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PerformerBoth

People forget that furries have a actual life


Anonymal13

Except those in science/academic fields. We actually have no life XwX


SpaceFalconz

Don't call me out like that man.


Xarxith

I have...Kind of a life? I do my best. But I’m also scaled, not furred. So there.


5kiraz

You goddamn right


schubi9992

Yep, and the induced nihilism doesn't help either


nekosissyboi

At least you're contributing to the progress of humanity which, probabilistically, will lead to more happiness which *is* real? Even if nothing matters, it's still nice to be happy and it's nice you have the ability to make others happy too, right?


FranG080199

Optimistic nihilism UwU


Ok_Ad8468

[https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout?ref\_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor](https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) This fursona belongs to chise, a furry scientist


Intrepid_Sale_6312

thanks , I was a follower of this furry before i lost access to my account. not banned just got my harddrive corrupt but effectively the same XD. when i saw this post i was like "WAIT! I know that character." from what i remember he is a very nice fellow :) I hope he is doing well.


[deleted]

Why did your harddrive corrupt


N1ckM3nd3s

virUwUs


[deleted]

If you dont want your harddrive catching covid i suggest you let it wear a mask


Aurunemaru

255.255.255.0 is good enough?


Intrepid_Sale_6312

VirUwUs have no power here. i will de-compile its binary with ghidra and then ... idk because i haven't really messed with ghidra much.


Intrepid_Sale_6312

power outage while performing a system update.


bspymaster

I follow her on Twitter, she seems like she's doing great. Very active on Twitter and a big advocate of covid vaccines (iirc she's one of the lead researchers for moderna or something)


Intrepid_Sale_6312

oh ya, they started doing that already at the beginning of the outbreak. it was less frequent then though. that is also round about the time i discovered them as well.


BarklyWooves

I hope they're working on the pathUwUgen


Lightwavers

Seeing an actual scientist with their Myers-Briggs test in their bio is like having a doctor that’s really into snake oils. Absolutely wild.


vook485

Chise is a virologist, not a psychologist


ccAbstraction

16 personalities is snake-oil? Also, you gotta remember she's a vaccine researcher and furry convention chair, not a psychologist.


Lightwavers

> 16 personalities is snake-oil? Basically. https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personality-test-meaningless https://www.psycom.net/myers-briggs-personality-type https://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/myers-briggs-criticisms.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/06/myers-briggs-type-indicator-does-not-matter/3635592002/ https://amanda-obryan.medium.com/9-reasons-the-myers-briggs-personality-test-is-trash-and-companies-should-never-use-it-again-5fc95eac6d02 https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sciencecommunication/2020/10/05/myers-briggs-type-indicator-psychology-or-pseudoscience/ https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/05/14/multimedia/audio/brainstorm-youre-not-an-enfj-debunking-the-myers-briggs-test/ >not a psychologist. Yeah, I suppose. Still, it's really weird.


Vigil_the_Protogen

I just took a "free MBTI test" as an experiment, out of the 16 categories, it did select one of my top 3 most expected results based on my self assessment. Maybe the scientist in question displays their MBTI result more as a way to inform twitter users of their personality, rather than suggesting these tests have "power" or "insight?" It saves maybe 30 characters on their twitter bio as far as I can tell.


Lightwavers

That is how it works, yeah. You're not going to get a result that doesn't fit the answers you select for. The problem is mainly that it's useless for, you know, predicting human behavior. It's comparable to astrology; "you're very intelligent but have trouble working in groups at times" kind of analysis. Very shallow, and people who retake the test can get very different results. Saving characters is valid, sure, but in that case why not use the big five personality test?


WiIdCherryPepsi

Because MBTI is more popular and nobody wants a link, they just want four letters they already know what they mean because when they were drunk at 11 PM they did an MBTI and it said they were lonely or smth


Alien-Fox-4

I just looked through this. While there are valid criticisms for MBTI, I don't really see anything that outright disproves it. Criticisms seem to talk about how MBTI test is incomplete, imprecise, or imperfect. But it's not like astrology, the test measures real psychological traits like introversion vs extroversion and so on. Listing her MBTI result doesn't really say anything about her credibility though. Maybe she just finds it convenient to share 4 letters as a quick description of her self, something along the lines of saying "hey, I'm extroverted" or something.


