When you grade homework, you have three different sorts of feedback available to you:
* numerical SCORES
* ego-related comments ERC (eg "Great job!" or "Needs work.")
* task-related comments TRC (eg "The dot product results in a scalar, not a vector.")
@michaelbd@PhilKlay The letter doesn't mention Vance by name or implication. (Not that it would be slander if he had.)
When the Pope puts out a letter that says "Hey, the parable of the Good Samaritan actually means what it says" and you take that as an attack on your guy --
Me: Okay this is Rita’s water ice. It’s like if you could taste god
Medieval Teutonic Knight I adopted from the shelter: Gott mit uns?
Me, tearing up: Why can’t you just talk normal… I.. I don’t know what to do with you. I just..
He hugs me: Gott mit uns… Dad
Me: Konrad..😭
@EconOfRelPhilo@hotpot_thot@swinshi You understand that UBI was precisely championed as the free-market alternative to a welfare state, right? Like famously Milton Friedman was its biggest fan.
Me: Green's Theorem says either you can set up a cordon and destroy the enemy forces as they cross it, or you can deploy special operators to the interior to eliminate them. Same result.