Empiricism

YES

I’ve worked with many exchange programs on campuses, and they still “encourage” Chinese students to choose English names for their stay in the US. I’ve adopted a rule for myself, I won’t address them with their English name until they’ve told me to stop trying their real name on at least three different occasions. My family is largely immigrant, and while we’ve never had this problem, I don’t think anyone should have to change who they are when them find a new home, even a temporary one. So far, only two exchange student actually wanted to keep their English name, and one of them, Alice, had had Alice for a nickname since she was little.

Don’t know if it’s okay to add this here, but I used to work with a Chinese woman who had changed her name to Angelina for the sake of ease. When she first told me that was what she’d had to do, I asked her for her real name and if she minded me calling her that. She looked so frikkin happy, and it only took about two minutes for me to say it right. It’s not that people can’t pronounce these names, it’s that they won’t. It’s lazy and it’s rude.

alice cullen saw the 2008 recession coming and she didn’t say anything about it

college professor just said “you’re probably too young to even remember this” and brought up something that happened in 2011

Better than my professer that said we’d “probably recognize this from Saturday morning cartoons” then showed us a cartoon from 1935…

Inmortals with no concept of time

This isn’t even satire anymore

hey mobile users look at these SICK emojis 🚀✈️🌚🐳🚙👳😺💥💩👽🏃💃 computer users FUCK u

We’re all just ex-emo kids tryin to make it in this post-emo world

oh god this isn’t an onion article.  https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/13/trump-world-knowledge-diplomatic-774801 

That last comment could be the theme of this entire administration.