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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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First, we continue our chat about a list of words we're not allowed to use (according to Stanford). Next, Jack asks a question about his taste of sweet.

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0:00.0	Would a pudding by any other name taste is sweet?
0:03.0	It's one more thing.
0:05.1	Armstrong and Getty.
0:06.3	One more thing.
0:10.1	A pudding?
0:11.4	A pudding.
0:12.2	But before we get to that, we were going through on the radio show.
0:18.7	More of the words that Stanford has tried to ban or suggest we don't use because they're
0:24.7	not politically correct?
0:26.2	Yeah, it's their technology department.
0:28.0	The president of the university to his credit said, wait a minute, no, no, no, we didn't
0:33.5	approve this list.
0:34.4	This list is stupid.
0:35.7	He didn't say that, but he should have.
0:37.1	The fact that, you know, a certain number of Stanford students, which in theory makes you
0:43.3	smart, um, teachers got together and, and worked for six months on this list, if I remember, right?
0:49.5	Yeah. Yeah. It's the, it's the department people and the students, yeah.
1:03.4	And it's just, they twist themselves into such rhetorical and logical knots to reach their state of being offended.
1:07.9	I mean, it's indistinguishable from parity, really.
1:09.7	It's idiotic.
1:13.4	We mentioned that you're not supposed to use the term brown bag for getting together over lunch and learning about something. Use lunch and learn their tech talk
1:17.7	because brown bag is historically associated with the brown bag paper test that certain black
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