Biden Hired a DEI Fake "Physicist" Whose Major Research Was Into the Dangers of "White Empiricism"

A professor of physics and gender studies who has argued that "white empiricism" undermines Einstein's theory of general relativity now sits on a top physics advisory panel within the Department of Energy, raising questions from fellow scientists about the panel's integrity and providing a potential target for the Trump administration as it seeks to stamp out DEI within the federal government.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire who has suggested that string theory "failed to succeed" because the field has too many white men, was appointed to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) under the Biden administration in 2024. The panel advises the Energy Department on research and funding priorities for particle physics, giving it significant say over which projects receive federal support.

String theory failed because there was never any empirical evidence for it and in forty years of spending billions, no one has found any. The theory is a math-only, paper-only "theory" that is endlessly mutable. Every time a very expensive test rules out one configuration of string theory, they just change some of the formulas and champion this "new" model of string theory.

It's a 40-year hole we've been digging.

But for this DEI racist -- it's just that "White men" were doing the research into it, not brilliant Strong Empowered Feminist Grifters like herself.

Prescod-Weinstein will remain on HEPAP until 2027 unless the Trump administration takes action to remove her. Her role at the Energy Department has rankled some scientists, who say that an institution tasked with directing federal research should not be advised by a woman who, in one 2020 paper, wrote that "Black feminist theory intersectionality should change physics."
Prescod-Weinstein's "scientific accomplishments seem modest and her racialist and sexist view of science, combined with her uniquely destructive activism, ought to be disqualifying," said Sergiu Klainerman, a mathematician at Princeton University who studies the theory of general relativity. "It seems to me incredible that she has a voice on important decisions concerning the DOE physics division."
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She first raised eyebrows in 2020 when she argued that a culture of "white empiricism"--in which "only white people" are deemed capable of objectivity--"undermines a significant theory of twentieth-century physics: General Relativity."

Now get ready for her to expose herself as an idiot grifter: This woman, who is now a high-ranking official in the DOE's high-energy physics department, has a grade-school level of what "relativity" means. She thinks it means what all freshmen non-science-majors thinks it means, which is that "we're all equal" or some bullshit.

I would like to put her under oath and force her to answer actual scientific questions about the theory. I don't think she could answer the most basic ones.

Einstein's theory is rooted in the "idea that there is no single objective frame of reference that is more objective than any other," Prescod-Weinstein wrote in Signs, a gender studies journal published by the University of Chicago. "Yet the number of women in physics remains low, especially those of African descent ... Given that Black women must, according to Einstein's principle ... have an equal claim to objectivity regardless of their simultaneously experiencing intersecting axes of oppression, we can dispense with any suggestion that the low number of Black women in science indicates any lack of validity on their part as observers."

In other words, if a black woman knows nothing at all about relativity or even high-school level physics, her opinions about it are just as important as those of an actual specialist in relativity.

Because, see, the theory of relativity just means that We're All Equal or something.

Later in the paper, Prescod-Weinstein blamed racism and sexism for the slow pace of scientific discovery in physics. "String theory has failed to succeed in expected ways," she said, "because the community--which is almost entirely male and disproportionately white relative to other areas of physics--is too homogeneous."
The argument attracted widespread ridicule from other scientists, including New York University's Alan Sokal, the physicist who famously conned an academic journal into publishing a paper arguing that quantum gravity was socially constructed.
Prescod-Weinstein "fails to note the most obvious explanation" for string theory's morass, Sokal wrote: "String theory has failed to succeed in expected ways because the problems being studied are extraordinarily difficult."

Well, and also, string theory has not produced a single accurate prediction nor resulted in any theory that advanced any other science or technology.

Sokal, of course, hoaxed leftwing gender ideology journals, like the one that published this grifter know-nothing's musings. From Wikipedia:

The Sokal affair, also known as the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of cultural studies. The submission was an experiment to test the journal's intellectual rigor, specifically to investigate whether "a leading North American journal of cultural studies--whose editorial collective includes such luminaries as Fredric Jameson and Andrew Ross--[would] publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions."
The article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", was published in the journal's Spring/Summer 1996 "Science Wars" issue. It proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. The journal did not practice academic peer review at the time, so it did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist. Three weeks after its publication in May 1996, Sokal revealed in the magazine Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax.
The hoax caused controversy about the scholarly merit of commentary on the physical sciences by those in the humanities; the influence of postmodern philosophy on social disciplines in general; and academic ethics, including whether Sokal was wrong to deceive the editors or readers of Social Text; and whether Social Text had abided by proper scientific ethics.

She's a "physicist" who can't be published in an actual journal of physics, just in "gender ideology" journals riffing pottishly about relativity meaning that everyone's opinion matters, man.

After the 10/7 Hamas slaughter and rape terror campaign, she of course accused Israel of genocide. I guess "relativity" proves that all methods of conducting war are equally valid, man.

Fire them all. All of them. The entire government exists now only to pay off otherwise-unemployable Democrat polemicist and actual anarchist revolutionaries.

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Posted by: GF at March 21, 2025 12:03 PM (Y3+wY)

2 Beyond outrageous.

This THING determines who gets science funding the US.

Think about that.

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2025 12:03 PM (pMi6S)

3 Yikes.... that, uh, face.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2025 12:05 PM (Q4IgG)

4 And they wonder why they're losing young white men.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (2UnvF)

5 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Everything about the Left is grift and looting the Republic

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (fwDg9)

6 Why do they hate us?

Posted by: ANOTHER WHITE DEVIL at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (W2EWw)

7 White empiricism also upends Newton law of gravity. The findings were verified when an anvil dropped on the head of Prescot Weinstein and it had no effect on her IQ.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (ewjUl)

8 Don't question Mother Science!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (Vyll1)

9 riffing pottishly about relativity has now entered my vocabulary.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (xCA6C)

10 Fire them all. All of them. The entire government exists now only to pay off otherwise-unemployable Democrat polemicist and actual anarchist revolutionaries.

100% agree.

The corruption goes to the very core. At this point, we would be better off with no government whatsoever rather than these toxic monstrosities lording over us.

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (pMi6S)

11 I met some legendarily ignorant people during my time on this earth but none of them can compare to 'academics' such as these.

Wow. I'd also fire the guy that hired her.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (cYBz/)

12 It has to be a no work job, just daydreaming What If all day long.

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 12:07 PM (fwDg9)

13 can we just assume every head of every department leftover from the Biden administration is a left wing dumbass that needs to go?

Posted by: DanMan at March 21, 2025 12:07 PM (8uzBS)

14 I met some legendarily ignorant people during my time on this earth but none of them can compare to 'academics' such as these.

Wow. I'd also fire the guy that hired her.

And smite his offspring to the 9th generation.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2025 12:07 PM (xCA6C)

15 "professor of physics and gender studies"

FFS.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2025 12:07 PM (5ACBR)

16 "I've got citations."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

17 Making a big noise about frauds like her is really stupid and condescending to real black scientists.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Neal deGrasse Tyson at March 21, 2025 12:09 PM (xCA6C)

18 More a frizzy mop than a fro, I guess.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (/x6eu)

19 Man, what the hell happened to Sheldon Cooper?

Posted by: Stateless...63% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (jvJvP)

20 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist.....

Goodness.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (IifOV)

21 F=ma, bitch.

The only string theory you have is attached to your tampon.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (ufFY8)

22 Dr Sheldon Cooper was a String Theory expert… he seems to have more credibility..l

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (PCK5/)

23 So stupid only an intellectual could believe it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (2UnvF)

24 I don't think she's as dumb as she sounds. This is from wiki. Seems like she was a real physicist -- Smolin is not a joke, and a big critic of string theory -- and then somewhere went batshit crazy. I guess it's easier to screech about Bad Whitey than it is to do real work. Oh, and check out that background.

She is of Barbadian descent on her mother's side and Russian-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish descent on her father's side. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and astronomy at Harvard College in 2003. Her thesis, "A study of winds in active galactic nuclei", was completed under the supervision of Martin Elvis. She then earned a master's degree in astronomy in 2005 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with Anthony Aguirre. In 2006, Prescod-Weinstein changed research directions and ultimately moved to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics to work with Lee Smolin. In 2010, Prescod-Weinstein completed her doctoral dissertation, titled "Cosmic acceleration as Quantum Gravity Phenomenology", under the supervision of Lee Smolin and Niayesh Afshordi at the University of Waterloo, while conducting her research at the Perimeter Institute.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

25 "Empiricism? It's got 'empire' right in the name! So it's inherently colonialist!! REEEEEEEEEE...!!!"

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:11 PM (77rzZ)

26 DEI Physics

Dark Particles are the best.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:11 PM (gbOdA)

27 It's easy to critique a system. All systems have issues.

It's even easier to critique the inability of string theory to match up to reality.

It's much harder to find solutions. "Stop hiring whitey" isn't very compelling as a solution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

28 String theory. LOL. Just wait until you hear her try to explain me!

Posted by: Dark Matter at March 21, 2025 12:11 PM (m0WlR)

29 >>>riffing pottishly

"pottishly"?

Posted by: m at March 21, 2025 12:11 PM (CQE5S)

30
OUT: DEI hire
IN: DEI fire

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 21, 2025 12:11 PM (wtvvX)

31 Just watched a video about the Manhattan Project. Noted the "demographics" of every single person from the top physicist to the lowliest technician on the entire project:

White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
...etc.

This is why they were about to make decades' worth of advancements snd breakthroughs in just a couple years. No bullshit, Just the best people. No politics.

Take your "white empiricism" and shove it up your ass, lady.

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2025 12:12 PM (pMi6S)

32 Physics +Gender Studies… odd bedfellows, indeed… the unlikeliest combination??

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 12:12 PM (PCK5/)

33 Physics? In the purging of one's bowels.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 21, 2025 12:12 PM (j6NlC)

34 about to make = able to make

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2025 12:12 PM (pMi6S)

35 String theory failed because there was never any empirical evidence for it and in forty years of spending billions, no one has found any. The theory is a math-only, paper-only "theory" that is endlessly mutable. Every time a very expensive test rules out one configuration of string theory, they just change some of the formulas and champion this "new" model of string theory.

Its in the same bowl as Dark Matter and a bunch of other recent theories, in the vernacular use, not scientific. I maintain that we are at the ragged edge of what we CAN know and understand with the current tools and knowledge we have of the universe and physics. We're at the place scientists were in the 1400s talking about humors and miasmas, because we'd gotten as far as bare observation can know.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:12 PM (2VST1)

36 Yea, but can Mz. White Empiricism open a jar of pickles?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2025 12:12 PM (Q4IgG)

37 Maybe get rid of the DoE entirely.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2025 12:13 PM (cYBz/)

38 raising questions from fellow scientists about the panel's integrity

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Hey government and academia:

Welcome to normal America circa 1996 or so.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:13 PM (qSMcm)

39 13 can we just assume every head of every department leftover from the Biden administration is a left wing dumbass that needs to go?
Posted by: DanMan at March 21, 2025 12:07 PM (8uzBS)

Yeah, they all seem cut from the same tie dyed, weed reeking cloth, don't they?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:13 PM (/x6eu)

40 The Wages of Affirmative Action.

Posted by: garrett at March 21, 2025 12:13 PM (GIkaP)

41 she's next on the block!

Posted by: kallisto at March 21, 2025 12:13 PM (dCxaZ)

42 Oy Vey! More antisemitism against our renowned physicist.

Posted by: ADL at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (UvmJ6)

43 Science is falsifiable, otherwise it would be useless.

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (PCK5/)

44 Lets get physic
Physics
I wanna get Physics

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (gbOdA)

45 Well, and also, string theory has not produced a single accurate prediction nor resulted in any theory that advanced any other science or technology.

What about that Star Trek episode where Troi lost her powers because a bunch of aliens wanted to play with string!!!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (WPL6O)

46 Its gonna take probably 3-4 years to clean out most of these really egregious hires and job hand outs. Almost all of them are given to family members, lovers, and close buddies from school by people in power, like mob no-work jobs.

Like that 9-story building full of grifters ACE wrote about yesterday.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (2VST1)

47 Wow. I'd also fire the guy that hired her.
Posted by: Tonypete

...and the guy that hired him, and the guy that hired him -- all the way to the top.

Oh wait, we already did that.

TRUMP 2024, baby!

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (pMi6S)

48 45 Well, and also, string theory has not produced a single accurate prediction nor resulted in any theory that advanced any other science or technology.

What about that Star Trek episode where Troi lost her powers because a bunch of aliens wanted to play with string!!!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (WPL6O)

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Still better than the one where she got pregnant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

49 Someone inform POTUS about this. It needs to be contained and cleared out.

Posted by: Megthered at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (pqOPz)

50 Is chaos theory still around?

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

51 Hi Ace
Very eventful week.
It seems that many of these judges ruling against Trump were also only hired due to checking DEI boxes. Why the Senate Rs just voted for them without any scrutiny is just beyond me. They really didn;t care about the consequences. More than 250 outof 700 appointed during the Biden administration.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (t/2Uw)

52 Why do they hate us?
Posted by: ANOTHER WHITE DEVIL at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM

You know what you did.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (Wnv9h)

53 50 Is chaos theory still around?
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

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*Jeff Goldblum noises*
-Dr. Ian Malcolm

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

54 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire who has suggested that string theory "failed to succeed"

Oh, shit...we just reviewed her records, and she has a degree in cosmetology, not cosmology. Whoopsies! Well, she an indefinite career employee past her probationary period, so nothing we can do now!

Posted by: OPM Hiring Supervisor at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (JCZqz)

55 What about that Star Trek episode where Troi lost her powers

She still had a nice rack, though.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (ufFY8)

56 My tax dollars atwerk.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (gxokI)

57 Man, what the hell happened to Sheldon Cooper?
Posted by: Stateless...63% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (jvJvP)

Is that Young Sheldon series still going?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (/x6eu)

58 WOOF, You go girl!!!!

Posted by: BLACK LASSIE at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (W2EWw)

59 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is the Ketanji Brown Jackson of Karine Jean-Pierres

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (wtvvX)

60 She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and astronomy...

Oh. OK.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (luW68)

61 Afternoon ace

From President Trump to Dr Prescod - Weinstein
Your term on HEPAP is hereby terminated as you are a gibbering nitwit. Have a nice day

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (LVkqs)

62 Its in the same bowl as Dark Matter and a bunch of other recent theories, in the vernacular use, not scientific. I maintain that we are at the ragged edge of what we CAN know and understand with the current tools and knowledge we have of the universe and physics.

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I still can't get any Big Bang folks to give me the approximate number of years I'd need to shake a set of Legos in a big box before it assembles itself into the design.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (qSMcm)

63 What about that Star Trek episode where Troi lost her powers because a bunch of aliens wanted to play with string!!!

Oh no! Who will state the clearly obvious and show off her cleavage???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (2VST1)

64 57 Man, what the hell happened to Sheldon Cooper?
Posted by: Stateless...63% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (jvJvP)

Is that Young Sheldon series still going?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (/x6eu)

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I read a headline that seemed to indicate that another Big Bang Theory spin off is being made.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

65 The only string theory you have is attached to your tampon.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Don't give them any ideas.

Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2025 12:16 PM (pMi6S)

66 "Black feminist theory intersectionality should change physics."

Oh, it'll change physics. Just not for the better

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 21, 2025 12:16 PM (sJHOI)

67 37 Maybe get rid of the DoE entirely.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2025 12:13 PM (cYBz/)

That was my idea of controlling government.
Grab a Scrabble bag, pull a letter.
And I have a E
And I have a N
ENERGY
So today I call for the ending of the Dept of Energy

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:16 PM (gbOdA)

68 String theory was not positioned to succeed by white staffers.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:16 PM (qSMcm)

69 >>>riffing pottishly

"pottishly"?
Posted by: m at March 21, 2025 12:11 PM

What, they don't sound stoned to you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (Wnv9h)

70 The very first time I heard "superstrings" I was like "this sounds like total bullshit." Even as a kid, I couldn't get past the idea that SS supposedly explained matter by ... replacing the concept of matter with a much more complicated and highly speculative alternative. SS solved nothing. I was always like "well then what are the strings made out of?"

It's a mystery why the theory can't be killed no matter how many times it's shown to be wrong. It always reforms and comes back. I can only assume there's piles of grant money and graft in pushing SS.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

71 I actually understood Relativity for a while but then, you know.

Posted by: Afroman at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (FhXTo)

72 >>>Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

That doesn't sound like a black persons name.

Also, while I admit that scientific knowledge is not my strong suit, I have no fucking idea what she's talking about and everything she wrote looks like gibberish.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (uCjyK)

73 String theory was not positioned to succeed by white staffers.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:16 PM

*shakes head sadly*

I'm a frayed knot.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (Wnv9h)

74 *heart emoji*

Sorry, just got here from a substack article.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (LPS7w)

75 cosmetologist >>> cosmologist

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 21, 2025 12:18 PM (wtvvX)

76 70
It's a mystery why the theory can't be killed no matter how many times it's shown to be wrong. It always reforms and comes back. I can only assume there's piles of grant money and graft in pushing SS.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

A major premise of the BBT series..

