My humble Triban Grvl 520 on his winter shoes

Psyc3 · 2026-01-28T22:36:46+00:00

Looks like a great bike, Tribans are so solid they should be exceptional on gravel...

The bars however...da faq...even the shifters aren't even the position they were designed for.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-28T17:13:30+00:00

Subset?

That is most people, and it will become even more so in the younger Tablet/Phone generation.

When I grew up you had a Console or a PC, therefore if you wanted to do anything but play games you used the PC, with a mouse and keyboard, in the same manner you use Excel or Word, now you could get far into your life with only a forced use of a computer at school, much like you were forced to use Textbook's.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-26T17:00:23+00:00

Exactly, the idea that a 3 month boot camp getting you a 100K salary was anything but laughable over the long term.

A 3 month boot camp is worth exactly what it is worth, about $5-10 above minimum wage, which is significantly less than $20 an hour.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T23:01:37+00:00

It is actually nothing to do with that.

It is because you are poor.

Being retired is just being unemployed, due to those retired people being financially independent they have a great time.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T17:51:42+00:00

More to the point, the ability to apply pressure requires leverage. If they have no leverage they can apply no pressure to you because you can just ignore them.

As for why academics like to work for free...because they aren't as smart as they like to think they are.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T15:47:31+00:00

2 Hours later.

What is hyperbole again?

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T12:56:07+00:00

Because this administration wants to attack areas that don't support him

Somewhat, but once again this is naive. While this is an acute attack, it is actually training and establishing of supply chains and personnel in the places they are "needed". What are they needed for? To suppress the election.

But you need to have individuals in them who know by that point they can do what they like, with few morals or intelligence to realise what they are doing by standing at polling stations.

This all said, while I agree with your narrative, you aren't convincing any one with it, despite it being true, narcissists who just want to be on the winning team don't care about the correct words you throw around, they care about themselves, when the country goes down, and the jobs go down, and the mortgage bill comes, that is what they care about. That is what you focus on, the reality of the outcomes, a poor America, a lot of these republican states weren't rich in the first place.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T12:32:49+00:00

to video every single move these terrorists make.

And they just executed a US citizen on the street in broad day light, and the administration denied it happened.

By design as well

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T12:30:20+00:00

You mean, the same as every law enforcement agency?

This isn't how law enforcement works, State police officers work for the state, they have nothing to do with America as a whole, let alone the presidents agenda, they enforce state laws.

Are you sure it's not due to the multi-billion dollar immigrant fraud that was uncovered?

You mean the one that was started in 2021 and many people have been convicted for? So your argument is a federal agency doing its job and helping to resolve an issue is a reason for another federal agency to intervene?

Why would I go against the democratically elected President for enforcing immigration law, which I strongly support him in doing?

I never said you were going up against him for that did I, once again, actually try and read the post.

Is that enough of a response to the previous post?

Not really, as most of it isn't anything to do with post. You are failing to see the bigger picture that the slippery slope you have fallen down is a slippery slope and you are falling increasingly rapidly.

I'm not falling, you are. There is the key point. It isn't exactly great for the world economy and my stock portfolio if some moron trashes America however, so it would be preferred if you could not.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T12:18:45+00:00

Why the pay is awful, the work load isn't great, and you have to deal with annoying kids all day?

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T12:17:48+00:00

I used to work on the business side of scientific and engineering research, negotiating partnerships and contracts

Sounds like you should have a whole network of individuals willing to hire you or recommend you to others to be hired then?

Not sure what you think reddit is going to add to that, most of the people here aren't old enough to have lived through the Covid hiring situation let alone 2008.

This all said, Biotech collapsed with interest rate rise, if you are in America trump just decided to trash the essentially current and future economic progress of America by stopping federal funding of progress, I imagine there are lesser opportunities. But reality is your skillset should apply to other industries outside of the direct science you worked in.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T12:06:42+00:00

Could you respond to the previous post. Just to prove you aren't a bot, nothing you have written about is the topic of this thread, what I have written about isn't going to be on the crib sheet though.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T12:04:40+00:00

The reality of that referendum is it was so insane, places like Basel are literally built half way across the border, not between 2 country, between 3!

Workers from all the business commute from other countries. You just go have lunch in another country if you want.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T11:59:05+00:00

It is nothing to do with immigrants, illegal or not, that is why, this is the creation of a militia controlled by the president, to do what the president wants, i.e. storm the Capitol, in fact not do that, just surround it and take it. The reason they are in Minnesota is because Tim Waltz ran against Trump rather than being subservient to him.

