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hooser
19m ago
For math specifically: most US states have adopted some version of the standards that were put together by the National Council of Mathematics Teachers and the US National Research Council's "Adding it up: helping children learn mathematics" report. The latter focuses solely on Kindergarden-8th grade, and in my opinion may explain why the NCMT standards are coherent up to 8th grade but lose serious steam in their recommended standards for 9th-12th grade. I have never understood the sense of teaching Algebra 1 for a year, then switching to Geometry for a year, then once the students have forgotten all about algebra switch back to Algebra 2 and spend the first half just recapitulating Algebra 1 for those who utterly forgot it and boring the rest silly.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '21
21m ago
How do you overcome self-loathing as a writer? In high school I loved to write and I did so unselfconsciously, but in college I started to "try" and found that every time I wrote something that in the moment felt profound, when I read it again the next day I found it terrible and embarrassing. Is there some mental trick to short-circuiting this impulse? I really want to write as I remember it being as enjoyable as playing music.
Also, what are you writing about? Tell me about your story and characters.
pbmonster
25m ago
Mine is the fear of missing out on potentially helpful information. What is yours?
This is certainly part of it. Even if you don't 'like' any content at all, twitter, youtube et. al will feed you only more of what you consumed previously - even worse if you follow other accounts. But I also just really don't want those companies to built up a profile about me in order to sell me ads.
It also has previously unintended side-effects: for example, people now frequently report having trouble ad-blocking on youtube. This isn't an issue if you're not logged in.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
32m ago
Though it's strongly implied that both Crabbe and Goyle generations are almost too dimwitted to use magic.
Complicated question. Quick answer for normies: Feedly.
Complicated answer: Are you OK with making an account and maybe even paying for it? Do you need cross-platform support (sync between your phone and a tablet/PC)? If no, your options are endless. I like miniflux.
If you want cross-platform without a third party, you need to self-host your feeds. I really like the RSS features Nextcloud brings. Use and app on your phone, the web interface anywhere else. Miniflux can also selfhost.
Even Parisians are no less friendly than the inhabitants of any comparable big city.
This is totally wrong, have you seen how Parisians park? They literally ram the car in front and behind them with their bumpers to make room for parallel parking. Strangers will scratch up your bumper to make their parking easier and won't see anything wrong with it. This would be considered extremely rude in most other places.
Here's a video of Americans being shocked by Parisian parking: https://youtube.com/watch?v=n51OdFlOi1o
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
35m ago
anyone who was legitimately from the lower orders
The thief Mundungus Fletcher surely qualifies.
stuckinbathroom
41m ago
Her parents are dentists, that’s all I remember about them
FiveHourMarathon
Listen to Pierre
51m ago
If I didn't recognize the username I would have reported this as bait from a troll trying to get people to do base and boring racism.
Though we also got death, taxes, age @2rafa correcting various Americans on the intricacies of the British class system.
In general a lot of these examples suffer from definitional problems. What makes a stereotype True? What makes one Useful? Is "height correlates with intelligence" a true stereotype if there is any correlation, or only if it's the best tool by which to judge? A significant part of the perceived motte and bailey is a struggle between "Judging people by X is better than random" and "Judging people by X is less useful than judging them by Y."
A great example right now is gender race and politics. A white man is 6/10 likely to vote for Trump. So white man = Trump Voter is more accurate than blind chance. But we all know white men who didn't, and we all know white men who from across a room you can say with 95% certainty based on appearance that they didn't. Should I continue to hold the former stereotype in my mind when the latter evidence points the other way.
That said I'll throw one out there: ethnic in group preference exists, and as much as I was raised to be told it was a harmful racist stereotype one ignores it at one's own peril.
Oopz
52m ago
Its funny how one comment tells me it's impossible and then one comment basically gives me what I'm looking for. Thank you.
I also refuse to give the algorithm anything. I'm not even logged in almost anywhere, and I certainly won't use an app.
I'm getting the sense that your motivation for the avoidance of algorithms is different from mine. Mine is the fear of missing out on potentially helpful information. What is yours?
TowardsPanna
1hr ago
Which RSS reader do you recommend?
Crowstep
1hr ago
Stop worrying about people not having kids! Like, if you're reading this and that is something that you were worried about, I'm begging you, please, it'll be alright. Evolution works! It doesn't need your help!
