re: Biden tapping Bill Nye the 'not really a' science guy

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He's a mechanical engineer

I wouldn't say that he is lacking in scientific knowledge

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The engineers I've dealt with are smart on paper but absolute morons in practice. Even the "good ones". Things work differently in the real world.

Engineering team of 6 will take a week with their advanced software and CAD to design a piece of equipment with 54 levels of redundancy and then send it off to a shop to be built by a team of 12 with the lead time being approximately 5 weeks and a total cost of $65,000...

I'll sit at my desk with drafting paper, a pencil, a ruler and a compass for 12 hours, design a superior piece of equipment and build it with my coworker in two weeks from start to finish for $20,000.

Engineers are idiots and corporations are idiots for using them. I'm an even bigger idiot for being smarter and more efficient at my job than a college degreed engineer for roughly 25% of their pay.