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by JumpCrisscross 896 days ago
> she should

Why? What work has she done to deserve tenure?
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gnicholas 896 days ago
She hasn't written a single book that wasn't field-changing, award-winning, and on the NYT bestseller list. (Of course, the same could be said for me.)
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znpy 896 days ago
> Of course, the same could be said for me

But you didn't get to be the president of Hardvard, did you?

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gnicholas 896 days ago
Not yet, but I hear the position is open!
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znpy 896 days ago
Hurry up and apply then!
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KMag 896 days ago
It took me a second to realize you were intentionally using a vacuous truth (any statement is true about all members of an empty set) rather than accidentally inverting "was" as "wasn't".
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dchftcs 892 days ago
It's a tough one because a PhD dissertation can be seen as a book.
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