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I'm a STEM Chad.
I don't have time to read many books, so give me your 10 best books. 10 books that you would read if those were the last books you could read before you died. I'll even post a picture mocking myself as a show of good faith. Pic related.

>> No.18018257

Also a stem chad, but I have plenty of time to read because I procrastinate on all of my work and cheat as much as possible. I can recite shakespeare though.

>> No.18018282

>>18018192
STEM jobs will be the last jobs to be automated. Who do you think controls the automation process? STEMchads. Silly meme.

>> No.18018293

>>18018282
The STEMfags will unknowingly create their own means of destruction simply to prove they can. They spend so much time wondering if they can that they don't take the time to think if they should even do it in the first place

>> No.18018308

>>18018293
The magician running amok, basically.

>> No.18018311

>>18018192
the only solution is to study automation because if every thing is being automated then clearly someone needs to understand and repair and optimize the machines

if everything is being automated then surely the guy who automates things is not out of a job. that is STEM also

>> No.18018349

>>18018311
We are heading towards a Wall-E like future. Remember the fat fucks who only eat and watch shit and are taken care of by machines? That's the only optimistic future. The darkest one is extinction. It's a coin toss, really.

>> No.18018355

>>18018311
The problem with automating everything is eventually someone will automate repairs as well, in short, once someone automates the whole thing, there will be no need for outside interference anymore, as we will have reached a point where they are capable of repairing or regulating themselves, the only way this doesn't happen is if we halt progress.

>> No.18018364

>>18018192
I tried hard to work in STEM after graduating and I finally realized how fucking stupid it is to play this monkey game.

>> No.18018387

>>18018364
The rat race is the same everywhere and the grass is always greener on the other side. Whatever you study, at the end of the day all you're allowed to do is choosing the noose for your own hanging.

>> No.18018404

>>18018192
>STEM Chad.
Pick one

>> No.18018413

>>18018404
I see no contradiction.

>> No.18018424

Post books you faggits

>> No.18018428

STEM chads are all fucking autists. No worldly knowledge, no understanding of people or the human condition. Enlightenment era ideologues full of shit that sell their souls to corporations so they can engineer the best way to make a soda dispenser.

>> No.18018430

>>18018192
1. Sophocles Complete Plays
2. Euripides Complete Plays
3. Shakespeare Complete Plays
4. Faust
5. The Castle
6. The Brothers Karamazov
7. Anna Karenina
8. Ulysses
9. Gravity's Rainbow
10. Infinite Jest.

>> No.18018452

>>18018430
Why do you recommend the castle over the trial?

>> No.18018453

>>18018192
Ellul - The Technological Society

>> No.18018458

>>18018192
1. Divine Comedy
2. Shakespeare's Complete Works
3. The Gospels
4. Homer's Iliad & Odyssey
5. The Read and the Black
6. Borges' Complete Stories
7. Pascal's Pensées
8. A selection of Pessoa's poetry
9. A selection of Hugo's poetry
10. Tristram Shandy

>> No.18018462

>>18018192
going with personal and approchable pics, will only serve if you're a bit like me:
>Dickinson - Complete poems
>Baudelaire - Flower of evil
>Lautréamont - Songs of maldoror
>Proust - In search of lost times
>Gracq - The opposing shore
>Kafka - The Castle
>Dante - Divine Comedy
>Heraclitus - Fragments (get an edition with a philological commentary, it's useless otherwise)
>Hölderlin - Hyperion
>Rabelais - Gargantua & Pantagruel

>> No.18018488

>>18018282
it depend but those who get into S for money are retards like what do you do with a physic degree if you cant find a job in finance

>> No.18018507

>>18018257
based, I do the exact same thing

>> No.18018512

>>18018428
Why would someone in a stem field not read something outside of it?
Makes no sense.
My fluid mechanics professor plays in an orchestra, listens to classical music and loves reading Epic Poetry.

>> No.18018520

>>18018428
did a STEMchad fuck your crush?

>> No.18019506

>>18018355
Checked, but I don't think so.
Murphy's Law will always hold. Someone, something, somewhere, will go beyond expected parameters in a most illogical manner.

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>>18018413

>> No.18019528

>>18018430
Been looking for Karamazov, but I'll be damned if I'm paying B&N or Amazon for it. I've already read C&P, I'm ~1/5 into The Devils, and Notes from Underground is waiting it's turn.

>> No.18019603

>>18018355
then there will need to be someone to automate the automated repair machine. even if that weren't the case, the situation you and >>18018349
are explaining are still very very far off. the automation engineer is going to have a job in your lifetime because its 2021 and things aren't even very automated yet

>> No.18019628

>>18018192
Gravity's Rainbow

>> No.18019638

No "10 best" here are some recommendations

Dracula
Treasure Island
The Sun Also Rises
Tapping the Source
Flatland