ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]

So the sanctions are going great

Ah yes, I did not know that. That seems like a bad idea. I know Germany does something similar and it seems like a bad idea there too.

Another hot take, tests you take as a high schooler should not impact the rest of your life

I’ll be honest I don’t think there are limited resources when it comes to medical schooling, at least in large and/or wealthy countries. The United States could train 10 times as many doctors as we currently do.

I also don’t really see how entrance exams fix that problem even if it does exist. They aren’t entrance exams you take right out of high school, you take them after already taking several years of advanced schooling. So those people are still taking up resources.

You can have “entrance exams” in the same way community colleges do, which is “Can you do algebra and read? If not we’ll have to go back over those.” and then have the first couple years be the fundamentals premed students learn in undergrad. If you couldn’t pass organic chemistry before you still wouldn’t be able to in this version.

Privatization of education isn’t really the problem with medical school (at least in the US), most med schools are at public universities. But they still artificially limit admission and the total students admitted across the country is less than the number of doctors we need and less than the number of students who want to be doctors.

Hot take: Medical school should not require any sort of entrance exam or lower degree. Medical school should be the same as trade school, no applying, no MCAT, you just register and begin the program. Extend it by two years to cover the important material expected to be covered by an undergrad degree, and just allow people to sign up

Entrance exams do not in any way actually measure someone’s ability to be a doctor. Neither do half the classes they have to take in undergrad, and certainly not all the extracurricular shit they have to do to make their resumes ridiculously competitive.

All these restrictions do is cause a doctor shortage while clogging up university science classes with the dumbest rich kid yes men you’ve ever met who constantly delayed class ending by not understanding homework instructions and crying if they got an A- because that could mean not getting into med school.

I’m sure this is at least somewhat different in India just judging by the number of Indian immigrant doctors in the US, but I guess part of the way they’ve handled it is just intense corruption

Which to me seems to say “High interest rates have little impact on inflation and if anything make it worse” but I’m a scientist not an economist so I like to make decisions based on observable reality instead of vibes

Critical support to the Federal Reserve in their apparent quest to destroy the United States

Like I feel like everyone, both pro-capitalist and anti, have been screaming for months that they need to lower interest rates because it’s ruining everything and they simply refuse

Their supply of weapons from Iran is cheap and highly sustainable, but ours is expensive and our logistics tails are long.

“Corruption in the arms industry has damaged our ability to produce weapons”

Beijing’s increasingly hardline policies are convincing more countries to boost strategic relations with Washington, says Nicholas Burns

I also like to make things up

Like genuinely what the fuck is he talking about this is literally the opposite of the truth, basically the entire global south keeps making new great deals with China and distancing themselves from the US

guarantor countries (🇨🇳🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧🇹🇷) obliged to intervene within 3 days if Russia invades

Or if Ukraine attacks, which imo is the much more likely risk, as they were the ones who couldn’t uphold the Minsk agreements

You’re technically correct but it’s one of those “technically correct”s that I would say is so far from people’s actual usage and the way other words work that it’s actually wrong and makes you sound stupid.

You wouldn’t say “The student body are…” or “the rat colony are…” They’re single bodies made up of smaller parts, so they get referred to as singular.

My PI always says “the data are” and it grates on me like nails on a chalkboard. It doesn’t make you sound smarter and more serious, it makes you sound like an out of touch, Reddit brained dipshit.

Biden is worse than Trump for climate change and it’s terrifying

The appropriate reaction to this by Australia, Poland, Ireland, and the UK is to treat this as a declaration of war on and invade Israel

Womp womp

Nah they’d still do it if they believed it

Well maybe you shouldn’t have put the DPRK in a position where the only way to get food and other much needed necessities is by selling weapons to your enemy.

Hot take I think we should ban hiring managers from using any level of technology more complicated than digital resumes.

That’s it. Thats all you get. No keyword searching, no filters, no AI assistants. Read through resumes until you find someone to interview like how your ancestors hired people.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Have they not already started saying the ICJ is Hamas?