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 12:18 PM (PCK5/)

77
A professor of physics and gender studies

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I think I see the problem. And I don't know anything about physics or genders.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:18 PM (lCaJd)

78 3 Yikes.... that, uh, face.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2025 12:05 PM (Q4IgG)

Truly hideous

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 21, 2025 12:18 PM (2NXcZ)

79 I read a headline that seemed to indicate that another Big Bang Theory spin off is being made.

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The first season of that was really fun, and then they realized it was popular and normal people were watching it and enjoying it so they inserted fart jokes and other things they assume normal people like. I mean, the Roseanne girl is in it, so it has to be made for Roseanne viewers, right?

But that first season was pretty great.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:18 PM (qSMcm)

80 I have a building theory that we've reached the end of civilization because of several major factors. Where are our young composers, authors, painters, scientists, archaeologists, theologians, philosophers, directors, archaeologists, statesmen, designers? Where are the leaders for the future? The visionaries, the people who build the next stage in civilization?

Maybe its just because I am getting old but it feels like we're coasting to a grinding halt, that this is the end of everything. Not because of some grand disaster, but because of just... entropy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:18 PM (2VST1)

81 "Fire them all. All of them. The entire government exists now only to pay off otherwise-unemployable Democrat polemicist and actual anarchist revolutionaries."

Surely there are some noble ham and eggers, diligently doing important work inside the bureaucracy?

But the more we look, the more theft and waste we find, with department heads looking the other way at best, or partaking in the grift, and/or deliberately causing destruction in the government, and for the nation.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 21, 2025 12:18 PM (Cus5s)

82 I've never seen The Big Bang Theory, but wasn't it essentially a one-joke show -- extreme nerds not understanding how the real world works?

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

83 Still better than the one where she got pregnant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

There was a lot of bad in TNG. The first episode with the Ferengi. Pretty much any 1st season episode. The crusher centric one.

The one where a dude romances Picard. The hermaphrodite one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (/x6eu)

84 3
‘ Yikes.... that, uh, face.’

She looks like a meme from 4chan.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (jbnUc)

85 65 The only string theory you have is attached to your tampon.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Don't give them any ideas.
Posted by: zombie

It's not a theory, it's reality for millions of brave Americans! Menstruating persons of any and all genders are beautiful, strong, brave Americans who shouldn't have to pay for essential hygiene items!

Posted by: Tim Walz at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (JCZqz)

86 I was extremely disappointed to read about this ridiculous horseshit going on at Fermilab:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13924

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (5ACBR)

87 73 String theory was not positioned to succeed by white staffers.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:16 PM

*shakes head sadly*

I'm a frayed knot.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (Wnv9h)

THREAD WINNER!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (wtvvX)

88 maybe "pettishly"?

pettish
adjective
(of a person or their behavior) childishly bad-tempered and petulant: he comes across in his journal entries as spoiled and pettish.

Posted by: m at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (CQE5S)

89 Anti racist equation. E = MC kinked

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (L/fGl)

90 That doesn't sound like a black persons name.

Also, while I admit that scientific knowledge is not my strong suit, I have no fucking idea what she's talking about and everything she wrote looks like gibberish.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (uCjyK)

Barbados and Ukranian.

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (2NXcZ)

91 The stupid.....IT BURNS!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (cweKM)

92 83 The one where a dude romances Picard. The hermaphrodite one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (/x6eu)

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Riker, but yeah.

I remember going through the whole series a few years ago, and I just skipped that episode. So weird. I even watched all of Pulaski's episodes with less discomfort.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

93 "White Stochastic Terrorism" > "White Empiricism"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (KBK+H)

94 It's a mystery why the theory can't be killed no matter how many times it's shown to be wrong. It always reforms and comes back. I can only assume there's piles of grant money and graft in pushing SS.

Like other major scientific consensus theories, like Climate Change and... others.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (2VST1)

95 68 String theory was not positioned to succeed by white staffers.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

If you had more Black scientists, they'd call it "Rope Theory".

Posted by: Zombie Isaac Hayes at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (JCZqz)

96 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

That doesn't sound like a black persons name.

Also, while I admit that scientific knowledge is not my strong suit, I have no fucking idea what she's talking about and everything she wrote looks like gibberish.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (uCjyK)
________

See my comment above that quotes wiki. Half "black" and half Jewish (Russian-Uke). Wonder who she supports in the war?

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

97 82 I've never seen The Big Bang Theory, but wasn't it essentially a one-joke show -- extreme nerds not understanding how the real world works?
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

Yep… funny as hell… enjoy laughing AT them… rewatchable, unlike some series..

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (PCK5/)

98 Making Physics Fake and Ghey, or Put a Chick in it, and make her Lame and Gay*.

* close enough: from wikipedia - Prescod-Weinstein is queer and agender. Her husband is a lawyer.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 21, 2025 12:21 PM (Dv3i1)

99 Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM
A lifetime at Cultural Marxists Seminaries you might be intelligent in Cultural Marxism but knows nothing else I am sure.

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 12:21 PM (fwDg9)

100 She looks like a puppet in that picture. I had to look closely to see 1) it was a photograph and not an illustration and B) there were no strings.

I'll leave the "science" to you smart folks.
My knowledge is limited to "fire good" and uh-oh, fire bad.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 21, 2025 12:21 PM (FCbAQ)

101 Star Trek
BBT

ho lee fook Now it is a TV show blog

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:21 PM (gbOdA)

102 I have a building theory that we've reached the end of civilization because of several major factors. Where are our young composers, authors, painters, scientists, archaeologists, theologians, philosophers, directors, archaeologists, statesmen, designers? Where are the leaders for the future? The visionaries, the people who build the next stage in civilization?

-

As that Eric Weinstein smartly asks, assuming you can look beyond interior design, take away the screens from any home and tell me how it's different than a home from the 70s.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:21 PM (qSMcm)

103 Figured it out. She looks like DJ Qualls in a clown wig.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at March 21, 2025 12:21 PM (pJbQu)

104 89 Anti racist equation. E = MC kinked

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 21, 2025 12:19 PM (L/fGl)

E = MC Hammered.

Also works for drunk physicists.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 21, 2025 12:21 PM (wtvvX)

105 There was a lot of bad in TNG. The first episode with the Ferengi. Pretty much any 1st season episode. The crusher centric one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I kinda liked the one where they all turned into animals that matched their personalities.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (77rzZ)

106 I read a headline that seemed to indicate that another Big Bang Theory spin off is being made.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

George and Mandy's first marriage is in its first season on cbs. Max is launching Stuart failed to save the world led by Stuart (comic book shop guy) and Barry (physicist with a lisp)

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (MGB5H)

107 Is chaos theory still around?
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:14 PM (77rzZ)

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That's the one that leads to dinosaurs eating lawyers, right? I'm a big fan.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (2UnvF)

108 I wouldn’t trust that bitch just lookin’ at her. Note well she is a “professor of physics”

Not a genuine physics professor. Cuz she ain’t got the chops. Just a pseudo-intellectual grifter.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (pPsbV)

109 Star Trek TOS: Pirates in Space
Star Trek TNG: Human Resources with Tutbolifts
Deep Space 9: The Office
Voyager: Never Let a Woman Pilot a Starship

Posted by: electronic means at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (uoSeY)

110 I read a headline that seemed to indicate that another Big Bang Theory spin off is being made.

"It was popular and made money. Can we just do that again?"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (WPL6O)

111 Agreed. Fire all of these a$$holes. Enough is enough.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (k9OZB)

112 106 George and Mandy's first marriage is in its first season on cbs. Max is launching Stuart failed to save the world led by Stuart (comic book shop guy) and Barry (physicist with a lisp)
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (MGB5H)

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And people say that brainless TV sitcoms are dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

113 I've never seen The Big Bang Theory, but wasn't it essentially a one-joke show -- extreme nerds not understanding how the real world works?

The few scenes I have seen I have failed to perceive any jokes at all. Lots of lines with a laugh track but... nothing funny or entertaining.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (2VST1)

114 Sounds like a ripe RIF area...she'll never be able to compete with anyone in the department, and should be able to be let go...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (tOcjL)

115 He should have hired a Professor of Logic.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (YM17H)

116 109 Star Trek TOS: Pirates in Space
Star Trek TNG: Human Resources with Tutbolifts
Deep Space 9: The Office
Voyager: Never Let a Woman Pilot a Starship (but she's always right anyway)
Posted by: electronic means at March 21, 2025 12:22 PM (uoSeY)

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FIFY.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

117 Chanda's a nut, but she does have a certain air about her.

Posted by: Estrus McGee at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (paSBy)

118 Wow. I'd also fire the guy that hired her.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (cYBz/)

Whipping. Pain like that is a teachable moment, as they say. Not only for the recipient but for whoever sees it happen.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (FCbAQ)

119 Thank you for the belly laugh of the day!!

Good Grief. The stoopid, it burns.

Posted by: Beverly at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (Epeb0)

120 The color of your skin is irrelevant, it's your gray matter that is key. The gray matter of Chanda is obviously defective if she comes up with crap like this. See also Neil Degrasse Tyson

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (LVkqs)

121 Gender studies?

How do you study that which is so nebulous as to be undefinable? I mean... you can't define it anymore, or so I've been conditioned to say.

Makes you wonder why anyone, even the hard left would put up money to that which has been permanently made unknown, undefinable, changeable at will?

*shrugs* whatever

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)

122 Maybe its just because I am getting old but it feels like we're coasting to a grinding halt, that this is the end of everything. Not because of some grand disaster, but because of just... entropy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:18 PM (2VST1)

That does seem to be how civilizations historically die out. Just kind of ... fade away.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (uCjyK)

123 Riker, but yeah.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

Two different episodes. The one with Picard is one where three aliens come to the ship to experience human emotional states. One gets drunk the entire time, the other does something? And then one dude becomes a woman to 'experience love' with Picard.

So much shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:25 PM (/x6eu)

124 If we had women like Prescod-Weinstein working on the Manhattan Project, the Japanese would have lunar bases by now.

Posted by: electronic means at March 21, 2025 12:25 PM (uoSeY)

125 Also, "black holes have hair" came up in some IAS conference: tenuous memory of some New Yorker article from ages ago....

Well, screwit, it's Friday anyway.

Posted by: Beverly at March 21, 2025 12:25 PM (Epeb0)

126 This lady's downright old fashioned for DOE. I looked it up and she didn't have the usual bona fides. Not one photo of her in a dog costume, or at a same sex orgy, or a single arrest for larceny.

Brandon missed on this one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 12:25 PM (BI5O2)

127 The same people who argue there is no objective reality, no universal moral code, and "everyone has a point (and a trophy)" says that YOU are unequivocally wrong and that they are right.

Anyone want to take this one?

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (YM17H)

128 I still can't get any Big Bang folks to give me the approximate number of years I'd need to shake a set of Legos in a big box before it assembles itself into the design.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (qSMcm)

That's easy, 0 seconds. The hard part is accepting that all designs are equally valid, not just your cis-white hetero-patriarchal-normative monogamous Judeo-Christian conservative assumption of what the "correct" design is based on the image on the box

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (hjUY3)

129 Speaking of Star Trek...

One of the actors in Section 31 said that Alex Kurtzman admitted to him that Star Trek was dying.

The article I read this in (at Dark Horizons), framed it like original fans of the 90s are just getting old as the problem without noting, not once, that Star Trek got revived in a new direction more than 10 years ago...a direction which seems to have failed to attract any audience.

TNG was getting 30 million views a week...in syndication...in the 90s.

Weird how entertainment journalists don't seem to want to blame Kurtzman for killing Star Trek.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

130 That does seem to be how civilizations historically die out. Just kind of ... fade away.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:23 PM (uCjyK)

Tell that to Carthage or the City states. Or Byzantium.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (/x6eu)

131 If we had women like Prescod-Weinstein working on the Manhattan Project, the Japanese would have lunar bases by now.
Posted by: electronic means at March 21, 2025

***
[Applause]

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (J2vNu)

132 126. She identifies as queer

Posted by: Long night...lifted at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (2NXcZ)

133 One tantalizing excerpt from the 2024 Fermilab whistleblower report:

"Lab buddies would bring their rifles on FNAL site at night and shoot at the High Voltage boxes of the Main Injector for fun. Employees who complained about this were intimidated and threatened by their management"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13924

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (5ACBR)

134 I bet this chick believes that that Malaysian Air flight was swallowed up by a black hole, too.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (77rzZ)

135 123 Two different episodes. The one with Picard is one where three aliens come to the ship to experience human emotional states. One gets drunk the entire time, the other does something? And then one dude becomes a woman to 'experience love' with Picard.

So much shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:25 PM (/x6eu)

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Still better than the Riker episode!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

136 Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM
A lifetime at Cultural Marxists Seminaries you might be intelligent in Cultural Marxism but knows nothing else I am sure.
Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 12:21 PM (fwDg9)

you get really good at Buzz Phrase bingo

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 21, 2025 12:27 PM (sJHOI)

137 Weird how entertainment journalists don't seem to want to blame Kurtzman for killing Star Trek.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

He's of the body. It's the fans who are wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:27 PM (/x6eu)

138 Dear Lord, I think I lost 10 IQ points just reading this idiot's drivel...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 21, 2025 12:27 PM (SRRAx)

139 Big Bang Theory was a bridge too far as a Science Fiction TV series. Sure, they had plenty of technobabble science talk, but I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to imagine hot girls falling for those guys.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2025 12:27 PM (nPpQ2)

140 117. So does a pig sty

Posted by: Long night...lifted at March 21, 2025 12:27 PM (2NXcZ)

141 The same people who argue there is no objective reality, no universal moral code, and "everyone has a point (and a trophy)" says that YOU are unequivocally wrong and that they are right.

Its self defeating. Its arguing there absolutely are no absolutes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:27 PM (2VST1)

142 "Black feminist theory intersectionality should change physics“
—

She’s right it would make physics into voodoo.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (17s+e)

143 See my comment above that quotes wiki. Half "black" and half Jewish (Russian-Uke). Wonder who she supports in the war?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

Heh.

Here's the thing -- I don't agree with Affirmative Action or DEI or anything like that, but I can understand the (misplaced) argument in favor of it when it comes to poor black people in the US who were decedents of slaves who still live near where their great grandparents were slaves or sharecroppers.

They definitely start off life behind the eight ball, and I think any normal person wants to help people out in life when they can.

And yet... when we look at who benefits most from these programs, it's not poor black kids from the rural south in their 5th generation of extreme poverty.

It's people like this. Or Kamala Harris. Or whoever. People who have no connection to the US slave trade and who have (presumably) wealthy and educated parents, mostly somewhat recent immigrants. AND these assholes make an entire career at shitting on white americans. Despite the fact that they only have a job because white americans feel guilty / uneasy about slavery and the after effects.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (uCjyK)

144 Egg Price Update...FINALLY some drops in NoVa...happened today (I guess Trader Joe's had cornered the egg market)...

Safeway - down to $5.29 (from $5.99)
Target - down to $4.99 (from $5.99/6.29 even)
Aldi's online - down to $5.49 (from $6.29) - store should be cheaper, but I'll know tomorrow when I shop
Walmart - no change at $4.97
Giant - no change at $5.99 (but Eggland's now cheaper at $5.49 - somewhere there needs to get a clue).

As you can tell, Mother Hubbard's egg stash is getting low and I need to make birthday cake...so I'll check Aldi's, and then swing to TJ's if I'm not happy...but it's getting there...the media touting the price drops had to hit here sometime...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (tOcjL)

145 Boston Globe

Trans girls playing girls’ sports? How about a more radical idea: Abolish the gender divide in athletics altogether.

TA FUCKIND DA
Talking about being on the wrong side of the 80/20 rule.
More like 95/5.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (gbOdA)

146 Weird how entertainment journalists don't seem to want to blame Kurtzman for killing Star Trek.

Wait til you get a load of what Dave Filoni does to Star Wars.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (2VST1)

147 How long has it been since we had a thread on string theory...?

Posted by: muldoon at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (/iMjX)

148 As you can tell, Mother Hubbard's egg stash is getting low and I need to make birthday cake...so I'll check Aldi's, and then swing to TJ's if I'm not happy...but it's getting there...the media touting the price drops had to hit here sometime...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (tOcjL)

Biden killed 8 M chickens the week of Jan 13.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (gbOdA)

149 oh come on!!! The theory of relativity is simple and everyone understands it!! I mean YOU KNOW WHO YOUR RELATIVES ARE!!!! You know your parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and your cousins!! THIS IS NOT HARD PEOPLE!!!!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (4XwPj)

150 Prescod-Weinstein "fails to note the most obvious explanation" for string theory's morass, Sokal wrote: "String theory has failed to succeed in expected ways because the problems being studied are extraordinarily difficult."

