You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.

"My dear, monogamy is an entirely relative concept with no fixed frame of reference!’

I need a pasta of this for when I get asked to man the open day stall on a weekend…

I absolutely don’t use notepad++ as my main IDE… Honest.

I feel personally attacked by this!

We won’t have kids because, despite doing everything right, despite working hard, we’re struggling with finances. Kids wouldn’t be affordable without an extra job, and most of work two already!

Badger on the left just saw his healthcare bill. Badger on the right ate some bad beans and is contemplating the nature of regret.

I love the Lemmy vegan community - they are the second greatest shitposters around (fuckcars have the edge due to their expert ragebaiting).

“Oh so that’s where my remaining mental health and self esteem are!”

Wait, that’s illegal, I’m calling the cyber police!

Spherical geometry - good times…

Yep, it’s a triangle. You can also make one with three right angles on a sphere!

Beat me to it!

Oh I definitely believe they won’t make a wise decision - these past few years have been devastating when it comes to decisions.

Come visit academia some time… Copyright laws ensure we do all the work and get nothing in return;)

I rather think the point is being missed here. Copyright is already causing huge issues, such as the troubles faced by the internet archive, and the fact academics get nothing from their work.

Surely the argument here is that copyright law needs to change, as it acts as a barrier to education and human expression. Not, however, just for AI, but as a whole.

Copyright law needs to move with the times, as all laws do.

“Humans engaging in tongue combat to determine fitness of mate. Note the closed eyes, scientists believe this is because of how bloody this ritual could become; humans closed their eyes to keep the blood out.”

Ah, I see we’re burning the Library of Alexandria again… Just as with last time, the survival of texts will rely upon copies.

I dunno about a fun game to play, but it’s a really neat way to explore Markov chains!

Often people say “life is what you make of it”, but that’s not quite true. You can try to steer your life by your actions, but in reality fortune plays a greater role than you can imagine.

I have been very fortunate in my life, most people I know have not been. From broken dreams, blossoming mental illness, to just plain old death - a lot of the people I care about have been robbed of joy in their lives.

It’s not something they gave up through weakness of character, it was something taken from them. When you are young, you’ve maybe only had a couple of bad rolls, but when you’re older odds are you’ll be worse off (the probability of misfortune often being higher than that of fortune).

I think this is an agree to disagree point - my view is that the need to socialise men is only half the solution, and that tackling the rampant socially acceptable iniquity would be a more urgent one (as the longer it goes on, the more disruptive the eventual correction).

Maybe we should try both, surely one dies not preclude the other? That way we’ll be sure to fix the issue!