Am I an ant? Yes.

But, am I spicy? Also yes.

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Cake day: January 19th, 2024

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  • I think both statements are true - not all knowledge is recorded by academia, and academia is heavily western biased.

    What I suspect is that the down-votes are because the first user was using hyperbole to make a positive comment about our ability to archive these documents and their value. The response points out something that is evident - obviously academic papers do not hold all human knowledge - and shifts the conversation into a not so casual topic of western biases. This sudden shift of the conversation from friendly-casual to geopolitical with little motivation can make some users upset.

    OR, as the other person suggested, maybe the mention of ‘western bias’ is enough to trigger some.





  • We are asked to use Projects to manage our work, and we then mapped the project’s structure into a folder structure using sharepoint. The thing is, this structure leads to very long file paths, and Windows won’t let us open the files using the file explorer because the file path is too long, and so we need to search stuff through sharepoint, download as zip files, and end up breaking the intended organization. The projects page helps create the illusion of organization for the higher-ups but in reality it is a hindrance. We don’t have admin access to the computer and so we can’t change this file path limit setting. This is just the first that came to mind of an endless list of complaints I have.