I had a physics professor tell me about free energy. Having a degree is not 100% effective in curing stupid.

Have you seen lemurs and stuff? They’re tiny.

Sure, and money grows on trees

Yeah, I don’t understand this either. If someone offered me to make me rich by paying him 10 bucks on the street, I’d tell him to fuck off and evaluate my chances in a fight and/or escape route. But as soon as a computer is involved, some people’s brain shuts off or something.

People != their government

Except that they’re still mostly a democracy, and they vote for the shit.

Lobbying from a small nation with no money, resources or military power, that doesn’t even buy our stuff and snuggles up to Russia for protection? I don’t really see how that would work. It doesn’t check out with the behaviour of US/EU other conflicts, like Israel or Armenia-Azerbaijan, where we immediately sided with the party that had oil/gas and bought our weapons.

I’m willing to have my mind changed, but the gut feeling doesn’t really point that way here

And? Seems like your definition and this community’s definition of “science memes” differ. Who cares. What are we even arguing about?

My dude, it’s right there in the description

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Honestly, I have no idea what you are trying to argue

What the actual fuck. You know, I lock the screen because I don’t want people to see what I am doing.

Add telegram, threema, another matrix client for that other server and WhatsApp for some old friends to it

Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters

If that’s what you think I’m suggesting, you need to work on your reading comprehension.

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Are you suggesting it would have been better to just let the fascists seize power?

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And this burden of proof is on the accuser.

I don’t doubt the stories, but a court would see it in a different way for a good reason. It’s hard to find a solution between slander and rightfully calling someone out.

I can recommend looking into “science days” and stuff like that. It makes you a lot more hopeful for the future to see a lot of curious, open-minded 12-year olds.

And then they likely become the usual cynic adults, but hey, you tried.

Thanks. I only heard about Delft from a woman studying there, and didn’t hear any complaints. I guess PhD students cannot run as easily, so they get the short end :(

Actually, I was loosely considering applying there, this made sure I won’t. That stuff needs to be made more public, so that their reputation noticeably suffers. Only then will people care to enact change.

I don’t think so. Academia is still a pyramid system, and a lot of people want a post-doc or not burn bridges

You are on sciencememes, and this is a meme about academia?

Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters. Because of what might have happened. The people are clearly misguided, we need to roll over them with tanks to prove we are the true proletariat. A lot of governments built monuments to Nazi collaborteurs. That doesn’t mean jack shit. Hitler was vegetarian and against animal abuse.

The people behind the current events aren’t conservative. They don’t try to conserve. They try to destroy, uproot, and drag us back. They are reactionaries, everything-was-better-in-the-50s daydreamers, and neoliberal oligarchs. They do not care about conserving moral values, otherwise they wouldn’t have voted a criminal into office. Conservative is a word they are hiding behind, like a marketing slogan. Like how fascists figured out that calling themselves patriots makes them acceptable.

I do not think that conservative = bad. In fact, I myself believe that with many issues, it might be better to wait for the dust to settle a bit, and to not jump on every hype train. I would even go as far as saying I am a patriot, if that word wasn’t dragged through the mud by mouth-breathing, racist neo-fascists.

Those people do not deserve to be called conservative. Call them reactionaries or oligarchs. Because that is what they are.

I just dislike suffering without a cause. That might be more my personal view on things, though.

If I am going to suffer, then I want it to be for a reason. Like doing a fulfilling job well, or working out to feel better. Otherwise I could just punch myself in the nuts and meditate on my aching crotch.

On a side note, I don’t seem to feel hunger as strongly as other people. I mostly get tired, while other people tend to get agitated / pissed off. Maybe I should try fasting for a while just to find out how I react. But, then it would be for a cause again…

They are not, which is why they charge them upfront. But people with a residence permit or citizenship are much more likely to stay long-term.

I have no strong opinion whether that is the right choice, tbh. I see it at my Uni, a lot of foreign students study here and the majority then leaves the country again. Which is fair, but the idea of tax-funded education is, well, it’s tax-funded, so I am more or less directly paying for their education. Is that good/bad/worth it or not? I’m not sure.

Also, I feel like the majority of foreign students that come here just for a degree are already from wealthy backgrounds. I know I’m on dangerous “feelings, not facts” territory, but I get a lot of “rich kid who didn’t get into a good uni in their home country” vibes. The poorer foreign students are usually super smart and got in via a scholarship or the likes.