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[–]lokoutChristianity is why Shakespeare didn't write plays on his Ipad 5ポイント6ポイント  (7子コメント)

A few months back some people expressed an interest in the subreddit I created a while ago called /r/badarchaeology. While I thought it might be a bit of a niche subreddit, I've opened it up and made an initial post. I don't want to make it public yet due to my inexperience as a moderator, if your interested please let me know I feel grossly unqualified and would appreciate some help.

Please let me know how you feel about this subreddit and the initial post as I would love to see it grow if people are interested.

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

I like moderating things! I'm great at being a git and telling people their posts aren't good enough! :D

[–]lokoutChristianity is why Shakespeare didn't write plays on his Ipad 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

I love your posts, and looking through my inbox i see you were one of the first to express interest, I'd be thrilled to add you as a moderator

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yay! I'm looking forward to it!

[–]_sekhmet_Lincoln fired Fort Sumter at the Confederate cannon balls 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

That subreddit idea is awesome! I even know the perfect show to do a write up of! It's called bonekickers and it's horrendous!

[–]lokoutChristianity is why Shakespeare didn't write plays on his Ipad 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

It was actually a show like this that inspired me to create the subreddit in the first place, so I would love to see a take down of any of those shows.

[–]_sekhmet_Lincoln fired Fort Sumter at the Confederate cannon balls 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Awesome! What show inspired you to create the subreddit? As soon as you open the subreddit up to the public I'll do a write up for you. Be prepared though, it's terrible. She says a dead woman she found is Boudica, because she just has a feeling that it is, and that's academic enough for her.

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

I need advice. When I was in the UK, I was doing an internship where I worked as a researcher for an NGO that worked with Muslim women. My job was to do research on issues that the community raised - things like hate crime, integration, community outreach - do basic research on how to mitigate these problems, and propose solutions that the organisation could enact. I was put in charge of one large project, to design, conduct, and publicise research into the effect of entrepreneurship on Muslim women in poverty, and how to encourage them to pursue entrepreneurship as a way to work that was halal and allowed them to feel comfortable. I spent months working on it, interviewing fifty women, conducting focus groups, and writing up my research in this report that was chock-full of colourful graphs and such. I was really proud of it, and I crunched to have it in by the deadline my supervisor gave me, even though that also made it harder to work on my dissertation. She told me it was great, that it had been sent to NGOs that helped fund the research as well as the Scottish government, and that I'd done a good job. The organisation opened up a job position to implement some of the suggestions I'd made in my research. I helped organise an event to share the results of the research with the community, but left for Korea before the event happened. Still, I got an e-mail from my supervisor, talking about the difference my research had made. It's the sort of thing you feel good about, and definitely put at the top of your CV.

Fast forward to now. It's been a year since this research was ostensibly published. I got an e-mail from my supervisor talking about her life and chatting about what she wants to do, all that jazz. In the last line, though, she says, almost off-handedly as if it's something I should already know, that the research I worked on a year ago, the research I've been basing my CV and my research experience and my job applications on is almost ready to be published. Also, she wanted me to edit her 6 page CV.

I haven't replied to the e-mail. I don't really know what to say, and I was hoping someone here could give me advice. I'm angry, but I'm also completely used to getting this sort of thing at this point. I hate it, but what good is it to hate anything anymore? I don't understand why she lied to me or why the organisation did this, but I don't care. It doesn't surprise me. I just feel dead inside. I'm left wondering, though, if the reason I've been unemployed for the last seven months is partly because the fliers I've been handing out for the events I organised, the citation I put on my CV, the effects I was told it had and that I shared with potential employers look like complete and utter lies to those employers. I'm wondering just how badly I've been screwed over, and I don't understand why. The worst part is, I can't even tell my supervisor to go fuck herself. She's my reference for jobs, and the only thing I'm apparently getting out of that internship.

I don't know what to do. A part of me doesn't care about what to do either, but that's the not terribly mature part of me who also thinks that sending a gif of a baby elephant tripping over its own trunk is the right way to go.

