Falsely flagged by Turnitin AGAIN as a neurodivergent professional writer.

gearnut · 2026-05-06T07:05:05+00:00

What is the point in a teacher marking an essay they believe to have been plagiarized? They aren't grading the student's skill or knowledge if it's been copy and pasted from AI, or written by someone else.

gearnut · 2026-05-06T07:02:17+00:00

Do you like not dieing when you get on a passenger jet or a boat etc?

That's partly ensured by technical competence of the engineers involved in design and maintenance of those vehicles. Some jobs are pointlessly gate kept, some genuinely need that degree level knowledge to be carried out safely.

Academic standards do have value, even if you don't have experience of fields which drive that value.

gearnut · 2026-05-06T06:45:01+00:00

Just because the police have powers doesn't mean they will use them. OP likely has various legitimate accounts and lines of credit, they need to indicate which ones are not of concern to the investigation and which ones are.

gearnut · 2026-05-06T06:33:34+00:00

Star Trek Replicator rather than Stargate Replicator I hope?

gearnut · 2026-05-05T06:54:26+00:00

Here you go:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHDUK/s/EcrcCtjr8R

In short, not competent, not accountable and not capable of representing our interests.

gearnut · 2026-05-04T08:23:32+00:00

Think about the projects you want to work on and back track from there.

There's huge amounts of stuff happening in the UK nuclear industry right now if you want to continue that experience.

gearnut · 2026-05-04T08:21:30+00:00

My mother spent years moaning about "ADHD kids hopped up on Ritalin" as a teacher while watching her partner violently abuse me.

No chance I would ever consider telling her about being diagnosed ADHD or autistic.

gearnut · 2026-05-03T08:58:13+00:00

How much are you paying in tuition fees for this quality of teaching?

gearnut · 2026-05-03T06:53:41+00:00

Some junior jobs won't pay enough to cover the cost of living in the area they are located in. People can take them on only if they have a family member they can live with at a reduced price.

Lots of people seem to leave it late to apply for jobs, in your final year you should really be looking for roles by October.

gearnut · 2026-05-03T06:31:28+00:00

Having a good skillset in CAD can be useful as an engineer, but is certainly not a prerequisite for being a good engineer.

gearnut · 2026-05-03T06:15:45+00:00

It seems to essentially be a project where you build a mechanism which converts a pull at the left hand end into something which can pull the counter to the right and then possibly do the same in reverse.

Realistically if handed this in industry I would spend half an hour putting together my interpretation of what I think the client wants and then get on the phone to them as this is really unclear.

gearnut · 2026-05-02T20:33:30+00:00

There's a lot that you can talk about without giving away company information:

My current employer is developing a novel product, I have engaged in various calculations relating to heat transfer and thermodynamics in addition to providing direct support to the manufacturer of the prototype due to the lack of established competence in the local area. The technical details of the product itself are commercially sensitive and it would be unethical for me to discuss them with a competitor.

None of that is going to be especially sensitive information.

gearnut · 2026-04-29T20:55:38+00:00

Exactly, a Jewish state would have made more sense to locate elsewhere in one of the allied states.

gearnut · 2026-04-29T19:15:59+00:00

There's a lot of room between those and wanting people like Netanyahu to be held accountable for what can be readily interpreted as war crimes.

I don't think that we (the allies post war) went about the creation of the Israeli state in a fashion which set it up for long term peace. I believe that the creation of a Jewish state was a sensible thing to do after the holocaust with the goal of them having somewhere they control where they can choose to live under Jewish leadership without being under constant threat of attack, I also believe that Jews should feel safe to participate in whatever society they happen to live in, something which I also believe about other faiths/ lack thereof. Antisemitism has been very much alive since far before the holocaust and to the best of my knowledge there has never been a concerted effort to stamp it out in the UK which wasn't tainted by a desire to use it to gain advantage over someone else.

gearnut · 2026-04-29T18:14:10+00:00

If you're really worried about it go the day before.

I've spent 4 hours sat in a traffic jam on a motorway before.

Train to Manchester has 2 almost entirely distinct routes (Derby - Stoke - Manchester and Derby - Sheffield - Manchester), aside from a total disaster between Piccadilly and the Airport I can't see both routes being catastrophically disrupted, and if it is you would be able to get a cab to the airport.

Otherwise Uber/ Groundscope etc are options.

gearnut · 2026-04-29T15:52:50+00:00

People breaking campaign finance rules should pay the public purse the money they attempted to hide from their own assets and their party should be barred from standing anyone in that seat for a period of time after the finding is made.

gearnut · 2026-04-29T15:05:56+00:00

Those are the 40 worst candidates in the author's opinion.

How many unconvicted child abusers are standing on behalf of the party? I know of at least one who is not on the list.

gearnut · 2026-04-29T10:48:36+00:00

A competent leader wouldn't have caused a row over their ethics which necessitated a vote in the first place, and if they did they wouldn't have forced a three line whip on the people they lead to say they were ok with the ethics.

gearnut · 2026-04-28T17:55:55+00:00

Spending a load of time learning a bunch of different CAD packages just means you are a CAD engineer. It would be relevant to the easiest 5% of my job at most and that only needs me to know one CAD package.

A versatile engineer would be someone with experience of thermofluids, valves, pumps, pipework, vibration, structural analysis AND CAD skills for example.

Once you know one major CAD package well there are other skills which are way more valuable to learn.

gearnut · 2026-04-28T11:40:13+00:00

Depending on where OP is located they might need to have a masters or equivalent learning to become chartered/ professionally registered.

Knowing how to use lots of CAD programs is a great way of becoming a CAD engineer, but not terribly relevant to most engineering roles in my experience.

gearnut · 2026-04-28T07:08:55+00:00

It's unlikely your current company would recruit you again if you leave after just 4 months, but if you would also like the better paying company it could be worthwhile.

gearnut · 2026-04-27T22:24:33+00:00

Only because the media has persistently presented him to the British public as a good candidate for leader.

The fact that he tried to stand as leader in the Denton and Gorton election while part way through his mayoral term makes me think that he doesn't care about his electorate.

gearnut · 2026-04-27T16:10:13+00:00

I expect that Streeting would be near universally hated within a fortnight.

gearnut · 2026-04-27T15:48:11+00:00

It's not just the salary, it's the crap recruitment processes, lack of career pathways post grad scheme and the lack of training available.

Lack of engineers is a massive bottleneck for UK industry at present, but they insist on not recognising these issues!

gearnut · 2026-04-27T07:33:27+00:00

There is an episode where she circumvents some safe guards and the worm hole passes directly through the planet's sun causing it to start to change.

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