it: not that popular. Spending money / imposing costly regulation to prevent it: very unpopular.
She's pretty much self-employed and out of academia, so that probably wasn't in the cards to begin with. Perhaps her company will lose some business, but I kind of doubt it. The stuff she does seems sufficiently low-profile that nobody will care that she plagiarized a bit.
I mean, if you see a bit of sculpture in a corporate lobby, you're probably not going to wonder if the designer stole a paragraph in a thesis, let alone care.