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[–] HonoraryMancunian 69 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Anyone else find it weird how articles often tend to add the parental status of the subject in the title?

[–] Hagdos 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Only if it's about a mother though.

[–] cmhe 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I guess being a mother is considered an important life achievement, while being a father is not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

You do get to be a father in news articles. Mainly when they talk about you being deceased though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I think it's more that, for some, becoming a parent is their only life accomplishment, so "reader engagement" is literally, "hey, overlap these two circles, or the middle won't buy our crap."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I guess it's bait for people who like to judge. The idea could be: it's not responsible to quit science for this and being a mother makes irresponsible choices even worse. That's not my point of view, but I know people whose life seems to be so empty that they feel a constant need to look down on others and the "mother" information gives them at least 5 more minutes of talking shit about how this is a terrible decision.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I see it the other way around. Older people eat up clickbait news, and older people tend to be parents, so identifying the woman as a mother makes them go “she’s someone like me” while identifying her as a scientist is less likely to resonate. It helps some people imagine themselves in her shoes.

[–] atrielienz 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's been this way since the inception of the news paper. To sell papers they needed to get people invested in the subjects of the paper. That included giving information about the subject of the articles that other people might relate to. If you're a mother you're more likely to be inspired by a mom of 3 who went for a degree in science and ended up becoming a "Trebuchet Master".

[–] neonred 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Being "trebuchet master" without "Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics"... doubt

[–] Shou 5 points 6 days ago

Sounds like multidisciplinary peak perfocmance to me.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Since they specified female, there is presumably also at least one male trebuchet master as well, meaning that the UK considers trebuchets important enough to have multiple trebuchet Masters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The new alternative to Trident. It's cheaper to have trebuchets posted around the coastline than nukes scooting around on submarines and offers about the same amount of protection from the country being nuked.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

It’s the cheapest means of getting fresh beef from point A to point B. I am surprised burgericanos haven’t discovered it yet

[–] BugleFingers 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Now hear me out...Railguns

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

They said cheapest, not fastest. Ain't no UK business got railgun delivery money...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There’s a restaurant on the outskirts of bangkok that launches a whole rotisserie chicken from a slingshot over the guests tables and impales on a spike on the helmet of a guy on a unicycle next to your table

[–] iAvicenna 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

wait they did not ask for 10 years experience in the field?

[–] hexabs 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

100 hours of aoe2 and we've got a deal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Oh, I got that! Do you think the Brits will accept a foreigner from a place that wasn't one of their colonies?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Best I can do is 80 hours of Besiege, take it or leave it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Interesting that "Mother, 33" doesn't have a name

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Have you never read a newspaper before?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

As a retired toolmaker, I see your trebuchet and raise you the artillery piece I made for myself - a small Coehorn mortar of about 50mm/2" bore.

I've known 2 toolmakers that have built their own full scale full functional Gatling guns from scratch also.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

The military will need skills like that once modern civ collapses later this century.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Building a trebuchet to hurl rocks is stem though

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Probably makes more money as a trebuchet operator too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Behold the return of the Mighty Trebuchet Memes!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

If not STEM, then HEAL? (Health, Education And Learning)

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