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[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Nah, it's typical university faction wars. Engineers say crap about architects, mathematicians sneer on physicists and so on...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Engineers say crap about architects

As an engineer, this shit is so cringe... There is a youtube gaming channel with an alleged engineer who plays video games (often related to physics or building things), and his entire fucking personality is formed around mocking architects for being "stupid." He literally substitutes in the word "architect" instead of calling someone stupid. He say's "they're an architect."

Grow the fuck up goddamn. How insecure do you have to be?

[–] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

I'm a heavy equipment mechanic, and every day in the shop I hear other guys complaining about how an engineer fucked up a design on a piece of equipment and that's why it failed. Or that the engineer made it hard to work on on purpose. So cringe. I just roll my eyes at them and tell them if they are so smart then why aren't they the ones designing the equipment lol

Its sad that all the fields feel the need to shit 9n each other. We as a society would got a lot further if we could all get along 😁

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How people can walk out of a university with degrees and not understand how all areas of knowledge contribute towards each other and link together in ways that are not immediately obvious astounds me.

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

because of a long established undercurrent of competition within departments (and even between professors) for recognition and advancement. That and there are some people that have very large but very fragile egos that can't allow another person or discipline to grab more sunlight than them.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I heard a joke once that a physical chemistry experiment will have 1000 data points per trend line; I organic chemistry will have 10 data points, and biochem will have 2 data points.

I bet to biochemists it's very insulting. Back to the comment in the anti-acknowledgements, that was insulting without even being funny.

I like the ones that are symmetrical, like math thinks that physics is easy, and physics things that math is too unreal (I don't remember the jokes)

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

a physical chemistry experiment will have 1000 data points per trend line; I organic chemistry will have 10 data points, and biochem will have 2 data points.

There is an element of truth in this, but that one biochem datapoint probably took more money and (wo)manpower than a hundred phys chem datapoints. Which is sad, because biological systems are usually more complex, and therefore more 'noisy', needing more datapoints for a definitive result. Medical studies get a lot of datapoints for obvious reasons, and because they can afford to do it thanks to Merck et al.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

It's got an element of truth but they're still the butt of a joke