/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15452099
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Being a scientist or mathematician is way too much work, just because you can do something doesn't mean you want to.
I fell into a computational linguistics job and then got my shit rocked by autoimmune disease
Motivation and opportunity count for a fuckload more than IQ

These days I mostly just marvel at how badly the internet has fucked discourse and how the absolute worst and most manipulative rhetorical tactics have become wildly successful and self-replicating while proper critical thinking is all but dead

I sometimes sit and reflect on how absurd it is that a spin off of 2ch made for weird teenagers to talk about anime became the bleeding edge for propaganda, and how IRC with a dark mode and no privacy became everything boomer parents thought AIM was