I use Excel to calculate the ages of the oldest rocks in the Solar System. If I was using it to find accounting loopholes for a private equity firm, I’d probably kill myself.
Ted’s problem is that he equates the tools and the processes of post-industrial society with its people. Just because the possibility exists for these surrogate activities to replace meaningful work doesn’t mean we all succumb automatically.
Go get a PhD and an academic position. The pay is shit but nobody will care whether you show up or not.
I’d love to watch these geniuses try to “innovate” their way out of cleaning toilets.
It’s a “sciency” meme that presents a bunch of nonsense. I will not chill.
We laugh, but this was an actual product.
I would do the exact middle of the neck.
Man, David Harvey really went off the deep end huh
Unrealistic though because most people who ride horses aren’t as cool as Subcomandante Marcos
Go to a festival with corporate kiosks and grab a free pair.
No link?
Not always, usually it’s an evolutionary arms race though. Recent paper I thought was really cool suggests the initial jump from single to multicellular happened because of a snowball Earth which changed the water temperature and therefore viscosity, making larger size equate to more efficient swimming.
Or reduced. Solar wind implants protons (Hydrogen) in the upper surface and causes darkening.
Never suggested he didn’t. The average age of Trump voters skews over 50 though.
As much as I like to shit on AI, it has gotten rather poetic lately.
If you add that these bullies were given high-paying blue collar jobs, cheap houses, and wives to abuse freely, it’s no longer an analogy. The Trumpist boomers literally had this happen. When this system broke they reacted to it like the selfish, hateful idiots they are.
Defunding is perennial and global, even if it’s not a targetted action like in the US. Consider for example that in the last 25 years the number of PhDs doubled while the funding of the National Science Foundation stayed flat. In the EU the situation is better, with funding at least keeping pace with inflation, but national funding depends on the whims of the current ruling party (I’m in the Czech Repoublic btw where we just elected a right-wing billionaire). Even in the best case the average acceptance rate for a grant is 10 or 15%, but in my experience it’s lower.
As for lawyers being in charge, I mean what’s the degree you go get if you want to enter politics? In China it’s engineering. In the West, almost a third of politicians have law degrees even though the fraction of lawyers in society is much less than one percent.
Geologist here. It’s really depressing being in the community these days. We’re continually being defunded and we know better than most what a systemic crisis this planet’s ecosystem is in. For some reason we thought it was a good idea to put lawyers in charge of everything instead of experts.
The polite thing to do in this instance is to get on her level by pounding your own set of shots.