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  • There’s nothing wrong with taking your PTO to just stay home, but it really sucks when that’s your only option because even a relatively local vacation is too expensive.

    Sometimes I think that’s why I don’t use as much PTO I should. What’s the point, is it to just drive home the fact that my life sucks and I can’t afford anything despite spending little on things that I want? I know the point, it’s just a rhetorical question and I’m salty that I can have a well established career, deep technical knowledge, and a wealth of other experience and still struggle to make ends meet. My rent is over 40% of my income and I’m lucky compared to others!

    Fuck do I hate the US. The purpose of my life is not to produce profits! Why must so much of my life wasted on bullshit?







  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzPowerful
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    7 days ago

    Yeah, I feel like a good middle ground is to cite your previous work in the context of “as we previously reported,” but maybe that’s just based on something that was ingrained in me by academia. It seems tacky. My boss has no problem with it though, he’s like, “idgaf, more citations, more views, higher impact.”



  • Not interested.

    Communities dedicated to battle videos often become cesspits. I haven’t seen a community that hasn’t, and I’m not interested in the sort of drama that will bring.

    Like others have said, if these posts contain geopolitical analysis and it’s not just an armchair military tactician circlejerk, I think they can spark good discussions. As an alternative source of news to MSM reports, I think they can also show merit, but a lot of times they end up being communities that may as well be dedicated to blood sports.

    It would be something I would block.




  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzElsevier
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    9 days ago

    I was kind of thinking of that with the institutional journal bit. It doesn’t need to be a traditional journal, the only things important to me are:

    1. peer review (skip #2)

    2. open access

    3. professional editors to help improve phrasing, spelling, flow, etc.

    4. DOI link or similar unique identifier

    I’m totally down to ditch the traditional journal format otherwise. It was just a quick comment not meant to go in-depth, but point out that we already have public institutions that can host publications.



  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzElsevier
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    10 days ago

    Institutions could easily form their own journals. National organizations that provide grants could also require you to publish in their journal. Universities can run their own journals. These sorts of entities already exist and provide article access for free, publishing in them would just need to be normalized.

    These are just a few options without researchers organizing anything for themselves.