I  mean, are you arguing FOR fossils fuels here? I get that you're personally impacted but this is literally virtue gatekeeping. 

At the absolute least this was a fantastically hideous way to teach your daughter that expressing your needs to others results in being made to feel stupid and uncomfortable. What an excellent way to teach a child that you’re not allowed to have needs and if you do, you damn well better not expect others to care about…

For revenge, the daughter should’ve hidden his jigsaw puzzle box. After all, he should be able to figure out without any help from the picture, right?

My son (9) woke up this morning long after I started work and asked me to make him breakfast (it’s his last day of break). I asked him what he wanted (pb toast) and I said I’d get the bread down and in the toaster, but he’d have to finish it himself (which he’s extremely capable of doing). I walked in the kitchen a…

My brother in law’s parents have yet to tell a “funny” story from his childhood that is actually funny and not actually depressing and/or upsetting. My sister always has to follow up with a one on one discussion with him to make sure they’re on the same page about how their own parenting approach will differ.

Wow, he gave her a can opener? Awfully generous.

While entirely likely given the inconsistencies throughout, his out was to come clean and admit this was all made up, that the kid really took five minutes to figure out a can opener, and that he did it for the clicks. But he, being a dumb asshole, chose to double down on his fantasy.

It reminds me of that asshole who shot his daughter’s laptop. (If you hate yourself, here’s his YouTube home page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6OSygSHWSo4pbV5ttl2YPg). I didn’t have an issue with punishment in general—he described his daughter as unwilling to do a simple chore and also being nasty to their…

The saying goes, “Teach a person to fish and they’ll never go hungry” not “give them a long stick, some string, a hook, and a map to a pond and hope they’ll figure it out.” Great job, dad.

I’m graduating with a post-bac in geology this spring. We had some carbonate geologists (oil geologists) guest lecture in my sedimentology Fall class. While the science is interesting and they seemed enthusiastic about their field, I still cannot reconcile oil with being a geologist. I still don’t know a lot but I do…

This is the kind of shit my mom would pull. Luckily my dad was there to put a swift end to situations like this. I can’t believe dude thought this was a heartwarming tale of him and not him teaching his daughter that she can’t count on him to help her. 

Right, the pride he is displaying at his conduct is unreal. Like, what he effectively did was punish his daughter over the course of six hours because she doesn’t know how to use a tool he himself thinks is at least a little counterintuitive, and it is clear from the tone of that thread he was expecting nothing but…

This is gross and reads like he wants people to basically respond with “yea your 9-year-old daughter is such a fucking dumb dumb, you sure showed her!!!”

This was so uncomfortable to read! so smarmy and yet so obviously written for public consumption and approval. it reminded me of tactics my parent would use. gross.

Just FYI, a quote from the thread: “She brought me the can opener and we both stared it.  I realized I’d never taught her how to use it.  Most cans now have pull-tops.”

“Energy and gas is something I am passionate about,” said Myles Hampton Arvie, a senior at the University of Houston.

And this is why academia has no business giving advice about the work world. They are so divorced from the reality of the 9-5 workplace, especially tenured faculty who have been around for decades.

I couldn’t help but wonder if state schools were pushed to produce the next generation of engineers to benefit the industries that were dying.

My oldest daughter is graduating from mechanical engineering this spring. I can’t speak for UT, but I do remember my daughter’s university giving her the hard sell her freshman year to concentrate on mining. The logic being that her experience could be had nearby (WV) and there would be many spots open to women once…

One interviewee said his company is “laying off workers and debating how aggressively it should pivot away from oil and gas toward renewable energy. If the company does move rapidly toward cleaner energy, he said, he is not sure if there will be a place in it for him. “How much are my skills going to transfer?”