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prescriptive linguist: agnostic actually means someone whose worldview holds the universe is inherently unknowable. it's completely separate from whether or not they believe in a god or gods

descriptive linguist: most people who use the word agnostic are using it to describe a middle-ground between atheism and theism. that's a valid usage, even if it's drifted from the technical philosophical definition

agnostic linguist: nobody knows what the word agnostic means

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The problem isn't that robots are taking over our jobs, the problem is that we've created a world where that's somehow a bad thing.

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"READ THIS: The man who was the commanding general of Fort Hood when Nidal Hasan went on his shooting rampage, and who signed the actual death warrant authorizing Hasan's execution, is absolutely opposed to televising the firing squad. He speaks eloquently for himself here."

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from 2004

Ha! JP Honk features prominently in this video about HONK! (that's our 2001 Theme into 'Space Cadet' in the background)- plus a neat "training montage" shot of me taping up lights on my tuba.

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I thought this thing on scales associated with different cultures was pretty cool