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- Comment on mossy ass milf 2 weeks ago:
Since we’re mossposting… Image
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
Still Not Butter
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 5 weeks ago:
3 of the couples I had in mind when I mentioned traditional dating sites used Match.com (between 2015 and 2022 in their mid 20s to mid 30s) and 1 couple each around the same time period/age demographic on specific religion dating sites (catholic chemistry and christian mingle)
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think Anon is considering the set of all possible cute girlfriends or lending them enough agency. I think it’s someone reasonable if you’re app dating to assume that people are doing some amount of maximizing cute + interesting or something similar but I think that’s because the apps encourage people to gamify dating and things that are competitive are a game.
Anecdotally I’ve seen a ton of…erm…normatively mismatched couples form and find success in other contexts like dive bars, pick up soccer, chatrooms, kink communities, boardgame cafes, more traditional dating sites etc. Again anecdotally these relationships seem to skew (normatively) in the guy’s favor more often than the gal’s as far as looks and personality go despite the fact that complaints like this come more often from men.
- Comment on Charlotte doing her Fibonacci Spiral impersonation 5 weeks ago:
Perfection
- Comment on ouch 5 weeks ago:
Academia only really rewards novelty, but the scientific method is supposed to be a slow slog towards the truth with lots of redundancy and endless cycles of minor tweaks that in turn force you to tweak theories that connect so that our picture of the world maintains its internal coherence
- Comment on Can relate. 1 month ago:
That’s unrealistic— some of them are etched into stone
- Comment on Can relate. 1 month ago:
As someone who consumes a lot of ancient history, it can also make you like “Ah yes, another city rises, another is displaced by climate disaster, and another falls due to land mismanagement. ‘Tis the way of things.”
- Comment on Self-reflection 1 month ago:
I have a friend who turned in such a good paper during grad school that the professor thought it was plagiarized (no turnitin or anything) and gave him a 0. After meeting with the teacher and straightening it out I would have felt pretty good about myself.
- Comment on Smart 1 month ago:
I tried to google it and it’s not super clear. -Perelman gets his phd in russia super young and is hired at NYU/SUNY -Publishes some groundbreaking stuff on arxiv (a free site to post white papers in math and physics) in 2002/2003 -There is some drama with another scientist who is known for stealing people’s work trying to downplay Perelman’s contribution -Perelman quits his US jobs and returns to russia to work in math (making wayyyyyyy less money), then quits that job too and becomes a recluse -Turns down fields medal and millennium prize (1M dollars for solving) -Says some mathematicians are unethical but the rest of them tolerate it so they’re shit too so the whole thing is shit. Also says he doesn’t want to be put in a zoo or treated like a pet about it.
— I’m going to go ahead and assume I don’t understand enough about being a math superstar to understand where he’s coming from, but he certainly sounds like a principled guy and now I respect him.
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- Comment on stacked 1 month ago:
Okay but if they really built a hydraulic lift elevator that’s so cool
- Comment on Mental hell 1 month ago:
If it sounds interesting and other things just don’t I say go for it if you can get a funded position. Definitely ask other students before choosing an advisor so that you don’t get someone who is completely unavailable or a dick
- Comment on Philosophy 1 month ago:
4.5 Spinoza gets shadowbanned
- Comment on Mental hell 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s not the best path for everyone, and some subject areas just don’t have enough teaching positions to reasonably expect to get one
- Comment on Mental hell 1 month ago:
Getting a. PhD isn’t super competitive (speaking from the US), but if you aim to get a professorship at an R1 it’s somewhat competitive across the board. The program coursework vs undergrad depends on the program too— I would say most differ somewhat substantially though. For most humanities degrees you’re doing coursework for 2-3 years and teaching undergrads while you prepare for qualifying exams, then you teach and write your thesis for a few more. The graduate courses are often in seminar (circle discussion) format rather than lecture.
- Comment on Mental hell 1 month ago:
This just confirms what every young person in academia knows: gotta get on uppers to be competitive.
My partner is a PhD candidate and at a recent party a postdoc was telling us how he acquired a giant crack rock at the beginning of his grad career and whenever he needed to finish a big assignment or something he would lick it.
- Comment on Weevil time 1 month ago:
B looks v profesh if he stands up straight and speaks with diction
- Comment on Anon applies for a job 1 month ago:
It’s especially annoying in public funded jobs because they’re often required to interview a bunch of people even if they’re already intending to give it to someone internal
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s always annoying to find it:(
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 2 months ago:
The bot did not refund me, I talked to a real person via the chat and they said the carrier team didn’t mark it received and that they would “disarm the retro charge” and refund me. We’ll see if it goes through.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 2 months ago:
I mean I dropped it off at an amazon store so they definitely received it
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 2 months ago:
They often do the whole “we’ll refund immediately as a courtesy but you need to return it by x or you’ll be charged” thing— in this case for whatever (infuriating) reason they charged me even though it’s clear their own system (their chat bot) knew the item had been marked as received on their end. I dropped it off at a brick and mortar store too!
- Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it.slrpnk.net ↗Submitted 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 95 comments
- Comment on Never Thought 2 months ago:
Do you call them Archie?
- Comment on Instagram app no longer lets you post stories without allowing camera and mic access on ios 2 months ago:
Yeah I use it to keep up with friends/family and have a private account— most people I know don’t post regular posts, only stories, so it’s actually quite easy for me to exhaust all the content I care about and then leave. The post feed is mostly ads for me since my friends don’t post. The ‘explore’ feed for me is mostly indian weddings and flood content for some unfathomable reason.
- Comment on Instagram app no longer lets you post stories without allowing camera and mic access on ios 2 months ago:
This does appear to be a functional workaround atm (the mobile website via safari app allows me to post photos to stories) but the editor is severely gimped so you can’t resize images and such. Desktop version doesn’t seem to allow you to post stories at all. If I NEED to share something perhaps I’ll use this.
- Instagram app no longer lets you post stories without allowing camera and mic access on iosslrpnk.net ↗Submitted 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 37 comments
- Comment on The moviegoer experience these days 3 months ago:
The quality line shouldn’t be so straight! Lots of excellent new big budget sci fi this year (PotA, Mad Max, Dune, quiet place, Alien soon) and even some non sequel/prequel ones (Wild Robot, Megapolis, Slingshot). The PRICES to go and get a bucket of popcorn and a drink to share have started to approach undoable though.
- Comment on When diarrhea hits so hard u need to hold on 4 months ago:
There’s a towel bar in front of my toilet (small bathroom) and holding onto it during a poop can absolutely elevate your form. Mind you I have a squatty potty too so this is an advanced technique.
