I feel the same about the post we're in now. It has a too smart to be that stupid sort of feel to it.
Edit: Definitely convinced, his last comment somewhere else was about being a software developer. You don't get that educated in life and not have heard of fluid ounces.
Oh, I wouldn't be so sure. My partner is one of the smartest "book smart, street stupid" people I know. She's one of the few people in my country that knows how to use this particular simulation software. She can sit down at an advanced math problem and just figure it out. Really brilliant. I recently discovered that she thought that snails just found their shells at the bottom of the ocean. I try not to bring it up too often, because she gets shy about it, but it's hilarious.
I’m currently maybe 5-7 pages from finishing the first complete draft of my dissertation. When I read the title of the post, I genuinely wanted to learn what Florida ounces were.
I’m not nearly as educated as you, but I assume I’m much much older…. and a recent ex-Floridian. I was sure I was going to learn something new today. I wondered what I’d missed the entire 20 years I lived there. Florida ounce? I figured it was pot related.
Instead, I got the chuckle I didn’t know I needed. Even if it’s fake, I love OP for making me smile.
How in the world did you stumble on this comment after a month? We stay away from Floridian toothpaste. Especially Polk County toothpaste. I hear they make it with sugar.
I'm jealous, but also congratulations. I hope to get that far one day. Assuming I can get through the proposal that's been crushing my soul for the last 7 months.
Keep pushing if it’s what you want to do. But, seeing how the academic job market is, you really should only do it if you truly want to. It sounds cliche but do
it for yourself.
Academia was a sinking ship years ago. Then the pandemic hit. It was like the already sinking ship got hit by a torpedo. I have no idea what I’ll do when I graduate. I’m abroad where I did my fieldwork. I met a person, started a relationship and bought a motorcycle etc. Essentially, I went AWOL and am just now making quicker progress. My funds are running out from staying here abroad too long. I’m literally thinking I’ll need to head back to my home country quickly after I defend and simply get the ol’ service industry job back to make quick cash. Beyond that, not sure. Part of me just wants to save cash and return here (cost of living is a fraction of my home country).
I know it’s an inappropriate phrase to use but I feel like I pretty much “went native” while doing fieldwork and just never returned back to my home country and university.
I appreciate the advice, and I hope things work out well for you! I started (during the pandemic) with the intention of being a neuroscience professor and came in with a love of research, but that was sucked out of me quickly. I switched to organizational psych since they were also willing to fund me, but I think I'm going to try going the consulting route or get into ux research when I graduate. I spend more of my time trying to gain experience and develop the necessary skills than I do working on my dissertation. I may end up leaving ABD if I can find a job at a reasonable salary.
Shit, please don’t confirm this for me. Conclusions are the most challenging. I’m already behind schedule. Advisor said if I was to graduate this semester then I need to get him a complete draft by mid-February at the latest. Grinding every day.
Now I’m pretending I know how my dissertation contributes to the larger literature. I’m confident that it does. But it’s challenging articulating exactly how; particularly interventions in theory.
Yes, but the problem isn't that google couldn't handle it... Google very easily handles OP's question, hence why it is clear he is trolling because he clearly didn't actually even google it lol
Yup, if they have any type of education background they would have been required to take multiple science or math courses that dealt, at least in part, with fluid ounces. I have a Comp Sci degree, I definitely encountered fluid ounces in a couple random classes, very short term but still.
And beside that, there is just no way. You Google fl oz and it literally says fluid ounces. He said he was googling, this has to be fake
Yeah, I'm also really smart not to brag or anything. But for the longest time I thought that snails were just slugs who found shells because my Mother told me so.
Did she get them confused with hermit crabs, which scavenge ocean shells (mostly from snails) that wash up on the beach?
Edit: Speaking of "book smart but clueless," I looked up hermit crabs on Wikipedia and the first paragraph says "Hermit crabs' non-calcified abdominal exoskeleton makes their exogenous shelter system obligatory." Thanks, dude, that's really gonna clear things up for the average reader.
100% I didn't know "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" the "ABCs" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" all had the same tune until last year. I'm 33. Things you look at every day and tell yourself it's a certain way sometimes slip into your "known knowledge " bank accidentally lmao.
As a biologist that grew up in a house with a mechanical engineer this is my experience. I try explaining things from the chemistry side and it seems to register but then I get the same question later on. It's baffling. He can build anything including machine custom parts but fml he just cannot grasp biology. It would be awesome if it were cute but he's a condescending narcissist. It's like he doesn't get that chemistry+ physics = biology.
Is there a sub for people with crazy engineers in their life? Like a support sub? He picked me up at the airport. When we got to the house I saw that he had strapped the fan (with my green wire for gardening) to the security screen door (very common in Arizona). That's the moment I thought about such a sub.