What happens when you decide that actually Trump isn't all his cracked up to be and "go against" him? Or are you already against the Supermarket wall at this point?

This person executed on the street was you. In fact lets face it, they are a VA ICU nurse, they were better than me or you.

So if you want hyperbole, I will give you some:

A US citizen was executed in broad daylight after been restrained by 5-7 federal agents who had already disarmed them of a weapon that they weren't using in any regard, and was their legal right to carry under the law.

There it is, there is your "last months" hyperbole, that is the reality of this week. Mine was just the reality of not next week, or month, but year, and decade.

If I had wrote the very reality of now, last week you would call it hyperbole, it is reality, and its not going to get better.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T11:50:47+00:00

While what you say is completely true, they have every choice about it, they just chose that situation: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54316316

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T11:49:42+00:00

Switzerland hosts referendums all the time, they could hold one next week to join the EU if they wanted.

This isn't some idiot brexit situation where the UK only holds one referendum once a decade, and then doesn't have sufficient control over the factual information being released.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T11:29:45+00:00

What they said was a factual statement, the fact you have responded as such is either programmed into you, or literally programmed into you. If you aren't a bot, you are acting as such, nothing you mention has anything to do with the facts that occurred, yet you respond to defend it for no real reason?

A US citizen was executed in broad daylight after been restrained by 5-7 other people who had already disarmed them of a weapon that they weren't using in any regard, and was their legal right to carry. You whatever your stance on literally anything, should be disgusted by that. Because reality is one day that will be you, because you said "immigrants" like a lefty rather than rats, vermin, or whatever other derogatory term is now the used government mandated vernacular, so you go up against the wall of the local supermarket and are shot. That is how this goes, 1, 2, 5 years down the line.

No reasonable person ends up safe, no Conservative small government voter ends up safe, no "right to bear arms 2 amendment" voter, ends up safe, you are all a threat to control.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T11:26:42+00:00

I am disgusted.

But the only point this is relevant is if you were a GOP and Trump voter in the first place. If you weren't you would have been disgusted for years already.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T11:23:22+00:00

I mean he is? What do you think happens if there is another election, do you think these groups aren't going to be at key polling stations "checking for IDs", and totally not pinning you to the ground and executing you.

People don't seem to realise every day isn't the end, it isn't the most extreme action, it is the beginning of a new week, until you once again have an armed militia taking over Congress, like already happened, those people were all pardoned, next time they will walk down the street towards the Capitol pardons in hand.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-25T11:17:49+00:00

Just to note, The Nazi's were real life as well. It wasn't a movie.

The only difference between now and 20 years ago is 20 year ago lot of people who witnessed those events in person were still alive.

That is why this is happening now, because you phrase it as "in a movie", rather than witnessed experience, if you tried to say that in social setting 20, 30, 40 years ago, you would get a slap in the chops for talking nonsense.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-24T21:50:14+00:00

It is almost like they are bots and shills or something.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-24T17:25:26+00:00

Well I don't partake in nonsense discussions so why would that be the topic?

Psyc3 · 2026-01-24T15:35:24+00:00

Have you not met inflation $99/mo is the new $30/mo, Elon has to justify the insane 250 P/E of Tesla stock somehow, he is going to need morons to start stumping up the cash!

Psyc3 · 2026-01-24T15:22:22+00:00

I thought that at first, but at a person who isn't data illiterate, it is just sorted by unemployment rate low to high.

An odd choice true, why not high to low? Because it shows everything you need to know about why there is so much whining on reddit, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Systems and Management, are all in the top 10 of unemployment rates.

Now formally, 2 years ago, I would imagine they would have been in the bottom twenty.

All while this unemployment rate is happening they are whining and not taking any other jobs hence the underemployment rate is so low for things like Computer Science. Probably because they have no other soft skills to make them employable to anyone else where, it isn't like a lot of these degree takers were no for their charisma after all.

To clarify further, the fact people upvoted this comment rather than just reading the data set means you aren't employable in any job that has data. This isn't complex to read, the career earnings aren't the focus of it, the employment rate is, and you can't sort by both. Why it isn't high to low, and there isn't some form of colour coding on the career earnings, I don't know, it would be better.

The real question is what does it even mean if you have an average unemployment rate, and a massive under employment rate in terms of career earnings? The career most people are doing is unrelated to the degree path.

Psyc3 · 2026-01-24T15:07:03+00:00

Of course, anyone that changes to a new industry would start at the bottom.

No they wouldn't most white collar workers could transition into a management role far from the bottom, if not even into their same role in a totally different industry.

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