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Gripweed posted:I can only assume you have given up arguing your point because you know it cannot be defended. That is why you are attempting to change the subject. From what I can tell you're literally impossible to argue with because you fail to engage with anything anyone actually says, and that seems to be what other people here have settled on. Putting aside whether or not you're correct, nobody will do A Debate with you simply because you've made it repeatedly and abundantly clear you won't follow or acknowledge the general rules of debate, so instead people will just take potshots at you as they drive by. tl;dr: nobody wants to duel you, so they shoot at you while they drive past. You confusing those potshots as actual fuel for debate and demanding they debate you just signals to everyone that you're a reddit debatebro rather than an actual opponent and encourages more potshots. Learn to let things go, like everyone else. alexandriao has a new favorite as of 23:07 on Feb 3, 2024 |
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The onus is not on me to “just let things go” when Atticus responds to every post I make with some lovely little insult.
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Feb 3, 2024 23:28
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the difference is atticus' posts are funny edit: also atticus started the discussion in good faith
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Feb 3, 2024 23:31
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:the difference is atticus' posts are funny So did I! And I stayed in good faith! Up until that last post where I said he had given up defending his position, because I was hoping that would just put an end to the conversation b
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Feb 3, 2024 23:35
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Feb 3, 2024 23:37
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Gripweed posted:The onus is not on me to “just let things go” when Atticus responds to every post I make with some lovely little insult. if its making GBS threads up the thread then i dont think anyone here gives a flying gently caress "who started it". atticus isn't preventing you from being an adult here
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Feb 4, 2024 01:03
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Gripweed this all started because you decided to nitpick an anodyne post Atticus made about why it's a bad idea to use the wrong size screws and dowels when constructing IKEA furniture. And when they realized you were trying to turn it into a debate to try to score points off of, they did the natural thing by disengaging except to passive aggressively call you an rear end in a top hat. And for what it's worth I agree with Atticus right now.
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Feb 4, 2024 01:53
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Smoke bomb distraction opinion: Math is grunt work.
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Feb 4, 2024 01:59
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opinion: bosses that have attacks that kill you in one hit are less infuriating to fight against than bosses whose moves just chain into each other one after another. this is because i have no expectation that *i* will be able to beat the boss with a single strike, but i *could* chain together a sick series of combos. who's the player here, Black Dragon Kalameet or me???
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Nameless Pete posted:Smoke bomb distraction opinion: Math is grunt work. Math is grunt work. It's also a fine thing to be good at but our current culture where math ability is juuuust about the only thing that colloquially counts as intelligence is deeply harmful to our ability to function as a society.
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I'm gonna say my piece and then drop it. I was not being disingenuous, and I certainly wasn't trying to "score points". I was just chatting and having fun in the thread like normal. So I hope you can understand why I got upset when Atticus suddenly started coming at me with, from my perspective, completely unprovoked hurtful comments. And I tried to stay civil. I didn't want to let his insults just go unchallenged but I didn't respond with insults back, I tried to keep talking about the topic at hand. The first post I made in response to Atticus that wasn't completely genuine was the last one, where I said he had realized his position was unsupportable. That was a joke. Not a great joke, but at that point it had been going on for awhile and nobody was taking my side and people were supporting Atticus in his insults, and that felt pretty lovely. So I just wanted to put a button on the discussion and end it there. But it kept going. I like this thread. I have a lot of unusual opinions and I like to have a place where I can just say them without context. But now it turns out a lot of people here think I'm some kind of malicious troll, saying stuff specifically to rile people up or "score points". That's not true at all, I try to interact with this thread as genuinely as possible. I thought that was the point of it, a place where you can say weird poo poo you know not a lot of people agree with. But what the gently caress am I supposed to do? I thought I was posting genuinely before and that got read as sarcasm or trolling, so how can I possibly convince anyone that I really am genuine? This just really sucks.
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Feb 4, 2024 03:00
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maybe you should grip.... some weed
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Feb 4, 2024 03:08
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shut the gently caress up and post some minor gripes
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Feb 4, 2024 03:09
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my gripe is that a mod yelled at me, I don't like it
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Feb 4, 2024 03:12
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There are too many songs about love. We need more songs about other emotions, like being bored at work, or being anxious for no reason
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Feb 4, 2024 03:50
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thetoughestbean posted:We need more songs about other emotions, like being bored at work Posting My Favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ExxIxXpSmg
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Nameless Pete posted:Posting My Favorite: 
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Feb 4, 2024 04:23
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Nameless Pete posted:Smoke bomb distraction opinion: Math is grunt work. Seconding this. People who say " Math is Everything". No, it's not. It's just the way you've decided to assign value to and describe the world. Shakuntala Devi posted:Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. Like this. She was massively talented at Math, so that's the lens she looks through. But there's tons of things we can do without Math.
