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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toward a Cosmologically Complete Astrology: Corrections Based on the Mapped Distribution of Dark Matter and Dark Energy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a troll paper in a troll journal called Journal of Immaterial science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you are mistaking the forest for the trees. I am only throwing reasons on why I hold on this position. My point isn’t that by introducing humanities as mandatory, we will somehow magically transform our society into a utopia. My hope is basically just that it might change things for the better a little. Just because people are generally terrible doesn’t mean we cannot work for making them better even if it is just a little bit. I believe that by educating them we might hope that at least a few might make better choices or not. It is better to try and fail than not try at all. Of course, I am not saying this is the only right or even a right approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s obviously not true. For businesses to not be terrible, they would have to not operate on the profit motive, which is impossible.

  There are many approaches for a business to be both good and also make profit. Just as an example, in the periods of comfort, they can focus only on profit. However, in the times of crisis, businesses can instead focus on doing social good, instead of profit, until things go back to normal. This can be in the form helping people in need during floods, hurricanes, etc. Of course, there are many approaches to this and I am giving just an illustrative examples, but thing is many small businesses around the world do this because many people put humanity first and profit second, especially in the times of crises.

  And what disciplines do you want to force people to pass exams in, even if they have no bearing on a person’s skills in the area that they actually chose?

  I am really sorry if you don’t enjoy exams, because I also hate exams. To make my argument about why, I believe, we need to be educated in humanities, first I just want to focus on the question what is the purpose of education. I strongly believe that the education helps us to be a better human being, beyond just being a better doctor or a better software developer or a better engineer. Being a good human being, I believe, transcends being a skilled doctor or engineer, etc. I am going to try to give an example from Civil Engineering to try to illustrate it. In India (where I am from and have been living my entire life), there are still villages where the access to basic necessities like clean water, electricity are either absent or rarely available. Now, when the government is planning a project to provide a more reliable access to these resources, the responsibility falls on the Engineering Team to design the project, including costs and the benefits. Beyond just the monetary cost-benefit analysis, or maybe the environmental impact (which are inevitable), there are also societal issues that are important, but are left out during the planning? But, a study in humanities will give these issues the weight it deserves. For example, caste system is a major issue in India, with population of even the tiniest villages are split into two or sometimes more groups: the so-called “upper” (let’s just called them oppressors) castes and the “lower” (let’s call them oppressed) castes. So, as it happens, the oppressors might establish a monopoly over the fresh water that reaches the village due to aforementioned project. So, despite the project providing some benefit, to the oppressors, it provides almost no benefit to the oppressed class. No engineer would consider these kinds of societal issues while designing the project, despite knowing about the casteism and understanding it’s consequences because they are not educated to combine their engineering skills and know-how with the casteism. Systematic Humanities education might actually help Engineers to understand these issues at a deeper level and might inform them on how to proceed with the project, while at least trying to mitigate the caste situation in some way.

  I am trying to go beyond the exams and the academic degrees for this because the most of the life of an engineer (or a doctor, etc) is spent on practice, i.e., designing, planning and executing projects (or something equivalent). These projects should not just have economic utility, but also social utility or at least should not have negative social utility. Consider the impact of plastics, fossil fuel and their pollution on the society and individuals. However, for decades, we gladly kept building new roads to accommodate more vehicles purchased by rich people, despite knowing about them. My hope is that with a humanities education, it will make more engineers to evaluate the social utility of their projects and not just the economic utility. One interesting theory that I came across was in a book called “Development As Freedom” by Amartya Sen, a Noble Prize winning economist. In the book, he puts forward the idea that “Economic Development must increase the freedoms of individuals and society”. In essence, contrary to popular measures of economic development like GDP, Per Capita Income, he straight-up wants to quantify (or at least qualitatively) the impact of economic and market activity through their social utility.

  In essence, all human activity has the goal to serve the humans (both individual and society), this world and the nature we live in. But, if we don’t appreciate this at all, can we really work towards benefiting as many people at possible, while at the same time, try to minimize or even offset the damage (both social and environmental) caused, without a humanities education, that by definition deals with humanity, both individually and as a collective?

  P.S. Sorry for the long reply, but I really wanted to try to present my argument in greater detail. Not in the hope of changing your mind, but just to make you understand where my stance on this matter is coming from. Also, I am not saying that everyone should be an expert in all the fields of humanities. All I am trying to say is that with a little bit of humanities education, I just want everyone to gain some appreciation of humanities and what they do and how important it really is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really do wish humanities were not actually considered as ‘lesser’ to the sciences. But I have actually found it to be greater of the sciences, simply because of the importance and the difficulty of questions it tackles. I have spent a fairly long time reading on philosophy, history, economics. I am not an expert, in fact, I am really far from it, but I have really come to an understanding the importance of these fields. But that’s just me. Most just consider them not important because they don’t understand. I just hope that we can rectify with better academic curriculum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a civil engineer with only a tiny bit of experience cos I switched to software. That holds true. Environmental and other ethical concerns are not even an afterthought in vast majority of engineering projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fact checker⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How does having sex once same as not being lonely? Sure I am lonely and virgin. But, I could just as easily be not virgin and still lonely AF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Businesses would not be terrible if business education is actually tempered with some humanities. In fact, I am strongly of the opinion that every field of study should have some humanities component to them. None of the fields exist in vacuum, we have to have at least, some appreciation of other fields, lest we risk creating silos in the name of organization. And that is precisely happening in this age of hyper-specialization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when ur higher than sagan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it how people are willing to trust any shady person in the name of alternative medicine. Sure, regular medicine has it’s flaws, but the solution is better research, not alt medicine peddled by the shadiest people imaginable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Leonhard Euler, without a doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yiff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehhh, it’s close enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indeed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Waaaayyy ahead of you. I have a kobo e-reader and no proprietary format for me, I download in epub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indeed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Image Behold!! You underestimate me and my obsession with books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indeed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a library of your dreams, if anyone is interested in dating me.

  Please, please say yes. I am really desperate…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thinking cat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to get me a thinking cat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's on your blood!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Asbestos makes for a great cigarette filter material, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is feeling romantic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So close and yet so far…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why on earth drinking hydrogen-infused water increase athletic performance? I honestly doubt any claims made by this shit product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He was a snacc⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad that I am not a frog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you like math⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this comment section is full of various operations defined on fuckery. I don’t think they form a field or even a ringi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cute⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rejected for citations in wrong format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cute⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, submit a research proposal by the end of this week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon starts to believe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like 99.9% of ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons they give for it is : physicists use LLMs in their workflows, so LLMs are close to make physics discoveries themselves.

  Clearly, these statements are meant to hype up the AI bubble even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But guilt made them react. They knew what they were was wrong, but did it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The respiratory system uses osmosis to interlace caffeine in the digestive system through your midi-chlorines⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are thinking of Chlorine. Midi-Chlorines are used by DJs to make music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This really doesn’t sound healthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spinosarus through the ages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted the ability to use conquerer’s haki. Damn you, evolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Bullshitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tits are so beautiful, irrespective of their shapesand size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They should try to extinguish it… with water…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prepare yourselves!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “less than thrilled” is far too polite considering the use of words like “larval”, “infestation”.