RiceMunk

They draw blind straws every week on who has to be the murderer.

You can't just open up with that and not share some leptopoma perlucidum facts.

> mfw I live in Walkable city
> want to walk around in it
> walkway is a fucking tiny narrow corridor of concrete
> be forced to walk between congested car traffic and escooters, with no pedestrian crossings anywhere
> get run over by some clueless skateboarder

In a university there was a lab. And in this lab there lived a postdoc. One day in the third month of their the postdoc heard a rap on their door. It was the professor! They said the postdoc would soon be approached by 12 undergrads, and...

<300 pages of worldbuilding later>

"You must take the samples! And throw them into the synchrotron! I am too old and burnt out to do it!" pleaded the old postdoc to the phd student.

<500 pages of more worldbuilding>

"I did the testing, but the results are not meant for me. I must now travel to the West, into the Private Sector." said the PhD at their graduation party.

I hear they also launched a beagle at Mars about ~~a decade~~two decades oh good I feel old ago, but it died on impact.

He's become more expensive than you could possibly imagine.

So everyone will just get matched with Nicole the fediverse chick? But that's already happening.

Nuo ovat kyllä yhtiä haaskalintuja nuo asianajotoimistot jotka noita heippalappuja lähettelevät; otan osaa.

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*cockies

This looks interesting; thanks for sharing!

Maybe if the academic world behaved like that, I wouldn't have burned out and fucked off to the IT sector a decade ago.

Kind of adjacent to this, years ago around said burnout I kept floating this idea around my head where I was thinking if there was some way out of this tradition of creating these giant monolithic papers every time -even if your effective research result could be distilled down to a paragraph with some numbers and preliminary handwaving- where you need to pad the whole thing out with a big-ass literature review to keep the citation circlejerk going.

So why not just have "papers" consist of effectively a few paragraphs? The citation tree of how you got there is still relevant, but you can put all of that stuff in what's effectively metadata and not clutter up the whole thing with it.

Have an idea for a lab experiment? Publish the methodology as-is, and link it to whatever other tidbits of knowledge make it relevant. Did the experiment and got results? Publish the data, and link to the experiment. Got some new theory out of the results? Publish the theory and link to the experiment results in the metadata. And so on.

Maybe this would have weird side effects of its own, but I can't help but imagine this would make the whole process so much less painful, and allow also for better organizing of the knowledge produced.

The ring promised him great power, like that he would finally be able to find those droids he's looking for