That was one of the biggest cultural shocks when I did my PhD. What do you mean I need a super expensive subscription (it was paid by university luckily) to access other publications? what do you also mean I have to pay a large fee to also publish? if I want others to access my publications for free I need to pay even more? oh and you don’t pay reviewers, they do it for free all? then where all this money of charging both ways goes? your block storage is probably costing you 0.01 usd per year for my paper…

The entire thing seemed like an aggressive business model making some people super rich at the expense of poor students for the most time who are required to publish.

Wow, I thought the non-stop cargo delivery from China to Iran for months before the war were all advanced defense equiments, now I see they were thoughts and prayers.

That’s too funny, it would be more hilarious and real if you put like 100 faces there in the bottom.

Let’s slap on the wrist literal pedophile head of states who abused trafficked minors, but also let’s make the internet shit for everyone to protect children in way nobody needs and nobody asked for.

Side loading is a made up word by mega corpo which implies installing software on the device you paid for is wrong and makes you feel like a pirate

bruh, no way