There's some physics forums I lurk and occasionally post in, and every time the discussion goes beyond physics, holy shit are their opinions dumb as fuck. Just getting someone to understand a simple point that anyone could understand with like 2 sentences just feels like wading through mud with them because every time anything seems to challenge one of their preconceived opinions at all (or if they just don't understand it because they're out of touch) they get annoyed, and then they fixate on irrelevant parts of your point until you have to explain that part of your point again and again and again, and then everyone forgets what it was even about. Especially the boomers in there.

Then there's the ones "helping" people, who will basically act like they are doing a MASSIVE courtesy to you by explaining things, so they'll put people through the shredder for misunderstanding something or for phrasing the question in a way that isn't absolutely perfectly 100% crystal clear as if their compiler is giving an error or something.

And it's not just people in forums, like almost all the professors I know are also just complete morons about anything even slightly unrelated to their specialty.

Why are science nerds like that, I fucking hate it. Like holy shit grow up >:(

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      big ambitions: aka getting a degree that is hard to get employed under, genius

      • makotech222 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I have a BS in Physics and had to get a job writing software lol. This was in 2012 after the crash haha.

      • cybernetsoc [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Eh, it's not as good as engineering or life sciences, but if you have zero morals and are willing to work for defense contractors you can still get some pretty good jobs with it.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          i mean thats true but to anyone with morals or ethics or empathy, yeah not many jobs without going for a full phd route

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Oh it's not hard at all in the US, if you like optimizing missiles to kill as many toddlers as possible in potential "shock and awe" preschool strikes for Raytheon. Neither is finding a job with a math degree if unethically tampering with people's data and interfering with foreign countries under the NSA is your jam (it's like the biggest employer of mathematicians).

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Ahahaha wtf did you at least shove them in a locker?