Actually, the "most obvious explanation" for string theory's morass is that the theory is wrong. Once upon a time, science was honest enough to recognize that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (ExV1e)

151 It's a mystery why the theory can't be killed no matter how many times it's shown to be wrong. It always reforms and comes back. I can only assume there's piles of grant money and graft in pushing SS.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 21, 2025 12:17 PM (iFTx/)
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Yep. Lee Smolin wrote a whole book on this subject: The Trouble with Physics

For decades, you couldn't get funding unless you were working on dark matter/energy or superstring theory.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (cweKM)

152 Yea, but can Mz. White Empiricism open a jar of pickles?

Posted by: Martini Farmer
......

No, and she puts Miracle Whip on sammiches.

Posted by: wth at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (v0R5T)

153 This woman isn't all that surprising seeing as how Atomic Tranny Dogboy, famous luggage thief was a DoE employee at one time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (Q4IgG)

154
Seems like she was a real physicist -- Smolin is not a joke, and a big critic of string theory -- and then somewhere went batshit crazy.

Posted by: Elric Blade

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What would make a legit scholar go batshit crazy like that? I'm not discounting your theory, just wondering why someone who starts off valuing facts and intellectual labor would throw it over for laughable Dadaist drivel?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (lCaJd)

155 Tell that to Carthage or the City states. Or Byzantium.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (/x6eu)

Or Sodom.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (FCbAQ)

156 154 What would make a legit scholar go batshit crazy like that? I'm not discounting your theory, just wondering why someone who starts off valuing facts and intellectual labor would throw it over for laughable Dadaist drivel?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (lCaJd)

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Because there's money in it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

157 The problem isn't that we have a fraud on the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel. The problem is that we have a High Energy Physics Advisory Panel.

Posted by: Taking Notes at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (Y1D0N)

158 CRT, I think a lot of that discovery is going on. I read about archeological finds all the time. Studies of the Universe, starships, robots, ability to deal with the human conditions such as blindness, lost limbs, medical miracles are visible.
The problem lies with cultural issues such as art and music and drama. Politics has infiltrated the arts in the most ridiculous and asinine way so that LGBTQ and Race have become deciding factors in how these things are regarded. Maybe this will change with the downfall of DEI and the Trans movement.
Trump's cabinet picks are a good representation of the next generation of politicians. They are young, vigorous, outspoken, and very very smart. Now if we can just get beyond these stupid Judges....

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (t/2Uw)

159 Actually, the "most obvious explanation" for string theory's morass is that the theory is wrong. Once upon a time, science was honest enough to recognize that.
____

It's a pretty good living.
- String Theory Scientist Living on Grant Money

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (Dv3i1)

160 Twenty years ago heard a story how some pro wrangled her way into a public sector laboratory top manager job. Within a couple years all the legit microbiologists and chemists employees (all straight white males) were shit-canned and replaced almost two-to-one with her callgirl associates. The last man standing was the gay guy. He appealed to HR and managed a transfer to a different dept. But still gone...
A couple years later top management finally figured out what happened and fired the manager and the horndog that hired her. But 'the girls' got to stay on as long as the could perform basic tests...
Not their fault the manager reduced entry level job requirements from a B.S. in bio/chem to 'passed high school, some math nice to have'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (/lPRQ)

161 Rachel Doleziel (sp) is a physicist?

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (1FWWQ)

162 ... "white empiricism" undermines Einstein's theory of general relativity ...

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Old & Busted: "The Sun is Racist!"
New Hotness: "The Universe is Racist!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (KBK+H)

163 THIS IS NOT HARD PEOPLE!!!!

relatively speaking

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (2VST1)

164 So, I keep hearing about how egg prices are so high because they culled so many chickens. Has this raised the price of chicken meat, too? If not, why not? I never hear about the price of the meat being abnormally high.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

165 Safeway - down to $5.29 (from $5.99)
Target - down to $4.99 (from $5.99/6.29 even)
Aldi's online - down to $5.49 (from $6.29) - store should be cheaper, but I'll know tomorrow when I shop
Walmart - no change at $4.97
Giant - no change at $5.99 (but Eggland's now cheaper at $5.49 - somewhere there needs to get a clue). . . .

Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2025

***
My Walmarts and Aldis have had $6/doz. for a while. I *wish* we could see $4.97.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (J2vNu)

166 Still better than the Riker episode!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah. It makes Jeremiah Crichton look like Balance of Terror.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (/x6eu)

167 148 As you can tell, Mother Hubbard's egg stash is getting low and I need to make birthday cake...so I'll check Aldi's, and then swing to TJ's if I'm not happy...but it's getting there...the media touting the price drops had to hit here sometime...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (tOcjL)

Biden killed 8 M chickens the week of Jan 13.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (gbOdA)

Yes, I know...and Trump putting media coverage on the wholesale price drops now (since he fixed the problem) is gonna help pressure stores to put prices back down (rather than trying to float them for longer to make more money)...Trump knows how to work the media, as do his people in this admin...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (tOcjL)

168 Tell that to Carthage or the City states. Or Byzantium.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (/x6eu)

Yes, true, some were defeated in battle. But on the flip side, a lot of civilizations have been defeated in battle many times. And subjugated, and the whole nine yards. And yet they still exist.

Like the Han Chinese.

There does seem to be a common thread of civilizations just kind of giving up. Like the Romans or the British.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (uCjyK)

169 164 So, I keep hearing about how egg prices are so high because they culled so many chickens. Has this raised the price of chicken meat, too? If not, why not? I never hear about the price of the meat being abnormally high.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

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If they culled egg laying chickens which were never meant for meat, then the culling of one herd wouldn't affect the other.

Which is, I think, what happened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

170 I really like the formulation that Einstein's theory of relativity is that everything is relative.

[bong hit]
yeah man, time, space, gender, race--it's all relative.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2025 12:31 PM (apAvM)

171 133 One tantalizing excerpt from the 2024 Fermilab whistleblower report:

"Lab buddies would bring their rifles on FNAL site at night and shoot at the High Voltage boxes of the Main Injector for fun. Employees who complained about this were intimidated and threatened by their management"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13924

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (5ACBR)

WTF?????????

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 21, 2025 12:31 PM (wtvvX)

172 ***
My Walmarts and Aldis have had $6/doz. for a while. I *wish* we could see $4.97.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (J2vNu)

Check online today...literally all the drops I posted happened today...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2025 12:31 PM (tOcjL)

173 >>> It's a 40-year hole we've been digging.

It's Reagan's fault.

/s

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 21, 2025 12:31 PM (/lPRQ)

174 And do you know WHY the Left argues so vehemently that "nobody" is wrong? They mean child sexual predators. That's who they mean when they say no one is 'akshually' wrong.

Because they are perfectly content telling you that *you're* wrong. That God and Jesus are wrong. No issue there. Lines up perfectly.

But - "don't you dare touch my child sexual predations." *That* is what they are bitterly clinging to.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:31 PM (YM17H)

175 Wait til you get a load of what Dave Filoni does to Star Wars.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:28 PM (2VST1)

It's already dead.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:31 PM (MGB5H)

176 The corruption goes to the very core. At this point, we would be better off with no government whatsoever rather than these toxic monstrosities lording over us.
Posted by: zombie at March 21, 2025 12:06 PM (pMi6S)

There are two serious points of view on government funding of science, the pro side is by Dr Dave Collum who points out that his chemistry department at Cornell requires about 60-70% of their grants to just operate the building due to things like fume hoods changing the air in the building every 30 minutes, and the lights, freezers and power. Collum doesn't go into why government funding is a good thing, though it is a major research and teaching university

The con is from Dr Terence Kealey who argues that public funded science focuses things only on what politicians want, and sucks all the skills, competence and resources away from subjects that might be more saleable or useful.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 21, 2025 12:31 PM (D7oie)

177 164 So, I keep hearing about how egg prices are so high because they culled so many chickens. Has this raised the price of chicken meat, too? If not, why not? I never hear about the price of the meat being abnormally high.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

It's 4 weeks to raise a chicken for meat...it's longer to raise one for eggs...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2025 12:32 PM (tOcjL)

178
Trans girls playing girls’ sports? How about a more radical idea: Abolish the gender divide in athletics altogether.

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What?

That is already the current state of things, unless the writer means men should overtake all positions on all "girls" teams.

Just because the women are incapable doesn't mean they wouldn't immediately be allowed to pretend to compete. Remember the clown show Vandy kicker?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:32 PM (qSMcm)

179 103
She looks like DJ Qualls in a clown wig.‘

Hahahahahahaha!!!!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2025 12:32 PM (jbnUc)

180 Nova, there were no eggs at all at my TJs yesterday. Apparently the crisis is not over.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 21, 2025 12:32 PM (t/2Uw)

181 I think a lot of that discovery is going on. I read about archeological finds all the time.

Oh its still happening, but there's nothing that stands out any more. What are the greatest technological achievements in the last 40 years? The internet? Created in the 70s. Cell phones? Its nothing NEW its just a combination of previously developed stuff in a different way. We went from horses to the moon in like 60 years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:32 PM (2VST1)

182 Every time a very expensive test rules out one configuration of string theory, they just change some of the formulas and champion this "new" model of string theory.

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String Theory is the Climate Change of Cold Fusions.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (KBK+H)

183 I would like to put her under oath and force her to answer actual scientific questions about the theory

Ask her to explain wave-particle duality for the deer-in-the-headlights lulz.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (IbUt8)

184 164 So, I keep hearing about how egg prices are so high because they culled so many chickens. Has this raised the price of chicken meat, too? If not, why not? I never hear about the price of the meat being abnormally high.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

Different chickens.

Laying hens have a 2 year or so life cycle, and are commercial egg laying breeds.

Meat chickens are freakish abominations created by cross breading two freakish abominations in to a sterile bird called the cornish cross (white rock x cornish chicken) which grow from pullets / chicks to full size monster birds in 6-8 weeks.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (uCjyK)

185 37, 67, probably more....Why again do we even have an energy department? How does it benefit the nation? Is the benefit worth it? Can we get the same benefit in a cheaper way? And while we are eliminating agencies, if we are serious(and we are NOT), take a look at Langley, Quantico, and Fort Meade. They won't "reform".

Posted by: SumDood in the USA at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (vd6bO)

186 I don't think she's as dumb as she sounds.

So she did a lot of real work in physics, said "this is hard", and discovered that blaming whitey will get her a cushy government job as long a jackass is in power.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

187

As you can tell, Mother Hubbard's egg stash is getting low ...
Posted by: Nova Local

**********

You Need a Crazy Cousin Like This Guy:

A poor country bumpkin named Meggs
Thought he had real chicken legs
His family neglected
To have this corrected
It turns out they needed the eggs.

Posted by: muldoon at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (/iMjX)

188 If they culled egg laying chickens which were never meant for meat, then the culling of one herd wouldn't affect the other.

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It's sort of weird that the meat chickens had natural immunity.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (qSMcm)

189 161 Rachel Doleziel (sp) is a physicist?
Posted by: Life of Wryly

She identifies as a physicist now.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (/lPRQ)

190 "I still can't get any Big Bang folks to give me the approximate number of years I'd need to shake a set of Legos in a big box before it assembles itself into the design."

I keep seeing YouTube videos about the James Webb telescope showing there are some/several things "we" must have gotten completely wrong. But I don't know the science well enough to "analyze".

The whole dark matter and dark energy thang is ... disturbing. Basic Newtonian physics is good enough for me. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (Cus5s)

191 188 If they culled egg laying chickens which were never meant for meat, then the culling of one herd wouldn't affect the other.

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It's sort of weird that the meat chickens had natural immunity.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (qSMcm)

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I've also learned in these very comments that meat chickens grow extremely quickly.

So, culling a herd would have extremely short term effects because they'd be replaced much faster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

192 You guys are looking at this all wrong. The Dept. of Energy has an ongoing problem with Chinese spies. If we staff the Dept. of Energy with know-nothing, blowhard partisans, there's nothing to steal. Better yet, the next Chinese moon rover will end up with 50 bumper stickers saying "Coexist" on the back.

Posted by: Orson at March 21, 2025 12:34 PM (dIske)

193 Trans girls playing girls’ sports? How about a more radical idea: Abolish the gender divide in athletics altogether.

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Boston globe:
Today we eliminate title IX. Tomorrow we make segregation great again. Vote blue 2026!

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:34 PM (MGB5H)

194 But for this DEI racist -- it's just that "White men" were doing the research into it, not brilliant Strong Empowered Feminist Grifters like herself.

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So you're saying that white men have once again failed to position a DEI black woman for success?

I'm sensing a pattern here ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 21, 2025 12:34 PM (KBK+H)

195 Stop hiring Hyphenated Women.

Posted by: jsg at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (+0xNW)

196 185 37, 67, probably more....Why again do we even have an energy department? How does it benefit the nation? Is the benefit worth it? Can we get the same benefit in a cheaper way? And while we are eliminating agencies, if we are serious(and we are NOT), take a look at Langley, Quantico, and Fort Meade. They won't "reform".
Posted by: SumDood in the USA at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (vd6bO)

I guess the Department of Energy is the grounding rod for various crazies around the world. Too bad we haven't found a way to turn it into something useful, like electricity.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (VNX3d)

197 I keep seeing YouTube videos about the James Webb telescope showing there are some/several things "we" must have gotten completely wrong. But I don't know the science well enough to "analyze".

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It's all wrong. We just can't discuss it properly or investigate/question fully or it makes everything else collapse, and that's incredibly dangerous.

We don't even know the speed of light.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (qSMcm)

198 If nobody is wrong, then believing that actually everyone is wrong except *these* people is also totally valid. Which in a warped way explains why they believe it (about themselves).

And there's your spiral descent to hell right there.

There is no path out of that box. Contending "everyone is right from a certain perspective" is a prison from the moment it leaves your mouth.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (YM17H)

199 Kurtzman screwed up Star Trek and he puts carrots in chili

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (LVkqs)

200 164 So, I keep hearing about how egg prices are so high because they culled so many chickens. Has this raised the price of chicken meat, too? If not, why not? I never hear about the price of the meat being abnormally high.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

Last time I looked up policy that these chickens were destroyed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (gbOdA)

201 Forget about physics let's talk about eggs! Dusted off my old school books for nothin'

Kicks rocks, bides time for boonies thread.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (wBaIH)

202 >>> 164 So, I keep hearing about how egg prices are so high because they culled so many chickens. Has this raised the price of chicken meat, too? If not, why not? I never hear about the price of the meat being abnormally high.
Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (77rzZ)

Chickens don't start laying eggs until they are 5-6 months old.

The type of chickens raised for meat are godzilla mutants and are slaughtered at 8 weeks old.

Completely different populations.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (Vqx30)

203 That whomever passed her along also buys into this throws the whole program into question

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (fwDg9)

204 There does seem to be a common thread of civilizations just kind of giving up. Like the Romans or the British.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:30 PM (uCjyK)

I am not sure I would use China as a good example of surviving. They were conquered, curb stomped, their people subject to purge after purge. Their very ability to have families as they chose taken from them. And the vandals still sit atop the wretched corpse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (/x6eu)

205 Is she at all related to Eric Weinstein? He's also on about string theory, but I don't think his complaints about it have anything to do with rayciss.

He just thinks physicists are chasing grant dollars, and the powers that be aren't interested in pursuing other lines of inquiry.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (dGCAG)

206 Also ain't nobody give no damn if no meat chicken got a cold.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (qSMcm)

207 195 Stop hiring queen and communist.

Posted by: Long night...lifted at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (2NXcZ)

208 This is an off-shoot of the weird racial fetish the left has, that "diversity is our strength" bullshit follows from "diverse viewpoints from different lived experiences."

So, somehow, a black person has this secret insight from growing up, that looking at a problem from a "black perspective" will finally yield a solution to an unsolvable problem.

It makes as much sense as claiming Ancient Africans invented space travel but is was stolen and then lost for thousands of years.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (apAvM)

209 I liked BBT, I think it was mostly genuinely funny. Like most sitcoms it wore out its welcome by season 5.

Young Sheldon was good too with the surprise twist that the father was actually a pretty solid character.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (QG+Au)

210 "Maybe its just because I am getting old but it feels like we're coasting to a grinding halt, that this is the end of everything. Not because of some grand disaster, but because of just... entropy."

Don't think so. I think the real problem is the activated sludge that has been massively piped into the system by our hydra-headed, grant/graft-giving Leviathan Government. If we can blast that out of our pipes, we'll see a rebirth of freedom and creativity.

