PhD in aerospace engineering from Wallonia.
Docteur ingénieur en aérospatiale de Wallonie.
Docteur indjenieur e-n areyospåciå del Walonreye.
I agree. If there was no link in the mind of the author, why would Mama Bear answer this to Baby Bear's question?
Fully agree. I've seen a lot of people going into engineering for prestige or "by default" because they weren't bad at math. It always made me a little sad because I found a lot of the courses truly fascinating and eye-opening and I wanted to nerd out with my teammates!
Dang, I did not have the same experience in education! I'm thankful that the situation seems less dire where I'm from. Professors are quite well paid, definitely upper class; while tuition costs are less than 1k€ per year (with financial help available). As they are public institutions, Universities in Belgium do lack funds and their equipment/infrastructure is sometimes in a worse state than American or UK Unis. But still not too shabby!
Yeah I can understand that sitting on a desk all day, reading and taking exams is a pretty harrowing experience for most.
It looks like it's my personal tastes that allowed me to enjoy school. And I really did enjoy it! Hopefully other people find something to do that they love.
I wonder why they hated school. Maybe the problem was the school and not the topic? Otherwise I feel sad for them disliking the topic they chose as a career path :(
I feel like there's so much interesting stuff out there, there must be something useful that they find at least interesting.
As a Belgian, this is my position as well. Fries is part of the Belgian culinary culture, but it's chauvinism to claim they were invented in Belgium.
TBF the sixth mass extinction began 50,000 years ago... We have never been sustainable, from the very start of our species. Let's make our best to change that though.
I went to stay a couple of months in the US and of course I brought my reusable bag to the übermarket. The cashier didn't want to fill it. She insisted to use single-use bags :|
Uh, not really. In the story, a Jew gets injured and multiple Jews pass by without helping. Samaritans are enemies to the Jews, but the good Samaritan helps. A good Samaritan is someone that has no reason to help but still does out the goodness of their heart.
Website link to home screen independent from browser
Hi everyone. You can easily add a website shortcut to the home screen through a browser ("add to home screen"). However, if I change browser or if I need to clear the browser data, these links disappear. Maybe I'm using too unstable of a browser, but I'm tired of having to recreate my shortcuts.
Is there any way of adding a website shortcut to the home screen in a browser-agnostic way?
xkcd #2839: Language Acquisition
Alt text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'
Alternative to Google's Enhanced Location?
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/549047
> Assisted GNSS is pretty handy. My phones gets my approximate location very fast. If I want to plan a route from where I am, I don't have to wait a couple minutes for the GNSS signal to be received (if I'm in a location where I can receive it). > > But obviously, waiting a couple minutes before starting a journey is acceptable to avoid being tracked by Google, so I disabled the Enhanced Location mode on my Android phone. > > Is there a private alternative for A-GNSS?
Alternative to Google's Enhanced Location?
Assisted GNSS is pretty handy. My phones gets my approximate location very fast. If I want to plan a route from where I am, I don't have to wait a couple minutes for the GNSS signal to be received (if I'm in a location where I can receive it).
But obviously, waiting a couple minutes before starting a journey is acceptable to avoid being tracked by Google, so I disabled the Enhanced Location mode on my Android phone.
Is there a private alternative for A-GNSS?
What is your opinion on state openness and public scrutiny?
Since I've joined Lemmy, I've been trying to learn more about leftist political systems and how current activists would like to implement them. I'm also interested in building a nuanced opinion on historical implementations of Marxism.
In my understanding, public scrutiny can be multiple. About methods: free press, direct reports from the state, NGO or foreign observers; and about subjects: military, internal or external affairs, industrial.
What effect does state transparency have on society (good or bad), and would you prefer to live in an open political system personally? Which kind of transparency?
During the cold war, how open and transparent were the USA and USSR? How open are the US, China, Russia and the EU currently?
Do you know resources that approach these subjects that I could read?
Looking for mods
This is a placeholder community. If you're motivated to handle the moderation, publish posts for each event etc. please manifest yourself.
In the meantime I'll moderate the community if people participate by themselves but won't publish content.