Nathan Johnson

Quantum physicist

[Nathan Johnson @nathanljohnson]

報復性熬夜

[David Blagden @blagden_david]

UK academia is on its knees; good scholars who do rigorous research on important topics facing redundancy, those who survive hamstrung by pitiful budgets and stifling admin, educational rigour under strain.

Part of the reason is lack of public (and thus political) backing…

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[Nathan Johnson @nathanljohnson]

@atrupar @secretsqrl123 Such a cunt

[Gwart @GwartyGwart]

Flight attendant comes over intercom: “your flight is oversold, I need two volunteers to take a flight this afternoon for a $300 voucher.”

I spring into action. I was born for these moments. This is why I studied game theory. Literal tingles. I pull out my megaphone and address our boarding gate: “guys, they absolutely must off board at least two passengers or this bird isn’t taking off. Every 3 minutes they will increase their bid by $200. If we all hold out for 45 more minutes, 2 of us can make nearly 5 grand each. Textbook prisoners dilemma, this is (3,3) in its most visceral representation. I’m not even going to give up my ticket but I know value when I see value. Let’s make Nash proud ladies and gentlemen. Do not acquiesce. Do not defect.”

Anyhow 2 people immediately accepted $500 and I called them retards on my megaphone and was placed in a detention room by airport police. This is why we study game theory.

[Miriam Cates @miriam_cates]

Every suggestion of pension reform is met with "But I paid into it!", "I worked hard all my life!" and "I'm entitled!". Yet the alternative to reforming a system where the young working poor fund the asset-rich old is that all our most promising young people flee the country.

No pensioner should go cold or hungry. But if we continue down this route of compulsory intergenerational transfer from young to old, enslaving our children to debt even after we’re long gone, then there really is no future for our country.

[Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 @DuncanStott]

We loaded the young up with student debt.
We gave them a housing shortage which left them with crippling rents and house prices.
We expected them to pay for ever-growing largesse for pensioners.
Are we expected to be surprised that hundreds of thousands are fleeing?

[Max Abdulgani @max_abdulgani]

There has never been a more undeserving, illegitimate, yet successful case for compensation than WASPI.

So much so, they managed to persuade actual MPs to pledge to give them £58 billion of taxpayer money back in 2019…

This dependency culture of expecting endless payouts for poor long term planning is an injustice, actually.

It stinks of entitlement.

[wolfgang fuckface @mustachetoilet]

No prior generation had to give up all other joys in life to buy a home.

They had phones. They watched tv and movies. They ate at restaurants. They traveled. They drove new cars. They went to bars with friends. They drank and smoked constantly.

To pretend otherwise is absurd.

[Not Will @khalnero]

Nowhere is the land of milk and honey but I think the reason the UK feels particularly painful atm is that there is an entire cohort of young people who were told that they could work hard and see their life improve and the government is working even harder to make that false.

[Ed @ebullienteddie]

So after paying for my uni tuition that the boomers got for free, I now have to pay tax on my pension contributions when the boomers didn't, just to make sure that the boomers get an even more generous state pension with their final salary pensions, of which I will get neither.

[Nathan Johnson @nathanljohnson]

@MahyarTousi Such a cunt

[Mahyar Tousi @MahyarTousi]

Treason. Remove her from Parliament and arrest her.

[Nathan Johnson @nathanljohnson]

Such a cunt

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

Pure socialism. Feeding your own child is the primary duty of any parent. You’re not ‘out of pocket’ for doing so. And breakfast clubs aren’t free, because other taxpayers are paying for them.

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

I am so grateful, Trump also stopped this war. America is now respected again.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

As a PhD-holder myself, I feel obligated to make it abundantly clear that people with PhDs are not necessarily smart. They're experts in a small niche of their incredibly niche field, sure, but sometimes that is all. A PhD is a test of resilience and stubbornness, not cleverness.

[middleclassparty @middle_class_us]

Older generations say “we all struggled in our 20s.”

No, you didn’t.

You didn’t pay $2,200 for rent and $7 for eggs.

You didn’t graduate into $50K student debt and $0 job security.

Gen Z isn’t dramatic.

They’re drowning.

[Mathieu @miniapeur]

Where are you?

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Going to the pub used to be a staple of the working class life, now it's becoming a treat like going to a restaurant. This is wrong.