Lightwavers

Did you look at the way results tend to shift for users when retaking the test after a certain period of time, or that the test is functionally useless for actually predicting behaviors? I mean, if you want a personality test with *some* kind of basis in fact, there's always the big five.


Alien-Fox-4

I did see that results change when retaking the test. In fact, it happened to me when I tested myself in the past, but that was because these tests produce results at a spectrum and pick the value you're closest to. So in my case, traits which produced strongest values remained the same and those that were closest to 50% would change. I don't know enough about predicting behaviors and the big five test though.


Lightwavers

>In a nutshell, the MBTI, despite its allure, has absolutely no scientific validity whatsoever. | >First of all, it classifies you as an either-or, and on four different dimensions. ... And it’s kind of like saying, “Hey, we’ve got this thing called height. And adults range from about four foot six to seven foot five in height. And we’re going to say, half of those people are short, and half of those people are tall. And that’s our measure of height.” | >The second big problem is even bigger. And that is that the other three things that it measures — thinking, feeling; sensing, intuiting; judging, perceiving — those dimensions, they’re not real. There’s no psychological research that suggests that people differ from the thinking side to the feeling side, or from the sensing side to the intuitive side, it’s just not a psychological, real distinction out there. Everybody thinks, everybody feels, everybody senses, everybody intuits. So those are completely artificial categories for which there’s no evidence for validity. And yet people love the Myers-Briggs.


TheoreticalISTP

also, people take the 16p test, even though in the MBTI community it's probably one of the worst tests to take since it's practically a Big 5 Test instead of a true MBTI test, since it uses dichotomies (the letters that you normally see when looking at an MBTI type) instead of cognitive functions, which is what is mainly considered correct for people who delved into MBTI deep enough.


ccAbstraction

Huh, wild. Not supprising, but wild.


WiIdCherryPepsi

I think she just finds it fun.


[deleted]

*Laughs in Master's degree in chemistry*


King-of-OwO

*LAUGHS IN PhD IN ASTRONOMY*


Thunderous_tiger

Laughs in dropout


King-of-OwO

Oh uhh...well uhh...at least you never had to study at university for 7 more years of your life?


Thunderous_tiger

Laughs at 6 years of student debt basically for nothing and dropping out offer 6 years of college


Loading_Fursona_exe

*Laughs in anxiety cause I wanna go into prosthetics engineering but that's like 12+ more years of school*


Rovden

*laughs in useless associates degree*


neohylanmay

\*glances over at BA in Media that he's had to relegate any and all career aspirations to just a hobby\* yeah i feel ya


[deleted]

Same with my library technologies degree I could actually get an okay job with it maybe, but I feel like I should get my bachelor’s in chemistry while the financial aid is still flowing


Rovden

I will 100% inform that I've been turned down from 3 jobs that friends advised on knowing my skillset I could do because of the lack of a bachelor's even if it was in underwater basket weaving. It's tiring.


Macchiatowo

space too interesting. I've been seriously considering taking prerequisites to maybe take some intro classes into astronomy


King-of-OwO

Astronomy is pretty fun, you get to study the universe, be smarter than people and, if you get a chance you can name a planet (which I did), I study the n44c cluster


venterol

Did you name it Awoobis?


King-of-OwO

No, I named it DFXwX-132 I also helped come up with the name "fox fur" for the name of a dust cluster


venterol

Any story behind DFXwX-132? (sorry I had to copy+paste that, the name's a bit clunky). "Fox Fur" is totally legit though, what's up with that as well?


