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  • O.G. San is such a good name.

  • I think a lot of it comes down to how people were taught math.

    In my generation, it was almost all rote memorization. You memorize times tables. You memorize the steps to do long division. You memorize specific formulas. And then you have to draft it all into proofs to explain why things work, but you were never really taught why things work in the first place. The answer was always "It just does."

    Rather than rote memorization, a better use of time for younger students is to focus more on the logic of math, to really get that "why" component before asking them to complete dozens of repetitive problems for homework.

    Other parts of it might also just come down to entertainment value, to be honest. Here's where my perspective veers further into anecdote, but maybe it rings true for others, I don't know.

    Learning about aphantasia was a new one for me. I don't have it, but I am acquainted with two people who do, and both of those people did well at math in school but hated history and literature. On the other hand, those were my favorite subjects, because being able to immerse myself in a story or put myself in a certain time and place made those subjects more bearable, sometimes fun.

    It occurred to me that the way they felt reading books was probably a lot like how I felt doing math: just a lot of reading information on a page and memorizing important details to regurgitate later for some assessment or another. But for them, the logic of math probably made that subject easier to engage with than something as vague as an author's intent.

  • OLAY!

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  • Ah so he's just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

  • OLAY!

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  • Ah yes, the movie where they cast a French person as Scottish, a Scottish person as Spanish, and an American as a Russian.

  • Part of Anarchy is understanding and accepting that that is a true for all individual life regardless of any laws or guideline.

    I feel like this is the crux that I've seen people disregarding too often. They know how to make the perfect society, and it only requires everyone else having the same exact ideology and priorities that they do.

  • I think it's that category of essential employees who are working without pay that this would be most intended for.

  • And if Google had any sense, those were all improvements they should have just brought to Hangouts, haha.

    But why improve a service when we can just create a competitor that does 2 things better, 5 things worse, and 1 crucial thing not at all?

  • I have no idea how they could omit Hangouts.

    Allo, on the other hand, which was supposed to replace Hangouts, did not live as long as Hangouts and should probably remain forgotten.

  • You Keep Me Hanging On is way better than it has any right to be.

  • Mostly I just really hate people who upload videos to YouTube like:

    Artist Name - Song You Want To Listen To - Original...

    And then you open the video, hear some Alvin and the Chipmunks bullshit, and get to read the rest of the truncated title:

    Artist Name - Song You Want To Listen To - Original Nightcore Version

  • Hey, some of us are 35-year-old edgelords

  • I'm not a marine biologist, so I can't speculate on what the best alternative is for these whales, but I would like to imagine there are more options than the binary of "kill them" or "throw them to the wolves sharks".

    Marineland is just parroting the euthanize option because they're upset they couldn't make a quick buck by selling them to China. It's a hissy fit tactic to try to un-block the sale.

    If the whales are not able to be released in to the wild, I'm sure there are plenty of other facilities out there that would be able to care for them. Marineland might need to pay them to take the animals in, but it should be their obligation to do so if they're unable to support the quality of life they need themselves.

  • C'mon Ottawa, force them to rehabilitate and release them, even if it kills the park.

    A lot of animals cannot be rehabilitated and released. If they were born and raised in captivity, they have effectively no chance of survival on their own. I don't know what the situation is for these animals, but I've been to plenty of zoos and aquariums in the past that have rehabilitation programs and even they have a few "lifers" who will never leave.

  • Shit. I was about to quip "Your intern is only 8?" before I remembered what year it was.

  • Do serial killers normally break out the tape measure before cutting into a victim?

  • Mostly healthy for Daniel Radcliffe at least. He did develop an alcohol dependency during the later Harry Potter movies that he worked to overcome.

    For a lot of celebrities I can only really guess at how well adjusted they are. Sometimes they seem normal until they have some sort of psychotic break and all of the skeletons in their closet come out, and sometimes they just put on a brave face while masking years of abuse and trauma.

    At least as far as impressions, there are a few other names I can think of. Zendaya is a former Disney channel kid who seems to be doing well for herself. The Sprouse twins (Suite Life of Zack and Cody) also seem like they developed into normal adults and now just don't spend much time in the spotlight. Kenan Thompson also has a good career as the longest serving cast member on Saturday Night Live, and he started as a child actor for Nickelodeon.

    But I have no idea how much of that comes down to luck or just having better support from family (or again maybe just burying some skeletons/trauma). A lot of other child actors who worked alongside the names listed above ended up messed up in one way or another.

  • Exactly.

    When it comes to phones at least, I also try to keep mine for as long as possible because there's honestly no point in upgrading just for the heck of it. Companies don't release meaningful "must have" features anymore like they did back when people felt it was normal to upgrade every couple of years. No need to contribute to e-waste when it can be avoided.

    I've been using my current phone for 4 years now, and the phone I had before that I used for 6. I upgraded only because I received the newer one for free from work, but I gave my previous phone away to a friend who needed one because I wasn't going to throw away a perfectly good phone that I was happily using just fine a few months prior. Sure, the battery life was no longer quite as good, but I didn't really care (nor did my friend) because we at least remember the days where you were lucky if your phone made it more than 8 hours on a single charge. You just learn to deal with it and bring a spare charger if you're planning to be out for a while.

  • Shutters are less commonly used here, usually found more on older homes. Their intended purpose is protection during storms, but sometimes people install "fake" ones just as decoration.

    For light management/privacy, most houses I've seen have adjustable blinds inside that you raise or lower to let more or less light in.

    A steel "grating" (not sure how it's called in English) for safety and a twin casement window.

    Grating or grates is right, and sometimes people just call them window bars.

  • Yeah if you have those crank style ones it's possible at least. I've only seen one which was a push to open window with screen on the inside that opened on a hinge, but it seemed like it had a pretty poor seal with the wall as a result and bugs would have an easier time crawling through.

    Honestly having the screen on the inside is probably more convenient too. If you're cleaning both sides of a window where you'd have to remove the screen either way, I imagine it's easier to remove the screen from inside than outside just given the elevation differences.