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I can imagine Gus joining the army depending on his relationship with his dad.
At least they let you guys outside. Imagine being told you need "sleeping lessons" where they lock you in a box all day
He got solid 10's on all his shots, didn't he?
peer F accepted the paper
I believe in the scientific method. I believe in peer review.
I just don't like that scientific journals have become so commodified that a lesser journal would accept volumes of bad science and bad review in order to boost its rankings whilst boosting the prestige of the scientist who is measured on the quantity of their work and not the quality.
Entire paper mills exist purely for this reason, and it's a scourge on the scientific community.
Reminds me of the HBO series, Animals
It's a numbers game.
- X submits paper to Journal 1, and peers A,B,C reject it.
- X submits paper with minor changes to Journal 2, and only peers D and E reject it.
- X submits paper with minor changes to Journal 3, and only peer G rejects it
- X submits paper with minor changes to Journal 4, and no one rejects it.
Journal 4 increments prestige, Scientist X increments prestige, but nothing true or good is actually gained.
Science.
Yet it is. His wins were negated by her losses, they're on the same team.
The BBC series Dracula really explores this trope in a really interesting way. Worth a watch without spoilering anything.
We learned it like this at school:
Light beam bounces once or more, suck that victim dry, senor
Light beam bounces none or less, seek the curtains now, princess
You have to respect that people are smart in different ways. The human mind has to spend its time doing something.
Likely the people you meet have completely tangential interests to yours and so you don't notice their intelligence, but there will always be a topic that someone else is expert in to which you are a novice in.
The key is to bridge those small interest overlaps by finding a common vocabulary that you can use as a basis for examples. If you truly understand a topic, you should be able to create digestible examples for it.
Refusing to compromise on this is more a sign of immaturity and insecurity, than a consolidation of your intellect.
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There Are No Flowers in the Real World by David Lapham
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I hear where you're coming from, and though the voting habits of my peers does cause me a lot of passive grief -- I noticed that actively, the people that one would pigeonhole as "fascist" in the binary political groups we now seem to operate under, are just as there for me in times of need and have many overlapping interests as my more progressive peers.
Ultimately what I'm saying I think is, there will always be monstrous outliers who will enact harm on society and empower the worst aspects in everyone by example alone, but I think there will always be many more generally decent people who look after one another and keep this (*gestures wildly at everything*) going, despite these few bad actors.
As for accountability, I wholeheartedly agree that these bad actors should face their just dues, but I'm not going to set myself up for failure by staking my entire world outlook on it when those at the top barely get a tap on the wrist. The world is unjust, but it's also full of many wonderful people.