Rhodium103

Rhodium103, 1 month ago to random

I #AmWriting a paper on the study we did on perceptions of at-home/online exams at the height of the pandemic.

I hope I can keep this line in:

"For the purposes of this study, we had no participants who experienced remotely-proctored examinations, so have neglected these. We also do not consider these to have been assessments: but instead a massive invasion of student privacy by systems proven to be racist, ableist, and ineffective, introduced out of professional negligence."

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to random

To clear up any confusion, fantasy is when the book's title is serif, and scifi is when it's sans serif.

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to random

🔥Take:

I think it was a mistake to ever focus on English tuition fees as being a "bad" thing. It was an excuse to introduce a graduate tax by stealth, in a way that could be charged to overseas students.

Meanwhile, maintenance has converted from grant to loan, failed to keep up with inflation, and has effectively become a scam to transfer massive amounts of public funds to private landlords, since it no longer even covers basic rent.

#Universities #HigherEd

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to chemistry

Hello all, if you have 5-10 minutes to watch some demonstrations and answer a few questions, our project students would greatly appreciate it.

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/explosive-chemistry

Especially if you're not already into or studying chemistry.

#Chemistry #HigherEd #Survey

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to random

#writerscoffeeclub Mar 18: Do you ever use parentheses/brackets in your writing?

Fiction: no.

Non-fiction: Look, if it doesn't have: (at least) one colon, two commas, a dash and parentheses (possibly even nested ones (like so)) -- is it even a real sentence?

danderson, 2 months ago to random

I went down a Voyager rabbit hole again. And I came up with a factoid that entertains me.

The original Grand Tour program was canceled in late 1971, due to congressional pressure over cost. Voyager was the cheaper mission to just Jupiter and Saturn.

Voyager and its team are incredible, and they managed to pull off the entire grand tour anyway, and then 34 years and counting more science after that.

There's a good chance Voyager might outlive the entire congress that killed the grand tour.

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to random

I created a Nextdoor account out of curiosity and it was..... unfortunately incredibly boring. Only the one post saying kids should have their bikes crushed out of several hundred that I trawled through. 0 out of 10. Not even worth it for a cringe binge.

MnemosyneSinger, 2 months ago to random

Have we (rich people) created a hell world where "the economy" doing well means us getting richer by stealing as much as possible from working people, leaving them poor, with little hope for the future?

No, it's the children who are wrong.

Rhodium103, 2 months ago to random

"I swear to do my level best to make every spreadsheet project 'too much'."

(not that I would create a feedback sheet like this with a straight face.... or would I? 🤔)

#ExcelSpreadshitPosting

markwyner, 3 months ago to dadjokes

The Earth is made up of 70% water which isn’t carbonated.

So technically it’s flat.

#DadJokes #Puns #NotMyFault

Rhodium103, 3 months ago to random

You know it's going to be a good undergraduate project when you have to start citing the 2014 Explosives Regulations.

Rhodium103, 3 months ago to random

Pretty much everyone under 50 right now: Hey, maybe killing a six year old by riddling a car with bullets then killing the paramedics trying to rescue them is a bad thing, and we should oppose it?

Alastair Campbell: Young people should get off their high horse about this.

astro_jcm, 3 months ago to random

Answers you would get if asking for directions was like asking questions online:

"I know of a similar place in another city."

"Ugh, why do you want to go there?!?"

"Have you tried asking someone?"

"[Confidently gives totally wrong directions]"

EllisCrawford, 3 months ago to random

The call is coming from inside the house

#TheGuardian #Guardian #Transphobia

The two previous opinion pieces in the Guardian. One from Sonia Sodha, well known for anti-trans views and bigotry regarding these minoritised people claims that "Vindictive, cowardly leaders bowed to the gender bullied and failed Jo Phoenix" A piece from Susanna Rustin, who supports trans exclusionary organisations, states "the law is now clear: you can't be punished for having gender-critical views. So why does it keep happening?"
Articles from The Observer, showing support for the Conservative government's plans to introduce what amounts to a new section 28 specifically for trans people in schools. One article notes that the debate is toxic, wholly without recognising the negative effect that the Guardian and the Observer have had on this by promoting the legitimacy of gender critical and conservative view points.

Rhodium103, 3 months ago to random

"Error: Your password must contain at least two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man."

Rhodium103, 3 months ago to random

I feel like this is the year where I'm finally going add "alt text" to my official dissertation marking criteria as a requirement. It's informally been in the guidelines for a while.

Nfoonf, 3 months ago to random

The Icon Of The Seas Is 250,000 Tons Of Floating Carbon-Emissions Horror

„People who love cruises enjoy the ability to leave their cars behind and walk from their room to any number of high-quality restaurants, water parks, shopping experiences, and entertainment venues. They’re paying thousands of dollars and emitting untold tons of carbon in order to enjoy the walkable city they spend the rest of the year NIMBY-ing against.“ https://jalopnik.com/the-icon-of-the-seas-is-250-000-tons-of-floating-carbon-1851189439

Rhodium103, 4 months ago to random

Janine is going to wear a suit and fight ghosts in the next Ghostbusters movie. What is this woke nonsense where all women have to be action heroes? Can't they just respect the source material? Political correctness has ruined everything. This would never have happened 40 years ago.

Picture unrelated.

Rhodium103, 4 months ago to random

#writerscoffeeclub Jan 13: Do you like maps?

What sort of insufferably neurodivergent nerd would I be if I didn't have Very Strong Opinions on maps? I've got Westeros and Discworld mounted in my dining room. It's the main way I classify reading:

Rhodium103, 4 months ago to random

School-level exams: "Hmmm, you said the solution is 'red', whereas the mark scheme says 'crimson'. Chemical error, zero marks for the whole question."

HE-level exams: "Okay, so your final answer is hilariously wrong to the point that if you did that in the lab something would go bang -- but you've laid it out well, added units, and everything is correct except for that negative sign right there. Sure. 9 out of 10."

Daojoan, 4 months ago to random

Edgelord Hogwarts just dropped