Tim L

Latin teacher, learning Greek and Old English, among others.
Omnia disce: videbis postea nihil esse superfluum.

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@GregKueterman @billybinion It’s largely driven by athletics schedules, actually. Which more winter afternoon sunlight would partially fix

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@ryanlightbourn It’s just a ripoff of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, but done in a way that the composite is worse than its parts.

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@alexanderao This is true in general, and holds for most of the cities and towns in Boston's orbit. But with the area around Porter Square and Inman Square specifically, the line between Cambridge and Somerville is practically invisible in a way that doesn't really exist anywhere else in MA.

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@nopronouns9 @zillowgonewild It’s a suburb of Boston, in an area where a .5 acre buildable lot will go for at least half a million.

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@zillowgonewild Average home in Dover

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@SarahTheHaider They are also all EA people, and if they believe AI is conscious, they have in effect invented a real Utility Monster.

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@FreyChristopher Exactly, people either don’t know or have forgotten how most humanities majors fulfill their science reqs (if they even exist). A popular one at my school was “flowers of the Alps.” Surely history of science w/Aristotle, Archimedes, Newton, & Linnaeus is more in-depth than that.

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@ismatthewmcg @davidpdeavel Presumably, if you’re going to a school like that, you’ve already closed that door. And this is true of most humanities majors, too. The choices you make freshman year would determine that in most colleges; for engineering, you’d need to make that choice before you matriculate.

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@SohrabAhmari I went to a highly ranked secular college where many students fulfilled their science requirement by taking a class called Flowers of the Alps on their semester abroad. Taking an intense course on the outdated foundational texts of science is clearly superior to that.

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@SohrabAhmari If this were a high school, I would be concerned about that science curriculum. But for a humanities focused college, I’m not. If you go there, you’re clearly not someone with a future in STEM, and that’s a decision you made. STEM for humanities majors isn’t great at many schools

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@bruhonco It’s actually the perfect time, as she’s about to become her family’s primary source of income…

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@OnlyInBOS You must be new here. If you grew up in Boston, you’d know a nor’easter can happen any season.

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The singer of the Brazilian national anthem for this game is mononymously named Péricles, and I’m here for it.

We are seriously lagging behind Latin America in naming children after classical Athenian politicians.

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Will these songs finally get the Swifties to admit that she hasn't been a good songwriter for over a decade, with the pandemic annus mirabilis being the exception that proves the rule?

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@robbertleusink @jdflynn The largest Catholic church in the US (the Basilica in DC) holds 3500. This gave 10 times as many people an opportunity to attend. And people flying in from all over the country aren't going to care about a $16 entry fee

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However bleak you may think it is on the apps in Massachusetts right now, I can guarantee that it's worse

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@mirijulip Also even a lot of the larger suburbs have places with the small town feel, you just have to get away from the two lane roads with strip malls.

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@mirijulip Gotta get outside of 128. There are small towns close to Boston, you just have to go a little further.

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@TheRealErudi In most states, this is true, but in MA the burden is on the prosecution to prove that the defendant was not insane once the insanity defense is brought. It’s why a lot of our NGRI trials end in a hung jury (3 years ago, it happened w someone who killed a cop in a shootout)

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@25YearsAgoLive How exciting! I'm particularly looking forward to watching two towers soon!