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Feb 4, 2024 04:27
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thetoughestbean posted:There are too many songs about love. We need more songs about other emotions, like being bored at work, or being anxious for no reason
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It is actually very enjoyable to eat tomatoes like Denethor. Not just popping a whole little tomato in your mouth but actually biting into it so it bursts and the seeds explode out and you have to slurp them up. It looks appalling but he was absolutely onto a winner and you can get away with doing that sort of thing in public if you're a king I guess.
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thetoughestbean posted:There are too many songs about love. We need more songs about other emotions, like being bored at work Nameless Pete posted:Posting My Favorite: thetoughestbean posted:or being anxious for no reason
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thetoughestbean posted:There are too many songs about love. We need more songs about other emotions, like being bored at work, or being anxious for no reason One of my favourite songs about the feeling of escaping your day-to-day drudgery and getting a dopamine fix through karaoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKJ8vJl-a7Y
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Tiggum posted:It is actually very enjoyable to eat tomatoes like Denethor. Not just popping a whole little tomato in your mouth but actually biting into it so it bursts and the seeds explode out and you have to slurp them up. It looks appalling but he was absolutely onto a winner and you can get away with doing that sort of thing in public if you're a king I guess. Denethor was not the King!!! 
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Feb 4, 2024 11:16
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thetoughestbean posted:There are too many songs about love. We need more songs about other emotions, like being bored at work, or being anxious for no reason Oh man here's one of my old favorites! https://youtu.be/BGQmmDEDYiI?si=RZhpj_86Yf2uPn2C
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Denethor was not the King!!! The guy who gets to rule the country because his dad ruled the country until he died is the king, even if he says he's not.
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Nameless Pete posted:Smoke bomb distraction opinion: Math is grunt work. My milquetoast opinion is that people are born either mathemagicians (grasp it intuitively) or mathetechnicians (can plug stuff into a formula if it is all slowly explained to them) and the high school experience would be better if this was explained to students. I'm the latter.
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Math would also be infinitely better to learn if they ever taught you any practical applications of it in math class. Any time someone asked one of my math teachers "but why would I ever want to know this," they just gave them a blank stare. Teach me math in the context of leaving a tip, or tax brackets, or dice odds, or building something, or loving calculating gas mileage or whatever. I guess this is how we got questions about "if one train is leaving Boston at X speed and another is leaving Washington at Y speed, when will they pass each other." Just use actual situations, folks.
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all of my math teachers were somehow more miserable teaching it than I was learning it, and I didn't even learn it really
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I always hated the word problems about shop owners that were completely detached from the actual cost of goods. Trudy is not selling that many apples at $10 apiece, she's clearly cooking the books.
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What broke me on math early is having to annotate the word problems and show all work. gently caress you teach, I got the answer didn’t I?
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Feb 4, 2024 18:25
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I had a story problem about appreciation that was like "The Dutch bought Manhattan from natives for $64. But what if the Indians invested their money?"
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:What broke me on math early is having to annotate the word problems and show all work. gently caress you teach, I got the answer didn’t I? Getting the answer doesn't demonstrate that you understood the process since you could have guessed or made errors that cancel each other out. On top of that being able to justify your reasoning is a skill in maths in its own right. It really comes into its own with proofs but even aside from that it's critical to be able to do it to help find errors.
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Feb 4, 2024 22:11
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Fundamentally, knowing math is about knowing the process and when they ask you to show your work that's what you're being asked to prove.
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Feb 4, 2024 22:34
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Primary school maths here is starting to put more emphasis on being able to justify your answer and it's a good change. PHUO: the average adult should know their times tables up to 10x10.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Primary school maths here is starting to put more emphasis on being able to justify your answer and it's a good change. They don’t? That’s elementary school stuff
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thetoughestbean posted:They don’t? That’s elementary school stuff Yeah and lots of people forget (or never learn properly in the first place). I'm not saying it needs to be taught by rote memorisation or that one method works for everyone or that there aren't people who are always going to struggle with it, just that it's a basic skill that too many people lack. Doctor Spaceman has a new favorite as of 23:50 on Feb 4, 2024 |
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I don't use a lot of math in my daily life now but when I was in high school I didn't know what I'd be doing now so is "you might not ever need to know this but you don't know what you're going to do so you may indeed use this a lot" a bad reason for teaching something I also don't think learning something just for the sake of learning is a bad thing even if I don't need to know the pythagereon theorem to survive in life
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The reason I always laugh at now is "You won't always have a calculator with you!"
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Yeah and lots of people forget (or never learn properly in the first place). When I was in jail, the lady in charge of the library (she looked like Dora the Explorer and was called Dora the Destroyer because she would take away books, take away classes, take away art supplies, basically anything that could enrich us in any way) and she once asked me what something times ten was. I don't remember the number, she said something like, "What's six time ten?" And I responded, "What?" She squinted at me for a few seconds, then it came to her. "Ah, sixty. Nevermind." She went on to be the education director for a federal correctional institution in Arizona 
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Khizan posted:The reason I always laugh at now is "You won't always have a calculator with you!" Why do I need writing or art classes when there's chatgpt/midjourney? - kids in schools right now
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