Eric Weinstein has a 17-minute talk about this very thing that's well worth a look. "Why the West Is Waking Up from a 70-Year Nap": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdJtrXYBZs

Posted by: Beverly at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (Epeb0)

211 Better yet, the next Chinese moon rover will end up with 50 bumper stickers saying "Coexist" on the back.
Posted by: Orson at March 21, 2025 12:34 PM (dIske)
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Those make the rover go faster!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2025 12:37 PM (cweKM)

212 I keep seeing YouTube videos about the James Webb telescope showing there are some/several things "we" must have gotten completely wrong. But I don't know the science well enough to "analyze"

I think this is less about getting basic science wrong as getting really long distance guesses wrong. We're trying to figure stuff out about things billions of miles away based on tiny scraps of information. And the scientific reporting doesn't help with any of this.

Scientist: "We discovered something consistent with electromagnetic information that would normally indicate a planet of earth size in orbit around a star."
Reporter: Telescope discovers new earth orbiting distant star!!!1!!1!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:37 PM (2VST1)

213 Boston globe:
Today we eliminate title IX. Tomorrow we make segregation great again. Vote blue 2026!
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:34 PM (MGB5H)

Eugenics starting in 3 2 1

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:37 PM (gbOdA)

214
Where are our young composers, authors, painters, scientists, archaeologists, theologians, philosophers, directors, archaeologists, statesmen, designers? Where are the leaders for the future? The visionaries, the people who build the next stage in civilization?

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Unpopular take in this age of promoting occupations of skill: Don't shut down the Humanities and Liberal Arts in colleges. Restore them to their original purpose. We need English majors, Philosophy majors, Music majors, yes even Sociology and Poli Sci majors and other owners of "useless knowledge."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:37 PM (lCaJd)

215 Is she at all related to Eric Weinstein? He's also on about string theory, but I don't think his complaints about it have anything to do with rayciss.

He just thinks physicists are chasing grant dollars, and the powers that be aren't interested in pursuing other lines of inquiry.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (dGCAG)

It's just another money laundering/kickback machine at this point.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:37 PM (MGB5H)

216
You can get at least two noses from that yuge schnozzola of her's.

Posted by: YIKES! at March 21, 2025 12:37 PM (OgWfa)

217 >>> 188
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It's sort of weird that the meat chickens had natural immunity.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (qSMcm)

Heh. Do they even test the meat birds?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 21, 2025 12:37 PM (Vqx30)

218 She talks like a fag and her shit's all retarded

Posted by: Frito at March 21, 2025 12:38 PM (3zjDo)

219 He just thinks physicists are chasing grant dollars, and the powers that be aren't interested in pursuing other lines of inquiry.
Posted by: BurtTC

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(looks around at everything over the last few years and DOGE in particular)

Huh.

Speaking of, if you haven't watched / listened to this it's well worth the time:

"Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK"

https://tinyurl.com/3x5n66av

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:38 PM (qSMcm)

220 As God is my witness I thought chickens could fly.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:38 PM (YM17H)

221 Meat chickens are freakish abominations created by cross breading two freakish abominations in to a sterile bird called the cornish cross (white rock x cornish chicken) which grow from pullets / chicks to full size monster birds in 6-8 weeks.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (uCjyK)

Mmmmm. Sounds delicious.
(yet there I am at costco buying chicken breasts the size of my foot.)

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 21, 2025 12:38 PM (FCbAQ)

222 Maybe, work with me here, the proportion of women willing to work through math formulas for hours at a time is substantially below the proportion of men that are willing to do this. Is it possibly counterproductive to try and force 'equality'?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 21, 2025 12:38 PM (Dv3i1)

223 It's sort of weird that the meat chickens had natural immunity.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (qSMcm)

I would guess it has more to do with the length of the life cycle.

As long as the hatcheries (gigantic warehouses full of birds) weren't affected, then even if you slaughtered every cornish cross in the country, you'd have new cornish cross's ready to be put on the shelves in less than 2 months.

And I don't think the hatcheries were affected, since their birds don't interact with wild birds and they do crazy amounts of testing on their birds (for obvious reasons) all the time.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:39 PM (uCjyK)

224 Actually, the "most obvious explanation" for string theory's morass is that the theory is wrong. Once upon a time, science was honest enough to recognize that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 12:29 PM (ExV1e)

I for one will never reverse my view on Lumiferous Aether. Newton was provably a crank on his Corpuscular theory of light.

And don't get me started on that crazy theory about the circulation of the blood. William Harvey was mad to speculate on such things!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 21, 2025 12:39 PM (D7oie)

225 I maintain that we are at the ragged edge of what we CAN know and understand with the current tools and knowledge we have of the universe and physics.

I recall an episode of "Connections" where James Burke told a story of someone speaking with Copernicus and mocking the Earth-centric model of the solar system and Copernicus, supposedly, said "I wonder what it would have looked like if they were right". The point being that they had constructed models that predicted all the observations which could have been made at the time but in an Earth-centric manner. He went on to point out that man's understanding would always ben limited by what we could observe and measure.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

226 It's a 40-year hole we've been digging.
****
Keep digging, Big Boy.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at March 21, 2025 12:39 PM (+qIkI)

227 There is no path out of that box. Contending "everyone is right from a certain perspective" is a prison from the moment it leaves your mouth.
Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:35 PM (YM17H)

Three lights. OW! Five lights! OWWW!! ...No lights? OW OW OW!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2025 12:39 PM (VoAdT)

228 Now they want to wear Einstein’s skin suit. They will never ever stop.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:39 PM (YM17H)

229
Just watched a video about the Manhattan Project. Noted the "demographics" of every single person from the top physicist to the lowliest technician on the entire project:

White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
White man
...etc.

Posted by: zombie

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And I imagine that anyone who cared to consider factors other than race and sex could discover this group to be widely and deeply diverse.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:39 PM (lCaJd)

230 224 I for one will never reverse my view on Lumiferous Aether. Newton was provably a crank on his Corpuscular theory of light.

And don't get me started on that crazy theory about the circulation of the blood. William Harvey was mad to speculate on such things!
Posted by: Kindltot at March 21, 2025 12:39 PM (D7oie)

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Newton needed to get laid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

231 222. Correct. The scrunt above is basically an activist.

Posted by: Long night...lifted at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (2NXcZ)

232 Unpopular take in this age of promoting occupations of skill: Don't shut down the Humanities and Liberal Arts in colleges. Restore them to their original purpose. We need English majors, Philosophy majors, Music majors, yes even Sociology and Poli Sci majors and other owners of "useless knowledge."
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It's for wealthy people, same as always. The people who can afford to have vanity degrees.

Middle class young ladies shouldn't be getting sociology degrees with $60K student loans to go and work a $20/hour job at JCPenneys

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (qSMcm)

233 I keep seeing YouTube videos about the James Webb telescope showing there are some/several things "we" must have gotten completely wrong. But I don't know the science well enough to "analyze".

The whole dark matter and dark energy thang is ... disturbing. Basic Newtonian physics is good enough for me. heh
Posted by: illiniwek

Try Sabine Hossenfelder's YT videos. She is an actual theoretical physicist who comments now on new work as it comes out. As a German, low threshold for scientific bullshit in her field, not so good when getting beyond her specialty.

But, she notes that part of the issue is that the empirical scientists have diverged a lot from the people that do only mathematical analysis in the field.

So, like the wankery with string theory failures over 40 years, empiricists haven't found support for it but the theoretical math types simply insist to try harder over and over again because the math 'works' in their view.

Has to do with the inductive approach used by a lot of empiricists versus the top down deductive approach by theorists--e.g. the theory predicts x so empiricists not finding x means that they simply doing it right because the math 'works'.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (ctrM5)

234
I watched the last season of Picard, just to see the old TNG crew back together one last time. Seeing them on the Enterprise D bridge was a good nostalgic feeling for me. It erases that stupid Star Trek: Nemesis from my memory of being their last one together.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (IifOV)

235 Here's the thing -- I don't agree with Affirmative Action or DEI or anything like that, but I can understand the (misplaced) argument in favor of it when it comes to poor black people in the US who were decedents of slaves who still live near where their great grandparents were slaves or sharecroppers.

They definitely start off life behind the eight ball, and I think any normal person wants to help people out in life when they can.

*****

Slavery and Jim Crow definitely held back generations of black Americans.

The welfare state and DEI continues to hold them back.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iwhil)

236 "Prescod-Weinstein" - there's a name that smacks of growing up in the hood.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (f1kZG)

237 "Black feminist theory intersectionality should change physics."
......

Out: Quark Theory
In: Twerk Theory

Posted by: wth at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (v0R5T)

238 Sheesh!
Reading this I am glad it's Friday and I can begin day drinking early.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (W/lyH)

239 "Black feminist theory intersectionality should change physics."

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Cockroaches should write poetry.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 21, 2025 12:41 PM (L/fGl)

240 Newton needed to get laid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

"Want to come over to my place and check out my piss jug collection?

Hey, where ya goin'?!?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2025 12:41 PM (VoAdT)

241 Why the Senate Rs just voted for them without any scrutiny is just beyond me.

Presidents deserve their choices. Unless they're Republicans, particularly Trump. -- Senators

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 12:41 PM (ExV1e)

242 "Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire "

I first read that as cosmetologist. After looking at her picture, she fails at that as well. I would give her a job sweeping up the hair and booking appointments. Maybe.

Posted by: Cheri at March 21, 2025 12:41 PM (oiNtH)

243 "Actually, the "most obvious explanation" for string theory's morass is that the theory is wrong."

I think the main problem is that nobody has been able to design an experiment for it which can resolve any falsifiable hypothesis.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2025 12:41 PM (5ACBR)

244 Newton needed to get laid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

"Want to come over to my place and check out my piss jug collection?

Hey, where ya goin'?!?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2025 12:41 PM (VoAdT)

Maybe he shoulda just married a pigeon.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:41 PM (MGB5H)

245 229. I'm sure that's all ugly Chanda looks at

Posted by: Long night...lifted at March 21, 2025 12:41 PM (2NXcZ)

246 Since I read this, I wondered: what is the difference between black and white empiricism?
Is this like white tears, something white people are not entitled to?

Posted by: PG at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (9pKfS)

247 @229 the only diversity in zombie's list is that some of the white men were Communist spies, some weren't

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (LVkqs)

248 poor black people in the US who were decedents of slaves who still live near where their great grandparents were slaves or sharecroppers.

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No, I'm done with it. At some point in the last 25 years your great grandfather should've made a better decision.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (qSMcm)

249 Mmmmm. Sounds delicious.
(yet there I am at costco buying chicken breasts the size of my foot.)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 21, 2025 12:38 PM (FCbAQ)

I used to raise cuckoo marans (among other chickens) as dual purpose layer / meat birds.

A 2 year old (no longer laying hen) had less meat on it's entire body than one of the massive chicken breasts you can get at the store. And obviously they taste much different (which is one of the secrets to why chicken at good french restaurants are so much better.)

In less than 50 years, Americans went from eating Rhode Island Red's and other "normal" chickens to eating the freakish chickens we eat now.

Anyways, obviously I eat the freakish chickens just like everyone else and just try not to think about it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (uCjyK)

250 >Trans girls playing girls’ sports? How about a more radical idea: Abolish the gender divide in athletics altogether.

Yes! Based and redpilled!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (PMERb)

251 Speaking of, if you haven't watched / listened to this it's well worth the time:

"Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK"

https://tinyurl.com/3x5n66av
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:38 PM (qSMcm)

I'll have to check it out later. Rupert Sheldrake sounds like a fake name.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (dGCAG)

252 Carthago delenda est.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (z0e6h)

253 " string theory "failed to succeed" because the field has too many white men"

I'd like to present my g-string theory if anyone has time.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (vFG9F)

254 Thanks for the explanations about the meat chickens vs. the egg chickens, everyone.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (77rzZ)

255 "I've got citations."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:08 PM
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Parking tickets don't count towards your PhD.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (f1kZG)

256
When will the Reparations be declared paid in full? At the same time that Earth will be declared climate change free.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (YM17H)

257

WOuld it be racist to ask to see her grades?

Physics is hard, you have to have a brain oriented to it and a personality to use that brain.

Getting into this bullshit is something a true physicist would most likely not do. One that is more concerned with other things would.

I've been around a few physicists that did things and could see into the atom and explain it in deep terms mathematically without breaking a sweat.

I think if they were to be asked about this crap they would pretty much laugh. They don't take any guff or falsities.

Some hold leftist views, of course. But they treat science unlike politics from my experience.

White men created the entire field of physics, Marie Curie also, of course.

What a fucking flake.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (et1vG)

258 247 @229 the only diversity in zombie's list is that some of the white men were Communist spies, some weren't
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (LVkqs)

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Some were merely communist sympathizers who wanted to give nuclear secrets to the USSR through official channels rather than through espionage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

259 Unpopular take in this age of promoting occupations of skill: Don't shut down the Humanities and Liberal Arts in colleges. Restore them to their original purpose. We need English majors, Philosophy majors, Music majors, yes even Sociology and Poli Sci majors and other owners of "useless knowledge."

The biggest myth of modern education is that college is a glorified trade school. College does not exist to get you a job. It is not meant to be a method of making money. College is part of the trivium: it is the final stage of education where you take all the things you learned and memorized before, and learn how to use them to do new things, think of new things, and to leverage all that into being a better person, citizen, and leader.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:43 PM (2VST1)

260 I like to fall asleep to Gene Roddenberry's Final Conflict and Andromeda due to my brains' complete lack of interest.

Andromeda had Sorbo who is a conservative guy. And Lexa Doig.....ohhhhhh. And Laura Bertam who was in a tweenage show here in Canada I saw a few times. I was happy to see her in Andromeda, especially in the first season when she was light purple and had a tail. They 'aged' her in later seasons.

The best part of the show was that the flagship of the destroyed Commonwealth could run efficiently with a crew of 7. Lol.

Posted by: Stateless...63% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 21, 2025 12:43 PM (jvJvP)

261 250 >Trans girls playing girls’ sports? How about a more radical idea: Abolish the gender divide in athletics altogether.

Yes! Based and redpilled!
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (PMERb)

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I can't wait for the Boston Globe to pwn the cons by demanding contracts between men and women for long term monogamy before having sex.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

262 Out: Quark Theory
In: Twerk Theory
Posted by: wth

Ha!

Posted by: Cheri at March 21, 2025 12:43 PM (oiNtH)

263 Given that Black women must, according to Einstein's principle ... have an equal claim to objectivity

The people that tell us to trust the experts also tell us that the experts know nothing more then anyone else.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 12:43 PM (t0Rmr)

264

YHGTBFKM

In this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusion and the struggle for women to reconcile “Black woman” with “physicist.”

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at March 21, 2025 12:43 PM (et1vG)

265 Young Sheldon was good too with the surprise twist that the father was actually a pretty solid character.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (QG+Au)

They had to retcon George Sr.'s character or Young Sheldon would have failed.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 21, 2025 12:43 PM (/HDaX)

266 ALL of the diversity arguments are pure BULLSHIT. They are based on the idea that some moron with an IQ of 85 will make an organization better due to "lived experiences". Screw your "lived experiences". What did you learn from them? When I worked as a project manager, I can tell you for certain that what I cared about is are you smart/capable, and do you get things done.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 21, 2025 12:44 PM (vd6bO)

267 Nobody has a claim to objectivity.

That's the point of objectivity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 21, 2025 12:44 PM (VoAdT)

268 "Black feminist theory intersectionality should change physics."
......

Gives a whole new meaning to black holes.

Posted by: wth at March 21, 2025 12:44 PM (v0R5T)

269 looked up "studies" degrees to confirm my bias that they are all bullshit, and found a discussion forum from 7 years ago in which the OP asked why anyone would waste 4 years and incur massive debt to study something that was basically whining.

Several replies confirmed that his question proved he was a misogynist racist, but one really resonated with me, from a poster named "Earth Guardian": "Those are important degrees. Until we get enough people with those types of educations in positions of powers, we won't be able to shape the country in the direction it needs to go. The more people with dgrees like that, the easier it will be to take the money from people who don't deserve it and give it it people who do. People with those degrees are the engineers who will build a better society."

It reads like parody, including the moniker, but it isn't, unfortunately.

Kind of like how reporting became "journalism", when aspirants were polled back in the 90s, and the overwhelming majoriy no longer said they wanted to search for truth, but to "change the world".

Posted by: barbarausa at March 21, 2025 12:44 PM (enw9G)

270 I don't got nuthin.
This gravity stuff is beyond my pay grade.
Shit rolls downhill. That's all you need to know

Posted by: torabora at March 21, 2025 12:44 PM (+qIkI)

271 I'll have to check it out later. Rupert Sheldrake sounds like a fake name.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (dGCAG)

Is that from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:44 PM (gbOdA)

272 Just recycling the standard Nazi trope, except that instead of denouncing "Jewish physics", she's denouncing "white physics".

