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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark(1995)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Wow. Completely nailed it, unfortunately.

Do you also start to get weary of how they're always dead-on when it comes to pessimistic predictions? :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I mean there are a few good actuate positive predictions. The family of laws that collectively are called Moore's law is decent offhand example.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Idiocracy had their time predictions wrong, it's already nearly there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

There's no way I'd send my kids to Harvard or MIT (or Stanford, Caltech, Yale, Princeton, etc. etc.) if I were a foreigner. Shit, I am an American and I think I'd probably prefer to send my kids to McGill at this point. I hope my outlook changes. And I write this as someone who has walked the halls of two of those prestigious universities.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

It's part of the plan. If you can't win over the more left-leaning academia, you can always just get rid of it. Worked out for both Hungary and Russia.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 19 hours ago

"in danger"

Why is it that all these articles seem to be written in the past?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Brain drain? They're flushing them!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Brain Cistern

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Unironically I would be literally thrilled to contribute to this brain drain. I'd drop everything and get on a plane right this very second for a chance to do a PhD in literally any other country.

If anyone is looking to fill a electrical engineering PhD position literally anywhere but America then I'm ya boy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Finland has tuition free PhD programs for nationals of any country, Germany and Netherlands offer paid research positions where you basically are a full time student and still a part time lecturer - working hours can be tough though, since you need to balance the two. If you have some modest savings, Malaysia has some excellent universities and very cheap tuition (I'm doing my phd here and pay about 10k USD for a 3 year program) and cost of living is very low.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Does Malaysia do their classes in English?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Yep, from highschool onwards the education system is fully in English. It's pretty much an exact copy of the British system from that point on, thanks to the colonial past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

In EEng most positions in Germany are without mandatory teaching. Unless you want to, as you would need teaching experience to be eligible for a professorship.

Germany is actually really good if you have a full-time position, as the salary is somewhat comparable to a normal job, at least in CS/CE.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, we gonna need loads of that for 7th gen fighters, resilient next-gen green smart grids, etc. Bon voyage!

PS: we're not better than the US, but at least our political systems can delay full fascist takeover for about 5-20 years...which may be enough time to reverse it politically or to at least create defenses against it.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think at this point, the danger has crystallized pretty thoroughly. Even if you somehow stopped everything that was currently happening, I don’t really know why anybody would want to come here anymore for university. Getting a degree is already stressful enough without having to worry about whether or not the institution will legally be allowed to keep you enrolled for the entire duration of your program.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

and the job markets in the us are pretty unstable as it is, especially lot of biotech is preferentially hiring H1B visa holders anyways over citizens, if you dont have a Doctorates.

the problems at the BS/MS level is the low amount of lab experience that is given to students, and universities make it very hard to get them in general.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course. We have people in government who don't believe in germ theory. Education is extremely expensive, and if you don't pick a "Good" major, not only are you in debt, but shamed and mocked for it, since no one "forced" you to go. Jobs that require these degrees, even doctors, are not paying enough for people to live, study, and afford food. Why would you stay?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

Also educated people tend to vocally disagree with fascists, so obviously fascists wants fewer of them around.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (29 children)

College educated skilled worker. I already left. I'm not looking back. Thanks Trump for making me realize how much the US was holding me back

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yuuup. Trump getting elected once was the writing on the wall, I wasn't going to wait and hope he didn't manage to return to power. Turns out that was a great decision, the Netherlands are amazing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago

Yeah I was like, "In danger of? Bro it's already happening".

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