/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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>I wish there was an obvious way to preserve information indefinitely.
>It's a dumb thing to get emotional about but for me it's a hard pill to swallow.
I can relate to the feeling. The world unironically needs more passionate autists to preserve information. It is scary how even on the internet where the data is already digitized and relatively easy to index how much useful information is lost or unsearchable. A lot of the modern internet is hostile to searching and archiving in ways the old web not.
On a very loosely related tangent I originally wanted to go into a relatively niche academic field but decided against it both because I wanted more career flexibility and because I did not want to deal with the modern academic world. When inquiring about paid internship opportunities at my regional premier university to get a feel for academia I got the strong impression that they did not want white males unless you were either a wealthy legacy student or had a perfect GPA. They actually went out of their way to list every common demographic except white males as "preferred applicants" for most positions. How very inclusive. The experience deeply soured my opinion of the whole institution. I still kind of wonder if I should have pushed though and given it a shot both because it was a personal passion and because I suspect the field is slowly dying out due to a lack of fresh blood. I fear a lot of expertise will be lost when the grey beards finally retire and there will not be anyone left to replace them.