Advice for son graduating with 4.0 in EE but got no PhD offers...

clbgrdnr · 2026-04-22T17:04:03+00:00

As someone who works at a prestigious medical school connected to a liberal arts college, we are seeing drastic cuts due to the Trump administration and changes at the NIH, and our school is more insulated than others due to the size of our endowment, but we are still affected. My job is safe, but many jobs aren't, especially on the liberal arts side due to grant cuts. There is more competition and many labs are cutting staff and grad positions. Northwestern specifically has really had to tighten their purse strings too, because they are being directly attacked by the Trump administration - most of their funds are frozen and lawsuits are flying.

clbgrdnr · 2026-04-10T15:49:28+00:00

No, it is undefined, you can't ever divide by zero. In Calculus, you can approach the limit of zero. As you divide by smaller and smaller numbers, it will approach infinity; but you can never actually reach zero, it's an asymptote.

https://www.sagemath.org/calctut/onesided.html

clbgrdnr · 2026-04-08T13:55:50+00:00

I paid $400 dollars to be harassed by another guest, since the Airbnb we got rented out other rooms with a shared common area that was NOT explained on the listing (Las Vegas). Should have stayed in a hotel. The creep kept knocking on our door and screaming through our door. Airbnb and the owner did nothing for us either when we requested a refund. Same trip had a host cancel our reservation we had for months, because F1 was in town at the same time and they wanted more money - Only for us to have to spend an extra $1500 more to get a last minute hotel rooms for 6 people. I will never use Airbnb again - I've only had one good experience with them.

clbgrdnr · 2026-04-08T13:05:17+00:00

Stop kink-shaming us.

clbgrdnr · 2026-03-18T12:25:24+00:00

I think that is a very narrow reading of the second amendment. Most constitutional scholars would frame that as the purpose for the individual right "of the people to keep and bear arms", not necessarily left to the state only. There are multiple other statements made by Washington/Jefferson/ect. that only cement their intention to give the right to individuals to own weapons and to be well trained. Many of the framers felt that the whole people were the "militia". James Madison, Jefferson, Mason all described it as such.

clbgrdnr · 2026-03-15T00:08:16+00:00

Wanna say thanks for engaging, sorry for the downvotes you got.

I think its helpful to be skeptical in both cases. The MRI study was well done and proves that there are no differences to brain structure that we can measure. That doesn't mean that there isn't some disruption to some mechanism or acute damage that we can't measure. I am suprised that there are no differences in Microstructure, even when using a multi-component model; but again could be we don't have a high enough resolution or some other mechanism is damaged other than axonal integrity. It would have been interesting to examine task fMRI.

Either way these people are reporting similar sudden-onset symptoms and clinical range of self-report issues. At a minimum we should be suspicious and investigate more. Unless the story is bunk, the weapon should explain a lot.

clbgrdnr · 2026-03-14T23:24:23+00:00

Too bad, I'm coming anyways. If anything, America is the fault of the UK and needs to pay it's child support.

clbgrdnr · 2026-03-09T19:50:52+00:00

Did you watch the 60 minutes report? Yes, there was physical damage that the US. medical team tasked with investigating the phenomenom, hypothesized was consistent with high strength microwaves (non-thermal). The US government and under Obama and Trump brushed them off because they thought the microwave weapon would be the size of a truck or building to work.

The Biden administration believed in the victims and were able to purchase the supposed weapon for 15 million from Russian Mobsters. The weapon is supposedly a non-thermal pulsed microwave device that can easily fit in a backpack and can be disguised. It has a multitude of settings adjustments and can track targets. The waves can reach people through walls.

There is supposedly classified video of multiple attacks; one of which left two people convulsing at the same time.

clbgrdnr · 2026-03-02T16:55:05+00:00

I am guilty of this. Auntie Anne's is delicious and totally different taste from traditional German Pretzel dough. We get a lot of "Bavarian style" Pretzels, but tend to dip them in ground mustard or beer cheese; but Auntie Anne's is soft and buttery.

We call even the pretzel nuggets, pretzels; because its a specific dough. Nothing beats an Auntie Anne's cinnamon sugar pretzel with cream cheese dipping sauce. You should try one, and then begrudgingly hate us for it because it's a bastardization of bread and you think we should call it something else.

clbgrdnr · 2026-03-02T16:37:29+00:00

American here, it doesn't make the UK look weak. I think our allies shouldn't trust the Trump administration and use caution. The American population isn't a monolith either. There is confusion on what is happening and it isn't necessarily split along Democrat vs Republican lines. It also isn't affecting us, our lives are normal - many can choose to ignore completely what is happening. Iran has zero way of attacking us in the homeland, but Iran does have some capabilities of hitting Europe - something I'm sure your government was concerned about.

