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- Comment on The only one country 3 days ago:
I mean, he included Japan and South Korea, among others that aren’t strictly “Western.” They are all US allies, though, which makes sense for a US Senator.
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 days ago:
That’s a fairly broad take that didn’t really apply to me. I wanted to impact education policy in the US because I noticed how decrepit it was. I was denied that opportunity but managed to get some top tier data analytic skills through the process that I could capitalize on if I was willing to work in the private sector (such as health insurance or financial industry predictive models). There is still massive demand for those skills.
But I don’t do that, not because of sunk cost but because I don’t want to contribute to systems I find immoral. I took a job in a Psychology department, which isn’t my field, since it lets me teach while taking care of my children.
You are right, though, the research field has some serious issues that need to be resolved. There has been some push for open source materials that people can contribute to, but given the current state of affairs globally, it’s not something people can really deal with right now.
That said, a PhD in any research profession is a passion project. You don’t do it for money, but for intellectual curiosity or some other reason. Towards that end, they should be stubborn – they’re already rejecting the idea that education is a means towards profit.
Unfortunately, that also means most PhDs are already wealthy going into it (especially those who can actually afford to finish) which means, at least in education and politics, those perspectives dominate the field. It’s a real problem when they don’t understand how 99% of the rest of us live.
Out of curiosity, which field did you need to leave? Each has their own problems.
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 days ago:
I graduated into Bush’s recession, so I went to get a PhD in education. They pay you a small wage to do research, guaranteed for 5 years in my program. Graduated that into a healthy economy that… old professors weren’t willing to retire from. Finally give up after several second place rejections and take a simple adjunct professor job just in time for the pandemic, cutting my classes to a third.
But hey, at least I didn’t get that job at NCES; Trump 2.0 royally fucked all those education PhD federal jobs.
- Comment on Source: Trust me, bro 4 days ago:
The funny thing is I live where there’s a lot of mechanics and detailers so I see it rather often because they don’t need to afford it-- they own the machine that does the wrap or know a guy. Lol
- Comment on Source: Trust me, bro 4 days ago:
Reminds me I saw a Hatsune Miku car the other day. Honestly, they make me smile and you likely imagine an otaku white incel guy driving it but I look over and the dude looks like a chicano gangster lol.
- Comment on You know it's gonna be hell when the iFixit tutorial says to BREATHE DEEPLY 5 days ago:
Just confirms how much I love iFixit, lol.
- Comment on Tragic 6 days ago:
But then how will I get my monsters in Monster Rancher 2 without a disk?! Has Sony ever considered that?!
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 6 days ago:
I’m a RetroAchevements nut and I can confirm many many games were complete jank. I tend to play them out of spite and achievements, but since events have me playing non-classics, I can confirm a lot of nostalgia is just survivor bias.
Like, I had to play Sly Cooper-- good game; followed by Rocket: Robot on Wheels, the game they made before Sly. Interesting game, but the camera made it a chore. Now they’ve made the Ghost of games which might be their legacy. Talented team, but nobody ever talks about Rocket, lol.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 6 days ago:
So no one told you you would never find your way
👏👏👏👏
You’re trapped forever, you’re lost, your one life’s D.O.A.~
It’s like you’re always stuck going down some stairs!
When you’re stuck a day, a week, a month, or even a year~ butI’ll be coming for you! (When the rain starts to pour) I’ll be coming for you! (Cause you’ve been here before) I’ll be coming for you! (And there’s nothing you can do~) Dun da da di dum di di dum.
- Comment on Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous 1 week ago:
Wow, must have been quite the post!
- Comment on Companies laying off staff this year include Meta, Amazon, and Verizon — see the list 1 week ago:
I know one that didn’t make the list, but they didn’t do it over AI; just a project that flopped and blew a bunch of money they had to recoup. It’s interesting they didn’t blame AI, but I guess in gaming they can tell that’s not a good scapegoat.
- Comment on Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous 1 week ago:
Same, but I only ever comment; i wonder if I’d piss off the right people more if I posted, too.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 1 week ago:
My vote is probably Seattle, Philly or Boston, but I just happen to like them a lot. SF is lovely except it’s a bit too small and if you include Oakland and Berkeley (you should), it has some serious issues. Portland is nice too, but again pretty small.
Y’all who nominate any Texas (or any other deep red state city, save for maybe New Orleans) are fucking crazy though; even if they’re an oasis in an idiot desert, I’ve never enjoyed being in those cities. Even ignoring the state politics bringing them down, most are hot, humid and inconvenient to visit. I’m sure there’s some public transportation in places like Dallas or Houston but I have my doubts, I’ve always had someone I was visiting drive me.