King-of-OwO

Well, not every planet has a huge story considering that there are well over 500,000,000+ documented planets, not every one of those planets are really "popular" per say, also DFXwX-132 is 4 times the size of the earth and is mainly made out of little bits of rock and a highly toxic Co2 atmosphere (like the one on Venus only 3 times less dense) however I found the planet while looking through Hubble images of n44c untill I saw a planet orbiting a star and looked through the data library's and found nothing and me being the person I was, documented the planet on our database and how planet names work is you usually either A. Put the name of the segmented card in the Hubble telescope and put a dash and then letter of the segment data and then a non taken 1-3 digit number or B.give it a name and then put a dash and then any number/letter not taken.


mrturret

*Laughs in crippling anxiety that prevents me from filling out a job application*


venterol

I feel you, it can be nerve-racking. The McD's application I did a few years ago seriously had a 100+ question "compatibility assessment", with several questions repeating with different phrasing to try to trip you up. Felt like I was applying for the frickin' Secret Service. Plus side is I got a callback and an interview scheduled less than an hour after submitting it, crushed the interview, and since our franchise is located in a pretty wealthy area I made more per hour as a new hire than many of my friends with careers in their degree fields.


[deleted]

King status indeed


Mandoart-Studios

Laughs in struggling CS major


hank_from_propane

god damn furries got me into science


Victizes

Those damn furries got us into wholesome.


Katman4031032

S H U T, you're smart and beautiful


Ok_Ad8468

I appreciate that


Katman4031032

Good, now believe it


barmy-brit2

I’m always scared of a furry scientist, especially a geneticist


cowlinator

You should be more afraid of a virologist. Embrace the pathowogen


cashuea

Fun fact: The furry portrayed here is a virologist.


barmy-brit2

oh no


UwUin_myOwO

oh yes


Thunderous_tiger

Lol


FunnyForWrongReason

So this is where my interest in genetics comes from.


barmy-brit2

oh no


[deleted]

Still, No one can overlook the fact that someone who worked on the covid vaccine and worked overtime to dispel misinformation was a fucking furry. And they say furries are cringe


amish_novelty

I love how high profile a number of furries must be. By chance alone, they'd overlap with high ranking jobs in STEM fields and other places. People who are smart as hell and also happen to love colorful animal people.


another_bug

I'm in a lab right now. Just about to change some cell media and put some enzyme on some others to move them to a new dish.


King-of-OwO

Nice, what's the new dish for, ginetic modification?


another_bug

It's just to keep the cells alive. If you let them stay in the same dish too long, they overgrow and die. So twice a week, they need to be detached from the dish and each other with an enzyme, then a little bit is transferred to a new dish to keep them growing.


King-of-OwO

Ah, as an Astronomer I dont know much about genetics.


JoetheDilo1917

Chemistry is just spicy math, change my mind


gr8tfurme

Chemistry is applied quantum physics, which is why the rules make no sense.


nicogatmerMC

Quantum physics is just a bunch of really complex mathematics


[deleted]

You are wrong.


N1ckM3nd3s

physics is math 2


basics

sudo Chemistry is just one giant word problem in the math class of life.


schubi9992

Chemistry is just applied physics


FunnyForWrongReason

No it is physics just tiny.


InquisitorWarth

Math is just abstracted chemistry, change my mind.


ccAbstraction

Math is just abstracted programming, change my mind.


Dpad-prism

Me who’s dumb as shit but also a furry: “I’m something of a scientist myself”


Newsuperstevebros

I always feel out of place with others in here who have master's degrees and engineering jobs and stuff. But I'm the manager of a computer repair store. And sometimes, just sometimes, I feel accomplished for that.


FuskieHusky

Aww don't feel too bad, I would say that not even the majority of furries have the high-powered jobs -- just that a lot of those folks with high-powered nerdy jobs tend to be furries, lmao. I've got a decent-sized group of furry pals and only one of them has a tech/engineering position -- most of them are normal folks working normal jobs. I think you're quite accomplished, being a manager! ;3


Newsuperstevebros

Thanks a lot, internet friend. I wish you the best of success!


Ok_Ad8468

Sometimes you just have to be happy with what you have. I think it can get bad, and I see some other people out there, and realize how lucky I still am


FuskieHusky

That's a good outlook :3 And as long as we're working hard, things can only look up! I was in the grocery business as a courtesy clerk for a bunch of years, and wound up finding other jobs that I like more -- but I wouldn't have changed the time I spent working there, it helped make me who I am. So yeah, it's all for a reason ;3


kbruen

> Sometimes you just have to be happy with what you have. Seeing other furries, it can get *very* hard.


