Monthly Archives: February 2022

Harry Potter is Making Children English

Posted on 26/02/2022 by oligomath

it makes sense that people would look at the harry potter books, go “is this an artful selection of fantasies describing one increasingly deranged woman’s libido or is it a portal for true facts about house elves i can memorise” … Continue reading →

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Biologist Writing

Posted on 17/02/2022 by oligomath

biologists have the worst attitude to acronyms in this paper we describe a novel phenomena in primates wherein a male primate inserts his penis (P) into the mouth (O) of a willing conspecific (Wc) typically but not necessarily female. We … Continue reading →

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The Reason the Law Exists

Posted on 13/02/2022 by oligomath

when it comes to the halacha, if i wish to reduce the Law to a single purpose (silly idea to do, but i can have a little monocausophilia as a treat) i find the racism hypothesis more convincing than the … Continue reading →

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Linguistic Science and Linguistic Engineering

Posted on 11/02/2022 by oligomath

there is some complicated knot to be described about how, despite linguistic *science* being woefully unknown and unconscious, linguistic *engineering* albeit at a proto-scientific level, is something people are acutely aware of but which, lacking as they do a linguistic-scientific … Continue reading →

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Advice

Posted on 09/02/2022 by oligomath

you can only get yourself so worked up by reading posts. you need to take more drugs. you need to develop paranoid delusions about your friends. you need to egg your gang up to some punk war with another gang … Continue reading →

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someone deaccessioned a book in a village library in america somewhere

Posted on 03/02/2022 by oligomath

>History WILL judge the school boards who are trying to ban Maus, though. Yes teens can get it outside of school but the decision that kids shouldn’t access Maus in school isn’t a neutral decision. The decision is motivated by … Continue reading →

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