I think they were afraid of touching what had started as an anti racism channel until the vibes had shifted a bit.

There were both Palestinian employees and an IDF veteran Israeli employee who were seemingly spending half the workday discussing October 7th and the Intifada.

We had a mental health slack channel, and a racial politics one that rehashed Israel/Palestine daily.

I personally am happiest with a structured in person workplace environment, because I struggle with self direction even in a remote 9-5. I have ADHD and struggled to remember/do homework my whole childhood, if that explains anything. In summers or other gaps in employment or school throughout my life, I've often started with ideas of projects or self study I want to do, but they all fizzle out in a week due to lack of discipline.

I'm not undisciplined in every context - I'm a good employee at in person jobs, and I started running in my early 20s and run 15+ miles a week in the cold, rain, and dark, but my discipline just falls apart when I'm trying to fill a whole week.

I think these traits are much more common than happily self-employed or early retired people think.

I started work again 3 weeks ago, and I find myself using the time outside of work much better because there is less of it.

I would still love a 30 hour work week, and if I had young children, I am certain that I would cherish time off much more.

People have been speculating on his reddit subs, but honestly anything from early retirement, to stay at home dad, to sabbatical, to serious illness is completely possible. The parasociality of everything has probably gotten old over time, too.

I will note that this was the B's get degrees approach. If I had been aiming for graduate school, I would've needed to put in significantly more time to get A's and get picked for/complete undergraduate research projects.

St. Olaf College for those wondering.

I know of TS clearance holders who have significant ties to Iran, Syria, Russia, and Afghanistan, but have renounced those citizenships and are loyal to the US. The clearance process works to figure out what levers those countries could still pull on them - foreign property and close family still there are the big ones.

This sequence is followed by differential equations courses for the physicists, engineers, and most mathematics majors. Then every college has a mechanism to generate mathematical maturity in their first or second year pure math majors - sometimes it's a proof focused version of linear algebra, sometimes it's a specific Introduction to Proofs course, sometimes it's a discrete math/set theory course, sometimes it's groups/rings or real analysis but slowed down a bit at first. This gates the upper level pure mathematics courses, where most programs require one semester each of algebra and analysis and some number of elective courses.

A general definition of continuity typically doesn't arise until a topology course or a second semester real analysis course. It is entirely possible to graduate from most mathematics bachelor's programs in the US without taking either of those courses.

Also I always kept Pentel Twist Erase III mechanical pencils with 0.5 mm lead, Hagoromo chalk, and a 4 color set of chunky expo markers in my bag.

Scientists and engineers overall include a lot of disciplines that are not CS. Biology in particular is frequently majority female.

To clarify, I don't know much about Finnish mental health in particular as opposed to the general trends in Northern Europe.

We know that the longer psychosis goes untreated/the more times someone goes off the meds, the harder it is to treat, and that what happens in the first few years of someone developing a psychotic disorder makes a huge difference in long term outcomes.

An American might develop psychosis in their mid 20s, end up committed for a few weeks and placed on antipsychotic pills until they're no longer floridly psychotic, and then go home, not follow up with doctors/refill meds, and end up on a cycle of this with more and more brittle symptoms until they're homeless and have no real chance of recovery.

The same person in Northern Europe would likely be hospitalized for longer initially, started on an injectable that only needs to be given once a month, and they leave the hospital with fewer residual symptoms. They're then followed by an ACT team with a nurse visiting to check on them and make sure they're eating and keeping housing, and ensuring that shot goes in their arm every month. They don't necessarily fully recover, but a lot of them end up being able to do some kind of schooling/employment/volunteering and they are either stable enough to keep housing without being evicted for disruption, or are shuffled into staffed group homes.