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[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'm so sick of "if only we had more humanities in education the elites wouldn't be fucking up the world." that has nothing to do with reality, it never has, it never will

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

if only king leopold had been exposed to the humanities bro 😞

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

traveling back in time and teaching the rulers of the british empire about a little thing called literature

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

i thought it was a part of prevention of future engineer disease cases

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

it ought to be named philosopher's disease

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah same, but hey my cs education had courses both on basic ethics and how to run businesses, so some attempts were made at least.

[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It really is unwarranted self importance. t humanities major

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Is law considered part of the humanities because lawyers have been fucking things up in society since at least the French revolution.