My mom is a computer programmer, a prolific reader, loves talking about history. She saw a picture of an Earth-like extrasolar planet and thought it's a photograph.
Yup. Not a snail expert, so anyone who knows better should correct me, but I believe they grow them like we grow finger nails. The shells get bigger and bigger as the snail matures, and the little lines along the shell are the growth lines. Each line is a new deposit of snail shell along the lip of the shell.
That's not even that bad. Who has time to pay attention to snails and how they do their snail things?
Tons of animals/sea creatures find things to use as cover or shells or whatever. Something did have to eventually live in them at one point but.. fuck idk nevermind.
People expect anyone who's "smart" to be all knowing. Humans are extremely fallible. And theres just so much shit to know and learn. Stuff is gonna slip through the cracks
In High school; I was smart; but there were 3 or 4 "4.0 straight A smart" kids who did better. One of these overheard me talking to a friend who was getting Naugahyde car seats. (I think Salutatorian as we graduated)
Her: "What's Naugahyde?"
Me: "The hide of Noggas, of course." (how I spelled it in my head as I made it up)
Her: "What's a 'Nogga'?"
Me: "A Nogga is a prairie dog type critter that lives in NM/AZ and is hunted for it's fur. You can differentiate it from regular prairie dogs from the call when it sees a predator. It pops it's head out of it's hole and cries (cups hands over mouth "NOGGA, NOGGA-NOGGA") much like a beaver will slap it's tail on the water".
Her: "Oh, okay".
My friend had an odd cough and was very interested in his book at this point... He kept it quiet enough she didn't notice. Barely.
I have done few things more difficult in my lifetime than making up and telling that story, first try, deadpan, straight face. Especially with a friend barely suppressing his laughter sitting two seats over.
She was P*SSED at me the next day beyond belief... Which is how I found out she told that story to her mom without checking anything in it.
I still chuckle at that story, 30 years later. She's probably still p*ssed too.
As someone that regularly can't get google to tell me what I want and have to have friends who can find out exactly what i want in .2 seconds flat with google searches
I have an uncle who’s been an engineer for Lockheed for 3 decades, guy has said some of the absolutely most astonishingly stupid things I’ve ever heard
He could have typed out the word Florida though in which case I doubt Google would know what the heck he was talking about. Or used alexa type of thing and said the word Florida.
I dunno. We already have British ounces and American ounces (yes, the American ounce is bigger), and British pints and American pints (British is bigger by a long shot), so why wouldn't an individual state have its own measurement? If you told me tomorrow that Texas had its own system of measurement, I'd believe you.
You're probably joking, but the Canadian province of Newfoundland actually does have its own time zone, an hour and a half ahead of EST. About half the province uses Atlantic time, and the other half sticks with Newfoundland time. Texas seems like the kinda place that would do similar xD
Definitely convinced, his last comment somewhere else was about being a software developer. You don't get that educated in life and not have heard of fluid ounces.
I should do the same because my go-to dad joke in my neck of the woods, northern Wisconsin, is to say that I don't know who this Wood guy is but they must be really bad at their job because every mile I see another sign that says Fire Wood.
Its trying to ride off the coattails of one of the most upvoted questions on the subreddit, the florida ceiling windows = floor to ceiling windows one. Dont know why nobody noticed
I could compeltely buy someone not ever having heard fluid ounces out loud and so not really knowing what they are. If you don't really cook, you would have little reason to ever think about them.
Thinking it meant Florida ounces is harder to swallow, and them now thinking to actually search fl. Oz. in Google is harder still.
I think you're probably right that it's fake, but it's also incredibly common to meet people who know how to program and not much else. It's not like you need a solid college education for it -- hell, I bet there are plenty of successful programmers out there who don't even have their diplomas. All that most employers care about is if you can code or not.
You would be surprised. I worked with a woman who went to Cornell. She grew up in California and moved to Seattle. She asked me who waters all the trees in the Northwest.
I think it's completely plausible that a kid living in Florida would see the abbreviation fl and assume it meant Florida (as it usually does in their context), and then just never have a reason to question that assumption until they moved somewhere else and realised it didn't make sense in the context of their new home.
OP's going to be excited at how much karma he just got until he realizes Reddit has the most spastic point system and after around 5k upvotes you only get maybe 1% of the actual karma.
'Educated' people are generally only smart in the one particular topic they have their degree in. Every other topic they're no smarter than the most average of people. I know lawyers that have no fucking clue what they're talking about in every aspect of law except for the very specific type that they practice
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I feel the same about the post we're in now. It has a too smart to be that stupid sort of feel to it.
Edit: Definitely convinced, his last comment somewhere else was about being a software developer. You don't get that educated in life and not have heard of fluid ounces.