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  • The only time I’ve ever gotten shit for being an American in Europe was from some skinheads on a train in Germany who got double offended at my rainbow US flag patch, who yelled a bit about American globohomo propaganda until the conductor told them to quiet down. Which was actually extra hilarious because they were basically just like “you’re lucky this old man scolded us in the German language or you’d have been in big trouble.” Which is possibly the most German thing ever.


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    2 days ago

    That one scene in the first episode where the female protagonist is forcibly strapped to a chair spread eagle and has her clothes ripped off and we spend like a solid 5 minutes doing gratuitous fan service while she convinces aliens not to rape her, completely ruining my ability to recommend the show to people.


  • This is the entire point of academia though. If you were in a math PhD program you would have much better access to the resources to build the background knowledge you need to explore this topic, and then you would literally be paid to research it, and then possibly paid to manage a whole team of people interested the topic, and paid to teach classes on it and publish book chapters, and so on. People have this misconception (not saying you do, but this is a very common sentiment) that academia is this ivory tower which gate keeps knowledge, when the reality is that it’s just a framework for enabling knowledge discovery. The reason most people outside of academia don’t publish original research isn’t some conspiracy. It’s because engaging in original research is a full time job which often requires a lot of money and resources normal people don’t have.