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Tell him the truth. He’s so annoying you asked a bunch of randos on the internet what to do about hi.

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Starting a thread with the equivalent of “You don’t have to share your opinion if it makes you or someone else uncomfortable” is the most controversial thing I’ve seen today at least.

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Is the point the store exists or is the point the store is good? The issue is apple’s monopoly. Not how much epic eucks dick

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The Humanities. History. English. Linguistics. The Classics. Business. Economics. Finance. Management. Marketing. Law. Criminal Justice. Paralegal. Kineseology. Library science. Nursing. Spanish. Africana. Education.

You get the point. So, why is STEM not enough and SHLAME-T or something else fucking stupid? Some examples. Theater. Set design. Have you ever seen the riggings and sand bag counterweights? Mechanical props? You could say those are made by “engineers”, which is true in a sense, but most often they are engineered by people who themselves have experience in theater. Why? They need to know how it works just as much as how it is used. Same with lighting and sound design

Studio art. Painting. Have you ever seen an artist stick their thumb out at arm’s length? They are using it to get an understanding of perspective and scale. It’s geometry. Da Vinci used geometry extensively. Look at the Vitruvian Man or Mona Lisa. Little known fact. Mona Lisa isn’t finished. Da Vinci never painted over all the circles and triangles.

Ballet. They way they extend their arms and legs is to adjust their center of mass for balance. To maintain static equilibrium. When they spin and move their arms in and out, their angular velocity increases and decreases to conserve angular momentum. In the most literal sense, they are doing physics. They can explain gyroscopic stabalization better than most STEM grad students, because they know how it feels.

Their are loads of other examples. The mathematics of music. Sculpting with CAD. The billion and one uses for 3d printing. Geometry and mosiacs. The ‘elegance’ of mathematical physics. Poetic code. But, back to Da Vinci. The concept of a “renaisance man”, is not one who is a master of STEM. They are a master of STEAM. Take the arts away, and you lose half the genius.

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Listening to Frank Sinatra singing about women by a guy who used to play grab ass with men. They always find something to project their insecurity on to.

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So people who don’t like cats are cats

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ATM Machine

I’m going to the store quick(ly) to buy some eggs.

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You are not alone on this one

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No. For practical reasons. Who is your enemy? Are we going shirts and skins? With the American civil war and most wars it’s easy to determine who your enemy is. Everyone who lives south of that river.

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