Careercow Robert Chipman / Bob / Moviebob / "Movieblob" - Middle-Aged Consoomer, CWC with a Thesaurus, Ardent Male Feminist and Superior Futurist, the Twice-Fired, the Mario-Worshipper, publicly dismantled by Hot Dog Girl, now a diabetic

[Doctor Placebo]

The "harrassment" is just an attempt to avoid facing the reality that women tend to lose interest or not want to go into those fields. Those that do tend to realize they don't really like it and fuck off, leaving those who genuinely like that stuff (mostly men, with some women) sticking through. Not to say women can't do it (the original cartridge for vidya was designed by a woman and binary programming was also a woman's brainchild), but it's just a thing that doesn't appeal to most.

Speaking of delusions created by pop culture, the whole concept that every field should have equal representation in it. Life doesn't work that way, and it's not always a sign of systemic discrimination. Especially since explicit systemic discrimination in this day and age is, y'know, illegal. And because pop culture has the biggest influence on the weak minded, AKA people who don't know how statistics work, they expect equal representation to mean that groups like gays and blacks get just as much screen time/page time/etc as straights and white's even though they're both minorities that are a little more or less than one tenth of the population. The result is demands for extreme over representation.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

This earnestly made me laff. Can you imagine Blobbert on some basic sample prep fpr UPLC/MS analysis? Especially if desalting is involved? The "Superior Future" looks less like hover chairs and unlimited resources and more like pipetting ultra pure water through desalting columns 50 or 60 at a time. I guarantee you he would muck it up spectacularly even though it involves simple movements and sitting on your ass for hours at a time. (The latter of which he SHOULD be pretty good at.)

I wouldn't trust Bob to do basic shit like set up a slide for oil diffusion under a microscope, let alone deal with anything chromatography related. Fuck me, I wouldn't let Bob touch the mechanical pipettes out of fear that he'd someone manage to lobotomize himself.

Yeah honestly whenever I hear someone talk about "woman being harassed in STEM" I just wonder if that's a real thing that's going on because I imagine the STEM field being rather boring for something like that to happen in comparison to the Entertainment industries like Hollywood.

Women don't seem to be very good at science. My course is overwhelmingly female and so far they've been pretty good at the things you would assume they'd be good at; namely the touchy feely nice stuff. We did a presentation and I did the graphing, the work on R and the bulk of the summative essay that went with it; the two girls in our group did the colours, fonts and 'designs' in our presentation. I hate to sound dismissive when I write that but it's sort of unavoidable. I like science, I like the things that people find boring or odd. The idea of spending hours reading books on molecular biology is fun to me; and I honestly don't mind sitting in the lab for like six hours will the Prometheus does its thing. I'm not some weirdo that just wants to do that, but the women on my course seem to regard the analysis part of science as a necessary and dull evil to get to the 'fun' part of science which invariably involves colorful power point presentations, leaflets and not very much useful material.

As for harassment? I've never harassed a fellow student or co-worker, but I have met plenty of extremely highly strung women who seem to think 'hello' is an insidious ploy to pin them down and ravage them like a jungle man. From personal experience I find most women I work or study with to be really not that into science, whereas I like both science and more 'liberal artsy' things. So if I'm going to harass anyone it'll be the girls studying German lit, or History; with them I won't go in expecting to be able to talk shop and leave feeling annoyed that they're not actually interested all that much in what they're studying. Probably a bit sexist, but I've long since stopped caring.

 

[lolwatagain]

Well I find the tweet previous to that even funnier:
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It is another example of his magical thinking, for who wouldn't have known what was happening when people were erecting electric grids?

In the context of his thread, Bobby seems to think the Superior Future Intellectual Insurrection is happening underground, being painstakingly engineered by Thinkers in their waterlogged basements, unbeknownst to us obsolete Believers until the inevitable paradigm shift which makes wheat grow on the Moon and turn men into women. But the exemplars of his Superior Future -- AOC, Hilary Rodham, and Anita Whats-her-name -- have been the most attention-seeking whores this side of Hollywood!

THOMAS JEFFERSON DRAFTED THIS IN A CAVE. WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS.

Women don't seem to be very good at science. My course is overwhelmingly female and so far they've been pretty good at the things you would assume they'd be good at; namely the touchy feely nice stuff. We did a presentation and I did the graphing, the work on R and the bulk of the summative essay that went with it; the two girls in our group did the colours, fonts and 'designs' in our presentation. I hate to sound dismissive when I write that but it's sort of unavoidable. I like science, I like the things that people find boring or odd. The idea of spending hours reading books on molecular biology is fun to me; and I honestly don't mind sitting in the lab for like six hours will the Prometheus does its thing. I'm not some weirdo that just wants to do that, but the women on my course seem to regard the analysis part of science as a necessary and dull evil to get to the 'fun' part of science which invariably involves colorful power point presentations, leaflets and not very much useful material.

