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Every other major discipline has an ethics review board. If you're a doctor and prescribe a patient a lethal dose of the wrong medicine, you get disciplined. If you're a biologist and commit animal cruelty, you get disciplined. If you're a psychologist and conduct an unethical study, you get disciplined. If you're an engineer and neglect safety standards when building a bridge, you get disciplined.

But if you're an economist and your policies actively harm people in a demonstrable way, nothing happens. It's all just a 'matter of opinion'

American and other western economists advised the Russian government on how to run the country following the end of the ussr and its estimated that the economic policies they recommended directly lead to the deaths of millions of people. And not a single economist so much as even lost their job.

It’s so interesting what you can find!

Oh! Building on your notes I figured I should mention to everyone that most academic institutions with a library are going to have a page with the research guides the librarians have made for their patrons. This will include basic topic guides on things like how to use the library or how to create citations. There will also be subject guides for areas of study like philosophy or biology. As well as specific course guides to assist classes that are being taught like FM 114: Introduction to the Fashion Industry or BME6938: Nanoparticle Nanomedicines.

The Sphex Wasp Citation

[image description: satellite  images of the 9 planets of the solar system, starting from Mercury and ending with Neptune. Each planet is labelled with Cree syllabics and the Cree planet name. end image description.]

ᑖᐢᑕᐲᐘᑖᕽ / tâstapîwatâhk: Mercury / “fast star”

ᐚᐸᓇᑖᕽ / wâpanatâhk: Venus / “dawn star”

ᐅᑳᐑᒫᐘᐢᑭᐩ / okâwîmâwaskiy: Mother Earth

ᒥᐦᑿᑖᕽ / mihkwatâhk: Mars / “red star”

ᒪᓯᓈᓱᐘᑖᕽ / masinâsowatâhk: Jupiter / “colored star”

ᐚᐏᔦᔦᑭᓇᑖᕽ / wâwiyêyêkinatâhk: Saturn / “wrapped around star”

ᓰᐲᐘᑖᕽ / sîpîwatâhk: Uranus / “river star”

indigostohelit

"AO3 has had an Old English language category for a minute, but none of the fic in it is in Old English, which I think is a crying shame. I'm not sure if anyone has posted fic in Old English before in, uh, all of human history, so I figured how better to inaugurate fic in the (arguable) origin of the English language than with the (arguable) origin of modern fanfiction?

This is the most unbelievably niche thing I have done in my entire life, and the category is competitive. Chapter 1 is the fic; Chapter 2 is a translation and translator's commentary, meant for an audience of non-Old English speakers. I love this language and its wildly homoerotic and emo poetry very deeply—if your primary reaction to a fanfiction in Old English is "why the sweet hell would you do this" a) you are right but b) I do want you to have a good time wondering with me how Captain Kirk would describe advanced computational technology in a language designed mainly for medieval men who are horse girls.

A wardrobe and a closet describe two different things. A closet is built into the wall and has a door. A wardrobe is a standalone piece of furniture. To further confuse things, if it’s entirely drawers instead of having a set of doors to open it’s usually called a dresser.

While most of the time we will refer to the actual device as a cell phone or smartphone (or, usually anymore, just “phone”), when asking for a number, particularly official forms will ask for your “mobile number”.

While the actual stuff that comes via the post office is called mail, it’s still post office and postal worker (mail carrier is also sometimes used, again that might be regional).

I’m not sure why “write to me” and “write me” are split here. We use both.

We do also use “bill” for certain things, “check” in the context of “slip of paper that tells you the money owed” is mostly only used in restaurants. Otherwise you are sent a bill, or an invoice. Outside of the restaurant context a check is something you write out in order to pay someone using your bank account.

We use trousers in the US but mostly for like, nicer pants like business khakis or whatever. Tights and pantyhose are NOT the same thing - tights are the opaque kind that don’t rip easily, pantyhose are those sheer things you wear with business skirts and whatnot that rip if you look at them wrong.

Handbag is still used by some people but at least where I live it’s mostly older folks who use that term.

We still use the phrase “wash your hands”. The only context in which I have ever heard “wash up” is when someone tells their child to “wash up before dinner”.

Faucet and tap are both used in the US but frequently when we say “tap” (outside of the context of saying “tap water”) we may also mean like, the handle you use to turn the water on.

We definitely use the term makeup in the US. “Cosmetics” is more formal and I rarely hear it in a casual context. Again this may be regional. Remember the US is freaking huge and has a lot of different dialects floating around.

We DO have the term coriander but it only refers to the seed in US English. We used spring onion, green onion, and scallion interchangeably. “Green onion” is usually how they are labeled at the store where I live.

We do have a use for the term pavement here but we could be talking about anything that’s paved in either concrete or ashpalt, so it’s a broad term.

Freeway is also sometimes called a highway, depending.

Almost nobody in the US is familiar with streetcars anymore so if you’re writing something modern, keep in mind that thanks to the car lobby almost all the street cars in the country are gone.

I don’t know anybody who uses knapsack outside of Appalachia who isn’t an old-timer. It’s called a backpack or a bookbag, depending, but to my knowledge the former is more common.

and had a solid 3 seconds of being like “British people call an eggplant a pavement?” before realizing