Oh god they have a Bible translation?

This is a good-ass shitpost

I think the moral “dilemma” is supposed to be

1. You pull the lever and now you’ve now actively killed someone or,
2. You don’t pull the lever and 4 people died, but you weren’t the one to kill them so you’re basically clean

It’s stupid, but I think that’s the idea

Oh I love Phil Ochs and Woody Guthrie. I’ll definitely check out the new stuff

“If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child’s natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn’t possibly do as good a job as is currently being done— I simply wouldn’t have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul- crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education” -Paul Lockhart

A few of the professors in other departments have some pretty interesting technique as far as grading goes, and they’re seeing a good deal of success. There’s also a growing body of research on alternative practices and the effects on student engagement, and the results outperform traditional grading in pretty much every way relevant to student learning in every study. I’m not saying we gotta immediately do something radical, but what I’m saying is we’re trying to pretend like we’re being radical, while not really making even the slightest push in the right direction. Like even just a little bit of trying something new in order to figure out what works would be wonderful. We don’t have to immediately figure it out. But what we can do is draw from other courses that had success and try to work the principals into our course. However, we’re just stuck in this nightmarish cycle of underperforming in some aspect and pinning it on the students, instead of doing what’s on our product label and making an attempt to free them from the same sort of BS they’ve had to deal with in other classes.

Nothing comes immediately, but it’s like we’re not even trying.

I hadn’t even considered the difference between bank and personal finance. Thank you for you well thought out response, Comrade.

Hell yeah! Congrats!

I get what you’re saying, but I feel like for any given thing, you should have at the very least a basic understanding before trying to give an analysis of it. Maybe I’m just finding it difficult to empathise with people who know exactly 0 about something that’s become a core part of who I am.

I guess the issue is that to them they already have a lot of information about the subject and are unaware that it’s incorrect, which is fair. I’m sure I do the same thing when I talk about physics, seeing as how I’m not a physicist.

Oo good idea

This is wonderful advice. Thank you very much. I’m stealing all of this :)

As far as mathematics is concerned, the following YouTube channels are splendid.

• 3blue1brown
• Mathologer
• Michael Penn
• Another Roof
• Reducible

And while I would say that’s based, sadly the law does not agree 😭.

I hate that. I never noticed that. This is my first job where I’ve had to do these types of training. I’ve worked food service until now. How anyone could say this kind of crap and not realize they’re a bad person for doing so astounds me.

I understand where you’re coming from, but I’m also confused what you expect to happen in the comments of a post like that. Would you rather people be rooting for billionaires in the comments? Or just a couple "damn that’s crazy"s? In the former case, there’s quite a lot of capitalist apologetics on this platform already, and I honestly envy you if you don’t encounter it frequently. In the latter case, personally I would find that boring, though I suppose that’s a matter of opinion.

Yeah I getcha. In my mind, capitalism does do a lot of good things, but it always seems to be at the expense of human life. And to me, the good that capitalism brings isn’t a justification of the countless lives ravaged in order to make the lives of the privileged comfortable.

I totally agree with you that one has to make certain compromises in order to enjoy life with the cards we’ve been dealt. We can’t be doom and gloom all the time, that’s just miserable. However, not everyone has that luxury, as many people have had their lives irreparably destroyed by capitalism. I think it’s totally fine and healthy to personally compromise with capitalism, because that’s the only way someone has a chance at not living a horrible life. But I do stand by my previous statement that claiming that Nordic “socialism” is evil is not an unreasonable take. Capitalists do run amok in these countries, just not in the same ways as more traditionally capitalist countries.

a little too anti capitalist

Literally impossible for this to apply to somebody. Any amount of pro-capitalism is affording certain exploitative power to the exploiters. You don’t think the Nordic countries exploit the Global South? They’re better than living in places like the US but democratic socialism is anything but “capitalism but good.” Good for who?

Capitalism has proven itself to be an evil, evil system, both in theory and in practice. It’s not a reasonable take to compromise with something so vile.

The idea that people like me are somehow the unreasonable ones for wanting to eradicate exploitation instead of defining acceptable levels of systemic pain inflicted, is honestly extraordinarily frustrating.

Can unfortunately confirm

Yewler like math. Euler dope. Mispronunciation funny.

As an arch user myself, I almost tripped over myself running to leave this comment. I do use arch btw.