Message from @nimble_newt

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2019-10-16 15:46:14 UTC  

is the bizarre Ameri-phobic Scandian back?

2019-10-16 15:46:38 UTC  

Yup

2019-10-16 15:47:16 UTC  

Does this confirm that Warren is the favorite? <:thunk:462282216467333140> <:thunk:462282216467333140> <:thunk:462282216467333140>

http://dlvr.it/RGKDMH

2019-10-16 15:48:01 UTC  

tulsi did awful

2019-10-16 15:48:02 UTC  

Tulsi dismantles Harris, that's fine. Tulsi takes aim at Warren, red fucking alert

2019-10-16 15:48:15 UTC  

Lol @Tiberius Comment on Engineers making problems for themselves to solve.

2019-10-16 15:48:27 UTC  

Can confirm as an Engineer that's almost 90% true

2019-10-16 15:48:28 UTC  

she had many opportunities to school these retards on the issue with the kurds

2019-10-16 15:49:12 UTC  

@nimble_newt ever play factorio? <3

2019-10-16 15:50:44 UTC  

@Mooncrest I used to play it a lot during undergrad.
Haven't touched it in a while. It's a great game. Kind of a time sink though and destroyer of GPAs everywhere lol

2019-10-16 15:51:09 UTC  

A true engineer can't resist the allure of factorio

2019-10-16 15:51:18 UTC  

inb4 5000 hours

2019-10-16 15:51:19 UTC  

@UnScottable the problem is screwing people on the Kurds means agreeing with trump

2019-10-16 15:51:37 UTC  

In the Democratic primary agreeing with trump is an instant game over

2019-10-16 15:51:44 UTC  

ye tru... we cant have that

2019-10-16 15:51:47 UTC  

@Tiberius Since you come from such a formally educated family did you find yourself reading a lot of your grandparents books coming up?
We have a growing library in our house and I'm always open to recommendations.

2019-10-16 15:52:09 UTC  

@nimble_newt Meditations by emporer Marcus Aurelius

2019-10-16 15:52:51 UTC  

Not to interject, but if I could only recommend one book, it would be that

2019-10-16 15:53:33 UTC  

<@411687472829956098> I'll check our book catalog and see if we have it already.
Roman stuff is definitely up my alley. I have tons of it that I haven't read yet. My backlog is insane.

2019-10-16 15:53:38 UTC  

I came from the opposite of a formaly educated family. I'm the first person on either side of the family to go to college. Wew laddd

2019-10-16 15:53:46 UTC  

I've been deep diving into medical ethics for a while.

2019-10-16 15:54:06 UTC  

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power by Daron Acemoglu is great @nimble_newt

2019-10-16 15:54:07 UTC  

The history is staggering.
Also <@411687472829956098> Throw all the good book recs at me.

2019-10-16 15:54:16 UTC  

Maybe I have a lower oppinion of the biases of educated folk because of that...

2019-10-16 15:54:46 UTC  

@UnScottable does it address the habitual pattern of self-described empires being prone to collapse from the very center of authority?

2019-10-16 15:54:48 UTC  

also a fun short book to read, "how to lie with statistics"

2019-10-16 15:54:49 UTC  

@ShardS Congrats. On Going to college can be a huge step and depending on what you study no easy feat.

2019-10-16 15:55:20 UTC  

Econ/criminal justice dual bachelors

2019-10-16 15:55:21 UTC  

well i havent finished the book yet, but the first couple chapters explain why the governments in South America are so different from the governments in north america

2019-10-16 15:55:34 UTC  

I go to law school next year

2019-10-16 15:55:44 UTC  

and it really breaks down exactly why we are so close, yet so different

2019-10-16 15:55:44 UTC  

@ShardS Half of my family (mums side) is working class and have never been to uni. My dad's side is very formally educated (Think MIT, Oxford, Harvard). I think it gives me a good balance

2019-10-16 15:55:55 UTC  

A worthwhile analysis by the sounds of it

2019-10-16 15:56:04 UTC  

My balance is not being dum

2019-10-16 15:56:06 UTC  

I can really see both perspectives because my family is a blue collar/white collar hybrid

2019-10-16 15:56:15 UTC  

I have read a very small portion of my grandfathers library

2019-10-16 15:56:22 UTC  

Also @ShardS Thumbs up on Law School

2019-10-16 15:56:27 UTC  

I start my MD/PhD soon

2019-10-16 15:56:32 UTC  

Send thoughts and prayers

2019-10-16 15:56:35 UTC  

Books are just so easy to collect and keep for posterity

2019-10-16 15:56:39 UTC  

Being as I live in california and he lived in Idaho distance made it largely difficult to get through any of his books