no it’s not. but you should know what you’re getting into.

in the beginning of my PhD i really loved what i was doing. from an intellectually point of view i still do. but later, i.e. after 3 years doing a shitty postdoc, i realized that I was not cut out for academia but nevertheless loved doing science.

however, i was lucky to find a place in industry doing what i like.

so i guess my 2c is: think about what comes after the PhD and work towards that goal. a PhD is usually not a goal in itself. hth

thanks for the explanation. i guess it really doesn’t work as a meme if I’ve doesn’t happen to know this particular image.

why the down votes? https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Serendipitous+Unexpected+Result&lr=#d=gs_qabs&t=1719082366270&u=%23p%3DlkBg6udHFQ4J

in Germany this is boomer humor when referring to beer: chilled hops’ infusion

exchange of goods exists because there’s a demand for things. their type, the conditions of their production and the manner of their exchange is something else.

you can start right on page 26 of das kapital

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/epub/capital-v1.epub

shouldn’t it be like integration? i get the “derived” joke but still

there is a phrase in scientific publishing where people plagiarize a paper but run it through a thesaurus to change certain words to make it less obvious. thing is, randomly picking things up from a thesaurus leads to what is called tortured phrases.

• counterfeit consciousness
• torment executioners

retraction watch has more

From german wikipedia: It was a practice called Buntschießen, ~ multi-color shooting, as German chemical weapons were color-coded. One would start with “Maskenbrechern” ~mask-breakers (blue) , designed to force soldiers to remove their masks, which were then followed by lung-affecting agents (green).

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemische_Waffe#Buntschießen

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Cross_(chemical_warfare)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cross_(chemical_warfare)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Cross_(chemical_warfare)

Kurzwarenabteilung in Kaufhäusern

ja, Versuche alle Demos in der nähe mitzunehmen. Schlaucht ganz schön, aber ich find’s wichtig präsenz zu zeigen. tw. gibt es auch interessante Diskussionen mit anderen Teilnehmern. wir sind zwar nicht immer einer Meinung, aber wir können unsere Unterschiede für den Moment zurückstellen. (auch wenn es vlt übergriffig ist: wenn ihr könnt, geht zu den demos. es ist unsere Republik. wenn wir sie nicht schützen, stirbt sie.)

die hard.

German is a bit ambiguous here. we use Fleisch for animal flesh that is eaten as food (meat) but also in the sense of flesh in general.

love a hot fuzz reference https://youtu.be/mcFN-I7_IjA?t=168&feature=shared

archive.ph funktioniert häufig

a regular on retraction watch (highly recommended): https://retractionwatch.com/?s=gueguen

they need to identify you, not necessarily using your id card.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e2161-1-1

chapter 3, section 1, artcle 12, paragraphs 1 & 2.

i doubt there is profit to be made. it’s more to keep them busy and learning about gdpr.

they they need to id you everytime you exercise your gdpr rights. there is nothing they can do about this.

one of your rights under gdpr is that you are entitled (free of charge) to a listing of all the data the other party has about you.

when you ask them about this listing this request itself becomes data the party has about you. it should therefore he included in the listing. (it is self referential, but that’s how it is).

if the information that you requested such a listing is missing from the data they provide in response to you request, they are in breach of gdpr rules. from them on you might want to file a complaint.

( I’ve no idea whether this would result in any meaningful compensation, if at all. but at least it should keep them busy.)

i guess it’s related to the following; exercising your rights under gdpr requires the other party to be able to identify you. that’s why they need this information. if you want to (potentially) fuck with them: first ask for a listing of all the information they have about you, before asking for deleting your data. this listing must contain the request itself. if your request is missing, they are likely breaking compliance rules.