I’ll put this thought out here for anyone saying “they voted for Brexit”.

Given the age divide on that vote, most folks who voted for it are enjoying retirement, or are just plain dead.

Brexit is a root cause, however simple corporate greed and mismanagement are also a huge factor of the UK’s dysfunction. Keep in mind, most of our large companies are owned by the US or countries in Europe (so the profits vanish overseas); a lot of our housing acts as an investment for the wealthy of other nations (driving the cost of living crisis); we’ve also got the “north/south” divide, where all the wealth and investment stats in and around London.

We’re also exiting over a decade under a party who see poverty as a moral failing, and voted in a party that lacks the balls to make the changes needed to begin reversing these issues.

So, all things said, there’s a lot more at play than just the act of national self harm that was Brexit.

So, if your field appears instantly/imminently monetisable, then the private sector is an option. However, the wider benefits of your research are VERY unlikely to reach the wider public in your lifetime. Yes, you will basically be working to make someone else rich. However, this kind of grant is very likely to succeed in academic settings as universities love patents.

If you’re doing abstract or fundamental research, you’re pretty much out of luck - the private sector does not want anything to do with this. However, it’s little better in the academic sector because you have to spend almost all your time chasing grants, or teaching topics outside your expertise (i.e. the ones industry sees immediate value in) to survive.

In short, there is a lot of options to finish things (because everyone loves intellectual property as an asset), but very few to develop them (no-one likes to pay for the groundwork).

“I want to make the world a better place at no real benefit to myself”

“Ok, but only if you beg us for the money”

Modern academia in a nutshell

Teaching people excel:

I wonder if there will be a bus promising an extra £350 million a year for the NHS if Trump colonised Greenland?

Scary thought, given how badly Starmer is doing, Farage might gain an even louder voice…

Windows on an external drive isn’t officially supported if I remember right. Your screenshot seems to support that.

Honestly, I’d be leery of installing an OS on an external drive as they tend not to age well with heavy use.

Are you trying to necro a laptop with a dead drive? If so, depending on the model, it might just be worth replacing the internal drive so then you can go ahead with your dual boot plan.

Also, quick tip, install windows, then disable fast startup in windows, then disable safeboot in your bios. Otherwise, when it comes time to install mint, you might hit issues with windows saying “NO, MY DRIVE”.

If you install mint and get no grub screen, just boot mint with your live usb and look up repairing grub - should be nice and easy.

Well that just made me realise something. In my department we have folks with a masters and folks with a PhD.

All the pro-AI people (“what about using AI to reduce marking load”, “do you have any AI use in your course”, etc) lack PhDs.

It’s a strange overlap, and now I’m wondering why.

Teaching in a school has greatly changed over the past 3 decades. It’s still a rewarding career, but not one I wanted to stick with - the pressure to work miracles is too high, and the support just isn’t there to do so.

Sounds to me like the UK should just drop all the agreements it made to avoid tariffs and give trumpler a solid kick in the balls.

Fish eye is another

Edit: as are both the guy’s eyes

Sign language bar?

God help the companies enforcing this - as soon as the first leak drops it’s going to be a pr nightmare.

Get the new “Bagarn Bod” today with this simple trick doctors won’t tell you!

Ad allergy - when the API went I tried default and fled screaming into Lemmy pursued by 100 “hot singles” ads.

Good and evil are subjective - the idea behind “humans are a virus” is an implied negativity. Thus the counterexample mapping to a good virus ;)

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/good-viruses-do

Not all viruses are evil, so it might hold up?

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It’s risk vs harm:

Men suffer from higher risk (non-consensual alimony, scams, and catfishing (etc) are all too damn common) but lower harm (these are all nasty, but manageable if you look after yourself and follow basic safety).

Women suffer from lower risk (violent men are not as common as the media makes out) but much higher harm (sorry but dead or trapped in physical abuse trumps the lot, not much you can do to protect against these).

Psychology says the women are going to be a lot more cautious (we fear big losses with low odds more than small losses with high odds).

Gents, just take it on the nose that cautious ladies are playing a smart numbers game. Ladies, make sure to make it up to the gents later on in the relationship (we love chocolates too, especially the “sorry I suspected you of murder” kind).

Honestly, I don’t think any of those would be deal breakers today. Europe is now tougher on external migration (much more in line with the UK), the pound is no longer much more powerful than the euro, and the privacy legislation of both is equally concerning so no issues there beyond the normal.

We’d certainly prefer the stronger EU ruling against “pay or ok” under GDPR, and a lot of UK citizens would appreciate the greater mobility.

I would like to suggest that the EU also demand that Nigel Farage be formally charged for misleading the public, in a European court.

So, I in no way support what the USA has just done (essentially forced vassilisation of another nation to appease oil magnates), but god damn that comment was funny.