Criminology and Forensics are two branches of "study" that have come under scrutiny in recent years, as a result of the repeated discovery that they are, technically speaking, complete nonsense. Nevertheless, thousands of people each year enroll in Criminology and Forensics programs, and many more are incarcerated on the basis of "evidence" presented by Forensics and Criminology "experts".
In 2015, a national conference was convened in response to a 2009 finding by Congress that "DNA was the only (barely) reliable forensic science." (Gotta love that promptness for such an important topic!). The 2015 conference further underscored these conclusions, and found significant problems with
"accuracy and error rates of forensic analyses, and sources of potential bias and human error in interpretation by forensic experts, fingerprints, firearms examination, tool marks, bite marks, impressions (tires, footwear), bloodstain-pattern analysis, handwriting, hair, coatings (for example, paint), chemicals (including drugs), materials (including fibers), fluids, serology, and fire and explosive analysis"
among other methodologies. Of course, this has resulted in little or no appreciable change in the use of these phrenology-like "sciences" to convict citizens. (And while the findings here are for the United States, this remains a problem throughout the world. Of course, with the world's largest per-capita prison population, these problems are significantly magnified in the US.)
[Editor's note: it is apparent from the average word length in this post, the punctuation style, and the particular protrusions of this poster's forehead that this person is criminally minded.]
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What the fuck is the deal with libs now not even saying Trumps name but just referring to him as "tfg"(the former guy)?
Its like terminal harry potter brain, you can say his name when you're talking about him, sure tfg is less obnoxious than cheeto, drumpf or any of the other old lib nicknames but still, christ.
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Watched the old Simpsons clip of Lenin waking up from the dead as the Soviet Union returns. All the comments are talking about how accurate the Simpsons is with predicting the future.
fuckin pissed off. just inhaled a bunch of silicone dioxide at my job, as it wasn't labeled hazardous. knew it was probably not good so i tried to just hold my breath, but still even slight exposure is indeed hazardous and can lead to silicosis apparently.
osha needs to have way more stringent guidelines. makes me wonder how something can pass without being labeled as a hazardous inhalant when there's fuck tons of medical studies that say it causes disease when inhaled. probably some fucking assholes lobbying some piece of shit congressman.
an old friend from highschool is a niche internet micro celeb.... but it's in the redscare community. so like, every time she does something she just gets roasted bc she surrounded herself with the worst possible community. and then she's all like, why is everyone so mean? my brother in christ u joined the mean community
I feel like I'm wasting my time with my degree. I never program outside of class or homework and I am not very passionate about it. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, but I only have like two-three years left to graduate anyway
But then what? Compete with guys who did every leetcode problem in middleschool and aspirate programming books? Who don't likely have PTSD and a chip on their shoulder?
My bro says the same thing and so does the retired software engineer at the job, they both say you'd be surprised at how fucking dumb some dudes doing that sort of thing are
I dont buy it tho
believe it. everytime you hear about some dumb breach or hack or something, there's multiple dumb engineers responsible. they're everywhere.
I'd say stick with it, without knowing anything else. A software engineer job is a ticket to a easy, 9-5 job making > 60k a year starting salary. I recommend not working in any west coast firm, though, as they are much more stressful and competitive. Just find an easy job in the midwest managing some business website or something. Thats what i've been doing for 10ish years now, currently making 270k doing pretty much nothing most of my days.
bruh I'm not white I do not want to move to the midwest :doomjak: I'm from Silicon Valley and while gentrification has gotten insane it's still what I'm used to and the racism isn't as overt due to the fuckton of (wealthy) Asian immigrants
I may go with Texas unironically, but fucking Texas man :doomer:
I'm gonna sorta dox myself a bit, but i'm in [redacted] area, and there are very large asian populations around here. Its probably not as bad here as you may think.
Texas is bottom tier you should avoid at all cost.
I've heard a lot of very good things about Chicago
You can also bail all the way to the east coast. Weather's shit but everything is better than the Midwest
Don't underestimate how bad at coding your average CS undergrad is and how desperate companies are for someone that can do even basic full stack dev.
You're not actually competing with those guys. They're competing with each other. A team can't really succeed with more then one of them because they're generally insufferable pieces of shit. If you can code and have any people skills at all you're worth more to the average team. If you can code and will actually follow whatever buzzword-of-the-day processes the management wants (even if you do it maliciously and work-to-rule) you're gonna be worth more to the average team.
