It is completely inexcusable that people in STEM fields are so reactionary, considering how capitalism utterly destroys science.
If universities were actually "left wing indoctrination factories" like the right thinks they are, every STEM grad would be taught, for example, what Kropotkin had to say about innovation.
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On a different note, one of the greatest tragedies of the fall of the USSR is that many students today will never know the experience of being lectured by a Soviet trained physicist -- it's definitely an experience
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L&L is a magical experience that all should enioy
My Maths teacher was Ex Soviet, We learned Lagrangian functions in the same way the Germans learned fear in the winter of 1942.
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My physics teacher was Soviet trained lol
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I go to a UC school currently, and I know there was a grad student strike pre covid but it seems to have just fizzled out as all the coronavirus stuff kind of took precedence.
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Berkeley or Santa Cruz? (I've lived both places)
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Can confirm. And in the private sector, it's even worse. A lot of these people with science degrees also don't even care that much about the science. They let a lot of their curiosity drop by the wayside and just do and learn the minimum a job requires.