Same thing.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 21, 2025 12:44 PM (u6/wt)

273 "I've got citations."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:08 PM
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Parking tickets don't count towards your PhD.
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 21, 2025 12:42 PM (f1kZG)

Nor do your speeding tickets, unless you were caught going from Earth to Pluto in 30 minutes or less for a pizza delivery.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 21, 2025 12:44 PM (VNX3d)

274 Lysenko on meth and bath salts

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 21, 2025 12:44 PM (mlg/3)

275 I have not done the numbers or studied closely but I wonder if they have not destroyed more chickens to prevent the spread of Bird Flu than Bird Flu would have killed... and created herd immunity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:45 PM (2VST1)

276 I would pay money to somehow see her discuss physics with Richard Feynman.

Assuming she even knows who he is.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 12:45 PM (nzAqh)

277 We are living in the greatest age of astronomical discoveries.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 21, 2025 12:45 PM (QG+Au)

278 "Fundamentally non-serious" choice.

Posted by: Crusader at March 21, 2025 12:45 PM (TN0g+)

279 "She is an actual theoretical physicist"

She was. I watch her stuff, but with appropriate caution. I like her delivery. It's about 95% undiluted science, without stupid cartoony shit, unlike that of other science popularizers. But her other 5% is attempts at snark and humor and politics and dumb opinions which undermine it.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2025 12:45 PM (5ACBR)

280
She then earned a master's degree in astronomy in 2005 at the University of California, Santa Cruz

So she's a Banana Slug

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 21, 2025 12:46 PM (y9nCu)

281
Because there's money in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

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I was waiting for that answer, and that's why I put the concept of valuing energetic and honest intellectual inquiry into her original state of mind. How do you give up on that so totally for money, which you could have gotten by continuing with real science, that you start producing utter nonsense?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:46 PM (lCaJd)

282 Slavery and Jim Crow definitely held back generations of black Americans.

The welfare state and DEI continues to hold them back.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iwhil)

I agree, these programs do much more harm than good. But the people who were supposed to be the recipients of DEI / affirmative action aren't the ones who are. It's grifters like this lady who is.

And you know what else kills these people's economic mobility? Immigration.

20 years ago, the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia were full of chicken farms and processing facilities. And locals (both blacks and whites) worked for those farms and facilities and made enough money to own a house and have a somewhat normal life, even if they're in an isolated place like the eastern shore.

In the last 5-10 years, that all changed. Now half the signs along route 13 are in Spanish, you see vans full of hispanic guys driving to the farms and processing facilities, and all the locals are on welfare.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:46 PM (uCjyK)

283 >>> 275 I have not done the numbers or studied closely but I wonder if they have not destroyed more chickens to prevent the spread of Bird Flu than Bird Flu would have killed... and created herd immunity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:45 PM (2VST1)

You don't need to do any math, that's just reality. Chickens have immune systems, too!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 21, 2025 12:46 PM (Vqx30)

284 Before Einstein physicists were scratching their heads. The speed of light was finite, but the force of gravity was instantaneous. Why?

Einstein came up with a model where gravity was a bend in space-time. About twenty years later an experiment was run during an eclipse which fit with Einstien's theories.

That's how Science works.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2025 12:47 PM (Gqoy+)

285 I was waiting for that answer, and that's why I put the concept of valuing energetic and honest intellectual inquiry into her original state of mind. How do you give up on that so totally for money, which you could have gotten by continuing with real science, that you start producing utter nonsense?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:46 PM (lCaJ

Because there is MORE money in it.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:47 PM (MGB5H)

286 274 Lysenko on meth and bath salts

lysenko on meth and bath salts > shaka when the walls fell

Posted by: anachronda at March 21, 2025 12:47 PM (oY6Yp)

287 " string theory "failed to succeed" because the field has too many white men"

I'd like to present my g-string theory if anyone has time.
Posted by: fd
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Oh. we've got nothing but time for that.
Will there be pictures?

Posted by: wth at March 21, 2025 12:47 PM (v0R5T)

288 232 Unpopular take in this age of promoting occupations of skill: Don't shut down the Humanities and Liberal Arts in colleges. Restore them to their original purpose. We need English majors, Philosophy majors, Music majors, yes even Sociology and Poli Sci majors and other owners of "useless knowledge."
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It's for wealthy people, same as always. The people who can afford to have vanity degrees.

Middle class young ladies shouldn't be getting sociology degrees with $60K student loans to go and work a $20/hour job at JCPenneys
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
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Real humanities is actually cheap for universities to do because it only relies on a classroom (virtual or not), a professor, and students. STEM, on the other hand, apart from Math, often requires expensive equipment, professors in demand for other employment in industry, etc., and so on.

What you cannot do is create a resort community for students and layers of support staff and adminstrators added as overhead.

Public schools are having the same issue but in some ways worse as they cannot pay differentials to science and math teachers over English, history, and particular coaches. Same administrative and feature bloat.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 12:47 PM (ctrM5)

289 284 Before Einstein physicists were scratching their heads. The speed of light was finite, but the force of gravity was instantaneous. Why?

Einstein came up with a model where gravity was a bend in space-time. About twenty years later an experiment was run during an eclipse which fit with Einstien's theories.

That's how Science works.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2025 12:47 PM (Gqoy+)

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"To protect Americans from gravity, we are demanding a cap and grav tax on all big businesses to limit the use of gravity and save our futures."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

290 Just recycling the standard Nazi trope, except that instead of denouncing "Jewish physics", she's denouncing "white physics".

Her father is Jewish, so I assume we need to ignore half of her "research findings".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (u6/wt)

291 I take it back. That bitch was born wearing a dog costume. Woof.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (BI5O2)

292 I was waiting for that answer, and that's why I put the concept of valuing energetic and honest intellectual inquiry into her original state of mind. How do you give up on that so totally for money, which you could have gotten by continuing with real science, that you start producing utter nonsense?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:46 PM (lCaJd)

Because most people are driven by self-interest, not ideology.

It's in her interest (financially) to grift.

I think it really is that simple.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (uCjyK)

293 Big Bang Theory was a bridge too far as a Science Fiction TV series. Sure, they had plenty of technobabble science talk, but I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to imagine hot girls falling for those guys.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at March 21, 2025 12:27 PM (nPpQ2)

In fairness, Penny had fucked everyone else and Raj's sister just wanted a green card. Bernadette was, herself, a nerd and Blossom wasn't hot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (ExV1e)

294 In this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusion and the struggle for women to reconcile “Black woman” with “physicist.”
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Translation: "In which I bullshit you for the next 462 paragraphs; this is the very sentence that weeds out anyone who is more intelligent than a thimble full of purple drank."

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (YM17H)

295 I'd like to present my g-string theory if anyone has time.
Posted by: fd
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From all accounts of his personal life, Richard Feynman would applaud your audacious theory.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

296 The article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", was published in the journal's Spring/Summer 1996 "Science Wars" issue. It proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct.
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Pure genius!
-Trofim Lysenko

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (RIvkX)

297
Nobody has a claim to objectivity.

That's the point of objectivity.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

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First rule of objectivity.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (lCaJd)

298 They had to retcon George Sr.'s character or Young Sheldon would have failed.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 21, 2025 12:43 PM (/HDaX)

————

It was a good choice. A normal American family doing normal American stuff headed up by a normal American male.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (QG+Au)

299 Boston globe:
Today we eliminate title IX. Tomorrow we make segregation great again. Vote blue 2026!
Posted by: BruceWayne

This has already happened in housing and graduation ceremonies. Hiring practices involving the promotion of people due to African heritage are off the charts, also racist lawsuits.

Posted by: Auspex at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (j4U/Z)

300 I would pay money to somehow see her discuss physics with Richard Feynman.

Assuming she even knows who he is.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

She CERTAINLY wouldn't know where Tannu Tuva was.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

301 She then earned a master's degree in astronomy in 2005 at the University of California, Santa Cruz

So she's a Banana Slug
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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lol

Posted by: wth at March 21, 2025 12:49 PM (v0R5T)

302 She's a cosmetologist? Cometologist?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 21, 2025 12:49 PM (Aqu9a)

303
After she gets fired, I hope that Joy Reid impersonator interviews her. Comedy gold.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:49 PM (lCaJd)

304 College is part of the trivium: it is the final stage of education where you take all the things you learned and memorized before, and learn how to use them to do new things, think of new things, and to leverage all that into being a better person, citizen, and leader.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:43 PM (2VST1)

Well then there's an argument to be made that there's nothing new to think or do that isn't stupid, mankind having already thought of all the probable and possible things.

It would explain a lot.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 21, 2025 12:49 PM (FCbAQ)

305 Lysenko on meth and bath salts

Not me man.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 21, 2025 12:49 PM (WwOla)

306 It makes as much sense as claiming Ancient Africans invented space travel but is was stolen and then lost for thousands of years.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (apAvM)

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"Khafre pyramid at Giza shows massive underground structures (using ground-penetrating radar."

youtube.com/watch?v=vE-BRzn0dDY

Alex Jones thinks it's got something to do with power generation, time traveling, and ETs ... but mostly ETs.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 21, 2025 12:49 PM (KBK+H)

307 Hey hey hey!

Oops... nevermind.

Posted by: Big Cos at March 21, 2025 12:50 PM (bhV/D)

308 Every college and university should have a zampolit cadre to keep the faculty and staff on the straight-and-narrow. That's the law. She's a defender of the faith and don't question her authority and authenticity if you know what's good for you.

Posted by: mrp at March 21, 2025 12:50 PM (rj6Yv)

309 272 Just recycling the standard Nazi trope, except that instead of denouncing "Jewish physics", she's denouncing "white physics".

Same thing.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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I picture Sen Kennedy reading a list of quotes from notsee's replacing the word Jewish with white and asking her if she agrees with the statements, which she will. Then followed by the gotcha reveal. I don't think he does that to witnesses, but he does read their own idiotic tweets back to them and makes them squirm, which is entertaining.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 21, 2025 12:50 PM (Dv3i1)

310 Speaking of fake academics, Frau Doktor Jill is reportedly nagging Dopey Joe to run again in 2028. Either that or run for Senate or Representative.

Someone on X pointed out that if Spongebrain Shitspaints were elected to Congress, there would be 8 members OLDER than him.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2025 12:50 PM (W5ArC)

311 makes as much sense as claiming Ancient Africans invented space travel but is was stolen and then lost for thousands of years.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2025 12:36 PM (apAvM)

It's just hidden behind an invisible force field around Wakanda.

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:50 PM (MGB5H)

312 "I've got citations."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:08 PM

Good Motown band, solid voice and good backing. I just wish they had better hits to go with.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 21, 2025 12:51 PM (D7oie)

313 Real humanities is actually cheap for universities to do because it only relies on a classroom (virtual or not), a professor, and students....

Posted by: whig

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Well sure, but there's no prestige in not bringing $60K in surprise student loan debt to a marriage.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:51 PM (qSMcm)

314 Sounds like ancient alien astronauts.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 21, 2025 12:51 PM (z0e6h)

315 Slavery and Jim Crow definitely held back generations of black Americans.

The welfare state and DEI continues to hold them back.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iwhil)

I agree, these programs do much more harm than good.

How can anyone say with a straight face that the last 70-odd years of encouraging a victim mentality and accepting low standards has worked out well for the intended recipients?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2025 12:51 PM (xCA6C)

316 It's for wealthy people, same as always. The people who can afford to have vanity degrees.

I read years ago about one woman who was six figures in debt after getting a degree in art history in NYU and couldn't find a job, wondering why no one had told her that art history degrees are for women from rich families, to give them the social polish needed for eventual marriage to high-status young men.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 21, 2025 12:51 PM (u6/wt)

317 "I would pay money to somehow see her discuss physics with Richard Feynman."

Feynman tries mightily to lecture the wacko hippies at Esalen:
https://tinyurl.com/5n94aj9p

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at March 21, 2025 12:51 PM (5ACBR)

318 Sounds like ancient alien astronauts.
Posted by: Boss Moss

I dragged my folks to Chariots of the Gods when I was in, like, 2d grade. Used to love that shit.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 12:52 PM (77rzZ)

319 How did I know that she'd have a hyphenated name?

Posted by: Josephistan at March 21, 2025 12:52 PM (y9ksN)

320 Dr Sheldon Cooper was a String Theory expert… he seems to have more credibility..l
Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2025 12:10 PM (PCK5/)

HEY!! I had a hand in that as well!!

Posted by: Dr. Amy Farah Fowler PHD. at March 21, 2025 12:52 PM (dgRL6)

321 In the last 5-10 years, that all changed. Now half the signs along route 13 are in Spanish, you see vans full of hispanic guys driving to the farms and processing facilities, and all the locals are on welfare.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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True. All too common among some folks is to dismiss the unemployed whites and blacks as learn to code or some other tough love nonsense. Kevin Williamson bullshit. Too many elites want cheap labor from those that they believe are beneath them. Just like teh Southern planters were too good to pick their own damn cotton or at least hire people at wages to do it, they want cheap labor or slavery servitude from those they deem are lesser to them in value.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 12:52 PM (ctrM5)

322 That's how Science works.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2025 12:47 PM (Gqoy+)

How science works is the same way everything else works: Get enough hardliners and cowards to come in with you and you can pretend anything into existence by sheer force of will.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:52 PM (YM17H)

323 Nothing compares to when a serious journalist faces off against Limey physicist Brian COx:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi039BihSAk

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

324 From all accounts of his personal life, Richard Feynman would applaud your audacious theory.
Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

And then like his interactions with Hans Bethe, etc., would have proceeded to call her ideas stupid.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 21, 2025 12:52 PM (/HDaX)

325 SPACEX vs World

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/
1902976751396925683

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2025 12:52 PM (gbOdA)

326 291 I take it back. That bitch was born wearing a dog costume. Woof.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 12:48 PM (BI5O2)

She does have a Russian Wolfhound look (No offense to Hadrian's proper pooches)

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (2NXcZ)

327 So a crazy leftist stopped a Tesla driver on the road and raged at her, yelling at her to sell it because its a Nazi car.

Mind you I would defend her shooting this raging idiot charging at her car, but putting that aside... putting aside the "nazi" charge... how does selling it fix anything? Someone else owns the car then. Its just changing owners.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (2VST1)

328 I firmly believe that if every bit of DEI, LGBTQ, Racist requirements was wrung out of the Federal budget, it would be balanced. No more grants, contracts, conferences, displays, flags,memorabilia, statues, foreign aid that in any way promotes any of these. Result: balanced budget.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (t/2Uw)

329
the struggle for women to reconcile “Black woman” with “physicist.”

===============

I fall asleep at night struggling with this. It's why I drink.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (lCaJd)

330 Speaking of fake academics, Frau Doktor Jill is reportedly nagging Dopey Joe to run again in 2028. Either that or run for Senate or Representative.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2025 12:50 PM (W5ArC)

Gotta keep that grift going, even if it means wheeling Joe Bidens decaying body in to the Senate.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (uCjyK)

331 290 Just recycling the standard Nazi trope, except that instead of denouncing "Jewish physics", she's denouncing "white physics".

Her father is Jewish, so I assume we need to ignore half of her "research findings".
_-_-_-_
Fun game. Take everything people say about "white" people and substitute "black", "brown", "Jewish", or, what's that favorite, idiotic, inherently racist term they use...oh yeah, "people of color" and see how they like their own words spit back.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (vd6bO)

332 Slavery was backed by Science. Naziism was backed by Science. Jim Crow was backed by Science. Abortion is backed by Science.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:54 PM (YM17H)

333 It is my understand that most physicists realized that string theory was bullshit shortly after it was thought of. But it caught the imagination of the public so it became popular. Part of that popularity was among university donors who endowed physics departments with the understanding that they add string-theory proponents to their staff. University presidents like money and don't understand physics so string theory has remained alive.

Basically, it functions like any other pyramid scheme/cult.

Posted by: eddie at March 21, 2025 12:54 PM (4+Tgo)

334 I would pay money to somehow see her discuss physics with Richard Feynman.

Assuming she even knows who he is.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is tanned, rested, available, and best of all has a name of stinky French origin!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 21, 2025 12:54 PM (KBK+H)

335 And da bitch has "protected" her tweets. Of course.

Posted by: Night lifted.... at March 21, 2025 12:54 PM (2NXcZ)

336 330 Speaking of fake academics, Frau Doktor Jill is reportedly nagging Dopey Joe to run again in 2028. Either that or run for Senate or Representative.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 21, 2025 12:50 PM (W5ArC)

Gotta keep that grift going, even if it means wheeling Joe Bidens decaying body in to the Senate.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (uCjyK)

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I hope he runs.

I hope he runs and loses.

It would be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

337 279
‘ But her other 5% is attempts at snark and humor and politics and dumb opinions which undermine it.’

She definitely has a European view of America but her attempting jokes is cute .

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 21, 2025 12:55 PM (jbnUc)

338 Mind you I would defend her shooting this raging idiot charging at her car, but putting that aside... putting aside the "nazi" charge... how does selling it fix anything? Someone else owns the car then. Its just changing owners.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (2VST1)

Don't go into the light!

