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Step 1: Establish disciplines that ridicule radical criticism.

Step 2: Hire undergraduate math/stats students who took criticism courses at gun point and hated them.

Step 3: ...

Step 4: "OMG Ponies and revolution"

Sir, you do not need a revolution, because it has already occured. You simply need employees who have read critical approaches to statistics AS AN INTEGRAL PART of their stats education. Those people are usually in

- feminist studies (did the requested stats revolution)

- gender studies (ibid, different name)

- women's studies (ibid, different name)

- lgbt studies (exploded feminist studies ftw)

- african american studies (ibid)

- critical studies (sociology, know of mainstream criticism only)

- american studies (good with convoluted language)

> Why do you want to move out of academia? Get a tenure and you'll be doing your research plus you'll secure a job for the rest of your life.

In short, the privatization (education for profit) and adjunct (severe labor exploitation) issues are horrible in that sector and I want no part in these.

These are the same issues both the non-profit and private non-academic sectors deal with too, but the private and non-profit sectors do not have the same amount of hypocrisy and blindness as academia when it comes to sticking a ten-feet pole on fire up one's ass.

Do you happen to have any open positions for techie non-programmer education / social sciences people? -Thanks.

> Windows is one of the top 5 most profitable software products in the world. Trust that they know how to make money.

Monopolization of the markets. I do trust it, but only when I do it. ;)

> Trees are a renewable source of energy / building materials.

You are too. :)

> So again, its not that much of a big deal.

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> EFF-card-carrying subset of the tech community, people who are most able and least ethically inhibited from piracy anyway.

Good rhetoric. They are evil because they believe in ethics. Go for it dude, who's holding you!

(I'm the OP, was on my phone so ended up with a diff account.)

Unfortunately, I am trying to move from academia to the private / non-profit sector's 'research associate' etc roles. Finding it to be truly difficult.

Thanks for the reply though!

That sounds like (GNU Social) + (Diaspora) - (Distributed Content)

Sounds great until your (sub)domain(s) gets censored or targeted.

How did you afford a 6-year long mac warranty?

This was helpful, thanks for the reply.

> An acre and a half of Amazon rainforest disappears every hour, and this is the deforestation you get upset about.

According to this logic, I ought to not get upset, nor criticize any policy, perspective, or activity that causes less deaths than a previous or current one did.

Assuming that for you, trees < animals < humans,

since the European colonization of Americas killed off about 100 million human beings,

I will have to wait for a catastrophe that kills off 101 million people to criticize anything that happens on earth.

Convenient.

> They directly processed the trees to firewood, which they were intended for. :)

I honestly do not understand why you take video and pictures of a planet you do not care about. To try out your RPi toy, I guess? Or for some kind of publicity I do not quite understand?

A tree's function is not to "get processed." It is the terms you use that are failing you. By "get processed" you mean "to be killed." And by "function" you mean "the value humans commonly attribute to it." Politics is indeed the art of using this kind of language-bending. You follow these by coming up with a bunch of excuses to legitimize the unnecessary damage you caused to the flora of that region out of sheer arrogance.

> It's also very dangerous without climbing experience and without any climbing equipment to climb up such trees.

You either try, or accept defeat and design a better vehicle.

(1) I don't kill your partner just because s/he has parked her/his car at the spot where I wanted to park. (This is an exaggeration solely because we attribute more value to ourselves, out of arrogance, than to anything that we deem "other.")

(2) You don't burn the computer because your software has a bug. (This example is for those readers who persist on not shedding the aforementioned arrogance.)

> The local authorities helped us a lot, the forester aranged the cutting of two trees for us

We killed two trees for a 15 minute long youtube video.

Is this how little respect we all have for life?