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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • We need to work on our social sciences before any other science can bring anyone real benefit anymore…

    Well said. I have associate degrees only in Bio/Chem, and I was going to keep going but… why? To work for an evil pharmaceutical company? To work in the shitty corporate cannabis industry? To advise rich assholes on how to cut down our national forests in a way which makes it appear like it’s not the end of the world?

    The only STEM career I’ve found which seems guaranteed to be ethical is the people who do wildlife surveys, finding endangered bees and whatnot to block bullshit luxury real estate. But going through all that education to aim for a single, specific, probably-not-very-common position doesn’t seem very smart.








  • So you’ll vote for them regardless of what they do, enabling their conduct. The quote below was in the specific context of the black vote (using Malcom X’s original language), but these days, it applies to basically the entire working class to some degree:

    The Democrats have been in Washington, D.C. only because of the Negro vote. They’ve been down there four years. And they’re – all other legislation they wanted to bring up they’ve brought it up, and gotten it out of the way, and now they bring up you. And now they bring up you! You put them first and they put you last. Because you’re a chump! [applause] A political chump. - Malcom X (Source)