dr_analog
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
It's not cost free. There's a lot of anxiety wrapped up in it. They believe Trump is Fascist Dictator and This Time they won't have jobs to come back to, or he'll use one weird trick to deny them their back pay. Either way, they may feel apprehensive about spending their savings so they debt finance a lot of living expenses.
If I were a federal employee my reaction to this would be ayy lmfao but I think this is hell for normies, if /r/fednews is any indicator.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
If the Republicans benefited from shutting the government down they don't need the Democrats to do it. It has costs for them too.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
Indeed, /r/fednews (the premier subreddit for federal employees) seems pretty outraged. They went through all that suffering and got nothing for it.
Though, I don't think they got nothing. They can shut down the government again after Christmas without SNAP being affected (since it will be funded for the next year). That's a D win, I suppose.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
The difference is what happened to Murray was actually unfair.
As Hunter S Thompson once said, if you're about to get your ass kicked and you're outnumbered, don't curl up and become a soccer ball. That just makes kicking your ass fun and will greatly deepen the beating you will take. At least become a soccer ball with teeth, so that there's some small risk to them.
The Democrats, lacking any real power in Congress, need not utterly just take whatever the Republicans want to hand down. They don't have to make it fun for them. At the minimum they can make the process so miserable for everyone that perhaps the Republicans will go easier next time.
It's not a great strategy, but it's all they have.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
As for the academy, it's been so thoroughly disgraced at this point that concerns about its dignity are beneath comment.
In this house we believe in holding intellectuals accountable for both going full retard on wokeness and for bigoted JAQing off.
He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth but the rest of the scientific community wasn't obligated to let this guy who fits right in with shitposting Twitter edgelords represent them.
Charles Murray's dignity he does not have.
And in the end Watson was the one crying like a bitch that his reputation was ruined.
Our society should have great men and and if they want to be recognized as great men they should behave more on the Bertrand Russell or Richard Feynman end of the scale than the Andrew Tate or Dan Bilzerian end.
He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth because his less-talented successors found him embarrassing or something.
Okay what about Crick, the person he won the Nobel with, who had a much more accomplished career? He also found him embarrassing. They're not all scrubs complaining that the big swinging dick brought the truth too hard and it hurt their feelings.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
5d ago
naughty things my family and I have said in the last week
Do you not see the difference between you and your family engaging in bar talk in relative privacy and The Most Decorated Science Man saying this during interviews with the press?
He is not saying this stuff in the comfort of his home with his friends and being secretly recorded and outed. He has said much of it in interviews with journalists.
It is beneath the dignity of the academy for its members to use that opportunity to crack racist (and sexist) jokes, Especially if one is a world famous geneticist.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
6d ago
I'm not the OP, but I believe as an ubermensch who was a leading authority on genetics he had a moral responsibility to not casually sling such inflammatory shit that would carry the weight of genetic condemnation. He had a right to his shitposting, but the world is correct to complain that this shitposting is undignified.
This is actually not as horrible as I was expecting. 87.5% don't need remedial math is impressive!
EDIT: I guess I can't make the prior conclusion. The kids who were not sent to remedial math may not necessarily know how to do (1+s)^2
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