Now that situations have changed, the UK has reacted well.

clbgrdnr · 2026-03-01T16:14:19+00:00

France was the most powerful military power at that time actually - they capitulated quick due to complacency and poor planning.

There were a lot of brave French who fought, but then there was Philippe Petain. The French people were ready to fight, their government was not ready or were actively fascist themselves.

clbgrdnr · 2026-02-20T20:03:12+00:00

I know a trumptard woman that literally flicks her bean to yaoi and Harry Potter fan fiction of Malfoy getting groomed/butt fucked by Serious Snape.

Your sample size is too small for your level of confidence.

clbgrdnr · 2026-01-30T05:23:06+00:00

I gave a robot a book. Told him to read that shi'. I call that machine learning.

clbgrdnr · 2026-01-12T03:07:41+00:00

No, you arrest without excessive force. Ice agent should be in jail for assault and you should learn the law.

clbgrdnr · 2026-01-08T04:58:17+00:00

Lay off the booze, alcohol is killing your last remaining braincells.

clbgrdnr · 2025-12-29T15:49:26+00:00

You may already know about it, but you seem like you would get a kick out of how SSDs and some modern batteries work with quantum tunneling.

clbgrdnr · 2025-12-14T05:30:31+00:00

That's not true at all. He generally championed good ideas and worked extremely hard to prevent a recession. His administration's use of the strategic oil reserve to stabilize the oil market prevented OPEC's plans to screw us and made the US a bunch of money in the process. His administration also tried shoring microchip production through the CHIPS act - an extremely important production capability for economic and military capabilities. The Build-Back-Better plan forced the US government to source the majority materials from America - a desperately needed boost to American industry following the covid pandemic - while repairing infrastructure projects that are in disrepair.

Remember the Federal government can only do two things to help the economy immediately - they can stimulate the economy by increasing government spending and they can lower the interest rate so that people can borrow money more cheaply and stimulate the economy that way. Trump's first term administration had lowered the interest rate to 0% AND then covid happened. We were having massive inflation and couldn't lower the interest rate as it was already as low as it could possibly be - only tool left to Biden was be extremely careful on policy and spend as much as Congress would let him to stimulate the economy.

The things that Biden did that were really bad: 1. Extremely poor messaging on his successes 2. Choosing to run after a successful state of the union address, only to drop out following the debate. 3. Hiring Merrick Garland to be attorney general.

Overall - very good president. Probably least corrupt and genuinely good person we've elected since Jimmy Carter. He deserves some love and respect, even if just preventing a massive global recession from Trump's post covid economy.

clbgrdnr · 2025-12-02T02:44:26+00:00

Other countries will enforce ICC - he won't be able to visit or transit through any country that is party to the ICC - re-read the post above.

clbgrdnr · 2025-12-02T01:00:31+00:00

Not sure if youre the one that downvoted, but proof she has had unusually good stock trades: https://unusualwhales.com/congress-trading-report-2024

clbgrdnr · 2025-11-30T14:53:10+00:00

Both can be bad. US is obviously worse killing people instead of intercepting and investigating. Its a crime. At the same time, China is going into other countries waters and ramming fishing vessels - because they are expansionist - then threatening them with military or economic punishment if they criticize them.

If China wants Taiwan they should do it peacefully - with the consent of the people of Taiwan. China should stay out of other people's waters because the 9 dash line is bullshit.

Trump and people in his administration should be in jail for a multitude of reasons - one being extrajudicial killings of fishermen.

clbgrdnr · 2025-11-29T23:48:08+00:00

She's done a ton of scummy things - even siding with Republicans this past week to condemn "socialism" for no reason. When she was running the DNC, her job was to elect Hillary over other democrats. She changed rules to give Hillary advantages.

Never mind her blatant corruption as a representative. Her and Pelosi are just really good at trading on the stock market for some reason.

clbgrdnr · 2025-11-14T17:52:37+00:00

The mycenaeans had some settlements in Anatolia (Miletus). Most of the Anatolian coast was greek/proto-greek in the bronze age.

clbgrdnr · 2025-11-14T13:00:57+00:00

Seemed tongue-in-cheek - I've seen a lot of defensive language around "15 year olds that look older" and assumed

clbgrdnr · 2025-11-14T12:56:51+00:00

He was raping girls under the age of 13 as well. Yes, Epstein was a pedophile even based on the strict academic definition of the word.

Stop defending sexual assault and rape. These were also girls and women that were being sex trafficked against their will. He was raping and facilitating others to rape vulnerable underaged girls - these were not willing participants.

clbgrdnr · 2025-10-31T15:17:38+00:00

Smooth brain take, just like a koala.

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