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Comment by eth0up | original | Why jet engines aren't made in China
[−]eth0up · 2026-07-02 Thu 00:45 UTC · link
All I know is that they produce a lot of engineers, while the US produces a lot gender studies majors. I rarely say it, but I do not foresee much that they won't be leaving us sharply behind on soon, other than poverty and homelessness, which we have pretty well covered.
[−]bluGill · 2026-07-02 Thu 01:17 UTC · link
There are about as many gender study majors in the U.S. per year as there are aviation engineering majors. That is one small niche of engineering majors that includes all of gender study.
[−]eth0up · 2026-07-02 Thu 01:30 UTC · link
I guess I can relax and stop worrying that we're falling behind a bit. But I do wonder what the numbers really are, and just how many engineers we produce compared to China, of course, without qualifying everyone that learned Visual Basic as an engineer, unless, of course, that's where they're actually getting their own numbers from.