mayo_cider [he/him]

Tbh they already do everything they can, if you ever need a paper, e-mail the author and they’ll most likely send you the “last version” before publication they still hold the rights to distribute

One lecturer actually had notes on their slides for the differences between the latest version of the course book and the one before it, since the latest one wasn’t available for free anywhere but they wanted to use couple chapters from the new book (they scanned and distributed the relevant parts themself)

I feel like most of the academia in the research side would be happy to see it collapse, but the current system is too deeply tied in the money for any quick change

I worked in academia for almost a decade and never met a researcher who wouldn’t openly support sci-hub (well, some warned their students that it was illegal to type these spesific search terms and click on the wrong link downloading the pdf for free)

For ad hoc transfers, easiest way is to pack it with 7zip (or any other compression software with proper encryption) and setting a proper password for the file

The funniest solution I’ve found was a service that offered secure transfer of passwords between devices through their “encrypted transmission” with a password field on their website

FYI, don’t give any password to a service you aren’t using with that service

I love Indian culture and food, back in university I lived, studied and worked with quite a few Indian people and they all were kind, smart and very hospitable

I feel like quite large part of animosity towards Indian people (besides the usual racism) stems from the outsourcing of jobs there, especially with customer service, and even then going for the lowest offer

I’ve personally had both good and bad experiences with Indian customer service, but even with the bad experiences it’s obvious that the problem is a lack of resources and not the worker

Unfortunately people are quick to blame the service worker instead of the organization, and this gives an acceptable excuse for their internalized racism

You said to not base the response on the people we know, but anything that I see from the news or read online doesn’t reflect the people, it reflects the system

The only way to form an honest opinion of a group of people is to meet them, and even if all of those people somehow are the exception to the norm, they still represent and reflect their culture and where they come from

What’s with the comparison?

Mushrooms and lsd were honestly the biggest influences for me in getting over a decade of basically chronic depression

Don’t try it without an experienced trip guide

You don’t understand, capitalism is human nature (says the sociopath at the top of the hierarchy)

turns up rage against the machine and punches the dishwasher

We are all just part of the first self-replicating cell with funny mutations attracted to mass

i’ll never take away your freedom of speech, bigoted guy, i love dunking on idiots

you are just frustrated that you can’t say it without any pushback, because your parents didn’t love you enough to raise you and teach you emotional regulation (or anything else worthwhile)

calling out actually bigoted shit and the purity cult that fisher described in the essay are two different things

Nah

He just molested teenage boys like most greek philosophers, this comic misses the mark

I feel like defederation is the only effective solution

You don’t understand, Alderaan had terrorist hospitals

I can do this with ethanol

So the single wolf is eating multiple times its bodysize before giving up?

The only real leftist