Posted by: mrp at March 21, 2025 12:55 PM (rj6Yv)

339 Do they even test the meat birds?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 21, 2025 12:37 PM (Vqx30)

Depends on which set of prices we need to manipulate. -- FDA

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 12:55 PM (ExV1e)

340 I read years ago about one woman who was six figures in debt after getting a degree in art history in NYU and couldn't find a job, wondering why no one had told her that art history degrees are for women from rich families, to give them the social polish needed for eventual marriage to high-status young men.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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You can get a job in art history but you have to be damn good at it and have advanced degrees. Have a childhood acquaintance that did just that and runs an art museum attached to a state u. His father was an art professor and working artist that actually made money from his artistic skills.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 12:55 PM (ctrM5)

341 249 Anyways, obviously I eat the freakish chickens just like everyone else and just try not to think about it.

one! of! us!
one! of! us!

Posted by: anachronda at March 21, 2025 12:55 PM (oY6Yp)

342 It is my understand that most physicists realized that string theory was bullshit shortly after it was thought of. But it caught the imagination of the public so it became popular. Part of that popularity was among university donors who endowed physics departments with the understanding that they add string-theory proponents to their staff. University presidents like money and don't understand physics so string theory has remained alive.

Basically, it functions like any other pyramid scheme/cult.

Posted by: eddie at March 21, 2025 12:54 PM (4+Tgo)

I'm still waiting for the Spaghettios theory of physics.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 21, 2025 12:55 PM (VNX3d)

343 Brian Cox > Brian Dennehy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:55 PM (2VST1)

344 Slavery was backed by Science. Naziism was backed by Science. Jim Crow was backed by Science. Abortion is backed by Science.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:54 PM (YM17H)

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The Progressive Movement was founded on the back of Science!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 21, 2025 12:55 PM (KBK+H)

345 Speaking of fake academics, Frau Doktor Jill is reportedly nagging Dopey Joe to run again in 2028. Either that or run for Senate or Representative.
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HAHAHAHA

America is DONE with you, cunt. KYS.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2025 12:56 PM (BI5O2)

346 Joe as senate or rep would not be worse than whatshername from California or Crockett.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 21, 2025 12:56 PM (/x6eu)

347 And then like his interactions with Hans Bethe, etc., would have proceeded to call her ideas stupid.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
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Feynman like to go to strip clubs. That was the in joke.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 12:56 PM (ctrM5)

348 I'm still waiting for the Spaghettios theory of physics.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 21, 2025 12:55 PM (VNX3d)

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That could have been the basis of a Seinfeld episode.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 21, 2025 12:56 PM (KBK+H)

349 >> I agree, these programs do much more harm than good. But the people who were supposed to be the recipients of DEI / affirmative action aren't the ones who are. It's grifters like this lady who is.

Plenty of black Americans are recipients of DEI. However, I also mentioned welfare, which has cost trillions over the decades and has destroyed black self-sufficiency.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 12:56 PM (iwhil)

350 So a crazy leftist stopped a Tesla driver on the road and raged at her, yelling at her to sell it because its a Nazi car.

Mind you I would defend her shooting this raging idiot charging at her car, but putting that aside... putting aside the "nazi" charge... how does selling it fix anything? Someone else owns the car then. Its just changing owners.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025

***
Tell the leftist, "A Nazi car? Good. I'm on my way to Natonal Socialist Night at my club. Have a nice day."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 21, 2025 12:57 PM (J2vNu)

351 Feynman like to go to strip clubs. That was the in joke.
Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 12:56 PM (ctrM5)

I got that part. Him tearing strips off her would have been the whipped-cream topping.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 21, 2025 12:57 PM (/HDaX)

352 Fun game. Take everything people say about "white" people and substitute "black", "brown", "Jewish", or, what's that favorite, idiotic, inherently racist term they use...oh yeah, "people of color" and see how they like their own words spit back.

This was one of the most effective tools that second wave feminists used in the 70s. They would point to some scene or dialog or joke at the expense of women and say "now reverse this, make it a man. Does that seem okay to you?"

They seem to have forgotten that lesson.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:57 PM (2VST1)

353
Speaking of fake academics, Frau Doktor Jill is reportedly nagging Dopey Joe to run again in 2028. Either that or run for Senate or Representative.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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omg if this is true... either she's as demented as he is or she's got some diabolical revenge up her sleeve.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:58 PM (lCaJd)

354 Imagine 3 people have their boat sink off a deserted island.

Does a "diversity of experience" help them? Well if you mean actual real knowledge is different fields, sure. So, if say the three are a trauma nurse, a fisherman, and someone that grew up on a similar island? They'll do better then average obviously.

But if instead you have three government bureaucrats that grew up in Chicago and one is black, one is hispanic, and one is a tranny? They are going to die.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 12:58 PM (t0Rmr)

355 "Khafre pyramid at Giza shows massive underground structures (using ground-penetrating radar."

youtube.com/watch?v=vE-BRzn0dDY

Alex Jones thinks it's got something to do with power generation, time traveling, and ETs ... but mostly ETs.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at March 21, 2025 12:49 PM (KBK+H)

I saw this, and I am honestly waiting for further imaging.

I also want research along the bed of the Mediterranean along the path the Nile river prior to the sea level rise at the end of the Younger Dryas, just for kicks and schizzles

Posted by: Kindltot at March 21, 2025 12:58 PM (D7oie)

356
Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 12:52 PM (ctrM5)

Yeah, it's incomprehensible to me. If we're all supposed to be Americans here, and if having "a culture" or "a country" means anything, I would think it would be in EVERYONE's best interest to do what we can to help those people.

Especially when there are a lot of easy ways to do so. Like stopping the importation of indentured servants from central america and a hostile white collar caste from India.

Yes, Purdue chicken might cost slightly more if the chicken processing facilities had to pay market rate for wages and had to compete with other companies and industries for labor. But we'd have a lot fewer despondent people on welfare and spend a lot less money on social services.

I think that's well worth it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:58 PM (uCjyK)

357 Contending "everyone is right from a certain perspective" is a prison from the moment it leaves your mouth.
Posted by: ...

Reminiscent of the chrono-synclastic infundibulum. Of course, that's a fictional concept from syfy comedy novel The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.

A chrono-synclastic infundibulum—from time ("chrono"), curved toward the same side in all directions ("synclastic"), and funnel ("infundibulum")—is a phenomenon which distorts usual human perceptions of space and time. Those that enter them are scattered across multiple times and places and can obtain awareness of how moments are structured and connected, in essence allowing them to perceive "the future" as understood by human beings. Because of this, the "many different ways of being right" in the universe can become aligned and "all different kinds of truths fit together".[1] It has thus been described as "a mathematical point where all opinions, no matter how contradictory, harmonized".[2] It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "time warp".[3]

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 21, 2025 12:58 PM (L/fGl)

358 I got out of the anthropology gig when I learned that if you don't have a PHD in archeology, you are just a ditch digger. On my first dig I was making $5/hr as essentially a foreman.

The soft sciences are for rich people.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 21, 2025 12:58 PM (jc0TO)

359 You can get a job in art history but you have to be damn good at it and have advanced degrees. Have a childhood acquaintance that did just that and runs an art museum attached to a state u. His father was an art professor and working artist that actually made money from his artistic skills.
Posted by: whig

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I suspect that last part was the important bit in the child's application being considered.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:58 PM (qSMcm)

360 How long until some Democrat moves to discharge DoorDash loans?

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 12:59 PM (MGB5H)

361 >...which grow from pullets / chicks to full size monster birds in 6-8 weeks.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 12:33 PM (uCjyK)

Well, that's a pullet surprise!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 21, 2025 12:59 PM (GTqXr)

362 "Try Sabine Hossenfelder's YT videos." whig

I quit watching her when she said something like "We don't have free will, all we do is just a reaction to our circumstances".

Maybe she knows physics, but to me, people DO have free will. We can determine a different direction if we so choose. This is fundamental to being human (and to being MAGA).

Of course if one is born in Gaza and taught hate from birth, it might be more difficult to believe in "Liberty" than for those of us that grew up with Christian values.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 21, 2025 12:59 PM (Cus5s)

363 White man
White man
White man
White man
...etc.

Posted by: zombie

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And I imagine that anyone who cared to consider factors other than race and sex could discover this group to be widely and deeply diverse.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

++++++

A whole chicks ran certain because they're better at it. Something about focus and finesse.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 21, 2025 12:59 PM (/lPRQ)

364
By the way, I'd like to see ace's first sentence read in James Earl Jones's voice in place of the familiar audio-slug.

This
is
D
E
I

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 12:59 PM (lCaJd)

365 putting aside the "nazi" charge... how does selling it fix anything? Someone else owns the car then. Its just changing owners.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (2VST1)

Because then the raging lunatic can yell at someone else to sell that same car? It keeps the lunatics happy, I guess.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 21, 2025 12:59 PM (FCbAQ)

366 Speaking of fake academics, Frau Doktor Jill is reportedly nagging Dopey Joe to run again in 2028. Either that or run for Senate or Representative.

We have already throughly established that lack of brain function is no barrier to serving in the Senate.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 21, 2025 12:59 PM (u6/wt)

367 Blacks would've been a lot better off without welfare (which would've kept fathers in the home) than with DEI.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:59 PM (qSMcm)

368 They didn't teach DEI physics when Publius was at Clempson.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 21, 2025 01:00 PM (w6EFb)

369 It has to be a no work job, just daydreaming What If all day long.
Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 12:07 PM (fwDg9)

Back in the 90's I worked in an engineering office. Blue chip company that made earth moving equipment. There was a guy, who just happened to be the brother of the head honcho in this one division. He did nothing all day except take a lot of smoke breaks.

I started asking around and what I heard was that he would say "I'm an idea man". That was his job. Must have been prepping for a FedGov job.

Posted by: haffhowershower at March 21, 2025 01:00 PM (NMT5x)

370 Slavery was backed by Science. Naziism was backed by Science. Jim Crow was backed by Science. Abortion is backed by Science.

I love pointing out that phrenology was considered a genius new scientific theory in the early 20th century, the darling of academia and elite culture (Sherlock Holmes was a proponent for example). The NYT wrote glowing articles about how it explained culture and different racial limitations.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 01:00 PM (2VST1)

371
Slavery and Jim Crow definitely held back generations of black Americans.

The welfare state and DEI continues to hold them back.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iwhil)

Slavery and Jim Crow: Donk policies to keep black folk under their boot.

Welfare state and DEI: Other Donk policies to keep black folk under their boot.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 21, 2025 01:00 PM (y9nCu)

372 Love to see Joey run for Congress in Delaware against tranny McBride. "Look fat , you've got a penis right. No joke but you're a woman. I just shit myself. No joke"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2025 01:00 PM (LVkqs)

373 Slavery was backed by Science. Naziism was backed by Science. Jim Crow was backed by Science. Abortion is backed by Science.
Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 12:54 PM (YM17H)

Scientism isn't science. It's the use of pseudo-scientific methods to fool the fools into believing it's science, when it isn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 21, 2025 01:01 PM (dGCAG)

374 His father was an art professor and working artist that actually made money from his artistic skills.
Posted by: whig

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I suspect that last part was the important bit in the child's application being considered.

There are a lot of fields that are completely run by nepotism and the casting couch - and oddly while these fields tend to be hard left they are used as an indictment of capitalism.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2025 01:01 PM (t0Rmr)

375 I like the part of the Three Body Problem where the aliens send basically AI written into electrons to the Earth to scuttle all advanced physics to the point research became worthless.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2025 01:01 PM (apAvM)

376 Well sure, but there's no prestige in not bringing $60K in surprise student loan debt to a marriage.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

What I am telling you is that the modern university costs are being driven by a) student amenities (which often require borrowing and servicing that), and b) administrators and support. Basically for every three professors, you have one administrator plus their support staff (secretaries, etc.).

In public schools, for example, my local school district, they get about $9k per student in taxes. Thus, in a 25 person class, that district has $225k in revenue. They pay the teacher 60k and that leaves 165k as 'overhead'. Now, imagine a private company with such a cost structure. It will go out of business in a hurry.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:01 PM (ctrM5)

377 Just another advertisement that college is worthless.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 21, 2025 01:01 PM (Hpgos)

378 Love to see Joey run for Congress in Delaware against tranny McBride. "Look fat , you've got a penis right. No joke but you're a woman. I just shit myself. No joke"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2025 01:00 PM (LVkqs)

He'd Prly challenge Timmy to whip it out and measure em

Posted by: BruceWayne at March 21, 2025 01:01 PM (MGB5H)

379 When you turn on the lights all the roaches scatter...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2025 01:02 PM (VE6XX)

380 Well, that's a pullet surprise!
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 21, 2025 12:59 PM (GTqXr)

Groan.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 01:02 PM (uCjyK)

381 This woman wouldn’t even make a good planetarium director, unlike that Greasy Tyson chicken guy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 21, 2025 01:02 PM (4rvfO)

382 >>>There was a guy, who just happened to be the brother of the head honcho in this one division. He did nothing all day except take a lot of smoke breaks.

There was a guy like that at a flooring company where I temped. The boss' son. They had to plead with him to get there on time, or show up at all.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 21, 2025 01:02 PM (w6EFb)

383
Most of the modern corporate takeover and subversion of culture is the poison fruit of Affirmative Action.

All the leftards needed to do was to not get hired on merit ONCE. From there it was a matter of backstabbing, fucking and social climbing their way into positions of power and then only hiring the like-minded. YOU ARE HERE

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 01:02 PM (YM17H)

384 I love pointing out that phrenology was considered a genius new scientific theory in the early 20th century, the darling of academia and elite culture (Sherlock Holmes was a proponent for example). The NYT wrote glowing articles about how it explained culture and different racial limitations.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Ferris College in Michigan once had a president who believed in phrenology. Supposedly, he would feel up the applicants' skulls and use the results as a criterion for admission.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 01:03 PM (77rzZ)

385 Segregation? We got this.

Posted by: Boston, MA at March 21, 2025 01:03 PM (qUkBO)

386 ...which grow from pullets / chicks to full size monster birds in 6-8 weeks.

How long does it take them to become emus?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2025 01:03 PM (xCA6C)

387
I got out of the anthropology gig when I learned that if you don't have a PHD in archeology, you are just a ditch digger. On my first dig I was making $5/hr as essentially a foreman.

The soft sciences are for rich people.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

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Rich people or impassioned people. That's why I defend the soft sciences -- but I do think archeologists who actually dig are hard. Shut up, you morons, you know what I mean by "hard."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 01:04 PM (lCaJd)

388 Slavery and Jim Crow: Donk policies to keep black folk under their boot.

Welfare state and DEI: Other Donk policies to keep black folk under their boot.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 21, 2025 01:00 PM (y9nCu)

I know, right? Out there for anyone to see.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 21, 2025 01:04 PM (w6EFb)

389
We went from horses to the moon in like 60 years.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

HORSES TO THE MOON!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 21, 2025 01:04 PM (63Dwl)

390 What I am telling you is that the modern university costs are being driven by a) student amenities (which often require borrowing and servicing that), and b) administrators and support. Basically for every three professors, you have one administrator plus their support staff (secretaries, etc.).

In public schools, for example, my local school district, they get about $9k per student in taxes. Thus, in a 25 person class, that district has $225k in revenue. They pay the teacher 60k and that leaves 165k as 'overhead'. Now, imagine a private company with such a cost structure. It will go out of business in a hurry.
Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:01 PM (ctrM5)

I don't know what your experience in academia was, but I think it's even worse than that. A friend of mine is an adjunct professor at a state school. He makes something like $5k per class per semester (I forget the exact number, I may be off).

So he has a full class schedule and makes almost no money, and will never be tenured, while there are many tenured professors who teach 1 or 2 classes a semester and make $200k / year and have life long job security.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 01:04 PM (uCjyK)

391 I saw this, and I am honestly waiting for further imaging.

You know the really cool stone carved canyon from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Its called Petra, part of a fairly large civilization around New Testament times. That well known area is the treasury for the city that was once in that series of canyons, and they have recently discovered that there's so much sand deposit in the canyon that its at least 2 stories buried underground. As in: you're looking at the top stories of a MUCH larger structure.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 01:04 PM (2VST1)

392 370 Slavery was backed by Science. Naziism was backed by Science. Jim Crow was backed by Science. Abortion is backed by Science.

___________________________________

I tried to work all that into my song, but nothing rhymed. (sad face)

Posted by: Thomas Dolby at March 21, 2025 01:04 PM (dIske)

393 New York Post@nypost
Iceland’s Minister for Children quits after admitting she had a baby with 16-year-old boy

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Well, sounds like she likes children.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 21, 2025 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

394 Okay, this is off the subject but I saw the Z man speaking and demanding russia gives everything back and he kept touching his nose ? Cocaine user ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2025 01:05 PM (VE6XX)

395 The theory of Relativity explains that when Aunt Bunny fell down the steps, it happened because she is married to my dad's brother.