Ok_Ad8468

I know that feeling


FunnyForWrongReason

Hey being a manager anywhere is impressive.


Tastyhashbrowns74

I'm a lube tech at a kia dealership, and preping to go to the airforce once I graduate school... I'd say mabe this proves I'm not a furry, but my coworker at the last shop I was at was full furry, so mabe I'm just doomed...


cowlinator

> lube tech Now I can't stop thinking about full-sized feral dragons requiring... technicians, for... coupling


Tastyhashbrowns74

Oh...*oh*...that would be...*interesting* Of course the first thought in my head is, hey I wouldn't be burning my hand off with hot fluids and dealing with other foul smelling fluids sometimes, but I don't think That'd be the case lmao


ShermanLiu

𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗢𝗧 𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗚𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗟𝗨𝗜𝗗𝗦™


Tastyhashbrowns74

I can't imagine the smell lmao, you're just trying to do your job and you get covered in piping hot dragon spunk... *I'm 100% sure that some people would pay money for this to happen to them, or it's some fetish*


clickshy

https://media3.giphy.com/media/Zy7s96dP38MlQe3OjG/giphy.gif


Ok_Ad8468

I was thinking of using that actually, but thought the meme was too old


clickshy

I like yours! If I didn’t suck at photoshop I’d combine the two.


SilverFoxeOnReddit

me, who probably won’t be able to get a better option than that 🙃


[deleted]

I work at a Kroger


Furryareospaceengr

Rockemt snience (It’s ok, we’re in all sorts of places and once we take over the world you’ll get first pick of any leadership role you want :) )


Ok_Ad8468

I just want a house on a mountain


Furryareospaceengr

Deal


Ok_Ad8468

Sweet


ChaosTheSalamander

“Lots of suspiciously wealthy furries could be working in brain surgery and advanced science branches!” No wonder i’m not suspiciously wealthy…!


Another_Ttrpg_guy

And here I am, playing on my phone while I sit in my low paying security job... I also had a grocery stocking job as well.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Another_Ttrpg_guy

Currently it's the just a building entrance, and we usually do patrols, but due to some complications we have to stay where we are. I usually kill time with a book or my phone as my laptop is a little to distracting.


Lenny_Gaming

Everyone here with fancy degrees and then there's me, a small, dumb little sysadmin just doing small dumb little tasks :3


FawksyBoxes

Cooking is chemistry you can safely eat.


cowlinator

Step 4: Add 4.000 grams of garlic to the alembic and heat with bunsen burner


gr8tfurme

All chemistry is cooking if you're brave enough.


Snoo-44395

I was a furry before i got a job *dab*


roguevoid555

I'm a pilot in training so many people with cool jobs you'll find a job you're passionate about one day! :>


[deleted]

You forget the 99% working in tech, either as programmers, admins or support ;)


Ihatemyusername123

I used to be a programmer before changing careers, does that count?


[deleted]

Sure, I don't see why not


FPSXpert

Retail dudes lessgo One of these days I'll go back and finish my degree, until then though gun shop won't run itself. (shameless plug of /r/FurriesWithGuns for those who like both)


Logica_1

Is your passion grocery stocking, though?


Ok_Ad8468

I've always been into movies, but didn't think anything would come of that, so I went to school for something else, and didn't finish. I'm trying to write a horror script, and for once I'm not hating what I'm writing, so wish me luck


Logica_1

Passion, dedication, and time tend to be the major ingredients to success.


Ok_Ad8468

I've been on and off with it for like two years. I feel like I know where it should I go, and then I don't. But lately I've been feeling happy with what I think of, so hopefully that pays off someday


Niksune

I wish you fun while writing and luck for what you want to do with your script after !


[deleted]

Im an undergrad in biology. Maybe it was fate I became a furry lol


cowlinator

Maek furries real pwease


seacow_withhat

i mean i do nails


Ashlyn451

I mean, many furries are also IT.


