It’s also obvious just how much work being a musician is. Even a child understands that you can’t just pick up an instrument and play your favorite song without training. Whereas the work in being a Youtuber/Twitch streamer is hidden from the audience.

Why don’t scientists just point a telescope at the ocean: are they stupid?

And not an educational content creation either. Most of these kids want to be paid for hot-takes and video game streaming.

Well you got me there. I should have said “any new major project”

I have zero faith for any major project that Bethesda puts out in the future. Mediocrity seems like the best case scenario, but I hope they prove me wrong.

Ah, I didn’t see that your comment was written sarcastically. Sorry about that.

Make no mistake, Barack Obama is a war criminal.

During his presidency, Obama approved the use of 563 drone strikes that killed approximately 3,797 people. In fact, Obama authorized 54 drone strikes alone in Pakistan during his first year in office. One of the first CIA drone strikes under President Obama was at a funeral, murdering as many as 41 Pakistani civilians. The following year, Obama led 128 CIA drone strikes in Pakistan that killed at least 89 civilians. Just two years into his presidency, it was clear that the “hope” that President Obama offered during his 2008 campaign could not escape U.S. imperialism.

The drone operations extended to Somalia and Yemen in 2010 and 2011, resulting in more destructive results. Under the belief they were targeting al-Qaida, President Obama’s first strike on Yemen killed 55 people including 21 children, 10 of which were under the age of five. Additionally, 12 women, five of them pregnant, were also among those who were murdered in this strike. These blundered acts of murder by not only President Obama, but the U.S. government, are morally reprehensible.

Even more civilian casualties came out of Afghanistan throughout Barack Obama’s time in office. In 2014, Obama began removing troops currently deployed in the country. However, instead of this action by the president being one in a pursuit of peace and stability in the region, it only acted as an opportunity to drastically increase air warfare. Afghanistan had war rained upon them by U.S. bombardment, with the administration viciously dropping 1,337 weapons on Afghanistan in 2016. In total that year, the Obama administration dropped 26,171 bombs (drone or otherwise) across seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. The U.S., in cooperation with its allies including the Afghan government, killed 582 civilians on average annually from 2007 to 2016.

See “https://archive.ph/wK992#selection-1737.240-1761.53” for the full article.

Americans are propagandized to ignore U.S. imperialism; we assert ourselves as the world’s policeman. Ask yourself: Why can the U.S. murder in the Middle East or sink civilian ships from Venezuela with impunity? The murder of U.S. civilians is unacceptable but when we do the killing it’s always a “necessary evil”.

Lack of support for Win10. Also, I’m a contrarian who doesn’t want to be beholden to the whims of a multinational corporation.

You are technically correct, in the literal sense that managers and executives have work to do.

It should be noted, however, that it is the workers (not the company owners/investors) that create all the products that are up for sale and the infrastructure necessary to begin production (e.g., roads, bridges, electricity, education, etc.). Hence, when a CEO say that they “built” the company, they are obfuscating the exploitation of the labor of workers who transform raw materials into all the useful commodities we enjoy.

Research paid by public university funds then goes into for profit journals because… money?

The unfortunate thing about the internet is all the people who agree with this sentiment are scattered across the globe. You’d have to do flyers in your local community or something

Always has been

And the FBI, killed Martin Luther King!

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Academia is absolutely fucked. The job market was already bad before Trump and he’s certainly not helping

The good thing about the Trump budget cuts is grad students realizing doing literally anything else is more lucrative (while they also work toward their degree).

We all joke, but the people in charge clearly do whatever the fuck they want and then sweep it under the rug when/if it becomes public.