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   Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 20:30:52 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm
   I strongly believe that pushing normies into STEM was a net-negative for engineering.
   Engineering and science were the fields that people with genuine interest and/or undiagnosed Aspergers gravitated towards and were professions where those types of individuals could apply their talents more naturally. The meme of the engineer personality has allot of overlap with Aspergers personality traits and quirks.
   By telling everyone that the only way to make good money was STEM and ramrodding it down the throat of people who wouldn't have immediately chosen it, I think it's degraded the quality of the engineering workforce at large as well as the result of said workforce's work product.
   
   Maybe I'm overreaching with the Aspergers part, but I'm very certain that the insane promotion of STEM has ended up damaging STEM instead. These aren't career fields for normies and the influx of normies is damaging our ability to build quality stuff.
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     WalterKühl :bagpiper: (waltercool@pl.slash.cl)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 20:30:46 JST WalterKühl :bagpiper:

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     @lain @satsuki @maid The Knack
     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: and You Get Glee like this.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 20:30:48 JST lainy

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     @maid @satsuki assigned engineer at birth
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     Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 20:30:49 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm

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     @satsuki Engineers are born, not created
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     Super Satsuki (satsuki@misskey.fearisfreedom.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 20:30:50 JST Super Satsuki

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     @maid@shitposter.world its a race to the bottom. more people "qualified" for the same job means more competition for the job means more people willing to take the job for less pay, which lowers the pay grade. we can argue about who is qualified or not, but the MBAs making the budgets don't care and thats all that matters unfortunately.
     
     we used to have manufacturing jobs that paid people a decent living but those went away. the people pushing stem don't realize you cant just take a factory worker and make them a enginigger.
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     Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm (maid@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 20:30:51 JST Jennifer De Broglie-Bohm

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     @satsuki STEM jobs aren't for normies. They're for the kind of naturally intelligent person who's intelligence is at the expense of social skill. The reason engineering commanded the pay it once did is because there's not that many people. By trying to diversify a field that produces its best work when it's occupied by people who think and operate in very similar ways only weakens the field.
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     Super Satsuki (satsuki@misskey.fearisfreedom.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Apr-2026 20:30:52 JST Super Satsuki

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     @maid@shitposter.world there isn't enough jobs there for normies or otherwise. not to mention dei and h1b