HS science teacher, Libertarian Party officer, former biomedical researcher. Too tired to blog much anymore. I strive to be an equal-opportunity bitch-moaner.
Kids are allowed being pissed that they go all the way through fucking college then send out literally hundreds of job applications that go fucking nowhere only to wind up with a job that they could have done at 15 and can't cover independent adult living expenses
Have you ever heard someone say they're "bad at tests"?
As it turns out, those people just tend to not be very smart.
More details in my latest article.
Television shows often need more than 1 season to grow and development. Take a look at Breaking Bad - one of the greatest shows ever, but it took its time to really grip you and needed more than 1 season to do that. The same for The Clone Wars. Season 1 had a number of rough
just once I want to see the male love interest reveal a shocking capacity for violence in defense of the ones he loves and instead of being disturbed the female love interest is like "that is the hottest thing I have ever seen in my life"
Guys you need to just get whole milk. The government lied to you. Your parents didn't know any better--it's not their fault. But you need to drink whole milk now.
US nuclear plant Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history, is to restart operations in a deal to sell power to Microsoft
The system is fucking stupid as hell and we're making it more stupid, not less. Kids might be annoying about it but you being a smug cunt about them whining still makes you a whiny bitch too.
Guys like this are the reason I think a critical part of any engineering education is for students to get hands on in a machine shop
Go dream up a part, make a drawing, then go try to cut it
You learn real fast everything what's wrong with your drawing & the value of a good one
This is genuinely a bigger flex than putting it in NYC/Chicago. The world needs to know that the states they can't find on a map can pull this shit too. ALL of America kicks ass and should be in constant competition to show off
* checks calendar
Nope, not April 1.
The city with the highest skyscraper in the US will not be New York. Not Chicago. Not Los Angeles. Not Hosuton.
This 1,907' tall skyscraper will be in Oklahoma City.
Developer has secured $1.5B in financing and now hoping for a building
We spent a trillion dollars and two decades trying to bring liberal democracy to Afghanistan. Like it sucks it didn't stick, but at some point what the fuck else do you propose?
Women in Afghanistan are being obliterated—no voice, no face, no existence. The Taliban’s latest decrees are nothing short of barbaric: women banned from singing, reciting poetry, or even speaking aloud in public. Their faces and bodies must hidden from the world.
This isn’t
Nobody will remember:
- Your salary
- Your fancy title
- How ‘busy’ you were
- Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion
- C beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate
Don't Google your symptoms! That pales in comparison to waiting for several months to see a doctor to order a test, waiting for a follow up, and getting a diagnosis of "hmm, I don't know", getting a referral, and repeating this process over and over while you still feel shitty
@justksshit
Sure, but that has nothing to do with genes or racism, and the expulsion rate is like 1/60.
I...agree all schools should be able to have basic-ass baseline rules.
As a tangent to this example I was amused to learn a social worker in Chicago circa 1900 interviewed middle school aged boys, and 4 out of 5 said they preferred working in the factory to school.
Reading political history is fun. Take an issue which has consensus today (say, ban on child labor,) and a good history of the issue will present the arguments people made against it at the time.
Often the critics were right about consequences, but like, it’s fine. Not that bad.
Humanities majors be like "It's not our fault that our idea escaped the academy and was hijacked by morons and co-opted as a blunt political instrument!"
Idk man, when general relativity escaped academia we got functional GPS.
People > 2.5 sigmas to the right on math ability think we should make stats classes mandatory so everyone will understand things like normal distributions and selection bias and they say this without a hint of irony.
Why does the US have so much higher rates of unwanted pregnancies than other rich countries? E.g. 8 times higher teenage birth rate than Switzerland, more than double the rate of France.
Lack of contraceptives? Sex ed? Open communication? Economic inequality? Other?
@GianmarcoSoresi
But running does help a number of people with depression, and exercise is recommended by both therapists and medical professionals as a part of dealing with mental health issues like depression.
I like how Vader has punctilious respect for titles and calls Han "Captain Solo". He's a drug smuggler in a "piece of junk" little ship with a single crewmember, but Vader's still like "hey decorum says he's a captain, you know, like we're not animals here" while he chokes a dude
Mildly concerned about the number of comments I've gotten saying "Breaking Bad takes place in New Mexico, but Star Wars takes place on other planets, so it's more expensive to film."
A fifth of all degrees are business degrees and about 3/4ths of students go to public schools. This isn't about scams. Kids are raised by their parents and the public education system that co-raises them from 5-18 that they should go to college. They're doing what they were told
I blew an 18 year old kid's mind when I showed him that you can do 3.5*6 without a calculator by doing 3*6+3*.5. He was one of my strong students. I like you guys, but you people have no fucking idea where the average person is at.
So I looked it up, and there are only 8 living, unmarried women with a doctorate degree and a Nobel that I can determine. 5 are divorcees and one is a lesbian.
Person whose posts are like:
"Outgroup is stupid, evil, and irredeemable"
"Outgroup is stupid, evil, and irredeemable"
"I am better at empathy than everyone"
"Outgroup is stupid, evil, and irredeemable"
"The System is trying to divide us! Don't let Them!"
"Outgroup is stupid...
Yeah man they did market research and found that 14 year olds would buy spy novels from the 50s if the punishers would neuter them to the exact sensibilities of Helen Lovejoy
If you think editing James Bond or Roald Dahl is about anything other than capitalism you're deluded. These companies looked at declining sales and did research and found younger audiences are turned off by certain things, so in order to sell more books they are making edits.
College is a multi trillion dollar subsidized work permit system. That's it's purpose. You can want it to be something else all you want, but that's what it is by mass. Weird you spent all that money on your thinking degree and never noticed it.
"Nobody wants to listen to you criticize this radar system we all agree is really important and we worked really hard on. Maybe if you decide to bring up some solutions instead of problems we'd hear you out. Ever think about that?"
Another example of the thing where certain men have a weird and obstinate mental block about "dressing up"—in this case, a man who's offended and resentful about having to wear a tie to a black tie wedding his girlfriend was invited to
lmao the fucking sous chef makes goddamn $15 an hour?! Is all fine dining a fucking pyramid scheme, or is it just New York? Jesus Christ the is actual entry level at McDonalds money.