Sergio

@Sergio@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  cylinder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gosh darn it ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, when I was a teen I was dealing with childhood trauma but didn't realize it til late 20s early 30s. Luckily I was then dealt a whole new unrelated trauma. So teenagehood was like 2 traumas ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how good are you at lying during job interviews?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When someone asks you questions, it's also an opportunity to ask them questions back, to find out if you're heading for an environment you don't wanna be in.

  • THEM: Is work/life balance important to you?
  • YOU: So, obviously my family's important to me. I always do my job, though. What kind of expectations to you have here?
  • THEM: Well.... (look at each other nervously. look up at the cameras monitoring them.) We're expected to make work a priority...
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STRAIGHT 2 JAIL⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They were bringing coconuts to England because the swallows weren't big enough to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mmmm yes undoubtedly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn't really my area, but afaik....

  • the French bankrupted themselves for a number of reasons, one of which was indeed the global Ango-French War (which resulted in the creation of the USA) and the earlier Seven Years War. This wasn't the only cause of the French Revolution.
  • the American and French Revolutions were both products of "the Englightenment" which took part in Europe. To their credit, several of the American leaders saw the value in it and adopted those ideas, but America was pretty much a backwater at that time. Of course American independence was a topic of discussion, much in the same way that the war in Ukraine is today. No doubt some people were "inspired by" the distant foreign war, as an example of ideas that had developed locally.
  • I think the 1648 treaties of Westphalia are generally considered the beginning of modern nation states. I think it'd be tough to argue that German and Italian nationalism were "implanted" by the French Revolution.

  I had a brilliant concluding paragraph but I accidentally deleted it. Something about how this period of history has many relevant lessons about balancing domestic vs international policy, updating antiquated systems of economic and representation systems, and the interplay between popular movements and individual leaders. But this is, after all, a shitposting community, so no great loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mmmm yes undoubtedly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  a lot of the ideas from the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
  ...
  Since the French Revolution have rise to the idea of the modern nation state and Napoleon, we'd not have a lot of countries.

  At first I was like: wtf? Then I remembered we're in the shitposting community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨música⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  !thrashmetal@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨la cars 2 no es canom.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno. Better report them to !fuckcars@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨de pana q ladilla⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  thx for the memes/shitposts in spanish, fam, every day I see posts in other languages but so few in spanish for some reason dunno why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution: 🖕⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks more like Mecha-Godzilla, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The dangerous thing is that you can, in many science fields, get a PhD with minimal collaboration. Just pass the quals and focus on your disseration project, there you go. But you'll be at a tremendous disadvantage during a faculty search, when you're up against all those people who did internships early in their career, kept those research connections, led research projects in the local lab, joined student groups at conferences and helped organize a student workshop, reviewed for conferences, helped out on projects with people you met at conferences, contributed to funding proposals, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one "secret" I wish I'd known a lot earlier is that you don't have to do it alone. In fact, the more you collaborate the more successful you'll be: more research ideas, more publications, more committee memberships in workshops/conferences, more participating on teams being put together to apply for research funding, more people to reach out to when you're looking for a job, etc. The most successful scientists I've known had huge networks of collaborators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno... getting a PhD just teaches you how to do research. If you want to get a faculty position, there's a whole other set of skills on top of that; in the US for CS at larger universities it's mostly about getting funding and becoming "respected" in your field. But you have to tell people that you want to learn those additional skills. That's the part that's hard to know about beforehand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tubi TV⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW at least half of the movies mentioned on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world are on tubi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Talk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best case scenario:

  • The initial submission didn't cite the crappy Gabor paper, and peer reviewers said that it should.
  • The peer editor, summarizing feedback, said that the submission was accepted as long as it took into account the peer reviewer suggested revisions.
  • The submitters don't really care about the paper quality, all they need is the citation. So they assigned the revisions to the lowliest grad student.
  • The lowliest grad student knows their advisor hates that crapmaster Gabor, so when they sent it to their advisor they asked whether they should cite that paper, thinking they might prefer to passive-aggressively "forget" to do so
  • The advisor doesn't care about the paper quality (see above) so they just skimmed it and saw the word "Gabor". (alternate hypothesis: they thought this was a great opportunity to troll that crap-merchant Gabor, as well as those useless middlemen thieves at Wiley.)
  • The peer editor: same as the advisor, they're just doing this for a line-item on their CV.
  • The Wiley "editor" doesn't even read the paper, they just forward it to the typesetter subcontractors and demand that the submitters pay up.
  • The typesetter subcontractors don't care, it's all just text to them.
  • And so it becomes Science, and the writer of crappy papers Gabor is enshrined in the pantheon along with Ea-Nasir and William "I'm something of a scientist myself" Dafoe. Immortality, of a sorts.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there's electricity in the brain, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always imagined that ADHD was just our minds tuned to being hunter-gatherer survivors, and thus not suited for a sedentary office environment.