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by Crake 13y ago
That's what's wrong with a lot of Americans, IMO. It's every man for himself, screw your neighbors. If something bad happens to someone else, they deserved it for reason X. (X being: they didn't work "hard enough,&q
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by Crake 13y ago
In many ways, I feel like medical culture is very old-fashioned. Truck drivers aren't allowed to drive if they haven't gotten any sleep, but your doctor in the ER making the decisions that will either keep you alive or let you die
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by Crake 13y ago
I know you probably don't agree with this, but to many people (including myself), not having access to health care or qualified physicians would be considered a pretty big obstacle to personal liberty as well. (You can't do anythi
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by Crake 13y ago
I don't care what they wear, so long as I can afford to see one. :( /American citizen
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by Crake 13y ago
I'd move in a heartbeat if they'd take me, but it's hard when you can't afford education and most countries want you to have a bachelor's at least. So I got to live without either college or health care for five yea
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by Crake 13y ago
When I was obviously ill and in pain in class the other day (I have some ongoing health issues), I had one of my classmates tell me that Obamacare was going to "destroy the entire country" (exact words) because people like me havi
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by Crake 13y ago
Yes, my school had AP courses as well, but only two of them. :( I think it's because my school was rural and poor. I've always been jealous of people who got to go to schools where they could take seven or eight AP courses and get
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by Crake 13y ago
A lot of colleges won't allow you to CLEP out of things anymore, sadly. :( There's too much money to be made off of you.
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by Crake 13y ago
This makes you, among other things, a feminist. 1. You do not get to decide for me who and what I am or what I identify as. What the hell makes you think that you have the right and the might to tell me who I'm supposed to be? You ca
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by Crake 13y ago
As a STEM student, I ask these questions, have been trained to ask them, and like to consider myself quite creative. So many people forget that the philosophers studied by liberal arts students were often mathematicians and men of science,
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by Crake 13y ago
"Also, if you're not a feminist by 2013, what are you?" I'm an egalitarian, because I believe in equal rights for all people, not just one biological sex. Unless you're a cis female, feminism is very hostile to you.
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by Crake 13y ago
Yes, clearly critical thinking and the scientific method have nothing in common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking#Skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Elements_of_.
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by Crake 13y ago
As a dependent student, I couldn't get anyone to loan me $60,000. :( As a freshman at 18, they'd only offer me something like $4500 in student loans, and I ended up not being able to go since I had no access to enough money to cov
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by Crake 13y ago
I like how your brand of "individualism" relies on your parents paying for most of it. I don't know if you've noticed, but your school costs $60,000/year now. http://www.syr.edu/financialaid/cos
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by Crake 13y ago
There's nothing wrong with taking english classes as part of a STEM degree. I think it's VERY rare not to. I'm also not sure why you think critical thinking skills are something that math and science don't require. If yo
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by Crake 13y ago
Pointing out that colleges now offer programs where you learn absolutely nothing at all, in a frantic bid to rake in more ridiculous tuition dollars, isn't bigotry. It's actually a pretty solid observation. There are a lot of four
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by Crake 13y ago
Since it has such a reputation for great STEM programs, I looked into Berkeley when I was trying to find colleges to transfer to after I got my associate's. The cost for an OOS student is something like $50,000/year now, without a
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by Crake 13y ago
For some people, depression is terminal. The world would be a much better place if people understood this. (Incidences of terminal depression might decrease, too.)
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by Crake 13y ago
I read more books before I started college than most of my liberal arts college graduated friends have read in their entire lives. Some of them still haven't read Orwell.
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by Crake 13y ago
Haha, this. Exactly what I was thinking when reading the article.
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by Crake 13y ago
The difference between compsci and english is that if your prose is not clear in the latter, you'll still get an A (or even get an A because of the lack of clarity), whereas your code will not work in the former if it's muddled
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by Crake 13y ago
The problem is that if they didn't fill it with self-aggrandizing gibberish, people would easily understand what they mean, and then go: wait, didn't so-and-so write about this already? Science still has legitimate frontiers. Engl
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by Crake 13y ago
I have met a LOT of people who thought that their degree in English, psychology, art history, and the like was going to get them a $60,000/year job fresh out of school. Heck, even some of the artists I know expected to be able to pay o
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by Crake 13y ago
"Jorge, though, first in his family to get to college, might just take it seriously, and wind up somewhere ugly with too much debt, four years gone, and a piece of paper that nobody wants." This exactly. This sort of lie about col
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by Crake 13y ago
The classes are useless fluff. The topics themselves are interesting, but at least for me, academic rigor is so lacking that I'm bored to tears. It's been suggested to me by someone who knows me that it's not easy for every
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by Crake 13y ago
"100-level English classes were about punctuation and grammar" They are--which is, luckily, one of many reasons I placed out of them. "A good professor wants to teach you that Frankenstein is an allegory for the Industrial Re
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by Crake 13y ago
Well, the nice thing about science and nature is that they keep working whether or not you think they're applicable.
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by Crake 13y ago
So, the male computer scientist now feels qualified to tell little girls what is and isn't ok for them to like. I thought you didn't like men telling women what to do?
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by Crake 13y ago
There's a term for people like you, but it's not very flattering.
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by Crake 13y ago
It's not a way to critically evaluate biases, the way you and others use it today. It's a way to insult people for the sexuality, sex, or ethnicity they were born to. Do you really want to behave in the same way the people on Fox

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