A little bit off topic, but Colors and Design are actually important when it comes to figures in technical papers since it's easy for important data to be lost in the noise. I'd recommend taking a look at The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte if you haven't already. He has some great insights on the subject.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

A little bit off topic, but Colors and Design are actually important when it comes to figures in technical papers since it's easy for important data to be lost in the noise. I'd recommend taking a look at The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte if you haven't already. He has some great insights on the subject.

Oh I completely agree. It wasn't technical papers though, it was literally the background colours to the slides. Good data presentation is extremely important when it comes to my course (genetics) because there's so dammed much of the stuff.

 

[Homer Simpson]

Yahtzee actually does have a youtube channel, but it looks like he abandoned it 3 years ago. Hope he does come back to it someday, I enjoyed the director commentaries he did for his Chozo Mythos series

yahtzee19

www.youtube.com

Yahtzee is only good with Gabe I think. They are a good dynamic. The problem with someone like Bob, is he isn't good, period. Yahtzee is better with certain people. Even the view difference shows his stuff with Gabe gets more views than most of his Escapist stuff does now.

 

[vern]

Honestly I'd pay to see blobber in my lab sometime. I just want him to see how mundane and dry science is. Most of my work is data processing at the moment. The biggest bottleneck right now for us is we need huge amounts of data looked over and sorted before we can do anything. Unironically scientists are having to 'learn to code' to stay relevant in science. They shoved me on an R, Linux and Python course to upskill me while I'm already doing my degree.

You know I'm reminded of a somewhat common engineering joke where all the math requirements you need for the job is to know how to use excel and plug the right formulas into a TI-calculator.
Granted there's a little more requirements to engineering then just that but so much of it boils down to R&D, constant trial and error and incremental improvements, but still probably fliess over people like Bobs head.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

You know I'm reminded of a somewhat common engineering joke where all the math requirements you need for the job is to know how to use excel and plug the right formulas into a TI-calculator.
Granted there's a little more requirements to engineering then just that but so much of it boils down to R&D, constant trial and error and incremental improvements, but still probably fliess over people like Bobs head.

Bob believes all that's needed is one super special genius to come along and make the breakthrough that will make moon wheat possible. The problem is such breakthroughs are based on work performed by countless nameless scientists. There's a reason Newton said he stood on the shoulders of giants.

 

[Marissa Moira]

It's common for idiots to think that trial and error is not a thing that people do. Like stuff has to come out of the gate fully formed.

They think the higher intelligence means that the chance for error means zero(because the only thinking/mental capacity scenarios they ever encountered was in a school setting). Shit can take months of trial and error to figure out depending on the issue.

 

[An Sionnach Seang]

It's common for idiots to think that trial and error is not a thing that people do. Like stuff has to come out of the gate fully formed.

They think the higher intelligence means that the chance for error means zero(because the only thinking/mental capacity scenarios they ever encountered was in a school setting). Shit can take months of trial and error to figure out depending on the issue.

developing new medicines, for instance; the discovery process involves synthesising and testing dozens if not hundreds of minor variations on the same compound, which is one of the reasons it takes years for many medicines to be developed
then there's the process of scaling it up from laboratory to chemical plant, improving the reaction efficiency, reducing wastage... an awful lot of man-hours and trial and error goes into this process

 

[Florence]

Bob uploaded a new video.

I know I’ve said this before, but he really is turning into Mr. Creosote.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

You know for all it’s faults, Batman vs Superman at least has more depth in its content compared to much of Bob’s videos.

 

[kappageist]

I know I’ve said this before, but he really is turning into Mr. Creosote.

LOL, I was also mostly thinking Milton from Office Space given those comically thick glasses he has to keep adjusting while rambling incessantly without getting to any point. Also I laughed and went "called it!" to myself when of friggn' course he put Dr. Mario germs on the thumbnail. But really y'all this man has such important shit to say to the suffering masses out there.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

“ME ANGRY!”

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Bob draws closer and closer to the big sleep each day. Sad.

 

[RockVolnutt]

If he can't stand being alone and not CONSOOMIN', I don't know how he expects not to go insane if he ever did get his magical immortal robot body future.

 

[Jack Awful]

“ME ANGRY!”
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I don't understand the logic here.
Does he think that if Hillary was president, she would have cured the virus by now or something?

 

[Pickle Dick]

is it just me, or has bob been extra angsty ever since he created his alternate account?

 

[Jack Awful]

is it just me, or has bob been extra angsty ever since he created his alternate account?

Could be that now his professional and personal accounts are separate, he feels he doesn't have to hold back in his takes.

 

[An Sionnach Seang]

I don't understand the logic here.

this is Bob we're talking about, there is no logic

 

[Quixotic Man]

I don't fucking get it.
Bob's hobbies are (supposedly) movies and video games.
He obviously doesn't enjoy the outdoors, because I just checked and national parks and other outdoor areas are all largely still open for hiking/ walks in Massachusetts.
How does being forced to stay inside all day instead of going to Applebees and having endless appetizers (or whatever Bob usually does) expose him to the real life bullies?