There's a lot of interesting points you make, but also a lot of incorrect assumptions. A recent Yale poll indicated that 18 to 21 year olds lean Republican. However, 22 to 29 year olds leaned Democrat. That they leaned D less strongly than younger voters leaned R is offset by the fact that there are roughly twice as many in the latter category. So essentially, it is a split, according to this one poll.

If everyone that should be in college were to flood vocational schools, you'd have no one to buy their services, and a S&D curve that will disfavor wage growth. My wages are significantly higher than people in the trades. Coincidentally, I went to a school focused on STEM with ~80% male students, so not sure how appealing that was for women then. In my own field, I can say it has been extremely unappealing for women for the most part. Not sure how men were made to feel uncomfortable when I was an undergrad, or how that has changed today, as I regularly visit campus. And given the love affair big schools have with all things sports, I fail to see how bro culture is being eliminated on campus.

I went to college and AI will never replace me. Unless you think AI will be capable of designing scientific experiments or handling the complexities of what goes wrong in a research environment. Anecdotal, but applicable to the whole of science. I'd say trust me because I've had the fortune of having had a broad scientific career ranging from clean rooms and high-performance microscopy to clinical trials, with time at national labs, universities, non-profits, and the private sector. And you can't offshore me easily b/c the only people with my skillset are in places where it is just as expensive to employ them as it is to employ me in the US.

Colleges aren't left-wing echo chambers so much as places where people learn how to analyze facts and expand their worldview through the myriad life experiences of students from all over the world. This experience in aggregate has a net impact on people that tends to leave them less conservative. You, implicit in your choice of words and coded phrases, believe that we should make it so that the output of college is a more even divide between liberal and conservative. But de facto that would be conservative indoctrination in order to achieve that, as the historical trend has always been towards more progressive beliefs and attitudes in the more educated.

Yawn. Boring take. The people that voted Democrat in the 50s and 60s to perpetuate Jim Crow have voted Republican since the late 60s. GTFO with that weakass bullshit.

Also for shits and giggles, /. fucking fix your ability to take input from an iPhone itâ(TM)s fucking 2025.

Long time writer and reviewer. Unlike most authors, I review more than I write. Iâ(TM)m in the top 5% in my field, and I write extremely high quality reviews, even for rejections and poor English. I donâ(TM)t review much anymore. Journals are incessant and very demanding. Timelines have shrunk. Iâ(TM)m providing a unique service: some papers I literally am the global expert, so no one else can provide the same type of review. My reward is demands, no compensation, and little recognition. No, make that NO recognition. Not one of my employers has ever given a flying fuck about my reviews. In short, the disincentives are strong. I might reconsider reviewing if I was paid. Otherwise, Iâ(TM)ve got better things to do with my time, work ethic, and expertise.

Iâ(TM)m a physicist (PhD and all). Solar winds arenâ(TM)t going to create enough changing flux. It would be due to a sudden surge in a nearby wire generating a transient time-varying magnetic field that then induces an emf in the wire in question. But ignoring geometry to 1st order I donâ(TM)t think you could get enough current flowing long enough to create problems. Lawyers suck at physics. Please post here to ask about my consultation fee.

You use bpMRI and threshold off of ADC and maybe T2 z-score, or otherwise qualitative read with adaption to PI-RADS.

And didn't create massive carbon emissions.

Is it stupid? Do experts strongly disagree with it? Do armchair experts suffering from Dunning-Kruger love it? Then Trump will shove it down our throats, whether we like it or not.

Which is exactly how Germany became complicit in horrible things and then suffered horrible consequences. The key is to not roll over like the 2/3rds of Germans who didn't vote in Nazi candidates in 1932 did after 1933.

Dare to challenge and exercise our rights because the alternative is to repeat history.

To be clear, I made all these points in my original post. Has to remain SCing at high field is a reference to the critical field.

I'm sorry, I know this is unpopular. But it doesn't make it untrue. I have friends on both sides, and have engaged with them. My brother is a police officer, so I hear all about the cop shop talk. What we have here is a cult of personality no different than Putin, Mussolini, Hitler, etc. That is what history will show.

At the end of the day, Trump voters bought a bunch of bullshit lies about the economy's performance during the 1st Trump presidency, blamed economic ills on new immigrants (legal or otherwise) and focused on social issues that simply aren't important. I'm sorry, but how many people are truly impacted by transgender sports in HS? I literally have heard of NO ONE. But I know lots of people who need proper gynecological care, including procedures that are considered abortion. People close to me would be dead if they lived in Texas. And I doubt that the "they/them" crowd is in much association with the Trump crowd, because the latter is too uncomfortable to be around anything that doesn't fit their rather narrow worldview.

Most voters are low-information. They have not mastered the process of synthesizing coherent worldviews that are capable of accurate predictions. They are intellectually lazy, and prefer to have their opinions spoon-fed to them. How any self-respecting Puerto Rican voter could go for Trump after Hurricane Maria and the jokes being told at MSG a few weekends ago is beyond me. It's like all they hear is somehow magically their taxes are going to be lower and the economy will be better because is gonna pay for it. It blows my mind that people get news from social media, which is sorted by algorithms tuned to sow discord. It is as if an entire generation or two has lost all critical reading and comprehension skills, and just relies on snappily produced video shorts to keep them up to date.

That is stupid. Trump voters are stupid. I'll put my smarts (they don't call me Dr for nothing) against their intellectual chops any day. "Common sense" is not greater than holistic knowledge. History will be exceedingly unkind to these voters, just like it has been to the Germans who actively supported or were complicit with the Nazis.

RTSC would mean no more helium. Not this bullshit "helium-free" stuff the manufacturers claim (still has helium, and annoying recondenser to keep it liquid). But true helium-free. If critical currents are high enough that is. And if that is true we are talking about new magnet designs and geometries that will vastly improve patient care and reduce costs (at least if the US ever straightens out its Rube Goldbergian reimbursement structure). And that's just MRI. Powerful electromagnets based on RTSC would be a game changer for all sorts of things. Radiotherapy with charged particles in an MRI. Railguns. Maglev transport. Cheaper particle accelerators. I'm tired AF right now and this is just off the top of my head. You get the idea. Needs to be room temp, needs to be ductile material, needs to be capable of carrying large currents while remaining SCing.

I still use my TI-89s (yes, plural), and take one with me on trips. Never use the âoeCâ functionality. Backspace FTW.

True geeks build their own calculator on a breadboard and handle their own digital logic.

The correct answer is MicroCenter.