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Mister Bates posted:I have a bunch of friends who went on to academia or computer-touching positions who tell me 'I wish I had gone to technical school' and meanwhile I'm over here like 'I wish I had gone to loving college man' I did manual labor before school and while getting my degrees to stay alive/eat and I always laugh at people/colleagues that say this, cause they have no idea. I was even in good shape and health and my knees and right shoulder are absolutely hosed just from daily repetitive motions and lifting/carrying that I did in those jobs. And it was only a few years while I was in good physical shape! I can’t imagine the pain after decades or a lifetime of it. So I quietly enjoy my useless climate controlled office job where I do essentially nothing most of the week, mixed in with periods of complete chaos and late nights. Easily a better trade even with the debt from school. Part of my job is helping people with employment, and most of the manufacturing or industry jobs have been running the same desperate ads for over 2 years now for all the reasons you state, and it’s somehow actually worse in reality.
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I think they've actively made anything beyond undergrad as miserable as possible because I see really promising kids drop out all the time now. Financially it's miserable, getting admitted is miserable, the course work and/or dissertations were always miserable, and what few RA or GA positions seem designed to impoverish and or kill you with stress. All of these (sorry Willa) Boomer motherfuckers who got tenure the day they were awarded their PhDs have overseen the administrators absolutely obliterate higher education.
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there has been some minor success at grad student organization in the USA but I don’t know if it is enough to address the core problems
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Willa's forever point is that the only thing separating a dastardly Boomer from a put upon Millennial is opportunity (nobody cares about Xers). If there were any slots to destroy academia left for Millennials they'd be flooding into them. For instance, the DEI grift train is rife with the younger crowd
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I think they've actively made anything beyond undergrad as miserable as possible because I see really promising kids drop out all the time now. Financially it's miserable, getting admitted is miserable, the course work and/or dissertations were always miserable, and what few RA or GA positions seem designed to impoverish and or kill you with stress. Yeah in engineering it would have been insane to go into academia: make enough money to probably buy a house and have a reasonable chance at promotions OR compete with 69,420 people under threat of deportation who will wash their professors clothes by hand if needs be
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I think they've actively made anything beyond undergrad as miserable as possible because I see really promising kids drop out all the time now. Financially it's miserable, getting admitted is miserable, the course work and/or dissertations were always miserable, and what few RA or GA positions seem designed to impoverish and or kill you with stress. This is 100% true and it is deliberate. It enforces the class hierarchy of the neo-lib social/political/economic culture, as upon completion you’ve been hazed/blooded into the system and your reward is do-nothing jobs or easy management gigs regardless of merit or competency. And once someone has “made it”, they’re going to do everything to keep it, and keep others down and out. Now after those 2-6 years of hell getting a masters or PhD and you’ve got a justification for acting that way in many people’s eyes. I was working insane hours for my masters every week and for licensure, and working said labor jobs to cover rent/food cause of course all of this academic crap is unpaid, and I honestly have no idea how I did it without going insane looking back.
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Like unless you were doing basically industrial research it wouldn't make sense. And stay the hell away from any science or engineering prof who only has international students
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Rhugor posted:This is 100% true and it is deliberate. It enforces the class hierarchy of the neo-lib social/political/economic culture, as upon completion you’ve been hazed/blooded into the system and your reward is do-nothing jobs or easy management gigs regardless of merit or competency. And once someone has “made it”, they’re going to do everything to keep it, and keep others down and out. Now after those 2-6 years of hell getting a masters or PhD and you’ve got a justification for acting that way in many people’s eyes. I'm going to triple post, mods hit me if this is bad, but in engineering having a PhD actually locks you out of certain kinds of work. You're not gonna work for Mattamy Homes or Bird Construction anymore - it really really cuts out who'll look at you
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It's loving crazy making to read up on The Great Scholars of History when all they had to do was show up for the exams. We have added so many hoops and so much tedious work that obviously wasn't required for loving Goethe or whoever to be considered knowledgeable. "He was uninspired both by the academics and his fellow students, became indebted for his purchase of books and opium, and spent lengthy periods in London during term. When due to take his final exams, he absconded, never to return. Nonetheless de Quincey’s circle, which included Coleridge and the Wordsworths, considered him a brilliant classicist. Accordingly in 1820 de Quincey was nominated for a Professorship in Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. "  but also dudes rock.
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Isentropy posted:I'm going to triple post, mods hit me if this is bad, but in engineering having a PhD actually locks you out of certain kinds of work. You're not gonna work for Mattamy Homes or Bird Construction anymore - it really really cuts out who'll look at you I’m not in industrial or engineering so it’s not a big deal for me, but you’re right. For my field, higher education degrees are required to do anything meaningful, or that pays, unfortunately.
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Isentropy posted:I'm going to triple post, mods hit me if this is bad, but in engineering having a PhD actually locks you out of certain kinds of work. You're not gonna work for Mattamy Homes or Bird Construction anymore - it really really cuts out who'll look at you i think that is highly dependent on what kinda engineering you do. for civil/environmental/geotech engineers a masters is pretty beneficial. though a lot of civil engineers end up getting management-related masters instead of technical ones. phds are pretty useless, though, unless you want to be a research engineer or a professor
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iirc Wittgenstein got a PhD by just writing the TLP edit yeah Despite this fame, [wittgenstein] could not initially work at Cambridge as he did not have a degree, so he applied as an advanced undergraduate. Russell noted that his previous residency was sufficient to fulfill eligibility requirements for a PhD, and urged him to offer the Tractatus as his thesis.[207] It was examined in 1929 by Russell and Moore; at the end of the thesis defence, Wittgenstein clapped the two examiners on the shoulder and said, ‘”Don’t worry, I know you’ll never understand it.”[208] Moore wrote in the examiner’s report: “I myself consider that this is a work of genius; but, even if I am completely mistaken and it is nothing of the sort, it is well above the standard required for the Ph.D. degree.”[209] Wittgenstein was appointed as a lecturer and was made a fellow of Trinity College.
