/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9020943
>Am I wrong?
Yes. 妈的 means "fuck" or "fucking".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%AA%BD%E7%9A%84#Chinese
Do your fucking research before saying dumbass shit.

>>8930551
Another part of the problem is that once you actually are scientifically literate, you're probably inherently very specialized hence it's inherently annoying to hold an in-depth discussion utilizing your expertise with strangers likely not even in your general field, which involves having to carefully start from scratch over and over on your projects.

So, having to filter science chat through a broad pop-sci approach is just boring, especially seeing how there seem to be almost no researchers here. Students are only a bunnyhop above lay public. I have several hobby-interests in science but I get infinitely more out of reading actual papers about these than trying to talk about it with strangers. This is part of the problem, the more you geek out on something the slimmer the list of people in the world who can hold a conversation about it narrows down.

Say I want to talk about the Weng'an biota for example. I'm not a paleontologist by training, but I do love learning about the dawn of animals as far back as we know. So do I try to talk about this to /sci/, which is dominated by homework, the lay-est of lay thoughts and /pol/-borne psuedoscience, or do I go and read papers actually covering my fancy and follow paper trails into more papers? It's always, always always going to be the latter unless /sci/ suddenly became a very different place. One night with some tea and papers will teach me mountains more about what I am curious about than years and years of lurking /sci/ or trying to nudge mostly naive, mostly-uncaring people into sharing my passion on this at all.

There is also the matter that you also can't say too much in specific about your personal research - you could get yourself doxxed or even scooped (seemingly infinitesimal chance, but this is a public forum for all to see). Or fired if you're in industry and are a complete dumbass talking about pipeline. So, nothing of relevance really gets said here, not to me at least.

>>8415255
>a mere 106