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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:yknow my dad's work literally had this and i never really thought about it. kinda a weird perk Stagnant wage buys less turkey every year. A turkey in the contract is pegged at inflation, unless they start buying smaller and smaller. Hopefully the weight is included in the writing!
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Spazzle posted:Grad students are poorly paid, but in principle they are also getting a degree, and being a grad student isn't something you do forever. The people really getting boned are the adjuncts. The degree is usually separate from the work. TA/grading work has nothing to do with the degree or the student's own research. Same with work as a lab assistant helping a professor do their publications. It is possible to get a PhD without doing either of those things, but it's expensive.
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# ? Jul 11, 2023 13:46 |
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Oakland Martini posted:That's crazy. In my field (economics), graduate students work at most 20 hours per week as TAs and/or RAs. In my department, grad students are paid for 20 hours per week, but very rarely have to work anywhere close to that. I'd say my TAs work 5 hours per week on average, and my RAs maybe 10. They also receive stipends on top of their TA/RAships. You cannot eat your good performance on problem sets or live in the future imputed remuneration from a potential publication. Everything that grad students do in pursuit of their degrees is work that should be paid for today. Academia as a playground for well to-do white men to establish sinecures needs to die quickly.
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Oakland Martini posted:That's crazy. In my field (economics), graduate students work at most 20 hours per week as TAs and/or RAs. In my department, grad students are paid for 20 hours per week, but very rarely have to work anywhere close to that. I'd say my TAs work 5 hours per week on average, and my RAs maybe 10. They also receive stipends on top of their TA/RAships. Co-authorships are not compensation. You can't pay rent with it. Besides, such research benefits the university and ultimately leads to more grant money. In addition, few grad students stay in academia as there simply are not enough faculty/postdoc positions. On the outside, no one cares about your papers.
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# ? Jul 11, 2023 15:08 |
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:yknow my dad's work literally had this and i never really thought about it. kinda a weird perk Nevermind the wage stagnation or whatever else. Spazzle posted:Grad students are poorly paid, but in principle they are also getting a degree... But you know, structural cultural problems and all.
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# ? Jul 11, 2023 15:14 |
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"Interns are paid in experience." "This job pays in access and experience." Hadlock posted:Assuming they work around a two semester schedule so 2 x 5 months, that's about $30/hr @60 hrs/ wk or $23/hr @80 hrs a week which is honestly pretty fair given it's effectively a paid apprenticeship with a bunch of tax advantaged loans and other cost of living discounts and programs What "cost of living discounts and programs" are you talking about? Access to the food pantry? Things like on-campus housing is for the benefit of the University, like a company town, not for the benefit of the student.
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# ? Jul 11, 2023 15:44 |
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Tuxedo Gin posted:The degree is usually separate from the work. TA/grading work has nothing to do with the degree or the student's own research. Same with work as a lab assistant helping a professor do their publications. It is possible to get a PhD without doing either of those things, but it's expensive. Lol if you think grad students are "helping a professor do their publications". Grad students do all the work, write the papers, and the professors "advise" them. The only time a professor actually writes a paper is when they do a review and even then most outsource a lot of it to their grad students and postdocs. The actual job of professors in the sciences is writing grants, but those aren't published per se, just submitted to the review board.
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CompeAnansi posted:Lol if you think grad students are "helping a professor do their publications". Grad students do all the work, write the papers, and the professors "advise" them. The only time a professor actually writes a paper is when they do a review and even then most outsource a lot of it to their grad students and postdocs. The actual job of professors in the sciences is writing grants, but those aren't published per se, just submitted to the review board. Also this but with SCOTUS decisions
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# ? Jul 17, 2023 01:54 |
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well, the grant writing in that case is cozying up to literal nazi billionaires, but pretty much yeah
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# ? Jul 18, 2023 01:55 |
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Just poppin in to say my estimated PG&E bill for this cycle (beginning July 11th) is $763 for a 1250 sq ft condo got drat this poo poo sucks. We keep our thermostat at 78 but bumped it up tonight to 84. That is about 70% of my piti payment just for PG&E.
