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At this stage, one would have to be intentionally ignorant of the history of academia and its current trajectory to believe that, or lying.

Rural farmers are responsible for whatever the fuck this is supposed to be:

Course name at Melbourne University:

Global Intersections: Gender, Race, Class - What is the relationship between gender, globalisation and identity?

Queering Europe -investigates the social and linguistic contexts, cultural production, and representation of LGBTIQA+ communities in Europe.

Gender, Care and Everyday - How do we care for ourselves, others and our environment? What are the dynamics of gender, race, sexuality, class, ability, and citizenship in relation to care?

Have you bothered to look at the literature the whack jobs who take these courses put out?

This redacted is paid for, supported by, and student loans granted by our governments here in Australia.

The worst marriage of government and academia modern democratic society has seen.

This is probably a much better way of putting it than mine.

However, scorn and ridicule are also reasonable at times. And it started a conversation.

Seems entirely congruent.

The first sentence seems to suggest: you are naive.

The second sentence indicates the writer believes many academics are naive.

Where is this contracts you allude to?

Yes, this was, obviously, my intended usage.

Not the wet lettuce straw man usage posited by the other comment.

Right.

And all the left wing grandparents are on Facebook to perv on the trans kids.

Get a grip fella.

> An education researcher, a sociologist, several political scientists, economists, physicians, and medical researchers.

Yes, very STEM oriented indeed.

Maybe for the first two weeks.

And then there’ll be the inevitable “I have to work with that person for how long!?” And the fiefdoms will be set up, and the back stabbing will begin.

That’s before we even consider the effect of the unelected bureaucracy and the power of the lobby groups and foreign interests.

> youths learned

Ha! <knee slap> <snort!> Good one!

> An electrical engineer who has helped design robots. An organic chemist who, during the pandemic, worked on COVID-19 drugs. An education researcher, a sociologist, several political scientists, economists, physicians, and medical researchers.

Diverse? Over-educated university graduates is possibly the least diverse set of thinkers one could hope to find.

> Dozens of them come from the academic world, and more than half have a Ph.D. or M.D.

Lord help up. This is going to be demonstration of hubris and an exercise in arrogance.

I can just go in to settings and turn the battery size up?

Power over fibre?

Effectively yeah, it’s a desk lamp.

The maxed out M5 Ultra Mac Studio is only AU$28,700 / US$18,300.

Peripherals not included.

Apollo the African grey parrot not infrequently asks “what this?”

He may just be parroting something he heard.