"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."

when I met with the exam chair to complain, he said “well you should have thought about that before taking so many physics classes“ like I had somehow fucked up by learning more quantum physics

Whenever people are like “physics culture is toxic” and “astronomy culture is good” I think about how other physicists are just more honest about their toxicity than astrophysicists who yes are physicists, sorry guys

As the only student who had taken several core grad courses in both departments, I knew for a fact that actually the astronomy classes were just easy and the physics students were more used to being challenged than the astro students were. I told him the physics students had better training. Lol

The astro dept chair responded by sending an email to the entire astro grad population telling them that they should be able to handle it because they had gone to ivy leagues for college and the physics students all went to second tier public schools

!!!

I wrote to him, objecting

Related: one of the two classes the departments shared was general relativity. The year my class took it, I had already had it, but the physics students were like “this is an easy breath of fresh air” and the astro students were so upset the petitioned the chair to tell the prof to make it easier

The astronomy grad classes were like 100x easier than the physics grad classes but the astronomy dept still looked down on the physics dept because they drew their students from a more prestigious admissions pool 🤡

I figured out the department was trying to sabotage me and asked my physics profs to write questions for me but then the exam was like

Astro question: thing the physics classes considered to be super basic

Physics question: derive hard quantum field theory thing

Easy choice lol

god they're really cooking their brains getting high and circlejerking in the group chat about how all organizational issues are bc of lazy workers

A huge part of how erratic and disjointed they all are is that they’re all constantly rotating through a nonstop list of untested, unverified drugs and supplements of dubious origin and unknown effect. It boggles my mind that this isn’t mentioned in every single story about them.

I’m watching it without sound and it’s clear this man is on a high dose of some kind of stimulant?

“But I’m telling you pickled watermelon radish with quail eggs and some green bitter shit….” As the hum of the ticket machine keeps ringing out its dirge, slowly burying the line….

They all look like restaurant owners the afternoon after a coke binge. I can see them pulling the chef off the line now to pitch them on “the most mind blowing salad” they had last night

This guy is just straight up tweaking off uppers in public. It’s insulting to the rest of us who are expected to obey the law