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yea we all want to live in a fricking iphone commercial you cute twink its a good thing socialists are lazy idiots or the reds might have won the cold war
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For all of their complaints about capitalism being selfish, why are all of their dream activities in the hypothesized utopia so self-centered? Like everything is about what brings them personal enjoyment or what fulfills their personal desires/passions. Even being a student is about personal improvement. Although this guys seems to want to do it perpetually.
If, as proclaimed, they love socialism/communism so much, why are all of these antiwork types not dreaming about making personal sacrifices for the greater good of everyone? I mean, sure, farming potatoes and rice might be boring and back-breaking labour, but these people should be happy to toil under the sun (for free) to provide sustenance for everyone in the community, right?
Or maybe they can grind away in the steel furnaces in order to make housing materials instead. 
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How those morons not feel the satisfaction of a hard day's work? I legit love to work.
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You'll start to hate it when it takes away 12 hours of your day.
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I work 12 hour days almost every day. Physical labor too. I love it.
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I was never more depressed than during my months of job hunt.
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professional student is an oxymoron
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Render unto Terry
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They need the good grades to survive
it's like the stories about super rich people and adrenochrome
if they don't have a professor give them good person points they will deteriorate
I recently graduated and in most of the classes not related to my major I had to take, it was REALLY easy to get a B with minimal effort, and all you had to do to get an A was to prove you know a little extra. But that was the "hard" professors. Most of them just gave you an A if you turned in your work and repeated back factoids in all the right blanks.
People who looked like reddit IRL acted like their grades were mana from heaven, and they hated all my favorite professors because they were "unreasonable", "mean", and "hard"
Had pretty good conversations with a few of them about how they have witnessed decline in education over their career but that would make a longer and even more serious post than this one
Even in science classes I met a bunch of really boring people who thought they were a VERY smart hecking scientist because they could memorize the Krebs cycle and get an A on the test. Memorizing the Krebs cycle (in great detail) is not easy, but it's also not a big deal if you are taking a serious biology class.
A lot of people in college are very good at memorizing and following proceedures, but when a test asks them to use critical thinking or invent a new method to solve a problem on the spot based on common sense, they panic, then seethe, then make really bad cope reviews on ratemyprofessor
These walking examples of the Dunning Kruger effect often get into grad school, and are extremely careful to find professors who never push them out of their comfort zone, and they keep getting their critical supply of A grades that assures them they are right and smart. They've probably been addicted to educational validation since grade school, making it a pretty hard habit to break.
I'm reminded of red pants in this instant classic of a video:
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Holy shit the cope from red pants and the black when it turns out theyโre not as smart as they think they are. You can feel the seethe when the find out theyโre dumber than the guy who joined the military instead of going to college.
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OK BUT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE...!
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I'd be interested in that post if you have time. I think the root of the problem is the commercialization of university, buying access to a diploma has become a rite of passage to be part of the intelligentsia, something half the middle class desires.
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Former Teachoid here It's pretty much the same story as the rest of western society "Let's not dab so much on the poors" slowly becoming "BIPOC LBGTQIA+ ARE BEING GENOCIDED AND IF YOU DON'T DROP EVERYTHING TO WORSHIP THEM YOU'RE PURE EVIL" Essentially vain and narcistic people are highly manipulative and love looking great, taking advantage of nice/naive/mild nature people who want to make society better. When nice people do something good, they look good, then the narcistic people move in and push the goalpost to BE BETTER SWEATY. This can be seen as thusly: LGBT thrown off build (BAD) -> LGBT being seen as people, minor things like gay marriage (GOOD) -> 1/3 of the year is now some way related to LGBTQ, children must learn the bussy, etc (BE BETTER SWEATY)
Essentially, it starts with someone saying "Why aren't x people succeeding, we can make this work!" to a narcisstic cult of people taking over the work, forcing the desired result to take credit. ( "Do people really need to learn calculus, algebra, how to read, etc to earn a degree etc." )
Longpost summarized for non r-slurs who won't waste time reading shit on a stupid drama website:
Vain people take advantage of nice people to look good, lazily move goalposts to points of outright stupidity to look better.
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Wow, you must be a JP fan.
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The professors I talked to didn't offer me a lot of theories on why it was happening, besides the ones anyone can come up with through observation, but they sure could tell me about what was happening, and the pressure they received to be "nicer" to students that would have been considered too rslurred for college 40 years ago when they began teaching are now just right in the middle of what is now an average student. The professor I'm thinking of right now said she gets a "talk" about every 10 years about how she is being too hard on people, and is basically told to lower her standards. "We can't fire you because of tenure, but also we can give you a lot of bullshit and the worst class times :)"
I knew it was bad when the first day of class she ranted about how we "ALL need to capitalize our "i's" when writing ANYTHING, not just essays, and she will not accept any arguments about it being "our culture" or having one high school teacher that let us write like txtspeak in 9th grade history class. I say this every semester and someone does it anyway every semester!"
That was my first day of college and I was in absolute shock lmao
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Are you fricking kidding me? There exist subhumans out there that don't dot their i's? Allah has truly forsaken me if I am forced to walk the Earth amongst these animals. Every day I come closer to becoming a narcissist, seeing as I seem to be a demigod when compared to these smoothbrained r-slurs.
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As a grad student I worked a job correcting exams for freshmen engineering students, it wasn't jovial
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You sat down and wrote all this shit. You could have done so many other things with your life. What happened to your life that made you decide writing novels of bullshit on rdrama.net was the best option?
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Can you do a full writeup on this stuff? Very interesting!
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My ranking 4 minutes in: Asian Dude, White Dude, PhD girl, Black Girl, Blonde, Train
Interested to see if I was close. Also it's hilarious how all of them think they're the smartest and want to argue and prove it.
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My ranking was Asian dude, Mayo man, Mayo foid, train, PhD girl, and black girl. Feel like it got pretty close, also having written this I worry that my scoring seems pretty racist.
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Your Kendall Tau was 0.6. Wow Im an r-slur but race correlates to IQ and is a pretty good heuristic for making quick decisions ๐ค
Jokes aside, if you didn't discount the Black girl as much you would've gotten a near perfect correlation.
Also what race did you perceive the PhD girl at?
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Latinx.
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So scoring myself using Kendall Tau:
0.33 (range is -1 to 1). Not great, Blondie fricked up my rankings the most. Oh well!
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For some solace: the group's ranking had a Kendall Tau of 0.067 so at least I did 5x better than them ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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Edit edit: Black girl and White dude actually tied so that would require me to use a different statistical test but I'm lazy
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if you had paid attention to the context of the comment "I'm reminded of red pants" you would've known that she would place last
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I ignored that so I wouldn't be cheating
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Final comment, here's the link to the IQ test they used. Only 20 questions so not the most accurate but hey you can finish it in like 15 mins: https://free-iqtest.net/
I won't say what my score was, but I will say it was higher than all 6 of them. But I feel like this site factors age and time it takes to complete the test which it makes it pretty lazy.
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Lmao
Red pants is real salty, great example
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