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Hatebag posted:i think that is highly dependent on what kinda engineering you do. for civil/environmental/geotech engineers a masters is pretty beneficial. though a lot of civil engineers end up getting management-related masters instead of technical ones. Yeah that's the exception. Structural engineering and a few other disciplines require a MS. The only practicing PhDs I've seen worked for LockMart though
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Isentropy posted:Yeah that's the exception. Structural engineering and a few other disciplines require a MS. The only practicing PhDs I've seen worked for LockMart though aerospace, petroleum, chemical, electrical, and robotics engineering i think a phd can be useful. and in industry yeah they're going to be at the big companies.
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Admittedly, it is hard to suggest people get a PhD in the US (or I guess North America) unless they have connections/a good job lined up otherwise no one wants to starve to death (perhaps literally) as an adjunct and even many assistant professorships are just not keeping up with the cost of living. I have seen assistant professorships being offer at NYU in the $75,000-80,000 price range, which seems like a lot, until you consider how much it takes to actually live in New York. American PhDs actually still go quite far abroad, but even Americans who do dissertation work usually come home.
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I keep forgetting that the head of state of Canada is still the German pretender lmao
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I keep forgetting that the head of state of Canada is still the German pretender lmao If the King over the water could stop collecting art and kissing his boyfriend for a second, we could do something about it.
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:If the King over the water could stop collecting art and kissing his boyfriend for a second, we could do something about it. We could also fund tons of academic jobs by trying to figure out how to become a republic though? Or just make someone Lord Protector
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Isentropy posted:We could also fund tons of academic jobs by trying to figure out how to become a republic though? Or just make someone Lord Protector No, I don't think so. Why on earth would I want to live in a republic?
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There's a huge industry for adult learning MS and PhD options that are an outgrowth of what was put in place for MBAs the last few decades. I'm getting an MS in Data Analytics right now from a Big Ten school because work will pay for it and the class content is mostly reasonable but the grading scale might as well not even exist. As long as you make an attempt and turn things in it's almost impossible to even get a B, much less anything lower.
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:
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Pistol_Pete posted:I'd loving love to get paid a decent salary to potter around in university libraries, reading books, making notes and occasionally getting called into meetings with higher officials, where I'd provide advice by quoting folk proverbs at them. 
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Pistol_Pete posted:I'd loving love to get paid a decent salary to potter around in university libraries, reading books, making notes and occasionally getting called into meetings with higher officials, where I'd provide advice by quoting folk proverbs at them. well senator, as mr beast said in his philosophical treatise on starving children,
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:The policy papers from Australia show they deliberately hosed with naval procurement over decades to break up the skilled, high paying, unionized workforce, I would imagine the US did something similar? It makes sense. shipbuilders, the one thing that an island nation wouldn't want a skilled workforce of
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Hatebag posted:doesn't it kind of work out if you get a battery and panels installed and pay for it directly? that's like $15-20k which should mean it pays for itself after like a decade Wtf. In South Africa it costs about $5000 for 8x540w solar panels, a 5kW inverter and 5Kw battery, plus installation and municipal registration. It's a common and popular setup here due to years of electricity issues. And the climate here is extremely well suited to solar. You can get most of a $150 monthly power bill discounted, at least in summer. The financial service providers give 5+ year leases to pay off the installation (to own it), about matching the annual electricity bill reduction. The USA will lose ww3 because they pay 4 times as much for a solar system... Presumably because of high import tariffs??
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TeenageArchipelago posted:It makes sense. shipbuilders, the one thing that an island nation wouldn't want a skilled workforce of Less of a nation and more of a colony, which is why catering to capitalists is more important than any kind of identity or long term preservation
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Slavvy posted:You can't own the solar system Elon They look up past that horizon, past that blue sky, they see the stars and they think, mine.
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:No, I don't think so. Why on earth would I want to live in a republic?  Or North Korea if you prefer. They even have functional artillery and shell production. You gotta admit you can't argue with these facts.
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StashAugustine posted:They look up past that horizon, past that blue sky, they see the stars and they think, mine. -Cecil Rhodes BearsBearsBears has issued a correction as of 23:33 on Apr 10, 2024 |
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Orange Devil posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGeaTDxPI9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0BXr3Zjg_I
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lmao that the Kims taking tours to see how things are made first hand is held as some kind of slight against them
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Nix Panicus posted:lmao that the Kims taking tours to see how things are made first hand is held as some kind of slight against them "real leadership lives in total ignorance" - george washington
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:There's also literally no barracks in Ottawa. doing a land acknowledgement for my mcmansion, but acknowledging service members having to vie for offbase housing instead of indigenous americans
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Votskomit posted:Wtf. well, as mentioned above it's probably actually more like $30k out of pocket, but you can deduct up to 30% of that so it comes out to $21k plus the interest between when you pay and when you file your taxes. I'd assume it has something to do with america being run by a cabal of fossil fuel companies. and because all the solar panel installation companies are based on a rent-seeking model, they want to get the installation cost as high as possible to coerce people into being sun serfs. and yeah, some tax deductions you can only claim for solar panels made in the usa, which is effectively a tariff
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TeenageArchipelago posted:It makes sense. shipbuilders, the one thing that an island nation wouldn't want a skilled workforce of ?? They're a continental nation. NZ is the island nation.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/EvanDyerCBC/status/1778070997226205222?t=sEXqWDlNgIwVF7f7b1D2_g&s=19 rules based international order airstrikes again
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