Fishy

@Fishy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m tenured in academia—I can only really talk about life here and funding models vary between countries.

  I’d only advise people to do anything like an internship (but preferably you do it as part of your degree) with someone who has or is likely to get funding for a PhD student.

  So to try and generalise this, my advice would be talk to people who are considered sound within the industry and get advice about what opportunities exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They took a boat, clearly a detour

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s possible for both things to be true.

  You (and me) had it hard when 23 and harder compared to the boomers (I had to do shitty unpaid internships to get ahead (on top of work not in my industry to service) which was a huge gamble looking back). But 10-15 years have passed and it’s even harder now and I couldn’t recommend that pathway to younger people — cause if they’d do an internship, they won’t get recruited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How social medias are reacting to the hantavirus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instagram is more racist than Facebook? I don’t use either but I’m behind the times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is us rail travel so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went from SF to Chicago for a few hundred dollars for a couple nights where I got my own cabin. That was around 2019 so maybe prices have gone up radically?

  But the long distance train experience in the US felt closer to a cruise than a sleeper train in Europe which I’m used to (all meals included, lounge carriage and so on).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really good, cheap, expands on the original game. Understandable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enterprise era new trek show?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard people float the idea of a west wing style political drama where the president (often suggested as Archer) is dealing with all the problems of maintaining a young federation.

  I’d think it would be a wonderful idea. I’m not sure another exploration show in that era is needed though.