Who and What Was a Knocker-Upper?
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I paused at "old woman who minds babies". I would say that this is an important profession close to the center of national debate.
"Do someone in"
"Come across", "come forward"
"Back down" "back up"
little known fact, but it's actually something like the crowd doing a Wave in a stadium, it travels from east to west with the sun, rousers rousing neighbors, making a gradient across each timezone.
In the process JSTOR drove Aaron Swartz to suicide.
Academic publishing is rotten to the core, including the "non-profits". It is detrimental to science and human progress and leeches off countless billions of public funds to do so.
here come the downvotes cuz some people can't handle the truth. I'm entirely sympathetic to Aaron's mental illness because I was raised in a way that gave something similar to me too. Luckily my crash worked out better. Aaron's parents hold him up as a martyr, and I (with no direct knowledge) suspect they might have had a hand in making him behave like a martyr, because I know just what it's like.
By the way, framing this as "good vs evil" and Aaron was good, and he did a good thing, while you don't yourself engage the world the way you are encouraging him to, is the root of the actual evil. The world isn't black and white, it's many shades (and colors) and lighting yourself on fire or encouraging somebody else to is rarely the right way to address problems you see.
but in his case though i think most people felt justice was hugely disproportionate- and only because they wanted to make an example out of a vulnerable person, just to protect their profit.
Academic publishing is corrupt and broken, but the facts can speak for themselves without needing to be exaggerated.