KennethMyers
Joined 18 years ago
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Comment · 5 years ago
Same guys called me two days ago!
Comment · 6 years ago
ESL/EFL teacher here. Yes. A Spanish engineer who was my student recently thinks the moon landing was faked. A Puerto Rican accountant thinks the CIA has weather-controlling satellites and steers hurricanes to PR. Many Europeans think 9/11 was done by Bush. Many, many Arabs that I've taught say the holocaust never happened, and that Jews are responsible for a hundred unrelated things.
Comment · 6 years ago
QAnon theories are false, but in my opinion, so are the beliefs of Islam.
And if the standard required for censorship is that "someone with related beliefs killed someone in Germany", or "there's like a whole subreddit for people who are frustrated with family members who believe this", then we've got to ban Islam, Christianity, Rap music, eyeliner, sports, and probably everything else you can think of.
Nobody banned 9/11 truthers from major internet communications protocols. Nobody banned birthers.
The shift in the US, in less than a year, towards banning speech that annoys the elites, is something I would've thought impossible a mere few years ago.
I was taught in high school that here in America we fought free speech with more free speech.
Comment · 9 years ago
During my undergrad studies in anthropology, a prof remarked off-hand that the prohibition of first-cousin marriage a pretty new and baseless thing, and that the offspring were very negligibly at risk. It was an off-hand comment, but an off-hand comment made by someone with a PhD in the field, so I'm with her on this one. But now googling . . .
Comment · 11 years ago
Ack! You shared my blog post! Thank you, Aaron Lidman! I feel important!
EDIT: ok, now your submission has been flagged. Oh well. WTF?
Comment · 12 years ago
Me and my wife would both love to be considered for awesome jobs!
Her:
Dallas / Ft Worth Texas | Local, Remote, or somewhere awesome | Full Time or Part Time
Stack: Writing, Modelling, Udacity Python, Illustration
Resume: http://goo.gl/8zfFFl
Contact: [email protected]
Megan wears lots of hats, and wears them well. She's an obsessive self-taught neophyte programmer who also does artistic nude modelling and the occasional visual arts show or children's book. She would really love to find something that paid decent entry-level wages and let her pour coffee and hang out with programmers and grow as a programmer.
Me:
Dallas / Ft Worth Texas | Local, Remote, or somewhere awesome | Full Time or Part Time
Stack: Cowboy coding for gentleman science with lots of BASIC bash and Prolog, Professoring (TESOL), Writing, Marketing
Resume: http://goo.gl/P1aOnb
Contact: [email protected]
I'm an ESL professor who finished a Georgetown fellowship in Manila last year and I haven't found anything awesome in Texas since.
I'm also a writer. My blog has topped HN a couple times with posts like "A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Smart Awkward People" and "Why God Hates German Words."
You've probably seen this map I've made at some point, too: http://i.imgur.com/CK6aONG.jpg
Mark Manson called me a "really, really, really fucking good writer", and I think I'm good at getting lots of eyeballs on things.