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Same guys called me two days ago!


ESL/EFL teacher here. Yes. A Spanish engineer who was my student recently thinks the moon landing was faked. A Puerto Rican accountant thinks the CIA has weather-controlling satellites and steers hurricanes to PR. Many Europeans think 9/11 was done by Bush. Many, many Arabs that I've taught say the holocaust never happened, and that Jews are responsible for a hundred unrelated things.


QAnon theories are false, but in my opinion, so are the beliefs of Islam.

And if the standard required for censorship is that "someone with related beliefs killed someone in Germany", or "there's like a whole subreddit for people who are frustrated with family members who believe this", then we've got to ban Islam, Christianity, Rap music, eyeliner, sports, and probably everything else you can think of.

Nobody banned 9/11 truthers from major internet communications protocols. Nobody banned birthers.

The shift in the US, in less than a year, towards banning speech that annoys the elites, is something I would've thought impossible a mere few years ago.

I was taught in high school that here in America we fought free speech with more free speech.


This, 100%. This is the point. Everyone is trying to assert the harmfulness of "misinformation," but is ignoring the harmfulness of censorship.

Also, has anyone considered that conspiracy theories are on the rise because they're entertaining rather than because they're believed?


Who does this banning harm specifically?


During my undergrad studies in anthropology, a prof remarked off-hand that the prohibition of first-cousin marriage a pretty new and baseless thing, and that the offspring were very negligibly at risk. It was an off-hand comment, but an off-hand comment made by someone with a PhD in the field, so I'm with her on this one. But now googling . . .


Ack! You shared my blog post! Thank you, Aaron Lidman! I feel important!

EDIT: ok, now your submission has been flagged. Oh well. WTF?


Me and my wife would both love to be considered for awesome jobs!

Her:

Dallas / Ft Worth Texas | Local, Remote, or somewhere awesome | Full Time or Part Time

Stack: Writing, Modelling, Udacity Python, Illustration

Resume: http://goo.gl/8zfFFl

Contact: meggymyers@gmail.com

Megan wears lots of hats, and wears them well. She's an obsessive self-taught neophyte programmer who also does artistic nude modelling and the occasional visual arts show or children's book. She would really love to find something that paid decent entry-level wages and let her pour coffee and hang out with programmers and grow as a programmer.

Me:

Dallas / Ft Worth Texas | Local, Remote, or somewhere awesome | Full Time or Part Time

Stack: Cowboy coding for gentleman science with lots of BASIC bash and Prolog, Professoring (TESOL), Writing, Marketing

Resume: http://goo.gl/P1aOnb

Contact: kenmyers@gmail.com

I'm an ESL professor who finished a Georgetown fellowship in Manila last year and I haven't found anything awesome in Texas since.

I'm also a writer. My blog has topped HN a couple times with posts like "A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Smart Awkward People" and "Why God Hates German Words."

You've probably seen this map I've made at some point, too: http://i.imgur.com/CK6aONG.jpg

Mark Manson called me a "really, really, really fucking good writer", and I think I'm good at getting lots of eyeballs on things.


An employer who thought the f-bomb in a hacker news post spoke poorly of my communicative abilities would not be my ideal employer.


Yep, this is not the stuff I'm good at. Correct.


I'm looking for other jobs too. I can do lots of things.


Your ad seems to suggest desperation -- "I need cash right now." That's not a bad thing to say, but when you're in that situation you should be playing in your wheelhouse.

If you're not desperate, you should reword your ad to emphasize the fact that you're trying to broaden your search.

There's an incoherence in the message.


I don't care what the critics are saying. I'm a fan of this Kenneth Myers fellow.


Huh? Oh, the visa asking guy, not me, right?


He's referring to visaking (his username is green, meaning new)


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