Posted by: Little Eddie at March 21, 2025 01:05 PM (7Q0e+)

396 If you hire for ability and work ethic, diversity will happen to the appropriate level without assistance. If you want a group of people who are great at physics, it may or may not "look like the general population". That idea assumes that ability in physics is evenly distributed among all considered groups - don't know if it is or isn't, don't much care.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 21, 2025 01:05 PM (vd6bO)

397 Speaking of fake academics, Frau Doktor Jill is reportedly nagging Dopey Joe to run again in 2028.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

This is the response to the pardons Autopen thing. Note it didn't come from Joe himself.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 01:06 PM (YM17H)

398 Shut up, you morons, you know what I mean by "hard."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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Oh yeah, yeah I do....

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 01:06 PM (nzAqh)

399
What I am telling you is that the modern university costs are being driven by a) student amenities (which often require borrowing and servicing that), and b) administrators and support. Basically for every three professors, you have one administrator plus their support staff (secretaries, etc.).

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Absolutely, and I'm just sort of goofing around with the other side of it. You're correct as you almost always are, though.

I'm in the Gen X group that saw the "everyone should go to college" silliness develop in the 80s and am kind of laughing at the tragedy that it has become. No. No, everyone should NOT go to college. Except that was what admin and the feds and their student loan industry needed you to do...

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 01:06 PM (qSMcm)

400 I started asking around and what I heard was that he would say "I'm an idea man". That was his job. Must have been prepping for a FedGov job.

They do exist. IIRC, Henry Ford had an efficiency expert walk through his factory once. He saw a guy sitting with his feet up on his desk. The expert said he should be fired, but Ford replied that the man had come up with ideas that had saved him millions and millions of dollars, and to leave him alone.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2025 01:06 PM (xCA6C)

401 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 01:04 PM (2VST1)

Petra is on my bucket list. Probably won't make it there, though.

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 01:06 PM (77rzZ)

402 394 Okay, this is off the subject but I saw the Z man speaking and demanding russia gives everything back and he kept touching his nose ? Cocaine user ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2025 01:05 PM (VE6XX)

Maybe he's tapping a signal in morse code? Like in a hostage video? Did anyone check to see if any of our Deep Staters were off screen directing Z on what to say?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 01:06 PM (uCjyK)

403 I suspect that last part was the important bit in the child's application being considered.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

Yes it was but after getting his PhD, he had to find a scarce position out of all the other surplus art history PhDs. That took talent and work. We have been overproducing PhDs, in part because they are coolie labor for universities, and in part, because those programs end up making universities money via tuition, etc.

When I was on hiring committees, for a single job, we often got 60 to as much as 300 applicants for an academic job, even at the lecturer level. You have a lot of desperate people out there with advanced degrees that would rather hang on eating ramen noodles and struggling by teaching adjunct for multiple universities than teach in a public or private k12 school.

Even with connections, it is damn hard to get a tenure track job in academia simply because the oversupply is so bad world wide.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:06 PM (ctrM5)

404 Mind you I would defend her shooting this raging idiot charging at her car, but putting that aside... putting aside the "nazi" charge... how does selling it fix anything? Someone else owns the car then. Its just changing owners.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:53 PM (2VST1)
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It'th all about perthonal rethponthibility!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 21, 2025 01:07 PM (RIvkX)

405

"So a crazy leftist stopped a Tesla driver on the road and raged at her, yelling at her to sell it because its a Nazi car. "

Was the person driving a BMW or Mercedes Benz? Porsche? Ford?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at March 21, 2025 01:07 PM (et1vG)

406 which grow from pullets / chicks to full size monster birds in 6-8 weeks.

Is that a haiku?

which grow from pullets
chicks to full size monster
birds in 6-8 weeks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 01:08 PM (2VST1)

407 Do you figure the thingees a mile under the pyramids are water or oil wells?

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 21, 2025 01:08 PM (z0e6h)

408
"So a crazy leftist stopped a Tesla driver on the road and raged at her, yelling at her to sell it because its a Nazi car. "

Was the person driving a BMW or Mercedes Benz? Porsche? Ford?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at March 21, 2025 01:07 PM (et1vG)

The worst part of the story is it looked like she was considering it...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2025 01:08 PM (VE6XX)

409
What I am telling you is that the modern university costs are being driven by a) student amenities (which often require borrowing and servicing that)
Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:01 PM (ctrM5)

Plus, perpetual "students" who are in the humanities because the classes are easy, and use student loans as income while they smoke weed all day.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 21, 2025 01:08 PM (y9nCu)

410 Instead of coming out and saying "Joe is absolutely fine!" which no one would believe, it's "Joe is thinking about running again!" Which somehow sounds more plausible and talks you past the sale.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 01:08 PM (YM17H)

411 I started asking around and what I heard was that he would say "I'm an idea man". That was his job.

Yeah but did he ever come up with something as brilliant as "Feed mayonnaise to tuna fish?"

Posted by: Oddbob at March 21, 2025 01:08 PM (/y8xj)

412 The more I learn about these people, the more I realize that they need to either be kicked out of society or tossed in a mental institution. The differences are not matters of opinion different opinions...They are poisons...You wouldn't put antifreeze with Gatorade because they are both sweet.

Posted by: Cray Cray at March 21, 2025 01:09 PM (EES2L)

413 So, Neal DeAss Tyson with a Vagina, then?

Posted by: Sharkman at March 21, 2025 01:09 PM (s+1Py)

414 406 which grow from pullets / chicks to full size monster birds in 6-8 weeks.

Is that a haiku?

which grow from pullets
chicks to full size monster
birds in 6-8 weeks.

_-_-_-_-_
They do act like small dinosaurs (yes, I AM old enough to know.)

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 21, 2025 01:09 PM (vd6bO)

415 I thought baby chicks needed 4 to 5 months to become we egg layers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 21, 2025 01:09 PM (z0e6h)

416 If you hire for ability and work ethic, diversity will happen to the appropriate level without assistance. If you want a group of people who are great at physics, it may or may not "look like the general population". That idea assumes that ability in physics is evenly distributed among all considered groups - don't know if it is or isn't, don't much care.

The thing about being a professional scientist, a real one, is that the process is VERY long, and there are many steps at which those who can't cut it will be washed out. If you lack ability, you won't be a pro scientist, unless someone is propping you up for political reasons. See Michael Mann.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2025 01:09 PM (xCA6C)

417 - One of the largest hold ups in the field of astrophysics today as it relates to the public, in my view, is that the only ones who get any press, including on this site (see Actual Science and Technology), are those who will only accept a naturalistic view on the origin of the universe or, maybe, God did it but "science" tells us how.

Dr Jason Lisle links I've posted in the past... ignored.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2025 01:09 PM (LajFB)

418 You can get a job in art history but you have to be damn good at it and have advanced degrees.

You know who got a really good job with an art history degree? Catherine Middleton.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2025 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

419
I got out of the anthropology gig when I learned that if you don't have a PHD in archeology, you are just a ditch digger. On my first dig I was making $5/hr as essentially a foreman.

Posted by: Grump928

Yeahbut, what about the adventure? And killing zee nazis? And digging up dinosaurs? And the gold?

Posted by: Soothsayer likes gladiators at March 21, 2025 01:09 PM (rP7Op)

420 Even with connections, it is damn hard to get a tenure track job in academia simply because the oversupply is so bad world wide.
Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:06 PM (ctrM5)

This is what really annoys me. The professors teaching the bulk of the classes are non-tenure track adjuncts who get paid somewhere between jack and shit.

The students are getting raped in massive tuition, books, room and board, mandatory food, etc. fees.

The administrators are making money. The colleges are hoarding wealth like dragons while demanding more money in tuition / student loans / government grants.

And it's like ... can't we just bypass this system? Pay $100,000 a year to those adjuncts to teach the kids. College would be so much cheaper without the graft and corruption in the middle.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 01:10 PM (uCjyK)

421 Petra is on my bucket list. Probably won't make it there, though.

Same. That whole civilization is amazing, there was a 2 part Expedition Unknown about it and the host personally was involved in discovering tombs under the treasury entrance. Its played up for drama but he does real work on that show.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 01:10 PM (2VST1)

422 Absolutely, and I'm just sort of goofing around with the other side of it. You're correct as you almost always are, though.

I'm in the Gen X group that saw the "everyone should go to college" silliness develop in the 80s and am kind of laughing at the tragedy that it has become. No. No, everyone should NOT go to college. Except that was what admin and the feds and their student loan industry needed you to do...
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
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I was on the inside as I am now a retired prof. I did my best at faculty meetings, etc. to push costs down but the others, for the most part, since it was other people's money pushed for expensive options. There was also the weird effect if you do not charge enough for your degree (see the same weirdness in cosmetics btw), people view your product aka degree as substandard.

So one of our graduate programs levied a premium fee so that people took it seriously in college ratings, accreditation agencies, and to cause students to enroll. True story.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:10 PM (ctrM5)

423 We have been overproducing PhDs, in part because they are coolie labor for universities, and in part, because those programs end up making universities money via tuition, etc.

-

I know someone who recently got a doctorate and it got me to thinking about how few people likely fail out of those programs. You don't want those students to flunk out or to tell other students not to apply because that cuts $40K+ of fairly easy money from your income stream. It would be interesting to see the details on that sort of thing.

Also it gives a bit of insight towards instances like Neil Degrasse Tyson flunking out and then being given another chance to coattail on other people on his way to being Famous Black Man Science Dude.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 01:10 PM (qSMcm)

424 You wouldn't put antifreeze with Gatorade because they are both sweet.
Posted by: Cray Cray

Who need dis "Gatorade?" Antifreeze good straight.
-- Russian auto mechanic in Tula

Posted by: Bulg at March 21, 2025 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

425 Note that the final arc of the Big Bang Theory was that Sheldon had become fed up with String Theory and created a new model, which he ultimately won the Nobel Prize for.

Posted by: American Hawkman at March 21, 2025 01:11 PM (9VDxG)

426 I saw yhe Petra documentary thing.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 21, 2025 01:11 PM (z0e6h)

427 Yeahbut, what about the adventure? And killing zee nazis? And digging up dinosaurs? And the gold?

I prefer my face unmelted, thanks.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (xCA6C)

428
If Dr. Jill is seriously talking a Joey run for Preznit in '28 she polevaults to the top of delusionality in the Biden clan.

Posted by: Auspex at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (j4U/Z)

429
Instead of coming out and saying "Joe is absolutely fine!" which no one would believe, it's "Joe is thinking about running again!" Which somehow sounds more plausible and talks you past the sale.
Posted by: ...

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(chuckle) You're right. And when it's time to announce his candidacy or walk away, "Joe has given deep consideration to the ancillary priorities of the eschaton, and has decided after much lively debate while taking time away from his hobby of translating French literature into Russian, that running for office again is best left to others."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (lCaJd)

430 The speed of light and the speed of gravity are both c, since they are both carried by massless bosons. Light is carried by the spin 1 photon, and gravity by the minimally spin 2 hypothetical graviton. We observed single photons circa 1910 when a conjecture by Thomson about what a singular quantum of light would do in a Young’s double slit experiment was tested. The conjecture was false. The single photon went only one way, but the interference pattern still occurred, but one photon at a time! We still haven’t detected gravitons, but we have detected (by now many) gravity waves.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (4rvfO)

431 I know someone who recently got a doctorate and it got me to thinking about how few people likely fail out of those programs. You don't want those students to flunk out or to tell other students not to apply because that cuts $40K+ of fairly easy money from your income stream. It would be interesting to see the details on that sort of thing.

--

It's the Scientology business model.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (nzAqh)

432 Okay, this is off the subject but I saw the Z man speaking and demanding russia gives everything back and he kept touching his nose ? Cocaine user ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2025 01:05 PM (VE6XX)

Many many insinuations that he's a coke head.
It would explain why he sometimes gets belligerent at the worst possible moment.
Snort a line of blow before a big event for the confidence factor and then succumb to the lack of impulse control that comes with such a stimulant.

They'll probably have to swap him out soon for there to be a peace agreement.

Just speculating. Opinion worth what you paid.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (FCbAQ)

433 425 Note that the final arc of the Big Bang Theory was that Sheldon had become fed up with String Theory and created a new model, which he ultimately won the Nobel Prize for.
Posted by: American Hawkman at March 21, 2025 01:11 PM (9VDxG)

======

"Can you detail this theory at all?"

"No. You wouldn't understand."
-Chuck Lorre's probable dodge for not understanding science at all while writing characters who are supposed to know it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

434 Welfare state and DEI: Other Donk policies to keep black folk under their boot.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 21, 2025 01:00 PM (y9nCu)

I honestly think the original intent of welfare and affirmative action were well-meaning; as a way to atone for a historical wrong and try to provide opportunity. And many Republicans and centrists supported welfare and affirmative action, early on. (Although we know the road to hell is paved with good intentions.)

However, it was pretty clear by the early 70s the system had failed and was simply creating permanent government dependents and destroying what social fabric remained in black communities.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 01:13 PM (iwhil)

435 One of the largest hold ups in the field of astrophysics today as it relates to the public, in my view, is that the only ones who get any press, including on this site (see Actual Science and Technology), are those who will only accept a naturalistic view on the origin of the universe or, maybe, God did it but "science" tells us how.

I think we're 2d4 generations from intelligent design being adapted as the base model. It will be deistic: God made it then retired, but the overall trend is in that direction.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 01:13 PM (2VST1)

436 Her nose is the first to know !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 21, 2025 01:14 PM (NtVYv)

437 428
If Dr. Jill is seriously talking a Joey run for Preznit in '28 she polevaults to the top of delusionality in the Biden clan.
Posted by: Auspex at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (j4U/Z)

I guess they believe Carvilles "Trump is gonna self destruct in 30 days."

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2025 01:15 PM (VE6XX)

438
You know who got a really good job with an art history degree? Catherine Middleton.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Having the Princess of Wales commenting on the lurid pix CBD posts every morning would give a rise to my day.

Posted by: Auspex at March 21, 2025 01:15 PM (j4U/Z)

439 Jill Biden apparently believes that any publicity is good publicity.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 01:15 PM (nzAqh)

440
This is what really annoys me. The professors teaching the bulk of the classes are non-tenure track adjuncts who get paid somewhere between jack and shit.

The students are getting raped in massive tuition, books, room and board, mandatory food, etc. fees.

The administrators are making money. The colleges are hoarding wealth like dragons while demanding more money in tuition / student loans / government grants.

And it's like ... can't we just bypass this system? Pay $100,000 a year to those adjuncts to teach the kids. College would be so much cheaper without the graft and corruption in the middle.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

All true. But, a) students need to lower their expectations of a 4+ year stay at a luxury resort with massive sports/entertainment complexes, etc.
More the community college design with drab buildings, etc. b) make professors teach intro classes.

I was always glad to do so but demand in my law classes was such (not trying to humble brag) that they always slotted me for those classes first and put the adjuncts, etc in those 1101 classes. Not a lawprof but undergrad/grad school prof.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:15 PM (ctrM5)

441 I will say my experience in law school was very different than typical academia. Minimal administrators, and every professor I had was well worth the $150k a year or whatever they paid for them (it was around there. Public schools, salaries were public records.)

Virtually all of them came from private practice and were all incredibly smart and hard working.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 01:16 PM (uCjyK)

442 Hunter 2028.

Posted by: Boss Moss at March 21, 2025 01:16 PM (z0e6h)

443 Best part about Big Bang Theory was the theme song.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 21, 2025 01:16 PM (nzAqh)

444 I think they started adding bitter crud to antifreeze a while back to make people and animals stop drinking it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 01:17 PM (2VST1)

445 Hmmm ...

The US, under the terms of the Treaty on the Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande", the US declined a request for additional water from the Colorado River. President Trump said that Mexico has reduced its water share TO the US for several years, and that has hurt American farmers. So, no mas.

Posted by: mrp at March 21, 2025 01:18 PM (rj6Yv)

446 Best part about Big Bang Theory was the theme song.

Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) actually looked passably attractive in some of the early episodes, but boy, she did not age well.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2025 01:18 PM (xCA6C)

447
However, it was pretty clear by the early 70s the system had failed and was simply creating permanent government dependents and destroying what social fabric remained in black communities.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 01:13 PM (iwhil)

Bonus!

Posted by: The Donks at March 21, 2025 01:18 PM (y9nCu)

448 Ace whipping out the science beatdown is pretty great.
Also, that chick has a nose the size of Rhode Island.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at March 21, 2025 01:18 PM (th/4a)

449 I was always glad to do so but demand in my law classes was such (not trying to humble brag) that they always slotted me for those classes first and put the adjuncts, etc in those 1101 classes. Not a lawprof but undergrad/grad school prof.
Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:15 PM (ctrM5)

My 1L professors all also taught 2L and 3L classes. Maybe my school did it better than others, but after undergrad and a masters degree, I was floored by how well law school ran things.

I think it has something to do with the fact that few if any of my professors went to law school to become professors. They worked as lawyers for a while, then became a professor as a second career.

