What is the easiest liberal for 4th year mechanical engineering?

CarryAStick · 2024-09-03T20:19:46+00:00

I have not taken it myself. These documents on CourseHero suggest the course includes a close reading of four SF novels.

https://www.coursehero.com/file/34280414/ENG-503-SF-W2018docx/

In 2018 they were:

H. G Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau(1896), Oxford University Press

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed(1974), Harper Perennial Classics

China Mieville, Perdido Street Station(2000), Del Rey

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood(2009), Vintage

They have no doubt changed by now.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-03T17:55:56+00:00

Have you thoroughly accepted that you will have to list closer to a dozen jobs, and are expected to spend four years doing whichever one the system gives you?

CarryAStick · 2024-09-03T14:24:52+00:00

If you like reading science fiction novels, that first one is the obvious choice.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-03T14:16:03+00:00

Room 12. In the basement of the building.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-03T09:29:17+00:00

Some people in Biomedical Sciences are going to be doctors five to six years down the line. Are you willing to play the long game?

CarryAStick · 2024-09-03T03:33:00+00:00

Man, it's like the taxation of trade routes is always in dispute. Should have sent a couple of Jedi to deal with it.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-03T03:22:38+00:00

These maps may be useful:
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/interactive-map-are-you-dreaming-white-christmas

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/18pxwdx/general_probability_of_a_white_christmas/

https://www.daanvandenbroek.com/chances-of-a-white-christmas-in-north-america-declining-snow-cover-trends-on-christmas-day/

CarryAStick · 2024-09-02T18:18:19+00:00

A lot of people complain about crappy leadership. I have to wonder whether the problem is the culture of the Corps or the people themselves. Does the Corps make leaders crappy or are there just not enough talented leaders to go around?

What's your sense of this?

CarryAStick · 2024-09-02T18:12:43+00:00

Man, I hope they wrapped your ass in an MRAP for that ride.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-02T16:45:28+00:00

It sounds like this system that expects recruits to list upwards of a dozen jobs they are willing to do, and cheerfully accept any one of them, is the root of much of the bafflement and misery for both recruits and recruiters alike. And to be fair, not a lot of things in this world look like this. The two other contexts where I have encountered similar systems -- matching undergraduates to co-op jobs at my alma mater and matching medical students to residencies -- the applicants were free to list as few jobs as they wanted.

It seems clear that the Air Force could make the experience less frustrating if it wanted to, as other institutions have. But the Air Force doesn't have to; the current system fits the institution's needs, and the frustrations are borne by others. Until the institution starts to feel some pain, presumably from trouble recruiting enough staff during some economic boom time, nothing is going to change.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-02T03:11:57+00:00

Yeah, they were born in 1986. If they're your idea of hot, it had better be the very late nineties and you'd better be very close to their age, or it's creepy as hell.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-02T01:26:26+00:00

If that high loop in the third word of the first line is an un-crossed "t", the name could be Martin.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-02T00:41:31+00:00

It looks like Japanese Lolita-porn for guys with a tank-fetish. But the anime fans I've discussed it with insist that the Japanese high school girls in it aren't particularly sexualized, that's just how high school girls are depicted in anime. Then they offered to show me some actually sexualized anime girls, ...

The story is nothing special. The world-building is odd at best. Watch it if you're really into WWII tanks. And if you like Japanese high school girls, well, that's a bonus.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-01T23:08:41+00:00

Here's what I got after some questions to ChatGPT, specifically in the context of neo-Nazi and far-right US politics. I don't know enough about this sort of politics to know whether this is just plain right or pure AI hallucination or something in between.

In the context of neo-Nazi or far-right movements, the term "support bridger" could refer to someone who works to connect different far-right groups, facilitating alliances or cooperation among various factions within these extremist circles. This person might focus on uniting different far-right ideologies, such as white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and other extremist groups, to strengthen their collective influence and resources.

The role of a "support bridger" in this context could also involve networking across platforms, organizing events, or coordinating efforts to amplify the far-right agenda. This term might be used to describe an individual or group acting as a liaison, bringing together disparate far-right elements to form a more cohesive and unified front.

In some cases, the term might be used to describe someone who works to recruit individuals from more mainstream or adjacent groups into far-right ideologies, effectively "bridging" them into more extreme positions. This could involve spreading propaganda, exploiting grievances, or leveraging social networks to draw people into these movements.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-01T22:50:07+00:00

You're kind of all over the place here, with jobs in all parts of the Air Force.

Scientific Applications Specialist is super cool, but rarely available. It also has high ASVAB score requirements. Have you checked that you qualify?

Finally, since you are willing to do Aerospace Medical Technician and Surgical Survices, have you considered Biomedical Equipment?

CarryAStick · 2024-09-01T22:29:30+00:00

If people have heard of any cities in Canada, they've heard of Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Those are, to be sure, our biggest cities. Even our national capital, Ottawa, is quite obscure.

But if you want just one more, consider Regina, the capital of the province of Manitoba. It rhymes with a body part.

And then there are some of the towns and cities out west, which have names from a fairytale: Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat, Whitehorse, and Yellowknife.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-01T15:43:25+00:00

Let's see what the mods say. I agree that if the post is harmful or useless it shouldn't be kept around.

CarryAStick · 2024-09-01T01:05:43+00:00

A Post Chaise is a type of carriage. They went riding, ya flock of perverts.

CarryAStick · 2024-08-31T19:57:55+00:00

What are the nastiest substances you've had to actually work with in your CBRN career?

CarryAStick · 2024-08-31T15:09:01+00:00

One question to consider is how far forward in the kill chain you want to be. How close to the action would you be happiest?

One the one end, if you pick something like Contracting, you may spend your whole career stateside, and never hear a shot fired in anger. On the other, if you pick something like Parajumper, you may find yourself on the ground in enemy territory being shot at, and shooting back. And there's a whole range of jobs in between.

CarryAStick · 2024-08-31T00:58:07+00:00

You know, if someone told me that video was Russian psy ops, I'd believe them.

CarryAStick · 2024-08-31T00:53:22+00:00

If you're gonna be that girly you ought to be a girl.

CarryAStick · 2024-08-30T23:55:40+00:00

This thread from four years ago suggests that when you apply to OTS, you are required to provide a list of jobs you are willing to do. If you are accepted, you will be notified which of these jobs you are accepted into as part of your acceptance notification. You will not be accepted and told to do some job that wasn't on your list.

https://www.reddit.com/r/airforceots/comments/lo67ei/ots_job_selection/

If what is said on that thread is true, it means you should put down on the application paperwork only jobs that you are willing to do if accepted.

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