I don’t know how to put this more gently. You’re speaking about a subject that, for anyone familiar with it, it’s pretty clear you don’t know much about, and are getting defensive and doubling down when anyone contradicts you.

It seems like you’re more interested in feeling right than actually being right, and I’m just not interested in wasting my time with someone who would rather write paragraph after paragraph about how other people are wrong than spend 60 seconds first looking online to check if they’re actually right themselves.

In the US and that’s absolutely the norm here. I’d know - I went through it.

Your edit expands the context outside of what we’re discussing - losing 10,000 STEM PhD candidates. People don’t often do part-time PhDs in STEM as they’re not frequently offered. People aren’t keeping their full-time jobs when getting a STEM PhD because that becomes their full-time job.

Looking at it from a super high level, universities apply for funding to complete research, which is completed b graduate students with assistance from faculty. Their tuition is covered to give the graduate student the necessary skills to complete the research while also furthering their other educational goals as time and funds allow.There are often constraints on how and when this research is performed which can make it incompatible with a part-time schedule. The time requirements can also be massive - between classes, teaching, lab research, field research, and being the de-facto lab manager, I easily put in 70-80 hours a week. I even had to sign an agreement that I wouldn’t seek outside work or I’d lose my funding, which ultimately was comical given I wouldn’t have the time

Most PHDs of the type referenced, and most STEM PhDs in general, are fully funded. In other words, tuition and generally some degree of living expenses are covered in exchange for work performed for teaching and research assistantships, fellowships, and grants. This is also true for many STEM masters degrees, though with fewer funding opportunities.

If you’re going post-graduate in a STEM field with a thesis requirement AND are paying tuition, you’re getting fucked.

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You wanna take some time to gather your thoughts first?

Either you’re quite condescending or there is some confusion here. I’m going to assume it’s the latter; if it’s the former, well… life is an adventure.

Yeah but, which part exactly should I not understand because of my American education?

I’m not referring to you in my original comment^{[1](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20221397)}, but to the person to whose comment I’m responding.

So you’re not talking about Marx and Engels, but you are somehow talking about socialism AND scientific socialism no less?

The vocabulary I said I wasn’t referring to is the list of terms provided by Prole^{[2](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20225314)} in response to your question^{[3](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20225057)}. My original comment was offhand, not intended to be a detailed analysis, so their response was assumptive. I’m familiar with the user and they’re good people, so I’m sure it was in good faith.

To answer your original question, here are specific terms in the Wikipedia article^{[4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism)} I would suggest are not covered in US public education with sufficient depth or frequency to give the average citizen the functional vocabulary necessary to fully understand the article without significant further reading. I.e., most Americans would be unable to provide even a basic (correct) definition if asked.

Materialism
Historical materialism
Dialectical materialism
Utopian socialism
Scientific government/Technocracy(though briefly described in line)
Classical liberalism
Marxism

And by extension…

Scientific socialism

The United States ranks 36th in the world for population literacy, with 54% of Americans reading below a 6th-grade proficiency level and 21% being functionally illiterate^{[5](https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics)}, so I’m pretty comfortable with my suggestion but am willing to be convinced otherwise.

Those aren’t what I’m referring to. The comment I was replying to was about the theory density of this wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism

I’m referring to the vocabulary contained there.

If you’re from the US, much of the vocabulary is unfamiliar because education on these concepts is intentionally avoided in public schools. I can’t imagine why…

I struggle here. I did a fair amount of speaking and voice work in the past, which trained me to minimize the use of filler words. Since that means I go silent if I need to think a moment, I have to battle back those who are listening not to understand, but for silence so they can begin. It makes work meetings, especially calls without video, very frustrating.

It’s actually used a lot in food, along with other agricultural waste materials. You’ll find it listed in ingredients as cellulose. It’s processed to hell and indigestible, so it doesn’t really do much nutritionally beyond adding a bit of dietary fiber.

I truly am terrible: terribly educational!

/Dad joke

I forgot the days of codec hunting. I recall downloading the second season of Blueseed and the audio was all in Ogg Vorbis. Someone else was using the phone line so I was SOL until they were done.

1990s problems.

I absolutely love the the hydraulic analogy, and my advancing age and the 'tism compels me to share a story.

I was a science major and worked as a tutor through college. Intermediate physics was required for all science degrees, so basic electrical theory consistently came up.

What I love about the analogy is it’s actually not perfectly analogous, but the differences become obvious once the initial concepts are understood, then those differences help students figure it all out. Its imperfection is actually what makes it perfect, and my nerdy side just loves that kind of stuff.

The students that argued with me the most about how it was a shit analogy were my favorite because they’d so frequently knock it out of the park come exam time. It was like the academic equivalent of hate fucking.

Horny is biology, which is chemistry, which is physics. You triple scienced.

Not a one. I am disappoint.

https://archive.ph/ki0cB

I originally studied environmental microbiology, can confirm.

It IS the smartest of the stupidest moves for some of us. I make much more money than I would have without a degree, so I’ll still come out financially ahead. In would have been so much nicer to have gotten a decent education and not be saddled with enough debt to buy a small house (at the time, before the housing market went insane), though.

My parents and in-laws: $0 student debt
My spouse and me: just shy of $150k

In America I’m free to accrue massive debt! 🦅💵🇺🇸

DO DO NA NA NYAH NYAH NYAAHHH

There’s something so comforting about learning other people have the same struggles I do. I’ve had to do the same thing regarding “optimizing” my routine, which is one of my favorite ways to procrastinate.