In most fields, there is a split between the "do-ers" and the "teachers" that doesn't seem to exist in the law world. There is no separate education path to become a law professor over a lawyer, for example.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 01:18 PM (uCjyK)

450 New one.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 21, 2025 01:18 PM (xCA6C)

451
The Wikipedia page on Prescod-Weinstein lists all the academic positions and awards she's had, dissertation with impressive title, and..: all publications are in popular magazines, nothing in scientific journals.

And then there's guff she's written like the sample above. Lots of it.

She's had all these impressive-sounding positions and awards, but there is no evidence of actual achievement in physics. Just the guff.

What was she actually doing all those years, other than existing,and accepting awards for existing?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 21, 2025 01:18 PM (9CVFk)

452 In fairness to Lorre, he actually paid for physics consultants to make sure that the math mathed on the physics problems seen on the show. My recollection is that that Sheldon's "breakthrough" was something that has been discussed in the real world as a functioning model.

Another part of the plot, interestingly, was the Chinese faking research in the field to try and beat him to the punch... BBT was actually pretty firmly on the "there ARE no Chinese researchers in the US that aren't essentially just spies" boat.

Posted by: American Hawkman at March 21, 2025 01:19 PM (9VDxG)

453 What was the last TV show to have a full theme song? I know they went to super-short stingers, and the end became a split screen between an ad and a super fast scrolling credits the last time I saw network TV.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 01:19 PM (2VST1)

454 President Johnson predicted that pulling along minorities would keep them under their thumb

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 01:19 PM (fwDg9)

455 The Smart Maths Blog.

Posted by: 13times at March 21, 2025 01:19 PM (U4N2w)

456 So one of our graduate programs levied a premium fee so that people took it seriously in college ratings, accreditation agencies, and to cause students to enroll. True story.
Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:10 PM (ctrM5)

I graduated high school in the early 00s and at the time I knew the "everyone should go to college" idea was a disaster that had reduced the value of a degree. Scarcity is a large part of what drives value, after all.

I also figured that the traditional university model was not long for this world, what with broadband Internet. Soon everyone would have access to all of human knowledge at the fingertips. Instead of going into a lecture hall at State U, you could watch video of the best in the field delivering lectures on a variety of topics. Lab work, testing and credentialization would be commodified.

I underestimated the demand for four years of drinking, sex and drugs on somebody else's dime while being indoctrinated with commie propaganda.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 01:20 PM (iwhil)

457 431 I know someone who recently got a doctorate and it got me to thinking about how few people likely fail out of those programs. You don't want those students to flunk out or to tell other students not to apply because that cuts $40K+ of fairly easy money from your income stream. It would be interesting to see the details on that sort of thing.

--

It's the Scientology business model.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
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A lot of people fail if the degree is an actual PhD rather than something applied like the EdD. The first hurdle was the comprehensive exams. A fair number were so intimidated by them that they fooled around and never got around to taking them. The second, more serious hurdle was and is the dissertation. If you futzed around not doing original research in your class papers, then often these candidates were at sea when trying to do research when it mattered. You also needed to be realistic and have a good dissertation prof and committee that did not have idiots with an agenda on them. Some universities did not have the breadth to do that or the most desired major prof had a long line of students behind them and often you had crappy ones to fill out the committee.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:20 PM (ctrM5)

458 Anybody comment about the latest ad ? Meet 8 Women with Record-Breaking Body Features . Thats a really cute girl with a long tongue . I had to watch 10x for some reason .. didnt click, though was tempted

Posted by: Big Alfredo at March 21, 2025 01:20 PM (Vdukr)

459 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (lCaJd)

Lmao

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2025 01:20 PM (YM17H)

460 419 Yeahbut, what about the adventure?

it's likely you'll be eaten by a grue.

Posted by: anachronda at March 21, 2025 01:21 PM (oY6Yp)

461 ""Joe is thinking about running again!"

He should learn to walk again, before he tries to run.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 21, 2025 01:21 PM (Cus5s)

462 The speed of light is c.

That is actually the two way speed of light in a vacuum. 186K miles (and change) per second. The average of of a there and back time.
It is impossible to measure the one way speed of light.

Posted by: TeeJ at March 21, 2025 01:22 PM (LajFB)

463 wEinstein's Theory of Special Relativity - Black Voices Need to Be Promoted in a Special Way

Posted by: JoeyK at March 21, 2025 01:23 PM (tO6HZ)

464 I also figured that the traditional university model was not long for this world, what with broadband Internet. Soon everyone would have access to all of human knowledge at the fingertips. Instead of going into a lecture hall at State U, you could watch video of the best in the field delivering lectures on a variety of topics. Lab work, testing and credentialization would be commodified.

I underestimated the demand for four years of drinking, sex and drugs on somebody else's dime while being indoctrinated with commie propaganda.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
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The problem with the education at your fingertips is that students are ill prepared to separate out the trash from the good. Public school simply does not prepare most students to actually educate themselves and that follows on to even the elite universities nowadays.

Great Courses which is obviously not accredited as a university is always available now even as streamed content with excellent professors, in my field I knew a couple of them by rep. Yet, because no credential attaches, only the autodidacts choose to enroll. Most of the people at a university are there to get a credential not education.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:24 PM (ctrM5)

465 Sundowner should live every day like it could be his last, except his brain is done so it's probably Ground Hog day everyday

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 01:24 PM (fwDg9)

466 They do exist.

Oh absolutely, and like in your example, they can be worth their weight in gold. But my example was straight up nepotism and grifting. Guy was worthless, but connected.

Posted by: haffhowershower at March 21, 2025 01:25 PM (NMT5x)

467 462 The speed of light is c.
_-_-_-_
...which used to be waaay faster than java, but these days, if the java programmers would stop writing bloatware...oh, physics...sorry.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 21, 2025 01:25 PM (vd6bO)

468 446 Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) actually looked passably attractive in some of the early episodes, but boy, she did not age well.
Posted by: Archimedes

Damn, bro, I want to see what happens to you in a bar a 2 a.m.

Posted by: Auspex at March 21, 2025 01:25 PM (j4U/Z)

469 Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) actually looked passably attractive in some of the early episodes, but boy, she did not age well.

Besides being an actual scientist, she was also the only one on the show who could act her way out of a wet paper bag.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 21, 2025 01:26 PM (/y8xj)

470 My 1L professors all also taught 2L and 3L classes. Maybe my school did it better than others, but after undergrad and a masters degree, I was floored by how well law school ran things.

I think it has something to do with the fact that few if any of my professors went to law school to become professors. They worked as lawyers for a while, then became a professor as a second career.

In most fields, there is a split between the "do-ers" and the "teachers" that doesn't seem to exist in the law world. There is no separate education path to become a law professor over a lawyer, for example.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Professional schools, especially if not attached to an elite university, have to produce people that pass the bar exam or they end up dying. A very few use the attrition model where they admit everyone but only those that actually do the work end up graduating and then passing the bar.

Business school is a weaker version of that.

Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:27 PM (ctrM5)

471 225 I maintain that we are at the ragged edge of what we CAN know and understand with the current tools and knowledge we have of the universe and physics.

I recall an episode of "Connections" where James Burke told a story of someone speaking with Copernicus and mocking the Earth-centric model of the solar system and Copernicus, supposedly, said "I wonder what it would have looked like if they were right". The point being that they had constructed models that predicted all the observations which could have been made at the time but in an Earth-centric manner. He went on to point out that man's understanding would always ben limited by what we could observe and measure.

See epicycles for an example of that limitation. Epicycles were "correct" for the observations of planetary motion that we were able to do at the time but they were absolutely wrong. They just didn't realize what they were really observing. It required Copernicus to lead the way to a paradigm shift.

Posted by: Farquad at March 21, 2025 01:27 PM (CFMhl)

472 Yeahbut, what about the adventure? And killing zee nazis? And digging up dinosaurs? And the gold?

I wish. The coolest thing we found was the grave of a shaman or chief, with his two assistance beheaded on top of him.

I guess change of regime was tough 6 thousand years ago.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 21, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)

473 I underestimated the demand for four years of drinking, sex and drugs on somebody else's dime while being indoctrinated with commie propaganda.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 21, 2025 01:20 PM (iwhil)

Angelo Codevilla wrote an essay for the American Spectator explaining why the traditional university campus is so important - it is where the Ruling Class sends its children to network with peers and to conduct mating rituals with equals in order to perpetuate the Ruling Class.

Posted by: mrp at March 21, 2025 01:28 PM (rj6Yv)

474 What was the last TV show to have a full theme song? I know they went to super-short stingers, and the end became a split screen between an ad and a super fast scrolling credits the last time I saw network TV.
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"Bosom Buddies"? The Billy Joel song "My Life"

Posted by: Crusader at March 21, 2025 01:29 PM (TN0g+)

475 I had a friend and colleague in the math department who never got his PhD because his PhD professor set him to prove something that wasn’t true. I think he was the best teacher in the department, and co-authored a series of books on Mathematica with a women who went on to become Dean of our college (she had her PhD).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 21, 2025 01:32 PM (4rvfO)

476 And it's like ... can't we just bypass this system? Pay $100,000 a year to those adjuncts to teach the kids. College would be so much cheaper without the graft and corruption in the middle.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 21, 2025 01:10 PM (uCjyK)

Take a look at Peterson Academy. It is online, and the best argument for it is that it is not expensive, and the second is you can sit through a lecture and classwork multiple time for one payment.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 21, 2025 01:36 PM (D7oie)

477 8 I still can't get any Big Bang folks to give me the approximate number of years I'd need to shake a set of Legos in a big box before it assembles itself into the design.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 21, 2025 12:15 PM (qSMcm)

That's easy, 0 seconds. The hard part is accepting that all designs are equally valid, not just your cis-white hetero-patriarchal-normative monogamous Judeo-Christian conservative assumption of what the "correct" design is based on the image on the box
Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at March 21, 2025 12:26 PM (hjUY3)

Truthy.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 21, 2025 01:49 PM (g8Ew8)

478 It has to be a no work job, just daydreaming What If all day long.
Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2025 12:07 PM (fwDg9)

You don't even need that, once you get caught out, and fix your theory, somebody must build a new supercollider and run expensive tests and analysis to show you were wrong again. Meanwhile you collect checks, go to conferences, etc.

And this isn't the only such theory. Supersymmetry has been pulling the same scam for longer.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 01:49 PM (n7h9X)

479 Its in the same bowl as Dark Matter and a bunch of other recent theories, in the vernacular use, not scientific. I maintain that we are at the ragged edge of what we CAN know and understand with the current tools and knowledge we have of the universe and physics. We're at the place scientists were in the 1400s talking about humors and miasmas, because we'd gotten as far as bare observation can know.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 21, 2025 12:12 PM (2VST1)

Humors and such were at least theories and could be tested. Dark X and Dark Y are just slogans, that they decide contain 90 percent of all things in the universe. Except around here . There's no dark matter where we can touch it somehow.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 01:52 PM (n7h9X)

480 Angelo Codevilla wrote an essay for the American Spectator explaining why the traditional university campus is so important - it is where the Ruling Class sends its children to network with peers and to conduct mating rituals with equals in order to perpetuate the Ruling Class.
Posted by: mrp at March 21, 2025 01:28 PM (rj6Yv)

That only works theoretically if you only have a couple unis in a country. Now the west have tons of them at varying levels and can't even do that.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 01:54 PM (n7h9X)

481 See epicycles for an example of that limitation. Epicycles were "correct" for the observations of planetary motion that we were able to do at the time but they were absolutely wrong. They just didn't realize what they were really observing. It required Copernicus to lead the way to a paradigm shift.
Posted by: Farquad at March 21, 2025 01:27 PM (CFMhl)

Copernicus still needed epicycles, just a lot fewer of them. Kepler was the one who disposed with the premise that planets could only move in circles inside of circles because "all things in heaven are perfect" ..despite the blotches on the moon saying otherwise.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 01:58 PM (n7h9X)

482 Yeahbut, what about the adventure? And killing zee nazis? And digging up dinosaurs? And the gold?

I wish. The coolest thing we found was the grave of a shaman or chief, with his two assistance beheaded on top of him.

I guess change of regime was tough 6 thousand years ago.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 21, 2025 01:27 PM (jc0TO)

Ancient malpractice suit. How like us they were to have their own Anthony Fauci

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 01:59 PM (n7h9X)

483 Prescod-Weinstein's "scientific accomplishments seem modest and her racialist and sexist view of science, combined with her uniquely destructive activism, ought to be disqualifying," said Sergiu Klainerman

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Wow, more like Sergiu KlanMan amirite?

Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 21, 2025 02:03 PM (ynJxi)

484 Great Courses which is obviously not accredited as a university is always available now even as streamed content with excellent professors, in my field I knew a couple of them by rep. Yet, because no credential attaches, only the autodidacts choose to enroll. Most of the people at a university are there to get a credential not education.
Posted by: whig at March 21, 2025 01:24 PM (ctrM5)

The GC's have about the same amount of times I've muttered 'oh nonsense' as any other school course. It's nice to get them for a low cost.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 02:03 PM (n7h9X)

485 That only works theoretically if you only have a couple unis in a country. Now the west have tons of them at varying levels and can't even do that.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 01:54 PM (n7h9X)

The where the concept of the "Ivy League" comes in.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 21, 2025 02:04 PM (g8Ew8)

486 Einstein's theory is rooted in the "idea that there is no single objective frame of reference that is more objective than any other," Prescod-Weinstein wrote in Signs, a gender studies journal published by the University of Chicago. "Yet the number of women in physics remains low, especially those of African descent ... Given that Black women must, according to Einstein's principle ... have an equal claim to objectivity regardless of their simultaneously experiencing intersecting axes of oppression, we can dispense with any suggestion that the low number of Black women in science indicates any lack of validity on their part as observers."

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Holy shit, and I thought the 'quantum physics proves we create our own reality types' were retards.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 21, 2025 02:06 PM (ynJxi)

487 431 I know someone who recently got a doctorate and it got me to thinking about how few people likely fail out of those programs. You don't want those students to flunk out or to tell other students not to apply because that cuts $40K+ of fairly easy money from your income stream. It would be interesting to see the details on that sort of thing.

That isn't what happens in the STEM. Once you get past the cut into "PreDoc" you are employed at a low rate doing research and teaching. So the value transfer is in work for the advisor, apprenticing essentially. And for whatever donations you send to them in later life.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 02:08 PM (n7h9X)

488 See epicycles for an example of that limitation. Epicycles were "correct" for the observations of planetary motion that we were able to do at the time but they were absolutely wrong. They just didn't realize what they were really observing. It required Copernicus to lead the way to a paradigm shift.
Posted by: Farquad at March 21, 2025 01:27 PM (CFMhl)

actually, they never were correct even then. Epicycles were a hack and bandaid to cover up that the initial premise that planets were embedded in crystal spheres was full of shit.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 02:13 PM (n7h9X)

489 That nasty old man wrapped himself in DEI so he could 'poke' other White men, who would not kneel to the DNC/progressives to avoid the tag of White supremacy & privilege.

He, himself, couldn't have cared less about DEI. Imo, of course.

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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 21, 2025 02:22 PM (NFX2v)

490 Sure Western knowledge is just one of many knowledges.

I want to ask this idiot, if you break your leg, where do you go for relief? The doctor or the shaman?

Posted by: PJ at March 21, 2025 02:24 PM (RRCAT)

491 The speed of light and the speed of gravity are both c, since they are both carried by massless bosons. Light is carried by the spin 1 photon, and gravity by the minimally spin 2 hypothetical graviton. We observed single photons circa 1910 when a conjecture by Thomson about what a singular quantum of light would do in a Young’s double slit experiment was tested. The conjecture was false. The single photon went only one way, but the interference pattern still occurred, but one photon at a time! We still haven’t detected gravitons, but we have detected (by now many) gravity waves.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at March 21, 2025 01:12 PM (4rvfO)

The issue with your statement is that photons "went one way" . Photons don't go in a single path like a billiard ball at those levels. They go all the ways, even if only one is present, and interfere with themselves.

A similar odd but true effect is the electron escaping a potential that it does not have the energy to overcome. For a finite 'trap' there is a chance that the uncertain location of the particle will end up being 'outside' the trap and it will escape.

This is also behind atomic decay of nuclei as well.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 02:24 PM (n7h9X)

492 Sure Western knowledge is just one of many knowledges.

I want to ask this idiot, if you break your leg, where do you go for relief? The doctor or the shaman?
Posted by: PJ at March 21, 2025 02:24 PM (RRCAT)

Depends on the doctor and the shaman. Lots of medicines were found by doctors asking shaman what they used. And old grannies.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 21, 2025 02:26 PM (n7h9X)

493 Galileo would understand why this woman participates in a government scientific body. Nothing ever changes. There are those who are ignorant. There are those who are willfully crazy. There are those who are suicidally crazy. And there are those just batshit crazy. This woman checks all these boxes. But those who promote DEI are in an entirely different universe of evil.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at March 21, 2025 03:04 PM (bXvrr)

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