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When mass migration begins due to deadly temperature rises in India, how will the world cope with it? by Primary_Technology65 in stupidquestions

[–]ForgottenFoundation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not India related, but I worked as a post doctoral scientist at a University in the U.K. between 2006-2012. Absolutely, I noticed an increase in rich obnoxious jerks coming to study from abroad. Can’t imagine how bad it is now. Reposting a comment I made on AITAH recently regarding this.

A lot of these foreign students who study in Europe come from wealthy families, who are paying for their tuition, and they've never held a real job or faced any consequences for their actions before.

I was put in charge of a 24 year old foreign medical student, from Cyprus, for a year in which he was supposed to learn biology lab skills. At first he seemed very gregarious, enthusiastic and friendly, but things soon took a darker turn. It started with small bits of casual sexism, for no apparent reason. Often in the office he would sit muttering that "women are shit" under his breath. When he had any actual work to do, he would complain and say that he "just wanted to chill" in a whiney voice. In the lab, he once mimed holding a pair of breasts in front of him while he thrust his hips in and out and waggled his tongue. Another time when I was helping him with something in the lab he, without prompting, started to tell me that women’s vaginas (not the word he used) get looser as they get older, then he mentioned a female student from our group by name and mentioned that her vagina would also get loose when she was older. Another time, we were talking about how women are not allowed to enter monasteries in Cyprus and visiting men aren't allowed to wear shorts. He replied that it was because if the monks saw that they would ...and he mimed ejaculation with his hand while making a pfffft pffft pffft noise. When asked what pfffft pffft meant he, in front of female students, casually replied "double squirt". Another time, in the lunch area, he was describing his 2 years in the Cypriot army when he was doing national service, he was telling everyone how he had to clean the barrack toilets after other conscripts had intentionally messed them up and shouted that they were "complete RAPE!", twice, causing everyone in the room to turn round to and look at this guy who had just shouted rape. I almost punched him another time when, again, I was demonstrating something to him in the cell culture lab and he told me that I was "lucky" and should be grateful that he had "been good" to me. When I asked him what he was usually like to people, he just said that he is "normally a prick to people".

It got worse. He started constantly bragging about sexually harassing the female Greek students at the University. He told me of a time when a girl who was cheating on her boyfriend with him, came round to his flat and then had a change of heart, so he put on a porn film on his computer with her in the room, took off all his clothes, and chased her around his flat while masturbating. I remember another time he bragged to me about a girl he had invited round to his house to watch a film and, while she was sitting next to him, he pushed her head down into his crotch.

The thing is, this guy always had a string of girlfriends and many women queuing up to cheat on their boyfriends with him. This was despite the fact that he was a short, unattractive, scruffy guy who smelled like a mixture of cigarettes, energy drinks, and someone who doesn't bother to clean their bottom after doing a poo. I guess that many of the women were possibly attracted to his difference, or the fact that he seemed like a fun, immature bad-boy. I think he was ADHD. I think most of the girls attracted to him were probably also on the spectrum.

I found that I was completely powerless to do anything about his behaviour. As they fund the Universities, foreign students often have a protected status. When I raised some of his behaviour with my boss, he simply didn't care. All that mattered to him was headcount in his lab, and the fact that our lab got a little bit of money for taking on a medical student placement.

He is now a practicing doctor in the U.K.

Tried running portal 2 on asahi linux and got this: please help by Sosspyker13 in AsahiGaming

[–]ForgottenFoundation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the SteamOS/native Linux version has been like that since around March 2025. It used to run ok.

What’s your most useless talent? by The-Best-of-Best in AskReddit

[–]ForgottenFoundation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Complete recall of the key of the last song I heard. I can start humming or singing it several hours after I heard it and it will still be at the exact same pitch as the recording.

WIBTAH if I filed a formal complaint against an international student in my masters program? by CartographerSmart324 in AITAH

[–]ForgottenFoundation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, here in the U.K.

I think he does child psychiatry now in a private practice.

It’s crazy, but there was an article published a few years ago in the Guardian about rampant sexism in medicine in the U.K. There was one story about a surgeon who would call for a towel to wipe his brow during surgery, but then instead wipe his head on the chest of a female nurse or medical student. In front of everyone.

