dream_weasel

And I’m sitting here wondering how I never heard he died in the first place. Before a few minutes ago I would have said he’s still serving time in Siberia.

Oh, is that why this com is called memeformats and not memes? That’s a huge stretch to say “oh it’s a picture with words so it’s a meme”. No, it isn’t.

Meme definition

If it has not been imitated / repeated it’s literally not a meme. That’s not gatekeeping, it’s observing a definition.

You have even agreed with me in your definition. Posting a random picture with some text on it that you made that has imitated nothing is not a meme, it’s just a picture with text on it.

It is one of the necessary conditions for a meme, but it is not sufficient.

Now now.

It could have been AM radio in the tractor.

Holy shit! An actual meme! Not just some text on a fucking picture!

On that front we certainly agree. The sentiment of the meme is bogus.

I mean that’s true except most kids (and probably their parents) also don’t know the “more optimal way” that suits the kid and will just opt to do less work. Most people are pretty bad at learning and retention as evidenced by, well, talking to people in public.

You could make the argument that that people got that away because teachers don’t get “optimal learning” either, which is a position I would support. However, I don’t think kids and parents choosing “always do less” is gonna fix it.

And yet still in no way equivalent to a dick pic. Equivalence here is “raspberriesareyummy doesnt like that” which doesn’t exactly meet muster, even for a shower thought.

There is value in talking to people, but that has nothing to do with a question or situation you might Google or look up in a book. These are fundamentally different things.

Subjective information is inherently less valuable than objective information for trying to learn something unless you are writing a survey paper. If you want to have a chat to combat loneliness or try to better understand your grandmother you’re not answering a question so you wouldn’t look it up anyway. If you’re googling what it feels like to make a roux you are probably not neurotypical.

No?

If there’s no objective, correct answer to a question then the point is moot. If you’re getting something out of some individual’s subjective answer it’s based on the want to build a relationship or gain understanding of that person which inherently has nothing to do with the question itself.

That’s fine and all, but not really what I understand your original question to be asking. People have experiences, and those experiences are theirs: they can’t give them to you. If you like hearing about it anyway, cool, but you might as well read a poem.

Edit: substitute “a book” for “Google” in your question and see how it’s a weird take.

You’re describing qualia which are necessarily subjective. These accounts are not helpful whether you get them from Google or anywhere else.

Anecdotes may be interesting, but on the whole they are not as useful as objective answers.

And me tew.

Eh it’s not that bad but I’m not ready to start a new user yet.

Aha I will modify my last in that case. No harm no foul, but it’s got a little more background in it than necessary if you weren’t doubling down lol.

I ran a research lab in a university for 15+ years. I guarantee there’s no money in it.

Companies pay pennies on the dollar to research groups to solve problems with undergrads, grad students, and a bit of project manager time and to stay afloat, you have to over-buy projects as favors and to get publications. It is not unusual to run 7 or 8 projects at a time all on shoestring budgets in the lab. With a PhD I never broke 100k.

Maybe there’s some money in the business school, but nobody is getting rich quick for no work in academia.

Edit: reducing the wall of text

I think you’ve got your adjectives pretty crazily backward about academia.

I think that depends a lot on how available public transit is where you are.

I’d happily ride a bus for an hour except the bus lines near me would require 15 to 30 mins of driving, pay for parking, then wait for the line I want which only runs 2 or 3 times a day. OR I could drive direct.

Planes are the only time a lot of us can reasonably interface with public transit.

My FIL wanted to go eco for our last trip to visit my BIL and to get from Wilmington to Chicago there was literally ONE train per day that takes over 24 hours to arrive and it left at like 545am? It’s totally obnoxious.

Idk, Gary, IN isn’t that nice tbf.

I’ve already added caveman to my list as well