The academics I know are all pretty miserable these days. They can see that it's a corrupt, exploitative system and they feel powerless to change it. They spend their time writing grant applications and chasing money, then pumping out papers they know are fairly trivial, but they have to write them to keep the funding coming in. Some of the scientific disciplines are in a slow state of crisis due to a serious loss of confidence in the credibility or value of much of the research. And the younger ones know they'll never get tenure and are on a shit career track potentially forever. But even the ones with tenure seem pretty unhappy, working for these organizations that relentlessly seek money and superficial prestige.
This is so far from what academia ought to be about, and from the enthusiasms that brought these people into it in the first place. I got out 20 years ago because I found this stuff repellent then. It's worse now. it's sad that our society can't provide a place for smart and enthusiastic people to do honest research without all this corrupting quasi-commercial (or sometimes simply commercial) influence.
I have rescued several laptops that were struggling with Windows by installing Linux, and KDE Plasma is excellent these days. My 7 year old Dell XPS, which had become unusably slow and hot under Windows 11 despite repastes and cleaning, runs OpenSUSE Tumbleweed like it's a new machine.
I feel the same about KDE and Windows. I only keep Windows for some music production stuff and legacy .NET application maintenance. The rest of the time I avoid it and use Linux and KDE, a far more pleasant experience.
This applies when you're a pedestrian waiting to cross too. There are always those drivers who think they're doing you a favor by stopping one of the lanes of traffic so you can walk out into the other. They smile and wave and look baffled when you don't take the bait.
If you trust every driver to follow the rules exactly and have their eyes open, you can risk your life by walking out. Otherwise you might wait anyway. And the rules about right of way depend on your country and state.
There's also freedom from corporate culture, which I have had enough of in the past. Overall I think I'm happier keeping my perfectly tolerable job in its place and earning less, though I can see how others make a different choice and would negatively judge what I do.
If we can see the dog’s face through those glasses, they’re probably not safe viewing glasses. Safe ones would be entirely opaque (or mirrored) when seen from the front.
Since there’s a case to be made either way, it would be nice if the publishers could offer two editions and let the reader choose. This might be too expensive in the case of printed books, but for e-books it seems like it should be feasible.
There’s something wrong with your formatting: all the sentences after the first paragraph appear as long single lines of text that require scrolling sideways. You probably just need a > character at the start of each paragraph to mark it as a quote.
Yeah, definitely don’t put any of those profits toward a living wage though. Make your employees trauma dump for the chance at a few extra bucks! Probably comes as an Amazon gift card, too.
As one commenter to the clip put it: “There’s a demon alright and he grabs pussies, doesn’t pay his taxes, rapes women, steals classified documents and manipulates dumbasses like this one.” Amen.
Fascism has always been very dumb, but also very dangerous. This feels like watching Hitler come to power and thinking “any day soon, people will see how stupid this all is.”
Projection has become a hallmark of today's Republican party. At any time a GOP lawmaker is accused of something, they and their surrogates quickly turn to accusing a Democrat of doing the same thing.
Just another real issue they’re hijacking to undermine their opponents’ discourse by rendering words meaningless. I really don’t like these gaslighting fascists very much. Apparently lots of people do.
The center should put you on an out-spiraling bridge that feeds traffic back into the outermost lane. Then even the most indecisive drivers are accommodated. Or just a deep pit of punishment.
“I got hit with a strap. Bam, bam, bam—and I’ve never been to a shrink—by my father,” Hannity told his guests, while conceding that Peterson “went too far” with his own son. “I would tell you that I deserved it.”
“I had welts when my father hit me in the legs with his belt,” Hannity told his guests as they detailed the allegations leveled against Peterson.
“My father punched me in the face when I talked back to him once, and I deserved it,” Hannity later said in the discussion while defending his dad’s alleged actions.
What a weird thing to brag about: being abused by your father but never seeking any help. I guess in conservative world if you admit something troubled you or you might need help, or if you question the authority of violent men, that’s perceived as weakness. What a miserable way to live.
