I wish our species placed more value in "increasing human knowledge."
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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They do… if it increases money.
Well, duh? I meant that I wish we as a species valued the pure pursuit of knowledge.
I think there's merit in learning something new, whatever that may be, and regardless of whether it will make some asshole more money.
I was being funny. 😊
And I agree with you about valuing learning for the sake of learning and not for profit.
I have the suspicion that this position doesn't consist of too much scientific work.
that's a very scientific observation, I want to fill a position at my bar. Send me a message if you're interested.
Eh, cooking is chemistry.
Why is there an orange filter suddenly?
I know a guy who went on to use his degree as a food scientist at butterball turkey and I always thought that was pretty cool.
The more aged their ingredients are the more biology there is.
Read that as Biomedical sadness. :(
I do CAD and web dev - have been bombarded with "job offers" to get me to operate forklifts and or trucks for 10 years now. Even did an interview once where I didn't even know that was the job until after the interview.
maybe they want to create a sick forklift website
The expertise overlap between Biomedical Scientist and Grilled Steak Cook is probably significative, though not in the value-added complex parts of the former.
(Mainly I'm expecting that knowledge of biology might actually be useful for the latter, but I might just be totally wrong).