I have very, very strong opinions about the the US national anthem (the Star Spangled Banner). It's too long, too boring, the words are weird because it was a poem first. As a kid, I had a hard time remembering the lyrics to the song (to put it in perspective, I had no problem remembering the Canadian national anthem after couple listens of the version that was on the South Park Movie OST). Furthermore, the US national anthem is written by a pro-slavery dick head. Lastly, 99% of people do not have the vocal range to hit the highest notes.
You know what is a great, catchy song, that anyone can sing? Woodie Guthrie's This Land is Your Land. I am half willing to drop the lines critical of the US government, if it means that it would be chosen as the national anthem.
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Yeah, I wanted to go and learn more shit, didn't matter what (and my parents didn't care either), I just wanted to learn more. Eventually landed on biology and got a BS. I still wanted to learn more so I got a PhD in biology. I'm a postdoc now and still learning and discovering cool things.
Relative to my qualification i'm paid like shit and nothing about my position is permanent, so it's stressful. I love my job though, and don't regret my path through higher ed...except maybe that I'd like to have learned skills to be able to fix my own car.
Not always—it depends on the publisher for sure, and possibly the field (e.g., physics, chemistry).
In biology, you have several models for peer review. Completely blind reviews where both reviewers and authors are anonymized. You also have semi blind models where the reviewers know the identities of the authors, but the authors don't know reviewers' identities. You also have open reviews where everyone knows one another's identities.
In completely blind and semi-blind models, you occasionally have reviewers that reveal their identity.
I've got the ai search bullshit turned off for my Google searches.
I occasionally use chatgpt to write awk scripts for me for work because I find awk difficult. The one liners it spits out are wrong 7/10 times, but it puts me in the right direction, so it's not completely useless. Now that I type this out, I wonder if it's hindering my awk-learning...
It is pretty good at annotating code that already works, which is pretty convenient.
It depends on how much you like QTE gameplay and turn based JRPGs. If neither appeals to you, then the refund was a great idea. If one or the other appeals to you, then I think it's worth sitting through because both gameplay mechanics are executed well enough and the narrative is good. If both appeal to you then you've missed out in getting a refund.
I really enjoyed this game. The gameplay is intuitive, but challenging; the narrative is engaging; the soundtrack is incredible.
I hate to be the "well ackshully" guy, but the US and Canada interred and relocated Japanese, German, and Italian Americans/Canadians during WWII. Japanese Americans get a lot of attention in this regard, but it wasn't just them (and not just the US).
That's not to say that there wasn't racism, plenty of that too.
"fetid" is great descriptor. It to me feels more visceral than "rancid".
I think I disagree with "grape" being the worst though. Artificial grape flavor is the most honest one, be it medicine or soda. It's the distant cousin that shows up to the wedding or funeral in a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops; it's the octagenerian emeritus faculty member that shows up to seminar and sits in the front row and sleeps through the presentation; it's the Kazaa (or Morpheus or Limewire) file labeled "Blink182.mp3.exe"—you look at it and you know exactly what you're gonna get.
I felt that in the bone. Postdoc life is one foot getting ready to move and the other foot dreading every decision that led to the thought "A PhD is a good idea"
It was a good idea, but holy shit is it all sorts of miserable.
I have very, very strong opinions about the the US national anthem (the Star Spangled Banner). It's too long, too boring, the words are weird because it was a poem first. As a kid, I had a hard time remembering the lyrics to the song (to put it in perspective, I had no problem remembering the Canadian national anthem after couple listens of the version that was on the South Park Movie OST). Furthermore, the US national anthem is written by a pro-slavery dick head. Lastly, 99% of people do not have the vocal range to hit the highest notes.
You know what is a great, catchy song, that anyone can sing? Woodie Guthrie's This Land is Your Land. I am half willing to drop the lines critical of the US government, if it means that it would be chosen as the national anthem. (Edit: grammar)