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 >:(

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Idk, all the physics nerds I knew irl were physics majors and also leftists of sorts.

      I definitely also know a lot of people like that, but it's like an extremely mixed bag. Like if you really aggressively mixed the worst people possible and the best people possible in the same bag.

      Kinda scared of ending up in some kind of blacklist too tbh, lots of profs know me for... You know, organizing with the people constantly pestering them with sit ins and protests and screaming at them etc. Probably not gonna get the most stellar of recommendations but whatever.