You know, I know it, everyone knows it.
If you want to know, come work here in the White House.
LMFAOOOOO
Do you have the full exchange? Would you like to read it out?
HAHAHAHAHAHA GET REKT
Wait, wait, hol up, Evan, Evan, can we get a fact check?
If If If If If If If If, If If If If If If If If, it was Big Mike's ding dong.
Unless they were asking (Not a U.S. Citizen) Obama:
- Oooooo, Barry Boy, what was the most enchanting part of your presidency?
Thank you! I am worried that one of these days I will say something totally normal (but terribly offensive to them) and be fired, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like working with a bunch of tattle-tale children though.
I do enjoy my job and I am happy to continue working to reveal more of the "secrets" of the universe.
I wish you well in your endeavors as well! Hopefully you are in a place that is not toxic like academia.
Seems to line up with my experiences perfectly. Also, Nobel Laureates backing Biden...just, wow. In my time in academia, I have met four Nobel Physics Prize winners and they were all very humble people. I know they are all lefties though.
Sad!
Yup. The problem becomes worse when the based scientists are unable to speak up because they will be cancelled. Some have done it, and basically every one that has was fired.
Not a good feeling. I have to bite my tongue and walk on eggshells around any university. It's absurd.
In astrophysics, I'd say the demographics are probably 85% lefty, 15% correcty, with a higher percentage of lefties if you slice out all the older folks. The current generation of astronomers is quite lefty.
I don't necessarily have any links to share, but if you spend enough time looking at the websites of different astronomy departments, journals, professional groups, etc. you will find all the Marxist intersectionalism you would never want and more. As a whole, the field is quite white (not that anybody should care, I don't) so the commies love to have meetings and events about "_____ in astronomy" where _____ is your favorite intersectional bullshit (queers, women, people who were previously referred to as black but now must be referred to as POC to avoid the PC police, etc).
Since when does something so shallow like skin color or other factors that you cannot change, like sex, determine how you can solve complex technical problems?
Hint for all the degenerate lefties: those things cannot determine your quality as a scientist.
As a summary, I'd say the field is moving along nicely but the commies are encroaching and soon it'll be impossible to get away from them, much like in the social "sciences."
If you are truly a skeptic and have kept your job as a scientist, you are doing quite well. This doesn't apply as much to astrophysics because the field is not human-centered like biology.
But there is a lot of gate-keeping and circle-jerking in astrophysics. I have colleagues (not friends) that have worked on a single system their entire career, mainly because it's their safe space. If they had to produce clever and original ideas to keep their jobs, half would be gone the first week.
I've taken the long road of learning new things in order to remain relevant across a multitude of fields. Probably it has cost me a bit more time, but that's okay.
Chad lives matter.
Thot and soyboy lives do not.
"We are the party of science"
- There are only two genders, and many mental illnesses.
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- Getting sick is an unfortunate, but natural side effect of living.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
- Locking people in their homes for months kills many.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
- Taxation is theft.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The dead voting for the dead.
Yes, working my way through the sewer pipes still.
I could probably get a job in data science for a private company and make at least twice as much as I am right now, but I have the 'tism and some of my autistic foci are black holes, gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts, etc. so I am probably going to remain in academia. It's a blessed curse. I would be bored to tears in a "normal" job and it seems all the good data science jobs are held in dictatorial technocratic companies that are playing no small role in the destruction of humanity.
The communists are slowly infiltrating and causing irreparable damage to astrophysics. It's sad. When a large fraction of scientists became godless heathens, the field began its slow descent into degenerate nonsense. I must stay in and fight them with all of my being. That said, if they ever found out I have this account I am certain I would be cancelled immediately.
I view my job as an attempt to unveil a nano-fraction of the beauty of God's creation. Sadly, many have fallen from this ideal and view it as some sort of game or ultimately meaningless exercise in human ego stroking. They could not be further from the truth.
You were right to get out of academia. I try never to feel jealousy, but I must admit I feel it when I hear stories like yours. I think I can navigate my academic career and God-willing, I will be successful. But it's a lonely road. I know three other based astrophysicists, but most are insufferable lefty goons. I try to forgive them, but it is difficult.
I did not visit reddit very much, and never visit now, but I have seen some extraordinarily stupid posts from that sub.
wE cAn bE gOdS reeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Very low energy.
I wouldn't call that socialism though, because there weren't soyboys miniature dictators back then. We would have just killed them and fed their meat to the boars.
I think the "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" quote is Carl Sagan, but point taken.
Feynman is unequaled in his genius.
This made me laugh quite hard. I love it. I am going to screenshot this, print it out, and look at it for inspiration.
Regards,
Your local based astrophysicist/researcher
COME ON, MAN!
Truth over qualifications.
Caution over optimism.
Nothing over "something."
First thing that came to my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjZ7f2Gib9E
That implies it was once useful.
Socialism is a cancerous tumor.
Never trust the wild claims of a scientist. I would know, I am one.
Especially in the biological sciences, where the truth is stretched longer than a DNA molecule.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I will not be getting any vaccine or injection of "antibodies."
So we are banning Hunter Biden? Excellent!
The Double Diaper Dipshit!