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Blakey [he/him] @ Blakey @hexbear.net
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  • As always, the money isn't really the point. Like over here where they periodically spend around 10 million AUD cracking down on "dole bludgers" (puke), arguably managing to "save" a few hundred K each time. But it's Money Well Spent, because it stops Those Undeserving Poors from Getting Something They Don't Deserve. Just don't ask about Twiggy Forrest, Clive Palmer, or Gina Rhinehart, who obviously Earned Every Penny. Ultimately, it's about destroying class solidarity, making the less emiserated workers feel like they have more in common with the capitalists than with the poor.

  • The induced stresses are part of what can make forged parts stronger iirc (used to work as a designer with a metallurgist as a colleague but, like, many years ago with an intervening drug addiction, recovery, and uni degree so my memory of the technical details is... Imperfect). But yeah it's a complex topic.

  • Oh, absolutely. He sees it himself. Fortunately (a) in Australia it's partly subsidised and the loans are only indexed against inflation, and (b) he's obviously enjoying it. Plus the few units that actually belong in a university are really interesting (but not as you say enough to justify the course being at a uni).

  • Even between the life sciences and trades. I just finished a BS in biology as a mature student and a close friend is doing his in computer science part time, and the difference in what we have to do... So much of his assessed work can be entirely unsourced because it's literally just coding. He's a clever guy and was given an award for placing in the top 100 students institution-wide last year (~40k students), but I do wonder how many of the other 99 were in similar courses!

  • I signed up for an account here right as r/CTH was banned, but never really used it. Came back after a few years to post/comment once or twice but it never stuck. I come back now, however many years later, to discover that there is a hexbear-sicko-woke sticker.

    I don't know what exactly happened here but I like it.

  • chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    I assume this comment was about hexbear, I get some bangers in the front page quote but I think this is the best it will get