Students shouldn’t have any say in shaping institutions they attend to gain knowledge. They are not smarter than their professors. Or if they disagree, they should attend another university and vite with their wallet/loan/whatever.
Taken to that extreme, the only way to resolve issues with an university that "the university" (which seldom is a blob with one opinion) doesn't recognize itself would be by economic destruction of said university. That's horrendously inefficient when you have tools of diplomacy available. (Similar to how we do not resolve issues with governments by revolution, unless absolutely necessary)
Also, there are clear legal limits to that approach.
This post is poisonous to knowledge. I've politely corrected professors who I respect on multiple occasions. Just because you are informed about a particular subject does not mean that you are never wrong about that subject. I've noticed that STEM professors tend to be more willing to accept that they are wrong about something than in the humanities which I suspect is because it is much easier to prove that someone is incorrect about something in STEM.
I think students should definitely be able to offer polite feedback to their professors, like you describe. However, students definitely shouldn't be in a position to dictate the curriculum, which I think is more what the grandparent was talking about.
Agree. As a white straight guy (although English is not my first language), who actually lived through a war in my country, I find this “_literally_ scared for our lives”, disgusting self victimization.
As a soldier myself, I respect what you have done for your country. And as a non-English speaker myself, I would have found it difficult to sympathize with this text a few years ago, having difficulty understanding why the Americans complain so much about everything ;) However the more and more I learn about America the more I have come to sympathize with viewpoints like this after hearing about their everyday problems. Of the pornography artists that use Patreon that I know, a disproportionate amount of them are LGBTQ (I suspect it is a form of escapism), and it no longer surprises me at all that they are worried this will disproportionately harm them with the threat of homelessness. Many of them are young and cannot afford medical treatments for mental diseases (which are increasing in America), and while the difficulty of getting a job is already quite difficult, getting one and keeping it with untreated ADHD is even harder. For these friends, drawing pornography is not only the a way of expressing themselves and their identity but also the only way to avoid staying off the streets.
I might have also said "suck it up, get a job" to my friends a few years ago, but after knowing several of them with ADHD and other problems who cannot afford meds I can no longer say that. The American system is cold and unfeeling and would grind young people like this into dust if they had no other outlet. Patreon gave them an opportunity to put food on their plates and live under a roof, and now it is being taken away. I would be scared for my livelyhood.
But sedentary life of scientists brought all the advances in medicine, thanks to which the life expectancy went up. I prefer sedentary lifestyle with modern medicine to active hunting lifestile and life expectancy of 50.
Sedentary behaviour raises your mortality rate, so your life expectancy while living a sedentary lifestyle may be just as short. A balance of movement but not over exerting is likely a good compromise. It's thought that the it is the light, regular physical activity of those on the island of Ikaria that gives them their recently famed longevity.
Comparison is inaccurate. iPhoneX has 256GB of Flash, not RAM. Vacuum tubes were used for RAM, while smaller and cheaper ferrite cores were used for permanent storage.
I always wondered if astronauts were given some informal information how to end their lives quickly, in case there is no hope for their recovery. I know I wouldn't like sitting on the moon waiting for oxygen to slowly run out...
Apparently, Carl Sagan was under the impression that astronauts were given cyanide pills, but NASA and actual astronauts have denied this, pointing out that poison is unnecessary when you can just open the hatch and depressurize your spacecraft.
I heard somewhere they had the choice between depressurizing the lander or "starving to death". This might have been in an interview with William Safire.
If true... that would imply their oxygen supply would have lasted a very long time.