Also, I'm moving to Austin this weekend, and my week has been filled with finding out exactly how expensive that is. Also also, it's too hot for my cat to go in the car or on an airplane, which means I have to go without my kitty. This makes me sad.

How are you guys?

[–]taylororo 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

If CVs were a human, they'd be mall santas, because they sit on a throne of lies. I really doubt any potential employer did enough legwork to checkt he effects of an internship. and if they did they probably contacted your old supervisor and took her word for it.

[–]_sekhmet_Lincoln fired Fort Sumter at the Confederate cannon balls 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Just from my experience of helping my branch chief write her CV and helping her look over job candidates CV, people put things that aren't published yet on them all the time. I was helping my boss write her CV in 2014 and she had things on there that were t expected to be published until 2016. admittedly this is the biology and epidemiology portion of academia, so it could be different here. We never checked to make sure any of the articles were legit, we just looked through the CV briefly to get an idea of the work they had done.

[–]UltachThe Scottish Enlightenment is Nationalist Propaganda 4ポイント5ポイント  (5子コメント)

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's the Captain America shield in the one picture that really makes it all perfect.

[–]taylororo 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

Could someone explain to me the appeal of historical reenactment? I can understand why racists dress as confederates or nazis, but whats the appeal for everyone else?

[–]_sekhmet_Lincoln fired Fort Sumter at the Confederate cannon balls 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's a lot of fun! I've done things like Renaissance fairs where you dressed up and did a historical job and made food and sold people other priced flower crowns and I worked in one of those living history sites where you dressed up like a towns person and did all sorts of jobs and taught people about what life was like back then. It's just a cool experience and it's a ton of fun to spend time with other history buffs who know so much about that period.

[–]DirishDesigner of Alien-built Pyramids 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

If you've ever tried on any armour, you know why. It's quite exhilarating to walk around like a Roman legionary.

[–]taylororo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Aren't you afraid of looking like a medieval dickweed? mayne im just to self conscious.

[–]Spartacus_the_trollThe burning of the the Library of Alexandria was from an STD. 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Now that I've been freed from the ban of arminius_"Stephen Harper"_saw, I can go back to my inane commenting and collaborating with the bots.

Also its only supposed to get up to 96o on tuesday so that's nice. And I've developed that facial hair middle area where I have to shave fairly often but I don't have enough to make a decent beard or mustache or...anything really.

[–]belgarion90Graduated summa cum laude, Total War University 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Helped a kindergarten teacher set up her room last night. We definitely don't have enough teachers nor do we pay them enough.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

I'm moving my bitchin' blonde ale from the primary fermenter to my carboy and dry-hopping it tonight, as well as making a buncha jello.

Then my mom's coming to visit on Sunday, so we'll go out for lunch and a couple pints. Should be nice.

[–]Spartacus_the_trollThe burning of the the Library of Alexandria was from an STD. 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

You make beer? That's cool. You should call it aleczar.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oooh, that's a good idea. I didn't know what else to call it besides what was on the packet label.

[–]International_KBAt least three milli-Cromwells worth of oppression 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

So AH has had a spurt of decent Soviet questions this week. That would be the same week that I've had almost no time to actually respond to any of them. Oh well, something for the weekend.

In the meantime, when I've not been responding to questions, I've been mostly listening to angry post-rock.

[–]WopadagoProtocols of the Frequentists of Zion 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Final year of the PhD program begins in little over a week. Which also means job-market year. Which also means extra panic as I figure out how to get a fucking non-academic job. Woooo.

After 70-ish hours I am finally able to make it past 1500 in EU4 without having my country shit its pants.

The Comparative Politics section of the /r/AskSocialScience sub is heavily...Canadian.

[–]ankhx100stop stalin for time. hue hue hue 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Last week I posted that my interview with my old high school went better than expected. Essentially, the Principal told me that I was his "first choice" and was eager to have me join the team. Needless to say, I was psyched up.

I sent him an email for an update last week, and Sunday he responded, essentially saying "Oh, we actually went with a different candidate..."

