• trolololol@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I think I saw a report many years past that engineers make a bigger than expected proportion of radicalized people, in the context of middle east insurgencies.

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      10 days ago

      Engineers tend to be less accepting of the “debate and theory” part of science and more of the “analyze and act” part.

      As in, the debate is stupid, the theory is that the rich have fucked us all, now let’s see what we can do immediately to make it work.