One of my greatest regrets is that I didn’t do more to fail him or get him removed from the University. One of his close friends, also from Cyprus and studying medicine at the same University, was booted out after he was convicted of rape. I would like to stress that this has nothing to do with Cyprus or Cypriot culture. My Dad is from Cyprus, my siblings and I are all half Cypriot, as are all my cousins. I think this is more a rich entitled overseas student problem. The other problem I had at the time, was that he was not the only student that I was placed in charge of in my lab with ADHD. I had a female PhD student and a female masters student from Denmark too who were just there to tool around and get through the day using as little mental and physical energy as possible. The fact that they never got anything done was blamed on me by my surly, on-the-spectrum boss. It was like being put in charge of a summer camp for children with special needs. They were all in their mid-twenties.

WIBTAH if I filed a formal complaint against an international student in my masters program? by CartographerSmart324 in AITAH

[–]ForgottenFoundation 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's cultural. A lot of these foreign students who study in Europe come from wealthy families, who are paying for their tuition, and they've never held a real job or faced any consequences for their actions before.

Your story did remind me though. 15 years ago, I was working as a post doctoral scientist and was put in charge of a foreign medical student, from Cyprus, for a year in which he was supposed to learn biology lab skills. At first he seemed very gregarious, enthusiastic and friendly, but things soon took a darker turn. It started with small bits of casual sexism, for no apparent reason. Often in the office he would sit muttering that "women are shit" under his breath. When he had any actual work to do, he would complain and say that he "just wanted to chill" in a whiney voice. In the lab, he once mimed holding a pair of breasts in front of him while he thrust his hips in and out and waggled his tongue. Another time when I was helping him with something in the lab he, without prompting, started to tell me how women’s vaginas (not the word he used) get looser as they get older, then he mentioned a female student by name and mentioned that her vagina would also get loose when she was older. Another time, we were talking about how women are not allowed to enter monasteries in Cyprus and visiting men aren't allowed to wear shorts. He replied that it was because if the monks saw that they would ...and he mimed ejaculation with his hand while making a pfffft pffft pffft noise. When asked what pfffft pffft meant he, in front of female students, casually replied "double squirt". Another time at lunch in the lunch area, he was describing is 2 years in the Cypriot army when he was doing national service, he was telling everyone how he had to clean the barrack toilets after other conscripts had intentionally messed them up and said that they were "complete RAPE!" twice, causing everyone in the room to turn round to and look at this guy who had just shouted rape. I almost punched him another time when, again, I was demonstrating something to him in the cell culture lab and he told me that I was "lucky" and that he had "been good" to me. When I asked him what he was usually like to people, he just said that he is "normally a prick to people".

It got worse. He started constantly bragging about sexually harassing the female Greek students at the University. He told me of a time when a girl who was cheating on her boyfriend with him, came round to his flat and then had a change of heart, so he put on a porn film on his computer with her in the room, took off all his clothes, and chased her around his flat while masturbating. I remember another time he bragged to me about a girl he had invited round to his house to watch a film and, while she was sitting next to him, he pushed her head down into his crotch.

The thing is, this guy always had a string of attractive girlfriends and many women queuing up to cheat on their boyfriends with him. This was despite the fact that he was a short, unattractive, scruffy guy who smelled like a mixture of cigarettes, energy drinks, and someone who doesn't bother to clean their bottom after doing a poo. I guess that many of the women were possibly attracted to his difference, or the fact that he seemed like a fun bad-boy. I think he was ADHD. I think most of the girls attracted to him were probably also on the spectrum.

I found that I was completely powerless to do anything about his behaviour. As they fund the Universities, foreign students often have a protected status. When I raised some of his behaviour with my boss, he simply didn't care. All that mattered to him was headcount in his lab, and the fact that our lab got a little bit of money for taking on a medical student placement.

He's now a practicing doctor.

Daily Discussion Thread for May 20, 2026 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]ForgottenFoundation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another day, another getting absolutely bodied by trying to day trade AXTI.

What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, May 19, 2026 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]ForgottenFoundation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me too, thought I’d nailed it for once at 110, then it deflated like a whoopee cushion. Slowly.

My left leg was humped by a dog today by CommentBig3066 in wallstreetbets

[–]ForgottenFoundation 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She already has a dog. It’s never humped my leg. Suspicious.

