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    17 hours ago

    As a PhD who has tried doing home improvement projects, it’s the most believable thing in the film.

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      12 hours ago

      Some pleeb shouted at me, “I thought you were an engineer!” And I shouted back, “A software engineer!” while I hammer a nail with my shoe.

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          The difference between a regular idiot doing a dangerous job and an engineer doing a dangerous job is the engineer knows which parts of the job he’s risking imminent death on. There may often be no other difference.

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      Actually some of the most naïve people I’ve ever met were theretofore academically successful.

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        My fiancee has a couple degrees while I just graduated high school. She’s incredibly smart but I’m definitely more street savvy. She grew up a bit sheltered.

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      16 hours ago

      Really?

      Genuinely asking, I’m just an engineer… with very very bad grades. Passed was enough for me.

      Once a professor asked me if I wanted to take the exam again because it was clear that I knew more than what I showed on the exam (a lot of 2 + 2 = 5 mistakes, I was fairly good at that and owe most of my low grades to that). I asked him if I passed, he said yes. Fuck that shit, I’m taking that grade and parading it across town, wooohoo 🥳.