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<_<

I'm just glad I didn't turn down my offer to adjunct at the local community colleges. Tuesday is my last day at my current job, so at least I'm going to be gainfully employed. But really, don't tell your interviewee that you're their "first choice" and recommend they "give their two weeks notice" if you're not going to fucking go through with it! The hell is the matter with you?

Ugh >_>

[–]taylororo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I can cross off "stuff money in a pig's head after doing a full bow before it" from my things to do list.

[–]georgeguy007High Chartist Chancellor (was elected tho, like Hitler) 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Watching the HBO doc on Scientology. ITS FUCKING CRAZY WE GOT TO SHUT THIS SHIT DOWN. HOLY FUCK NUTS

[–]georgeguy007High Chartist Chancellor (was elected tho, like Hitler) 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

LIKE RIGHT NOW. PLEASE!

[–]Felinomancy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

So for the first time in my life, I bought an entire watermelon. And then I realized that I don't have a cleaver.

Short of smashing it on the ground and eating what's left of it, how am I supposed to cut the damn thing?

[–]_sekhmet_Lincoln fired Fort Sumter at the Confederate cannon balls 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

So, one of my coworkers asked me out on a date. I really find him attractive, and I would like to say yes, but we are coworkers. I feel bad because he's all alone in a foreign country where he barely speaks english, and I'm the only other person he knows here that speaks French, his first language (I actually think that's the only reason he asked me out). I already asked my boss about it and he said since he's not my superior he and I could go out if we wanted to, I'm just not sure if I want to because it could be super awkward.

Also, I'm starting classes next week! I'm bummed because the class I was looking forward to the most, history of revolutionary France, was cancelled, but I'm still excited for the history of the Old South, History of Women and children in Germany, and the History of western furniture. I'm hoping to get enough high level classes to finish my history minor. I'm so excited!

[–]viralmysteriesThe SS didn't even give me a waffle 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

So I was assigned my first year seminar for college. The title? "Living With and Making Decisions Concerning Injustice".

The description?
"Injustice. What do you think of when you hear that word? There are all types of injustice in this world, and chances are that during our lifetime we will either find ourselves in a position or system of power, perpetrating injustice on others; or in a position or system of supposed impotence, a subject of injustice. What are our choices? How will we respond? In this course we will examine the topic of living with and making decisions concerning injustice using, as an example, the specific injustice of slavery, examining the lives and decisions of both a famous slaveholder and two not-so-famous slaves; and learning from their lives and decisions how we might, ourselves, live with and make decisions concerning injustices we face in our lives."

Am I officially a member of the cabal now or what

[–]DirishDesigner of Alien-built Pyramids 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I watched "Hansel and Gretel" last night and I have to say it was quite a lot of fun. Terrible, guilty pleasure fun. So much bad history was condensed in one film, it reminded me of Van Helsing amped up to eleven. If there was a historical consultant on site, you wouldn't need a witch to make him shoot himself in the head, and probably would have used a historically incorrect weapon... Maybe the Gatling gun just to make sure he wouldn't have to suffer any more.

It's half mediaeval, half steam-punk, and completely insane. I think I've just found another film to add to my list of films I can watch over and over.

[–]TiakoTevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've been meaning to mention this, but do you guys like conspiracy stories? Shakespearean tragedies? Buddy cop Shakespearean conspiracy stories?

Because the July 27 New Yorker had an article on the rise and fall of a pair of Russian anti-corruption police that ticks all those boxes. Great read, and while it is a bit crass to talk in these terms, it would make a fantastic film.

[–]UdontlikecakePro-Crypto Fascist 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Anyone want to do a write up about this piece of trash "journalism"?

http://www.newsweek.com/its-time-haul-down-another-flag-racist-hate-361929

It basically claims that the POW/MIA flag is racist and as bad as the confederate flag, because... Reasons?

It also makes some pretty bold claims about Vietnam and the history of POW.

I would try, but I'm too busy packing for vacation.