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 >:(

  • late90smullbowl [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Fascinating to think how these patterns and traditions emerge over time. Is there any obvious reasons why it's like that in Russia?

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Well, natural sciences were well-funded in USSR, while after 1991 funding was massively reduced, together with deindustrialisation it left engineers and natural scientists very disaffected. The only technical profession that still have significant support for capitalism is programmers, and even among them there are a lot of leftists.

      Humanities were basically presented after 1991 as paragons of freedom and democracy and recieved grants for publishing anticommunist propaganda, so it definitely influenced them, also they were pretty anticommunist even before 1991.

      Overall, the closer you are to actual production, the more likely you are to be communist.