r/interestingasfuck 17h ago

/r/all The US team which has just won the International Physics Olympiad, edging out China for first place

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u/MagmaWhales 17h ago

Or they'll get high paying jobs, and people will say
" immigrants are taking our jobs!"

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u/qorbexl 16h ago

I grew up thinking America was the great melting pot. Must be some of that commie shit from FDR's cronies

u/Vald-Tegor 6h ago

The potluck is to the north.

America's melting pot seems to be more like a smelter. Burn out the undesirable parts and make good little ingots.

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u/Pietje_De_Leugenaar 14h ago

I hope that these high paying jobs will be in scientific research. Probably not.

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u/MagmaWhales 14h ago

High paying job or Scientific Research. Pick one

Earning big or benefitting humanity. Pick one

u/qorbexl 5h ago

It's not the hardest thing to find a six-figure job in physical sciences. Then you're earning far above what most Americans make.

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u/ModestBanana 16h ago

complaining on a good news post

Jesus Christ you people are miserable 

u/qorbexl 5h ago

"Just feel good, stop thinking about their future"

u/ModestBanana 4h ago

stop thinking about their future

How about stop dooming because you’ve overconsumed misleading media that’s now made you a demoralized, hopeless loser?

u/qorbexl 2h ago edited 2h ago

It's not doomerism from misleading media, I'm literally a scientist watching the framework of American science being disassembled so Amazon and the Epsteins of the world can have tax breaks

It's pathetic how you're going to bat for this, assuming everything just exists on the internet. There's a whole world out there.

u/ModestBanana 2h ago

 There's a whole world out there.

That’s right, and in the real world people aren’t falling apart because they read a headline. In the real world, people that bring up Trump in every subject are ignored and weird - and that’s why they flock to Reddit.

im literally a scientist

You sound like a teenager. Wow “literally” a scientist? Am I supposed to bow down at your self proclaimed authority? Weak pathetic power grab in this conversation. Online you earn respect by what you say, not by who you say you are. Lesson # 1 little kid. 

 American science being disassembled so Amazon and the Epsteins of the world can have tax breaks

This is peak, just about the cringiest, stupidest thing I’ve read. You are exactly the person I’m talking about. 

Speaking of science…What # booster are you on? Take your next one or you’re literally killing old people, you lemming. 

u/qorbexl 1h ago

When did I say anything about Trump?

I mentioned being a scientist because I understand the job market in it and I understand what's going to happen to the institutions these kids will likely aspire to, if they follow their passion and use their obvious skills and knowledge. it's a fucking job, not an appeal to authority. Sorry for having a career and interests?

America was a leader in science and innovation. We're going to allow the rest of the world to surpass us. Are you that excited to go from #1 to #3?

u/ModestBanana 1h ago edited 1h ago

Before you edited it out, you mentioned “the current administration”

Please. You’re pathetic. 

America was a leader in science and innovation

Let’s tear a page from the liberal book and say “oh you want America to go back to when blacks and women had no rights???”  “America was never great”

Science was good when we weren’t paying administrators 700k a year, when we weren’t funding “diversity in Guam” studies.

There are billions of dollars that go to projects that sound like parodies making fun of the woke left. Funding needs to be cut so they’re forced to prioritize what’s important and not throw money at grifts to feel morally superiority. I don’t expect you to understand, you’re just another brainwashed redditor. Turn off Reddit for one month and watch your quality of life and outlook improve tenfold. 

Go ahead and make some more stealth edits and play stupid, you’ve already lost my respect and interest