and are therefore not likely to produce treats or the “singularity” nerd rapture any time soon.

Techbro's guide to STEM:

• Science: Immortality! So they can consume treats forevermore

• Technology: Video game, VR, gadgets like in those cool cyber punk game, submissive AI servant/girlfriend

• Engineering: Car, car tunnel, car infrastructure, flying car, space car, sexbot body for their AI slave

• Mathematics: Empirical™ proof that letting people in the equators die from climate collapse is the most logical course of action, actually.

Engineering is usually what these people care about. Coincidentally, engineers are much more likely to be right wing :thinkin-lenin: (in my experience)

Engineering tends to be so cut and dry with how stuff works, and I think the average emgineer is looking for that kind of certainty. Sciences and the humanities tend to be much more wishywashy, and you tend to not be able to answer questions with absolute certainty.

I think the mindset of engineers and many nurses/doctors are quite similar in regards to the desire for something cut and dry. Many (most?) premed students struggle with classes like organic chemistry, in which getting an answer requires (depending on the course obv) lots of flexible thinking. Idk if thats really a real trend but I'm curious if others have had the same thoughts.