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I have really good luck opening my windows at night and then closing them around 5:30-6am. Traps the cold air inside and even though it's 90 outside it's 76 inside. And the insulation in the house sucks.
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Highbrow Slick posted:Just poppin in to say my estimated PG&E bill for this cycle (beginning July 11th) is $763 for a 1250 sq ft condo got drat this poo poo sucks. We keep our thermostat at 78 but bumped it up tonight to 84. Whoa that’s wild dude. Do you live someone extra hot?
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Highbrow Slick posted:Just poppin in to say my estimated PG&E bill for this cycle (beginning July 11th) is $763 for a 1250 sq ft condo got drat this poo poo sucks. We keep our thermostat at 78 but bumped it up tonight to 84. Your bill for the cycle is 5X mine for a 1680ft condo with the same power company, keeping my place around 73-74*F. Is it like 110*F where you are? I'm honestly curious if something is wrong or if someone is stealing power from you at that $$$ value.
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It’s in Fresno which has spent the last 10 days or so between 105-115. And it’s a condo with an old a/c and single pane windows. Plus my wife and I WFH all week, so yeah lol. But man that’s still over $300 more from the same time last year.
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# ? Jul 20, 2023 07:15 |
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Yeah I'm paying about a sixth of that for SMUD in Sac, you're getting jobbed.
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# ? Jul 20, 2023 07:19 |
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Since you work from home, do you have the option to move somewhere that is hospitable to human life?
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Highbrow Slick posted:It’s in Fresno which has spent the last 10 days or so between 105-115. And it’s a condo with an old a/c and single pane windows. Plus my wife and I WFH all week, so yeah lol. But man that’s still over $300 more from the same time last year. Valley living baby. Every few years my mom has a summer like that. Although $700+ does indicate that your insulation is pretty dogshit, my mom has a 1600 sq ft house and she gets just over $300 during months like this.
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I live in a dogshit "modern" townhouse (1400sqft) with strictly east/west facing windows, terrible air circulation, terrible heat/cold retention, terrible lighting such that you need to constantly have lights on mid-day to see anything you're doing in the kitchen, and have extremely dumbass roommates who will constantly crank the AC down to 70-72 when I'm not around and then whine at me about how hot they are when I get back and turn it off or put it back to 78-82, and still the absolute highest power bill I've ever gotten from PG&E was ~$580 last year during the really bad heat wave stretch that almost blew up the entire state grid. That said I'm pretty religious about ensuring no HVAC/major appliances besides the stove run from 5-8 on weekdays and it (usually) drops off in temp enough past 9PM at the latest that we can just throw open windows overnight to cool the place off until the next afternoon.
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# ? Jul 20, 2023 07:31 |
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I'll give you a tip I learned in Arizona: aluminum foil on the windows will keep a lot of heat out.
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# ? Jul 20, 2023 07:35 |
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bit of an odd one, really not sure what to think feinstein says late husband's trust not paying her medical billsquote:After acute health problems that kept her away from Washington for months earlier this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is now engaged in a legal effort to gain more control of the finances from her late husband’s trust. unreal that someone who's been a public servant for the last 30 years has a fortune this massive, and that apparently the heirs are apparently ready to get into public fights over what amounts to scraps of the whole sum
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:bit of an odd one, really not sure what to think feinstein says late husband's trust not paying her medical bills It could be that she sees her mom as brain dead but still capable of giving away all her inheritance and is worried that some consigliere is going to abscond with what is rightfully hers. In that frame of mind, two of them already have taken $1-5 million.
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Highbrow Slick posted:Just poppin in to say my estimated PG&E bill for this cycle (beginning July 11th) is $763 for a 1250 sq ft condo got drat this poo poo sucks. We keep our thermostat at 78 but bumped it up tonight to 84. Yeah, same here. We got our mid-cycle update and it was already at like $350 halfway through the month (so looking at like $700+ for the month). Also a 1200 sq ft condo/townhouse thing with single pane and an inefficient AC from the 1990s but we rent so there is nothing we can do about it other than move and the rental market is a madmax hellscape. The crazy thing is that where we are the temps have only been around 90, so it's pretty outrageous that our bill is so high. gently caress SDGE.
