Final Remix

Dude just train pigeons and crows to do your bidding. They’re clever and you can pay them in snacks.

Right… peripheral vision in general is better at motion, but shit for details. It’s why sacchads happen seemingly at random; often something is signalled in the periphery, so the individual glances in that direction.

The only prereq for SS now is that you can stand to be locked in an airtight vehicle for extended periods with the human rotbag. Even his “wife” can’t stand to be in the same car as him.

A former buddy of mine joined local LE some years back. They tormented and hazed the hell outta him until he was forced to move to another precinct.
And then it happened again.
Nowadays, he toes the line and has a LOT of really worrying opinions on a lot of things, but he has the respect of his coworkers now.

No one’s going to make them. The entire regime is shit from top to bottom.

Worse. Many of them are outright complicit, voting alongside the republicans.

The rest of the world needs to swoop in and save us at this point. The new nazi party and several pro-fascism democrats are making sure this shit continues unabated.

They never will. Media companies want to get in on the grift and get their cut. Every lawsuit that went to trial has been a blow to that shitheel of a human, but companies keep bendin nthe fucking knee and settling at best.

Can’t think of a more immediately remediable and useless thing than golf courses. Well, Generative AI. But golf courses.

Yes, sir. The reference desk is right over there. But you’d know that, being the Librarian, right?

It’s jus’ a little arc flash between friends.

You already said STEM. Some universities I’ve worked with include psych in the STEM department. It is a science. Fuck saying “hard sciences” like some kind of tiered distinction.

And, to my previous point… every psych PhD I’ve come across has been paid for. Hell, my advisor even had the balls to say “if you’re paying for a PhD, you’re doing it wrong,” when someone asked about funding during the interview.

It depends on the field, program of study, and institution. Some places want masters degrees coming in. Others, a bachelor’s or postbacc, so they can do a combined “full tour” masters-through-PhD and they get to shape students as-is.

Depends in if you include behavior and psych as STEM, I guess, then.

Plausible bullshit machines.

Maybe it’s just my field, but every PhD program I’ve seen, applied to, attended, sent students to, etc… was basically paid for, outright. Mostly it’s a matter of moving, which is a gigantic bitch.

It’s the same awful.

The plagiarism checker we use where I am, I basically use it to check citations. Like… if it’s 70% “plagiarized” it usually means either a student used proper citations, or they copied the instructions Into their submitted document.

That’s what the harness is for.

Honey, go toss another plutonium pellet in the house slot, please.

And to that end, I hate to be a “both parties” guy, but no other president or administration will roll back the insane changes and stuff that’s been destroyed by this administration, either. It’s all shit in place for them to monitor and control the populace better, so why would any of them ever willingly remove any of it?