have you sighted a sasquatch yet? i'm pretty sure that a number of those sightings people insist weren't bears ("i know what a bear looks like!") were, in fact, bears.
Still looking for my first 'squatch. This guy was easily 400lbs, so more in the American-style sasquatch as opposed to the lithe, bohemian Euro version.
closest i've ever come to seeing/meeting a bear was in the mountains of fukushima, near some hot springs at an outdoor techno festival. me and a buddy wandered off around the surrounding area coming down off some acid one morning (off-season so all the ski resorts and hotels were empty, or half mouldering and abandoned; a real the shining vibe, lots of neat 70s and 80s architecture).
after about 10 minutes of wandering there was a gigantic rustling in some bushes down in the culvert to the side of the road. no way it could have been anything other than a bear. more noise and commotion than even a full-grown adult could make if pelting it through the undergrowth.
after about 10 minutes of wandering there was a gigantic rustling in some bushes down in the culvert to the side of the road. no way it could have been anything other than a bear. more noise and commotion than even a full-grown adult could make if pelting it through the undergrowth.
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The LSD made you think it was a bear. Probably a rabbit.
nah it was definitely a very large animal bolting through the bushes and bears are pretty much the only large fauna in those parts.
definitely a samurai sasquatch.
quite simply the funniest reversal to the reddit era ever.
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Erm, yes hilarious. That you're repeating nonsense twitter posts.
Lets start with nutrition science, such a small field that the data is probably based on a handful of people.
Low salary, somewhat high underemployment rate.
Lets look at Philosophy. Sorry its so small, I had to zoom right out to get Philisophy in there.
Ahead of Philosophy we have:
Civ Eng
Aero Eng
Mech Eng
Chem Eng
Elec Eng
General Engineering - whatever that is
Pretty well all of them have higher starting salaries than mid-career arts enthusiasts.
As for Comp Sci and Comp Eng
Both have higher starting salaries than mid-career liberal arts grads, and significantly lower underemployment rates.
I'm guessing Comp Sci and Comp Eng grads know they can coin it in the long run so are taking a gap year, while the liberal arts students are heavily underemployed flipping burgers or waiting tables on much lower lifetime salaries.
If you'd studied a STEM subject you'd have picked up that you need to read the numbers, not just parrot someone else.
Lets start with nutrition science, such a small field that the data is probably based on a handful of people.
Low salary, somewhat high underemployment rate.
Lets look at Philosophy. Sorry its so small, I had to zoom right out to get Philisophy in there.
Ahead of Philosophy we have:
Civ Eng
Aero Eng
Mech Eng
Chem Eng
Elec Eng
General Engineering - whatever that is
Pretty well all of them have higher starting salaries than mid-career arts enthusiasts.
As for Comp Sci and Comp Eng
Both have higher starting salaries than mid-career liberal arts grads, and significantly lower underemployment rates.
I'm guessing Comp Sci and Comp Eng grads know they can coin it in the long run so are taking a gap year, while the liberal arts students are heavily underemployed flipping burgers or waiting tables on much lower lifetime salaries.
If you'd studied a STEM subject you'd have picked up that you need to read the numbers, not just parrot someone else.
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sounds like pure copium to me.
i can read the numbers real good. i can even read long ones.
big tech aren't hiring anymore for junior roles. there's been a moratorium on 'comp sci and comp eng' job postings.
is it better to be employed and have a career with an average salary, or to be an unemployed STEM grad with 'big dreams' while indian engineers take all your jobs?
perhaps all these unemployed STEM losers can develop revolutionary consciousness. they could re-enrol in woke mind virus liberal arts colleges and get an education in marx!!!
i can read the numbers real good. i can even read long ones.
big tech aren't hiring anymore for junior roles. there's been a moratorium on 'comp sci and comp eng' job postings.
is it better to be employed and have a career with an average salary, or to be an unemployed STEM grad with 'big dreams' while indian engineers take all your jobs?
perhaps all these unemployed STEM losers can develop revolutionary consciousness. they could re-enrol in woke mind virus liberal arts colleges and get an education in marx!!!
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Underemployment rate - 17%, sounds a lot better than 41% or 56%, about 2.4 times better
Median mid-career wage - $122,000, sounds a lot better than $70,000 or $72,000, about 72% better in fact
I'm sure the average STEM person can read a book in their spare time, there's no need to go to college to do it.
Median mid-career wage - $122,000, sounds a lot better than $70,000 or $72,000, about 72% better in fact
I'm sure the average STEM person can read a book in their spare time, there's no need to go to college to do it.
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evidently you didn't manage it in 50 years of life, despite doing very little else?
I have read at least 50 books. Three Haynes manuals for starters. I wish I'd kept the first one - it was a hardback.
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with regards to clinging to higher lifetime earnings (which depends on so many factors; for example philosophy grads are normally the highest entrants into elite law schools, which takes them up a bracket before they’ve even finished their education or commenced a career) – almost all college-graduate careers nowadays are bested by simple trades.
if you wanted a lifetime of high income and reliable work, it would be better in every single way to become an electrician or a welder than an electrical or mechanical engineer.
presumably people have gone to college throughout history for reasons beyond total lifetime earnings, and out of a bare calculation of ‘return on investment’ alone.
i dont have any problem with a humanities salary, when it comes to all of its cultural enrichments and intangible perquisites. i dont envy comp sci grads competing for jobs with indian coders one bit. in fact, my education allows me to appreciate the delicious humour in the whole situation too much.
are STEM grads the israelis of the academy? they’ve been trotting around with their noses lofted in the air, like some sort of chosen people, for years now. everyone has suffered their boorishness for long enough. discuss in 2500 words.
if you wanted a lifetime of high income and reliable work, it would be better in every single way to become an electrician or a welder than an electrical or mechanical engineer.
presumably people have gone to college throughout history for reasons beyond total lifetime earnings, and out of a bare calculation of ‘return on investment’ alone.
i dont have any problem with a humanities salary, when it comes to all of its cultural enrichments and intangible perquisites. i dont envy comp sci grads competing for jobs with indian coders one bit. in fact, my education allows me to appreciate the delicious humour in the whole situation too much.
are STEM grads the israelis of the academy? they’ve been trotting around with their noses lofted in the air, like some sort of chosen people, for years now. everyone has suffered their boorishness for long enough. discuss in 2500 words.
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No they really haven't, mostly they've quietly got on with the lives creating a more advanced world and being well rewarded for it.
Mostly they've ignored the humanities crowd and their endless crowing, put-downs etc.
Trades are no fun, do not recommend.
Mostly they've ignored the humanities crowd and their endless crowing, put-downs etc.
Trades are no fun, do not recommend.
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Do you think Indians are doing Comp Sci for the supposed low wages and poor prospects.
Of course not, if other subjects paid more they'd be doing those instead.
Of course not, if other subjects paid more they'd be doing those instead.
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erm, any salary in the united states is a gigantic upgrade for them? the H1 route has just become an established thing because big tech are purposefully recruiting them. are you really this dense?Dilbert_X wrote:
Do you think Indians are doing Comp Sci for the supposed low wages and poor prospects.
Of course not, if other subjects paid more they'd be doing those instead.
but you do point to a valid part of the sociology of these disciplines, which is that they're for first or second generation wealthy, possibly first-generation university educated people, as the default route to 'get on' and make it out of the ignominious trades and blue-collar realms – nevermind that they pay better thesedays. indians don't want their children to be downwardly socially mobile any less than western people do.
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