- Comment on wxyz so overrated 🥱 1 week ago:
I will dare to mention the new version; LMNOP is knocked down a peg because those bastards have confused young children for centuries! The new king is XYZ, especially with that non-letter &.
Forget that Mozart played the original melody in the Twelve Variations!
That said, shout out to the rollercoaster one Simple Songs did. I am partial to their ABCDEFGH.
- Comment on Tracey fucked around and found out 1 week ago:
That solution assumes it’s a quarter of the remaining bars. How is worded, it could be 4 more bars she wants, making it half the bars at that point.
It’s badly worded, and deserves a slap.
- Comment on Anon tests their IQ 1 week ago:
I actually like this exchange; you know how many people I know who think they’ve got a 160+ IQ because of an online test they took that then tried to sell them something?
At least a dozen, a few of which are even family members. Statistically impossible, but do they care? No, they’re super geniuses. God what I’d pay to see what they respond to their real score, lol
- Comment on The economy is so bad that scam messages went from “you won the lottery” to “remote job available $18/hr” 2 weeks ago:
Most recent one I got was a phishing scam for Trump accounts for kids (the $1k you can get if your kid was born in a Trump year). This really is a shit timeline.
- Comment on protestation (advertisement sucks) 2 weeks ago:
Say what you will but Taco Hell sounds way better than Taco Bell. More accurate, too!
- Comment on Gotta go sad! 2 weeks ago:
Depending on how slow the people in front of me are, I’m also more homicidal! At least Sonic has a lethal spin dash for such occasions.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
You’re right about AC2, especially since it’s a relatively quiet year for hits (2009) so getting a nomination shouldn’t have been that hard. That said, it has a lot to do with who is voting, money spent on promoting the game, etc., and I’m not sure it would have won GotY even though it might even end up on some people’s top games of all time.
Fun fact, apparently same year Minecraft released. Lol (I looked up a list, that and LittleBigPlanet are my favorite of the year).
- Comment on lemmyshitpost is my trusted source 2 weeks ago:
For once the news today broke yesterday when my dad texted to celebrate the death of Lindsey Graham; but it’s typically it’s here first. Lol
- Comment on When people die in wildfires, is it that the fire spread too fast for people to mobilise escape? Or more that people were delayed leaving? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think that’s well established but what was interesting was the way concrete walls funneled hot air certain ways but not others. But it’s been a while since I heard the interview, the main discussion was on the heat of a conflagration vs a normal fire.
- Comment on When people die in wildfires, is it that the fire spread too fast for people to mobilise escape? Or more that people were delayed leaving? 3 weeks ago:
I know the recent-ish Palisades fire near me was an issue of both fast fires and limited exits, but even then most of it was property damage. What worked was early warnings of evacuation that people took seriously.
The part that struck me was they started calling it a conflagration because the structure fires were so much hotter than the bush fires that things were straight up melting, causing cars to stop working and so on. If you were still there when the houses were full burning, you were likely toast.
The best way to avoid deaths, therefore, is early evacuation and careful neighborhood design. There were some houses that survived the blaze because of factors like walls and gaps that helped reduce the spread, although I’m not sure if they cracked the code on that yet.
- Comment on We've all been there 3 weeks ago:
I bet it could be patched by I hadn’t checked in forever. It’s actually more than nudity, though- it’s like a sex minigame attached to the dating mechanics. You can see why it was dummies out, lol
- Comment on Flirtation 2 3 weeks ago:
Oh I agree, and the funny thing is I heard second hand is that the city’s water treatment people still would prefer you just throw away your scraps (or better, compost). It does end up being a little useful on occasion, though, and it also creates a whirlpool that drains the sink faster.
That said, if I need the voltage from that breaker to power something else, I’d forsake it in a heartbeat. We already rerouted the garbage compactor to help power the heat pump we put in.
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 3 weeks ago:
20 or 22, I’m easily fooled, had a Sega Genesis and TMNT bedsheets.
That said, we were too poor to get anything most of the time. We were at a park because it’s free, I mean c’mon. (And before you ask, no, the Genesis was a gift from a guy who wanted to fuck my mom. Lol)
- Comment on Flirtation 2 3 weeks ago:
Oh baby, that’s just the garbage disposal. His name is Hugo and we feed him scraps.
- Comment on She's a man eater! 3 weeks ago:
Be the beautiful Orchid Mantis you’ve always wanted to be.
- Comment on We've all been there 3 weeks ago:
Amateur. I learned how to unlock the GTA SA hot coffee mode, which they somehow never fully removed.
- Comment on Walls within walls 3 weeks ago:
I’ve cited enough off just expanded abstracts to say, how would they even know? It’s probably better than what I did, lol.