At my peak, I easily posted a million words a year to Reddit. The idea that I wasn’t putting that effort into actual productive writing is definitely an idea I’ve had many, many times.
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Honestly the standard curriculum was fine. It was when you got into trying to apply those skills to deciphering academic literature in a meaningful way as part of a broader career that things got tricky.
Bro, I am making pre-leased Camry money now
Surely there will always be a job market for people who know as much about chlorine-argon biosynthesis of semi-compatible carbon lattice polymers withinn a Larson-Chekov matrix as I do.
15 years later: “Hm, we are actually looking for expertise with the Anderson-Palmer reagent matrix.”
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politics @lemmy.world•The Alleged Drug Boat Wasn’t Even Heading to the U.S.: ReportEnglish
2·1 month agoIf only there was some way they could prove it was a drug boat
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politics @lemmy.world•The Alleged Drug Boat Wasn’t Even Heading to the U.S.: ReportEnglish
2·1 month agoPerfect, because these guys aren’t smuggling fentanyl.
My understanding is the practice started as a kind of ritual scarification for warrior tribes, and the relatively minor health benefits were incidental and discovered later. That explains why people chose to do it initially before it became a silly religious rite.
There are actual sanitary considerations for people who don’t bathe very often.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for EveryoneEnglish
5·1 month agoMaybe in 2012. Once it started to be a right wing information warfare battlefield it got pretty insufferable. Like a lot of the niche content was still there, but the broader culture changed immensely.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try hereEnglish
9·1 month agodiscussing things with experts
This you?
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Not sure if this is a science meme but politicalmemes hated it so I'll try hereEnglish
10·1 month agoWhat is a gun expert to you? A person with a lot of guns? Or does it require like an engineering degree. Because the only firearms engineer I know absolutely supports sane gun control.
Post scarcity is kind of an odd man out here. The idea predates tech broism by a solid half century, and informs a lot of contemporary leftist theory. There is nothing inherently wrong with using utopian thinking as a guiding principle for iterative policy. I’d argue that anything which doesn’t do that is cynicism.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Hillary Clinton Says Young Americans Are Pro-Palestine Because They Watch ‘Totally Made Up’ Videos of Gaza HorrorsEnglish
42·1 month agoJesus fucking Christ all you have to do is shut the fuck up
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Lily Allen's West End Girl Being Released On Butt Plug-Shaped USB DrivesEnglish
1·1 month agoSouth side 👉👇👈
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Programmers are no longer needed!English
12·1 month agoLiterally nothing of consequence has been built with visual, mda or no-code paradigms.
What, this bish doesn’t even have a wifi hotspot?
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Shout out to my engineering homies.English
21·1 month agoYeah, their equity package wasn’t as good as Anduril.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Shout out to my engineering homies.English
155·1 month agoLook man, making missile killing lasers is just way more interesting than building another pointless SUV to a price target.
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politics @lemmy.world•MAGA declares war on the Catholic ChurchEnglish
1·1 month agoI am pretty sure being head the Vatican would be considered foreign nobility for purposes of the constitution.

Oof ow