Some of my favorites…

“Imagine there is a set of skills,” [Michael Vassar] said. “There is a myth that they are possessed by the whole population, and there is a cynical myth that they’re possessed by 10 percent of the population. They’ve actually been wiped out in all but about one person in three thousand.”

These skills apparently don’t help you do better (financially) than doctors at diagnosing and finding unconventional weird cases though…

You listen to Michael Vassar. You don’t remember traveling to this party or sitting on this beanbag. You don’t remember when he began to speak. He is still speaking. He sounds like madness and glory given lisping poetry, and you want to obey.

That isn’t a good thing… and yes Alicorn may be joking but these pithy little existential horror scenarios seem to have an undercurrent of reality to them.

I taught at a school in Cincinnati with a 0% graduation rate and that was also interesting so I updated…

Why on earth would anybody think a school with a 0% graduation rate could serve a good case study for the possibilities and limits of education? How could that experience possibly prompt worthwhile reflections on education in general? If you work at a clay pot factory which produces 0 clay pots, you shouldn’t be tempted to conclude that pots are a waste of clay.

Hmm, I think they might be missing a few quotes (cw: abuse).

He used to have a Wikipedia page!

It now redirects to the saga of MetaMed. I redirected it there after a talk page discussion in 2015, then a sockpuppet swung by and recreated it as a puff piece, then the sock was banned, then it was redirected again.

Hey its Anissimov!

I always have a good chuckle reading them writing so gushingly poetically over people you would give a swirly to in high school