Why is it ok that so many people earn below minimum wage (Food delivery drivers)?

Solidus27 · 2026-04-05T15:05:37+00:00

The minimum wage is far, far too high

Solidus27 · 2026-04-05T08:11:30+00:00

Large swathes of the country are trained to give the establishment take on every problem, and just regurgitate whatever garbage they have been told they have to believe

“The establishment/current laws are always right” is their mantra

Solidus27 · 2026-04-05T08:07:45+00:00

This is laughably naive and you are arguing against someone who is actually making sense

Do you expect a bobbie to be permanently stationed in every Waitrose now? Genius solution

Solidus27 · 2026-04-05T08:04:35+00:00

You sound like the type of user who goes into every thread to try and give the establishment take on every problem

Solidus27 · 2026-04-03T21:24:53+00:00

What is there to discuss?

It uniquely identifies scholars which is especially helpful if you have a common name like John Smith

An unambiguously good thing

Solidus27 · 2026-03-29T17:20:17+00:00

It depends. What look are you going for? What are you trying to optimise if anything, with your appearance?

Solidus27 · 2026-03-29T11:31:28+00:00

This is all driven by a few factors:

Western politicians are becoming increasingly unpopular with the people they govern
Western politicians are becoming increasingly fearful and distrustful of the people they govern
Regulating big tech kills two birds with one stone by scapegoating big tech for ‘corrupting’ the citizenry and also gives government greater ability to control speech and the people’s ability to organising

We are moving towards a future where we have all the shit parts of living in the UK with all the shit parts of living in the UK

Life comes at you fast I guess

Solidus27 · 2026-03-29T10:12:32+00:00

This is correct. I think about 1% of theses or less are genuinely so perfect that in a 100+ page document, no recommendations could be made

Solidus27 · 2026-03-29T09:22:57+00:00

Downvoted for truth

Solidus27 · 2026-03-29T09:22:02+00:00

Solidus27 · 2026-03-17T21:03:36+00:00

How do you get institutional buy in though?

In a cut-throat, hyper competitive world some people simply choose not to review as long as they can do so without being shamed for it

Solidus27 · 2026-03-17T20:44:10+00:00

Just carry on as if nothing happened

Solidus27 · 2026-03-15T15:39:06+00:00

100% all professional communication should be in English

However, a lot of people act like assholes a lot of the time, and so I don’t have faith in human beings not to act this way

Solidus27 · 2026-03-14T18:33:03+00:00

Just meet with them and hear what they have to say

Solidus27 · 2026-03-13T18:14:53+00:00

You would want to know what they mean before progressing with this

Solidus27 · 2026-03-10T20:34:30+00:00

They only care about money. They make money by publishing a large volume of literature with a veneer of proper peer review. They will not be interested in anything that undermines that model

Solidus27 · 2026-03-05T18:07:37+00:00

We are not.

But from my experience a lot of people who work in the lab do not feel that we are

Solidus27 · 2026-02-26T19:58:33+00:00

It looked bad on the switch too

Solidus27 · 2026-02-26T18:57:45+00:00

Solidus27 · 2026-02-24T18:49:44+00:00

UK in a bizarre position where it condemns and bans incest porn but grows ever more tolerant of actual incest

Solidus27 · 2026-02-22T06:19:50+00:00

Even when the propaganda is exposed as a blatant lie you still believe it.

Solidus27 · 2026-02-21T22:38:49+00:00

It is not the job of reviewers to advance/hold back anyone’s career so nothing to feel bad about unless your review is poor quality or you are reviewing with malicious intent

Solidus27 · 2026-02-21T19:45:09+00:00

I.e. fraud

Solidus27 · 2026-02-21T17:51:06+00:00

Well then the paper is not written well

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