I'm not worried about 'evolution' doing okay. I'm worried about myself, my friends and family, and human civilisation. I know that humans as a species will survive, but I'd rather that every country in the world not turn into South Africa in the meantime. I think industrial civilisation is good and I want to maintain it.
Like sure, I guess I can admire your extremely long view from a certain perspective. But what can I say, I'm just a parochial worry-wort who doesn't want humanity living in mud huts and bashing eachother with rocks again.
MaximumCuddles
1hr ago
Same. I wouldn’t be surprised if a large percentage of men of a certain age first encountered it there.
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1hr ago
So the answer to the low TFR is enough money to escape the rat race? South Park already did it.
SteveKirk
1hr ago
I can't understand why shareholders don't insist on tying CEO pay to company performance, Musk-style. Does it reveal too much about the board's expectations for growth/decline?
NunoSempere
1hr ago
Also, I've sometimes entered Data secrets lox, but bumped out pretty quickly; what is an example of a discussion you've found valuable there, if that's not too much trouble?
Ditto6687
1hr ago
Dursleys are people who say “settee” and “pleased to meet you” and so on.
Not English, what is the connotation here?
Hermione’s background is upper-middle.
I'm rusty on my HP lore, but where is this implied? I don't remember her family situation being discussed much in the books or shown in the film.
NunoSempere
1hr ago
A straightforward answer could be to write a parser for each source of information that you are interested in, and then a frontend to consume that information. I am partially doing this (and it provides some of the magic sauce for my startup), though I also use email and rss. And Twitter; the serendipity factor for the algorithm is still too high to leave it be.
magic9mushroom
If you're going to downvote me, and nobody's already voiced your objection, please reply and tell me
1hr ago
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Pepper ball guns, tazers, and lowest caliber pistols can be over-the-counter. Wilderness communities can get needs-based allocation for larger guns. And hobbyists would have to take demanding tests to qualify for the wider selection.
You know that the vast majority of gun crime is done with small-calibre pistols, right? I mean, maybe not lowest, IIRC most of it's 9mm Parabellum instead of .22LR, but generally criminals aren't looking for stopping power and range - they're looking for low noise, low cost, low recoil, and especially small size, because the use-case of career criminals is "I need this unarmoured guy 10 metres away to go away on zero notice, ideally without attracting attention" and that usually means hipfire from something that can be worn on the belt and wielded one-handed (and ideally hidden).
If you want to stay on the Pareto frontier, small-calibre pistols are the first thing to ban over-the-counter.
(Also, pistols are really convenient for suicides; longarms are less so, although not much less.)
No_one
2hr ago
The link is self-explanatory.
A pretty impressive guy who has been mentioned here and who got cancelled for saying his mind is apparently tasked with recruiting people to reform key institutions.
What more should one post?
I guess you could just cram it into the CW thread, but
a) it's not even really worth debating.
b) it's fairly important information. Wouldn't everyone here want better Us institutions ?
Basically all the stereotypes about X or Y European culture being rude/unfriendly/etc. are false.
Interestingly enough, I have exactly the counter view of US culture, especially related to restaurant service. I find US waiters as rude. First they impose themselves upon me as if I care about their name or their stupid questions about where I am from or why am I in the US - as if I cannot tell that they don't give a shit. Then they constantly interrupt me and my friends with inane sales pitches - and if god forbid we go under some invisible sum of $spending per minute, then they actually slam the bill on the table and just kick me out as if I am some hobo. So much for friendliness. To me US waiters are bunch of fake stupid clowns putting on clownshow for US patrons, who for some reason like that shit.
Nevertheless despite this rant, I put up with it when I am overseas and act accordingly with fake smiles and everything - each country has its own thing and US people like their waiters to be clowns for some reason, it is what it is. I am not there to reeducate them about proper continental way of "invisible" manners of waiting staff. But it would be good to have some basic respect for other cultures as well and not take your own manners as the etalon everybody in the world should aspire to. For instance Japanese people are polite, they do not like to be touched and in general like their space. People in Brasil on the other hand love to touch each other, so if somebody comes to me and taps me on my back he means no disrespect or sexual assault or whatnot.
Adoption is mostly an American phenomenon though, so that may be more cultural than evolutionary. For instance, only 4k adoptions for all of India’s 1.4 billion. If humans somehow evolved an evolutionary drive to care for kids who weren’t their own, then that evolutionary drive would have disappeared somewhere in our distant past, due to decreased gene proliferation
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