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It's a colloquial term. My best friend is a psychologist and she taught me that distinction (I'm not a native English speaker), and I genuinely didn't know some people took offense to it. Never meant for it to be tiered. I know psychology is a science, and a natural one at that. You're the one acting like your field is somehow special and better than others. I tried to be general and you said your field doesn't fit in, so 'you already said stem' makes zero sense.

Either way, I never said it was normal to pay for a PhD? I said it's a huge pay cut vs working and industry job, which not everyone can take. Some people have others financially depend on them, and they can't just decide to accept eating half of what they could otherwise for self fulfilment purposes.

Yeah, should've specified, hard sciences

Paid PhDs are only the norm in stem, and those are the exact subjects where academia is a huge pay cut compared to industry. Hell, I'll be taking a huge pay cut (in terms of net hourly wage) when I finish my master's and quit my part time job, that requires a bachelor's, and start a PhD.

Not live under capitalism where food needs to be min-maxed like that because the goal is profit over sustainable nutritious production (and yeah I know we can't just decide that as individuals). There's plenty of peoples around the world and throughout history who have done and continue to do that.

Oh interesting! Is susceptible to heat as well?

People who have access to hrt usually also have access to a fridge

I literally have that book at home because of how much I agree with this. A friend highly recommended it and borrowed it to me when I was ~15. I never gave it back purely to avoid having to tell them how eye roll inducingly fake deep I found it. To be fair though, I don't remember much of it either.

Sometimes, a piece of fiction does not want you to understand every part of the fictional world from the get go. It's part of the art. For Dune in particular, it's a hard vs. soft world building distinction. Some fiction, harry potter comes to mind, builds up the world slowly and eases you into it, explaining every little thing that makes it different from our own. Some just dumps you into it and lets you experience it as an outsider slowly gaining understanding.

From what I gather, most people nowadays are much more used to the first method, to the point of expecting it and thinking they're missing something when the second method is used. I think stuff like that, including Dune, would be more enjoyable to many if they realised they aren't, in fact, missing anything and that's how the experience of consuming that piece of media was intended to be like.

I'm sometimes slightly radioactive for medical reasons. Most people will be fine with a certain dosis, but little kids and pregnant people (well, their foetus) won't. So they tell you to stay away from people because you don't know who's pregnant. Maybe that contributes.

Interesting, when I tried rolled oats the ducks weren't going for them! And a bunch of them sank, too.

Interesting! Nobody at my institute is a native English speaker. They're from several European and some Asian and south American countries.

I'm a theoretical physics grad student and a night school maths teacher, I have never heard this distinction. People in academia around me call them round and square brackets.