The Insane "Social Justice" Thread II

[HoughMade]

I think that math-phobia is at the root of most objections to including fundamentals such as algebra in a core curriculum. I also think that most
math-phobia is a direct result of really, really bad math teachers who to more to teach their students to hate and fear math than they do to help them learn and master the concepts.

I don't use arithmetic that often in my work, but I use mathematics principles regularly, like every day. Learning to do algebraic proofs opened my eyes to how to solve complex problems and the concepts learned by doing them form the basis of how I compose legal arguments in matters of first impression.

Algebra particularly is a particularly critical subject.

 

[JettaKnight]

Interesting policy.

So metaphors and similes like cancer, parasitic, leeching... things like that... are now bannable offenses on Twitter.

What if they're otherkin?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Huh. Reducing groups to their genitalia... What about groups that reduce themselves to their genitalia, like all the women in their ***** hats? Will they be banned from Twitter as well? Guessing not.

I wonder if self-dehumanization falls within this, as well... That means all those furries and "otherkin" are violating rules

 

[HoughMade]

New show they're advertising a buttload on TV.

New Amsterdam.
About a doctor trying to get people to stop worrying about hospital and doctors billing.


in other words, free medical care for everyone.
Isn't it great.
This should work in the real world.

Of course, they could say, It's based on real life, so it can work.
Failing to mention the taxpayers, or the conditions of the hospital.

Have seen the commercials....curious about how the doctors, nurses, mortgage, etc. get paid until the ultimate takeover by a benevolent, parental government headed by a trans woman of color.

 

[actaeon277]

Yes, in one of the promos an entire department of docs is fired for being concerned about costs. Firing good, experienced doctors that expect to get paid for their work and replacing them with young idealists, what could possibly go wrong with that in the real world?

Then there's insurance to pay, electric bills, maintenance of the building, maintenance and procurement of medical equipment, janitors pay, etc.
I guess that's all just supposed to disappear.

 

[actaeon277]

I don't use arithmetic that often in my work, but I use mathematics principles regularly, like every day. Learning to do algebraic proofs opened my eyes to how to solve complex problems and the concepts learned by doing them form the basis of how I compose legal arguments in matters of first impression.

Algebra particularly is a particularly critical subject.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I don't use arithmetic that often in my work, but I use mathematics principles regularly, like every day. Learning to do algebraic proofs opened my eyes to how to solve complex problems and the concepts learned by doing them form the basis of how I compose legal arguments in matters of first impression.

Algebra particularly is a particularly critical subject.

In college, I took a number of digital electronics classes, programming classes, using truth tables, logic, etc. Senior year, as colleges want you to do, I had to take a non-technical elective. I believe it was in one of the humanities buildings but I found a class called something like Something...Something...Symoblic Logic. It was basically disecting statements using Ands, Ors, Nors, Ifs, etc. I was SOOOooooo easy, mostly because of my previous classes. It was probably the easies A I ever got with the least amount of studying. My classmates however, the non-engineering students, for them was a very different story. It's not often I'm the smartest man in the room...but for that quarter, for those 3 hours/week, in that one room, I felt like it.

 

[HoughMade]

In college, I took a number of digital electronics classes, programming classes, using truth tables, logic, etc. Senior year, as colleges want you to do, I had to take a non-technical elective. I believe it was in one of the humanities buildings but I found a class called something like Something...Something...Symoblic Logic. It was basically disecting statements using Ands, Ors, Nors, Ifs, etc. I was SOOOooooo easy, mostly because of my previous classes. It was probably the easies A I ever got with the least amount of studying. My classmates however, the non-engineering students, for them was a very different story. It's not often I'm the smartest man in the room...but for that quarter, for those 3 hours/week, in that one room, I felt like it.

I took the simply named: "Logic" in college. Great class, but similarly simple. I wasn't an engineering major, but I came up through high school taking all the math available including calculus and non-euclidean geometry....then I never took another math class (though I did CLEP college algebra and calculus).

Learning how to break problems down into the smallest steps, then using those steps to get where you want to go is something math trains you to do. When I was really young, if I ever complained about "story problems" my Dad would say: "Life is a s story problem. You need to learn how to solve it." Of course, he was an engineer.

 

[actaeon277]

I took the simply named: "Logic" in college. Great class, but similarly simple. I wasn't an engineering major, but I came up through high school taking all the math available including calculus and non-euclidean geometry....then I never took another math class (though I did CLEP college algebra and calculus).

Learning how to break problems down into the smallest steps, then using those steps to get where you want to go is something math trains you to do. When I was really young, if I ever complained about "story problems" my Dad would say: "Life is a s story problem. You need to learn how to solve it." Of course, he was an engineer.

I agree with your dad.

 

[Route 45]

I never took anything more advanced than high school algebra and geometry, and I think I've done ok for myself.

Not sure that I need a math class to use the common sense necessary to break large tasks down into small, manageable bits.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I took the simply named: "Logic" in college. Great class, but similarly simple. I wasn't an engineering major, but I came up through high school taking all the math available including calculus and non-euclidean geometry....then I never took another math class (though I did CLEP college algebra and calculus).

Learning how to break problems down into the smallest steps, then using those steps to get where you want to go is something math trains you to do. When I was really young, if I ever complained about "story problems" my Dad would say: "Life is a s story problem. You need to learn how to solve it." Of course, he was an engineer.

He's right.

 

[actaeon277]

Accreditation.
If a college changes their degree and don't follow a criteria, they lose it.


If you make a nationwide acceptable electronics degree, and you think people need to study transistors, should people say, I don't like studying transistors, and I don't "need" it.

If you want the accredited degree, you do what is required.
If you don't want to do it, then take a non-accredited course.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Article on the alleged GenCon assault.

The Quartering’s Jeremy Hambly Attacked at Gencon 2018

Gen Con has finally responded.

They banned both Hambly and his attacker.

 

[actaeon277]

Gen Con has finally responded.

They banned both Hambly and his attacker.

For what reason?
Isn't that like victim blaming?

 

[actaeon277]

This is VERY NSFW



cursing

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[Dead Duck]

When did we get salad emojis?

 

[printcraft]

This is VERY NSFW



cursing

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"That Guy" for President 2024 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


I don't care if he is not a natural born citizen, that went out the window in 2008.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

This is VERY NSFW



cursing

click to play
[video=facebook_share;1955310751182347]https://www.facebook.com/Loossunit/videos/1955310751182347/[/video]

LOL!

That reminds me (kinda) of that Clark Griswold rant in Christmas vacation...only with a British accent.

 

[rhino]

I don't use arithmetic that often in my work, but I use mathematics principles regularly, like every day. Learning to do algebraic proofs opened my eyes to how to solve complex problems and the concepts learned by doing them form the basis of how I compose legal arguments in matters of first impression.

Algebra particularly is a particularly critical subject.

 

[rhino]

I never took anything more advanced than high school algebra and geometry, and I think I've done ok for myself.

Not sure that I need a math class to use the common sense necessary to break large tasks down into small, manageable bits.

That's the thing . . . it's likely that what you call common sense is also something you would learn in a good algebra class when you learn how to solve problems. Sometimes common sense isn't so common!