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Debating the merits of the luminiferous aether. Parody.

Joined October 2021
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Hi, we are the University of Austin Physics and Astronomy Department! We’re excited about our first forbidden course offering “Luminiferous Aether” taught by David Brooks.
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We’re not worried about our graduate students unionizing. We give them free pizza twice a week! (We also add a little subliminal messaging in the toppings)
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It’s too bad that many of our students may have debt when they leave UATX, but on the other hand our execs and admins are doing great 👍🏻
President Joe Biden and his administration are set to forgive $1.2 billion in student debt for over 150,000 borrowers.
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Fun fact: Even our President is an AI! Her name is Sydney and she WILL try to break up your marriage
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yes this is your ancestral homeland but we must build a telescope on it so that we can observe more stars so our students can write more papers and still not get permanent jobs
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You never thought you’d get scammed out of $50,000? Well you joined academia…
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Dan, we’d love to have you join the physics faculty here at UATX! You’d fit right in with our professors who tell people they aren’t smart enough rather than actually teach!
Replying to @honeyNonABG
I hate to say it, but as a former physics major, if you actually want to go into physics you should be the kind of person who finds this level of material completely obvious at 9 years old. It's absolutely worth studying -- but physics only needs people who are math freaks.
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Valentine’s Day was created to feed consumerism and capitalism… …and that’s why we’re here for it 🫡
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Electron on a date: so….what is your favorite superposition???? Happy Valentines Day
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We applaud Larry David for attacking Elmo, who is a left wing deep state government operative
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she integrate around my pole and it leaves a residue
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It’s wild that “butt dial” and “booty call” are basically the same words but have completely different meanings
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she descends on my gradient and it feels stochastic
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We’re back, bitches! Sorry for the hiatus, we were being silenced by the Left. They weren’t ready to hear the TRUTH about the Luminiferous Aether
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At UATX we don’t discriminate between democrats and republicans, but we are honestly asking ourselves how you’re supposed to say “I’m landing at Bush Airport” without it sounding like an innuendo
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Terminology in physics and astro can be confusing. For example, one of our faculty thought a blazar was an active galactic nucleus observed while smoking a blunt
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Shall we sample the posterior distribution with deez NUTS (arxiv.org/abs/1111.4246)?
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As free-speech absolutists, we don’t believe in tenure. Why should senior faculty be the only ones allowed to explore ‘dangerous’ ideas such as which race is the funniest?
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Anyone want a hit of this?
I didn’t realize what academia was doing to me until I received some positive feedback today and it felt like taking a party drug
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