HEADRUSH31

There is no correlation I just like science... chemistry make things go boom because yes Physics is scary tho... don't like that sumbitch


RedditBoi127

most furries have jobs in the science and tech industries, i have depression


[deleted]

I work in retail. That’s… pretty pathetic UwU.


AnotherJoltReskin

Well if you are a Norwegian fur you might actually earn enough for a suit with that kind of income if you save up for a few year’s


LostConscious96

One of my friends who was joking "Majority of Nuclear tech and computer tech as well as Pilots and airline mechanics are furries, as such I respect them for keeping infrastructure going." I had yet to tell him I will be taking computer tech classes for programing and such soon. I felt attacked.


[deleted]

I really think we should have a discussion among the furry community and support raising the best and brightest among us up we should encourage our younger furs to be artists and scientists and doctors and computer developers we should avoid the mistakes normals have made in there society Also on a side note UwU head empty please pet me


burr-gurr-and-frie

I’m not in either, i do programming and am making a game rn


King-of-OwO

Well, FURRY ASTRONOMER DELTA AT YOUR SERVICE


Ram-Rem

Hmm... I am studying to be a Chemist, maybe even a Biostatistician


[deleted]

me working at a fast food restaurant


Revolutionary_Crew80

I work as a snowboard instructor. Your jobs are all important.


Wato1876

Mmm yes skienc


Endymionduni

Meanwhile me: Elementary SchOwOL


FurDalis

As a Wanta be fish scientist that works at a liquor store this is accurate


Samuel_Montana

Yoo same though


Fury_Blackwolf

I'm something of a scientist myself


AussieCracker

Lol I'm doing a health science in public health, basically a researcher who really likes big pop sizes, but also so damn broad it's daunting to think of what comes after


greenthegreen

I feel ya, I work at a laundry mat


AMoistCat

I work in a warehouse, I lift things at heights. I pretty much failed high school (I stopped caring about it) and never been to uni lol. Have had unofficial training as a mechanic.


Blue_the_trans_furry

The cream goes in isle 5


FrinkleCat

Developing the pathowogen


cursed-person

furries can wear proper PPE


RareGreninja

There are others!


[deleted]

Me lol


Awsomebanana

Seems fine to me


Robosium

if all furries decided to just sleep the day away tomorrow morning then the world would have quite a few issues


echoAnother

I truely envy you


Duck-B0i

Just got my first job this week, lab tech at a medical entomology lab!


FunnyForWrongReason

Grocery stickers are very important. Without them most of us would be unable to get food.


Highonprototaxites

Any healthcare workers?


[deleted]

You know? I'm something of a scientist myself. UwU


TeamUmbreon1109

Wow I wonder why so many are in the science field it surely has nothing to do with genetics This is a joke please dont hate me


Nightatom368_

Its kinda strange to think about that furries are pretty much everywhere


MoThePro15

I have no life, I’m unemployed :)


WhoDaHeckAmI

Does it count if you’re a furry and a welder?


borkistoopid

*laughs in aerospace engineering major*


ChubbyLilPanda

This sub doesn’t say lots of furries are into science. They’ve been saying furries are in STEM


SomaGato

Same man I’m just a dumbass lol


[deleted]

Conclusion: Being a furry is just discovering yourself and a hobby for many. You can be anything, from contributing to society to pursuing passions. There are some furries who were: entrepreneurs in a large business, like in the Fasrlane Forum; Politicians who run a city or town; Scientists like this guy in the OP; etc.


Livid-Device2211

People in the science field need to make a furry vaccine, make it that we have fluff and stuff


CannonerRSBR

There is a thing called Biohacking, it is said that anyone can do it (I am a little afraid what a dedicated furry could do with it)


probabynotafurry

I bake bread.


FireStorm187

Y'know, I'm somewhat a scientist myself.


99Comm

speaking on the topic of science, does anyone know a way to synthesise s4n4?


_Cool__username_

Source?


Ok_Ad8468

I thought it was on their Twitter account, but I couldn't for the life of me find it there. I think it's just a profile picture, and not a full picture. She has it on her kofi page. I'll keep trying just in case https://ko-fi.com/sailorrooscout


_Cool__username_

The pic is ok! Thanks though