The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Dak]

I'll have to disagree to some degree. My wife is getting a fine arts degree and she has to do a ton of work (more so than what I see a lot of general humanities majors put in). It's just not "intellectual", although they try to throw a veneer of intellectualism over it with a bunch of Lacanian etc bullshit mixed in where possible.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'll have to disagree to some degree. My wife is getting a fine arts degree and she has to do a ton of work (more so than what I see a lot of general humanities majors put in). It's just not "intellectual", although they try to throw a veneer of intellectualism over it with a bunch of Lacanian etc bullshit mixed in where possible.

I was being half facetious

 

[tagradh]

Someone totally dismissing any and all non-STEM study is a pretty good indicator that they're nowhere near as smart as they think they are. They're probably a stupid cunt that could do with having a few teeth knocked out.

 

[The Ozzman]

I studied Finance which is non-STEM (which I assume means Science Tech Engineering Math)

 

[Baroque]

The arts are absolutely valuable for several reasons, they're just rarely financially viable as a career. Kids with well to do parents should definitely pursue the arts and keep them alive.

 

[Baroque]

I studied Finance which is non-STEM (which I assume means Science Tech Engineering Math)

I'd throw finance under the math/science umbrella. "Tech" also falls under science/engineering. I guess SEM doesn't have the same ring.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'd throw finance under the math/science umbrella. "Tech" also falls under science/engineering. I guess SEM doesn't have the same ring.

Finance is business which doesn't fall under STEM

 

[Baroque]

Finance is business which doesn't fall under STEM

Yeah but you apply mathematical formulas I'm sure, and do statistics?

 

[CiG]

How can an upstanding metal gentleman such as yourself not dig Urfaust or Pseudogod?

I'm a moderate metal gentleman.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

edit: most schools don't have a cool stem project. I think if a school was focused on stem it wouldn't be that successful depending on the area. Kids want to feel like the people on tv. Sports and arts work at least for the younger ones. Need something that they care about to help motivate them. If you tell them "I'm taking away your stem project if you don't do well in your academics!" they'd start acting up to get it taken away

That's only a testament to how backwards and degenerate a significant part of America is. I can't wait until China fucking kills us.

 

[CiG]

Aren't China killing themselves with their reproduction policy?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Aren't China killing themselves with their reproduction policy?

Which policy are you referring to?

 

[arg]

business is a science hurr durr that's why you can get a bachelor and master of science in it

public funding should not be spent on special needs kids in art schools, at the very least put them in a trade school for fucks sake

liberal arts, ethnology, gender studies, and other shit degrees should be thrown out of every curriculum

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Uh sorry buddy but business is a bullshit degree too. A person can also get a M.A. in many STEM fields, doesn't mean they're studying art.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

"liberal arts"

*throws at every nearly every scholarly academic institution*

You do know that liberal arts has nothing to do with actually being a liberal, right?

 

[CiG]

Which policy are you referring to?

The one child policy, which is now a two child policy. I haven't read much about it for years but I remember hearing that the policy has created a very unbalanced male vs female dynamic, which has population implications etc.

*throws at every nearly every scholarly academic institution*

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The one child policy, which is now a two child policy. I haven't read much about it for years but I remember hearing that the policy has created a very unbalanced male vs female dynamic, which has population implications etc.

They have over a billion people. Killing themselves would be encouraging people to have large families. The one child policy probably saved them a lot of grief they'd be suffering with right now had it not been implemented.

 

[CiG]

They have over a billion people. Killing themselves would be encouraging people to have large families. The one child policy probably saved them a lot of grief they'd be suffering with right now had it not been implemented.

Yes in the short term but how does it play out in the long-run? There is something like 125 men per 100 women and reproduction rates < death rates.

It just seems like a pretty weird situation.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

All the more horny, desperate men to kill us with.

 

[CiG]

Do you actually think China will become so strong a world power that they'll be an existential threat? I thought you meant kill us economically or something.