True lore: in one episode, Toby says that he was actually training to be a priest, but he gave it up to hook up with a woman. (who later left him and is now his ex.) Then he just took the first job that he saw. ...almost as if he was guided to it by a higher power?

So canonically Toby is in a living hell because he rejected his god to indulge his fornicatory lust.

• What is your name?
• What is your quest?
• What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Oh sure, when Cunk says this kinda thing everyone thinks it's funny but when ICP says this kinda thing everyone thinks they're fools. /s kinda

Yeah I'm not buying it.

• in academia, there are a lot more mid- and low-tier academics (like me!) than there are high-tier academics, and there are plenty of lower-tier venues and lower-tier institutes. In these tiers, you're not expected to publish at the highest levels.
• in higher-tier academia, once you get tenure (to be precise: once you submit your tenure package) the urgent need for high-impact journal cites is greatly reduced. you write books or something I dunno.
• industry scientists have far fewer publishing requirements. or they write articles for trade mags. One place I interviewed was actively hostile to publishing.
• government-lab scientists, I dunno, I think they write technical articles that they give their sponsors?

The dynamic that u/mIRNAexpert describes does exist, but it's not the whole problem. And like any scientist will tell ya, figuring out the problem is half way to figuring out the solution.

the maga one is also deep-fried

It's good to talk to a doctor about this kind of thing, especially as you get older. It's usually nothing, but it might be a vitamin deficiency or something. A good family practitioner will know what questions to ask you.

"There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time." Jane Austen

If Lemmy had weekly awards, you would win one for this post. The bland, LLM-inspired structure creates a feeling of rising dread until the very end when one is left with the horror of realizing this human (if they can still be called human?) has spent way too long talking only to AIs.

What's more, the text is not a story or essay submitted as a post; the text only really works AS a post, with its references to Lemmy, Aspect, and SocialAI and contextualized among a stream of posts. The fact that it's in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world provides ironic distance, but not so much to prevent it from being read unironically for at least the first couple paragraphs. I don't know what Aspect and SocialAI are like, but the differences between them and Lemmy that are pointed out in the text creates a picture of a platform that problematizes modern identity and the individual's role in a society mediated by social media (ha) and AI bots. I bet someone could write a half-decent critical theory research paper expounding on your post. Well done.

"It became necessary to destroy the students to save them."

Tell your boss to DELAY in making the decision, then to DENY uhc, and if uhc complains then DEFEND the decision.

I think that's the brother-in-law (also murdered) and the sister (mad bc you murdered her husband) too, right? The consigliere's out cleaning up the fallout from all the murders, and the guy in the doorway I think was murdered bc he betrayed you. Need to make new ~~murder victims~~ friends!

This is a great time for European labs to advertise any open positions.