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by jrimbault 3206 days ago
Or it's just an illusion. https://xkcd.com/1227/

The only "valid" (imo) complaint in this comic is in 1905:

>"The profession of letters is so little understood"

I wish the humanities played a larger role in our engineered society. I see a lot of technical people who've never read Popper (which is relevant to technical fields) or any other philosopher (which are always good reading, or at least interesting).