Wandering Adventure Party

Didn’t know how similar Brazil’s class society is to India’s

@madhu_shrieks All the best for your hustling!

@madhu_shrieks Yeah, you can smash _those_ with my blessings (not that you need them).

@madhu_shrieks Back at my old university department, we had two Indian PhD students - one was Brahmin, and I _think_ the other one was Vaishyas.They were put into the same room. The Brahmin guy was not happy about this.

@madhu_shrieks @libreinator ...I am glad that, as a white guy working at a German tech company, nobody cares whether my clothes are ironed or not.

@madhu_shrieks ...I am getting flashbacks to my time as a military bartender.

@madhu_shrieks Not in _my_ jurisdiction, but I don't know how it is where you live.

@madhu_shrieks I usually just cook some water with dishwashing powder in the pot when this kind of thing happens to me.

@madhu_shrieks I know the feeling. All the best for your journey! Despite so many things trying to keep us down, there also _are_ things worth living for out there!

@madhu_shrieks Of course, Ben Shapiro and his cronies merely want us to prioritize _their_ feelings over ours.

@madhu_shrieks Well, if you ever want to talk about it, we are willing to listen.

@madhu_shrieks Based on my studies of 19th century German folk tales and the cultural context in which they took place, rural Germany definitely had their own class hierarchies.The farmers themselves could be fairly wealthy, but they were supported by a large underclass of tenant farmers, farmhands, and maids who could only expect poverty unless they "married up" - or emigrated into the new industrial centers, or even overseas.

@madhu_shrieks What did the world do this time?

@madhu_shrieks Smile, nod, and plan my escape.

@madhu_shrieks Though speaking from my own personal experience, academia was _extra_ bullshit.

@madhu_shrieks I feel you.In the German folklore I study, there are a _lot_ of traditions to be pissed off about.

@madhu_shrieks All the best!

I want to submit an abstract to a conference but i don't want to do it alone. How do i look for potential co-authors?

@madhu_shrieks ...is that a good thing or a bad thing? 🧐

@madhu_shrieks Social scientists would have a lot of interesting and valuable stuff to say to the general public, if only someone could understand them.(Mind you, speaking as someone who has spent a lot of time in academia, they are not the only field that is bad with science communication...)