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Highbrow Slick posted:It’s in Fresno which has spent the last 10 days or so between 105-115. And it’s a condo with an old a/c and single pane windows. Plus my wife and I WFH all week, so yeah lol. But man that’s still over $300 more from the same time last year. Oof, yeah that hurts. Sorry. I’m over in Hayward so the climates / bills wouldn’t be even remotely comparable.
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Highbrow Slick posted:It’s in Fresno single pane windows. Plus my wife and I WFH all week, You probably qualify for at least one kind of energy efficiency rebate on switching those windows to double pane Also maybe get your AC serviced and check your duct work for leaks. Being low on refrigerant makes your AC less efficient. Also track down all the leaks and cracks, cover up the gap under your front door 3M makes several different grades of thermal reflectivity window coating, usually is pretty affordable to get installed will cut heat from sunlight by half. Sounds like the payback period on this would be three years or less
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This is sadly where, if you have to be out in the valley, that Sac-Roseville are a good choice since they run their own electric providers. For example, Roseville's rate per kWh is between .09 to .12 cents whereas PG&E is .38 to .44. That poo poo adds up fast assuming 1,000 kWh per month as an example.
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DWP is doing OK on pricing AFAIK
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SDGE is $0.45 per kWh until 130% of baseline (406 kWh), then $0.57 per kWh. It is extortionate.
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I much prefer the LADWP over any other utility. gently caress you, SoCal Edison-- literally twice the rate after I moved 5 minutes away into SCE territory.
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Jaxyon posted:DWP is doing OK on pricing AFAIK My last apartment was right by the freeway, so my windows were shut 100% of the time and even in the months where I ran my AC the whole time my largest bill was less than $80. LADWP is great.
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Keyser_Soze posted:This is sadly where, if you have to be out in the valley, that Sac-Roseville are a good choice since they run their own electric providers. For example, Roseville's rate We just moved within the Sac metro area, and one of requirements of the new house was that it was also in SMUD territory. gently caress PG&E.
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# ? Jul 21, 2023 07:06 |
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Welcome to town! Let us know if you need any Sac recommendations. Pizza Supreme Being is my favorite pizza joint in town by miles and miles and I highly recommend them to everyone.
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In February, a Los Angeles Sheriff's Department officer followed and then brutally beat a trans male teacher after the teacher flipped off the sheriff while driving by. As a reminder, the LA Sheriff's Department is distinct from, and even more deranged than, the LAPD. They have a huge problem with deputy gangs, which the previous Sheriff, Alex Villanueva, vehemently denied. Voters kicked out Villanueva last year, and put in Robert Luna in his place. The LA Times posted:Emmett Brock thought he was dying, and his mind raced. This isn’t supposed to happen to me. This doesn’t happen this way. I can’t die like this. Here's the description of the assault: quote:A few blocks from the school, Brock spotted a deputy who appeared to be having a heated conversation with a woman on the side of the road. As he drove by, Brock threw up his middle finger. He didn’t even think the deputy would see it, he said. Here is the blatant transphobia: quote:It wasn’t long before authorities asked Brock for a statement, during which he explained that he is transgender. And here's the part where ACAB: quote:When the incident went through the department’s normal force review process, officials cleared Benza of wrongdoing. One sergeant wrote that Brock was assaultive “with threat of serious bodily injury.” Another sergeant, listed as the watch commander, concurred, saying the incident was within policy and the force used was “objectively reasonable.”
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I live in Sacramento and my thermostat hasn't left 68° all summer. Haven't had a bill over $150
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Did you accidentally flip it from °F to °C?
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https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1684584238211821568 Sigh.
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The inertia that led to her winning last time (and really the time before that) is insane.
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# ? Jul 27, 2023 17:51 |
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Madame Senator, this is a Wendy's
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# ? Jul 27, 2023 18:31 |
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didn't wanna be caught dead in the water like McConnell
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:didn't wanna be caught dead in the water like McConnell Hey, what's an absence seizure between friends?
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acksplode posted:California Politics: Madame Senator, this is a Wendy's New thread title
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