This paradox remains wild to me. I think about my experiences working with teachers who make so little money and suffer so much and yet frequently support each other's learning and directly see the value of their own learning so much. And with developers we have some of the best resourced knowledge workers in the world, fully bought in to the idea of lifelong learning, and absolutely hiding it in the middle of their workplaces that rest on that learning
@cstross i googled "liquidizer" instead of "liquidiser" and that's apparently something you use to make the stuff that goes in vapes.
I'll leave the continuation of this thought exercise to interested reader.
Being able to read science papers that explain some of my experience but knowing this science has not yet made its way into practice or been integrated into my healthcare is excruciating.
So in that way I understand the visceral reaction that people have sometimes to our social science in tech. It is really painful folks.
I hope we can all move forward with empathy and demand BOTH the science and the practice that we deserve. In so many parts of the world we need this.
@grimalkina unless the practice would run counter to company profits.
Very much doubt any widespread adoption is ever going to happen for things that cost money but reward employees with better life quality.
That's just not in the cards for the capitalism shareholder mindset.
For me as a social scientist, being in tech is a constant experience of being really surprised at what so many people seem wildly certain about (organizing teams, contextless conversations about productivity that treat all individuals as interchangeable) and what people seem so wildly uncertain about (the possibility that there are often systematic patterns in human behavior we can learn from, the effect size of culture)
@grimalkina i can 100% understand this for 2 reasons:
Social sciences have a (undeserved) terrible reputation for no reason that i can see.
most (i.e. male) people in tech think they are a gift to humanity, font of wisdom, and basically know everything, because they think programming is hard, and they can do that so they must be super-geniuses.
We should definitely listen to the thoughtful opinions of anti-protest pro-war "liberals" because it requires nuanced, textured, deliberative analysis to recognize that skeevy draconian right-wing authoritarian politicians are bad and malign in nearly every respect but then suggest that we should give those exact people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to programmatic mass murder.
@GrimmReality looking back, this was one of those "intended to be funny" comments that don't work well in writing.
Sorry, but at least you gained one sub :)
I keep this on the tutoring table in the math office so the kids know I’m not playing around. (it’s actually very useful when doing geometric constructions)
@futurebird off topic, but that pen takes me back 20 years!
I used to have one that looked like that, it's that an old one? Or are they still made?
(It's a plastic version of a technical drawing pencil, don't know how they are called in English. Right?)
Now that I put on my store contact us form to not ask me for donated stim toys, and don’t ask me for money. Now I’m getting asked to pay a foundation $350 to set up a table at their neurodiversity event and sell my stim toys. That’s ridiculous. They’re still asking for money. This is pathetic.
These organizations need to stop trying to take advantage of me. I’m just a little store. It’s maddening.
@ashleyspencer i doubt they put this fee on specifically for you.
Also doubt they even know anything about you or your business.
Grab a contact, talk to a person, see what happens.
@ashleyspencer yes. that doesn't seen like the best way to do things.
No idea.
Maybe see if some other shop that is already going there will carry your items for a commission?