I get the impression plenty of these ultra-rich techbros come to believe that they’re there by merit. They don’t see all the luck that went into their riches, and they habitually take credit for the work done by those beneath them. People like Bezos and Musk may genuinely believe they’re better (smarter, more insightful, more capable) than others. I expect many ultra-rich CEOs get like that, not just in tech companies. And certainly many of those investors who do nothing but mess around with the stock market think they’re more brilliant than everyone who doesn’t.
CEO pay is rising faster than it has in a decade — and 3 times as fast as worker wages ( qz.com )
xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation ( sh.itjust.works )
xkcd #2940: Modes of Transportation...
I run a university – people like me should be backing students' right to protest over Gaza | Patrizia Nanz ( www.theguardian.com )
AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed ( www.bbc.com )
xkcd #2932: Driving PSA ( imgs.xkcd.com )
https://xkcd.com/2932...
Sleepy Fox Kit ( www.youtube.com )
A (Strange) Interview With the Russian-Military-Linked Hackers Targeting US Water Utilities ( www.wired.com )
UCLA clashes: Pro-Palestinian protesters attacked by Israel supporters ( www.aljazeera.com )
What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? ( i.redd.it )
Ready for the eclipse 😎 ( sh.itjust.works )
Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane ( prospect.org )
The New "Over the Top" Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024 ( hartmannreport.com )
With Netanyahu Threatening Rafah Invasion, Biden Prepares to Send Israel More Bombs ( theintercept.com )
Amazon Kindle e-book updates need a public changelog ( goodereader.com )
"The Myth of Frontier Individualism" from The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 1941-06: Vol 22 Iss 1 ( archive.org )
215 bodies, known to the police, found in unmarked graves behind jail in Jackson, Mississippi, US ( www.wsws.org )
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A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? ( lemmy.world )
xkcd #2881: Bug Thread ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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Martin Luther King Jr: #1 Most Misrepresented man of all time
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the election results and what's next ( frozengarlic.wordpress.com )
Pro-Israel Billionaires Are Spending Big to Oust Socialists From Office ( jacobin.com )
Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today | Samantha Hill ( www.theguardian.com )
Hard-up this holiday? Amazon flyer tells workers to ask company mascot for help ( www.theguardian.com )
Yeah, definitely don’t put any of those profits toward a living wage though. Make your employees trauma dump for the chance at a few extra bucks! Probably comes as an Amazon gift card, too.
Trump rally warns that God will punish those who don't worship Dictator Trump ( boingboing.net )
Mango or bird? ( lemmy.world )
WATCH: Lara Trump Says Joe Biden is Running For President To Avoid Going to Prison - HillReporter | ( hillreporter.com )
Projection has become a hallmark of today's Republican party. At any time a GOP lawmaker is accused of something, they and their surrogates quickly turn to accusing a Democrat of doing the same thing.
American Evangelicals Await the Final Battle in Gaza | The Nation ( www.thenation.com )
Majestic ( startrek.website )
Be an underpaid babysitter for a rich fuck! ( lemmy.ml )
Seriously, “Ensure the CEO sleeps before a certain time”...
Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks • The Register ( www.theregister.com )
'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do ( finance.yahoo.com )
xkcd #2842: Inspiraling Roundabout ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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xkcd #2841: Sign Combo ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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Josh Hawley Calls for Ukraine Funding To Be ‘Redirected to Israel Immediately’ ( www.mediaite.com )
Sean Hannity Reveals His Father Beat Him ( www.newsweek.com )
"No one can stand him at this point": House GOP plots to expel Matt Gaetz amid McCarthy catfight ( www.salon.com )
Fog Echo ( lemmy.ca )
Really liked the shapes that the negative space of the fog took here. Calm and simple.
Flashback - Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: 'No one deserves to have that much money' ( www.cnn.com )