Much of OP seems debatable to me, but I will happily cosign this last addition. This reminds me though, given that...
Neither STEM nor military myself (though a family member was an Army NCO - not in the USA army) but I have to point...
An idea that has occasionally come up in british class conceptions (especially in presbeterian/scottish /northern) was a...
I should have reblogged this instead! Gorram tumblr. Anyway, the point about logisticians is, I think, spot on.
Me neither. I’m new to this though, and have always had apprehensions. Interacting with this community, directly or...
Interesting. I find this a lot more compelling with the revisions following the main post.I’d propose an additional...
This is interesting but fuck does it make me RESENTFUL.I am feeling bitter and inferior as fuck reading this.None of...
A lot of MIT hacker jargon got there via TMRC. A lot of TMRC jargon got there via the military. In the WW2 era.
>Do actual military officers as a class identify strongly with Miles Vorkosigan and Ender Wiggin?Enders Game is...
I don’t think scientific academics are what is meant here, though I might be misunderstanding. Equally for all that...
Between everything in Siderea’s original post and @tsutsifrutsi‘s comments, I cannot believe that Neal Stephenson hasn’t...
This is pretty much my world view minus identifying with the characters at the end. (Not big on Ender – too revenge...