Bernie has been nothing but consistent. Selling out to the neolibs and supporting imperialism is nothing new for him. Don't forget how he shilled for Clinton and Biden when he "lost" the nomination to the establishment candidates. He praised the police after George Floyd's murder and praising the ghoul, Jeff Bezos, for raising the wages of Amazon and Whole Foods workers to $15/hour in 2018, only 6 years after the "Fight for $15" began (while they were investing heavily in automation, never improved their labor practices, and indications were that they had always raised wages during similar economic conditions so they could meet their seasonal employment needs, surely Bernie fostered a change in Bezos' empty heart).

Here's a disorganized list of some of Bernie's votes ranging from the early 1990s to the 2020s:

• Voted in favor of H.R. Res. 64 Authorization for Use of Military Force in 2001, giving Bush Jr. carte blanche to use military force against those the US found responsible for 9/11. He continues to support "The War on Terror" by voting in favor of the authorization of additional funds for US military actions in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. In March 2003, he voted in favor of a resolution expressing unequivocal support of Bush Jr and the Armed forces for their actions regarding Operation Iraqi freedom. This is an odd choice considering he voted against the authorization of military action in Iraq in 2003, something he like to brag about when in the media spotlight. What good is voting against a war if you are going to repeatedly vote to fund it for years afterwards?

• Voted in favor of the Iraq Liberation Act in 1998. This included economic sanctions that killed up to 500,000 children. This same resolution allowed for direct military action in Iraq (Operation Desert Fox). He had previously voted against the Invasion of Iraq in 1991.

• Voted in favor of the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act in 1996. Then voted to extend these in 2001. This was meant to cripple the ability of each country to develop their own petroleum industries.

• Voted in favor of bombing Kosovo in 1999. This decision led to him quite publicly losing staffers and long-time friends as well as an anti-war protest in his office. I wonder why?

• Voted in favor of sending military hardware and funding to Israel in 1997, 1994, and 2004. In 2006, he voted in favor of economic sanctions against Palestine after Hamas won an elections in order to remove them from power. His support of the Israeli military also extended to their actions in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2014, but surely that was the end of his support, right?

• Remember that racist, dumpster fire of a movie "Black Hawk Down" which inaccurately portrayed the events that led to the US pulling out of the conflict in Somalia? Bernie voted for that military intervention.

• Supported providing $1 billion in military aid and training to Ukraine in December of 2014. I'm sure all of this was used in defense and none of it contributed to the conflicts that killed civilians from 2015 to today. I'm also sure that Bernie would never again vote to send funding to continue or escalate this war and the suffering it's caused.

• Refused to end the drone program while running for president in 2016 and 2020 as he thinks it's useful and promised that he would use it responsibly if elected.

• Supported military action in Libya, Lebanon, Bosnia, Yemen, Syria, Congo, Haiti, Liberia, and Sudan.

I'm tired of describing how his actions have spoken and I haven't even gotten into his economics and how far removed he is from a socialist on the front too. There's plenty to criticize even if you aren't a socialist or don't expect him to do a socialism.

The point is that any integrity Bernie Sanders had as a revolutionary or leftist was lost decades ago. His radical stances and actions are romanticized now. The only way Sanders is relevant to progressives and socialists these days is how he acted as a catalyst for driving many people in the US further left.

I prefer to chug my oil, crude.

Shhh! Vegan is an option, not a mandate!

504k? Damn, you have the new high score.

I'm approaching 300k with my 90s gasoline sedan. All the adults in my life try to convince me to get rid of it, but it's in decent shape, I can fix almost anything on it at home, and it's fully paid. I've only ever owned one car for around 20 years now and in that time most people I've known have gone through 3-5 cars. Their logic doesn't make sense to me, the only thing I'm missing out on is heated seats, improved safety, and the massive cost of payments/maintenance/repairs that they are saddled with.

I rarely drive, usually only in 25-35 mph areas, and get around mostly by bike, bus, or walking. I doubt I'll hit that 504k, as I drive < 2000 miles a year now, but that's my new target to beat. Not sure a gas car can hold up as long as a diesel though.

In my US chemistry undergrad program, we were required to memorize ~40 elements that were frequently used. We had reference material available to us in the test packets, but the test time given was so low that if you hadn't memorized those elements, you didn't have time to finish the test.

Our general chemistry class was one of the hardest classes you could take and much of the grading seemed unfair. Very minor mistakes that could propagate throughout your calculations would lose full points. There was never enough time for exams: you were expected to be very sure of how to run your calculations, there wasn't extra time for you to be unsure or have to redo an entire question because you messed up. It truly sucked.

That said, it was very effective at graduating competent chemists. I didn't trust any of the biologists, nurses, pharmacists, etc. to do even basic unit conversions unless they took that class. You can often tell well into someone's professional career if they went through such a rigorous training program because many of the calculations and principles we learned in this class are ones we use daily. I run into PhDs in biology fields who don't know the difference between molar and molarity, ones who are inconsistent at converting masses to mols, etc.

It's embarrassing to reach that point in your career and lack these basic skills. I'll hear, "yeah, but they aren't chemists, so it's not so important that they know these things." If that's so, then why do they need to do it as part of their job? Skills like these are agnostic to degrees and positions, it's like learning basic arithmetic for most scientists.

I fucking hated that class and the professor for putting us through that, but that faded quickly with time. He made the rest of our education easier and prepared us well for the work that was ahead.

Agreed. The general trend of switching to natural gas has led to the release of a lot of methane, which is notorious for leaking during drilling, transport, and storage.

This is much worse than carbon dioxide and has been going on for decades. Methane will continue to rise within the atmosphere and cause further warming for decades even if we stopped releasing it today.

Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/FYRBF

Use archive.ph or archive.today to get past most paywall. I believe the only recent one it hasn't worked with is Washington Post unless the article is a bit older.

Unless they're your manager. Then they stay forever or get promoted.

Not surprised for the US.

Academic researchers don't get paid shit compared to industry positions. I'm talking 1/2 to 1/3 the pay they would get for doing half of the same work in industry. Many live on relatively low salaries in high cost of living areas and it's justified by saying they do it "for the love of science" and that they should expect to make less in academia. I think the NIH required pay for postdocs is just below or around $55,000/yr. This is for PhDs. It's even worse for everyone else and a bit ridiculous given the level of expertise expected of these workers and the size of these contracts (sometimes as large as $90 million for 5 years, though this can be split among multiple groups and also used for instrument purchases that may be in excess of $1 million.)

All the focus is on industry in terms of money, but industry makes almost none of the scientific progress. Academia makes it and then companies on the industry side buy or license their work. What makes it worse is that many of these positions are filled by people on work visas, so they feel like they must overwork themselves (outside of what they are actually compensated for, such as unpaid overtime) or else they risk losing their hard-earned visa and getting deported. While PIs don't always specifically prey on this worry, the ones that don't tend to passively benefit by keeping their mouths shut and allowing the implication to "work it's own magic."

Also Don't look up how the US military was able to influence that movie! It's uselessly vague or redacted!

If you don't want to be called Nazis, then stop putting up with all the fascists in your instance. Pretending the problem doesn't exist is definitely the mature stance to take when someone points out that your instance is harboring fascists.

The barrier of an application is enough to scare off most non-serious users. I used to favor open registration, but after making an account and participating on an instance with open registration vs closed, I found the closed registration shuts down a lot of bad actors and makes the instance a more pleasant community.

I'm not even advocating for rejecting any of the applications, just having questions to answer before joining seems to significantly cut down on the trolls.