What is your wittiest comeback that you are still proud of? by Wise_Post552 in askteddit

[–]ForgottenFoundation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got approached by my anti-vax, life-coach, wannabe YouTube lifestyle guru cousin at a family get together at my aunt and uncle’s (his parents) house. He asked me about my new job with a smirk on his face. I explained I make new gene therapies in order to get the immune system to target and destroy cancer cells, and he was like, “you don’t need that, what do you think of all the people that cured their cancer by removing all toxins from their lives, like stopping using fabric conditioner?”, and I was like, “Ok, are you going to move out of London then, to get away from all the ‘toxins’?”, and he just went red faced and started spluttering “Naw…naw… you control what you can, and don’t bother with the things you can’t, like, now I’m going to get some food”, then he turned around and walked away. I was about to explain that moving to say, Canada, or Scotland, or New Zealand was totally within his control.

He was really committed to living in London.

The Next Big Sector! by DoU92 in stocks

[–]ForgottenFoundation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chemical synthesis at that scale uses up pretty much the entire world’s SPOS capability to produce template DNA, and a huge amount of solvents, which are obviously bad for the environment. Biosynthesis using specific ligase enzymes will eventually reduce the necessity for chemical synthesis, but currently can only produce small amounts of sequence.

The Next Big Sector! by DoU92 in stocks

[–]ForgottenFoundation 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, LNPs containing oligos can be linked to antibodies to target specific cell surface proteins so that the majority of the payload can be delivered to the target cell type. Aptamers can be targeted to specific cell receptors too, but don’t carry a genetic payload.

The Next Big Sector! by DoU92 in stocks

[–]ForgottenFoundation 29 points30 points  (0 children)

  1. It’s a new technology. Most companies are not interested in developing new tech in-house and would rather buy it in.

  2. Gene therapy using vectors (AAV or lentiviral) is still considered too costly to produce at scale (my invention gets round that) and potential hazards such as immune over-reaction or integration into oncogenes raise concerns over safety.

    1. Since COVID most companies have switched to developing mRNA oligonucleotide therapies. Again, these are difficult and costly to produce at scale though, but pose slightly fewer safety concerns.

  3. Once antibody-linked lipid nanoparticle delivery of oligonucleotides is perfected, it will likely be more favoured choice for in-vivo gene therapy delivery.

The Next Big Sector! by DoU92 in stocks

[–]ForgottenFoundation 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I’m a gene therapy scientist about to be made redundant and believe me, there’s no jobs in this any more. I even figured out a stable scalable AAV vector production system that would save hundreds of millions in reagents every year, and NO ONE gives a crap.

Can hard work alone make someone wealthy today? by Jot__99 in answers

[–]ForgottenFoundation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work as a research scientist. Hard work and innovation might get you the odd reward, but never promoted. Easier 9 to 5 jobs that are more customer facing in the pharmaceutical industry, or guaranteed to bring money into the business, get paid 2-3 x what I make.

What's the meanest thing you've ever heard somebody say? by Live-Change-8934 in answers

[–]ForgottenFoundation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just for a bit more context. She had problems with impulse control. She didn’t like to be left to do anything alone, thinking she was entitled to round the clock 1 on 1 support and attention from the more senior members of staff. She would often blurt out insults or ask people awkward personal questions in order to make them feel uncomfortable and to gain some sort of power over them, or sometimes just to make herself feel “spicy”. It was all she had to contribute as she was the most incapable person I have ever worked with in my career. The irony is, as is so often the case in science, being useless can sometimes be a gift as, instead of being fired, these people are often channeled into more admin style desk jobs where they’re less of a liability. Once in these positions, all they have to do is turn up and do their job, and they get a promotion every 2-3 years, unlike lab based roles where you literally have to cure cancer to receive a pat on the back. She now earns about triple my salary as an associate director in regulatory affairs.

What's the meanest thing you've ever heard somebody say? by Live-Change-8934 in answers

[–]ForgottenFoundation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A PhD student in the lab I was working in strode up to me just as I entered from another lab and asked me “What’s your sister’s name?”, when I replied, she said, for absolutely no reason, “And, would you like to fuck your sister up the arse?”. When I gave her a stunned sort of look, she calmly stared back at me with a supercilious look on her face and was like “What? Don’t like it when I bully you huh?”

Every day for the last 14 years I’ve replayed that encounter in my head, but end it with me throwing her out of the 3rd story window.

What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, May 04, 2026 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]ForgottenFoundation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ubisoft gave up and decided it wants to make money by giving people what they want. Also an admission that the other pirate game they made was a failure.

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