Maybe try not being a creepy little lizzard boi with a hard-on for privacy violation

Math is really one of those core subjects that really needs to be taught better in schools, and anxiety inducing penalties are never the right way to go about it.

I think everyone should know math at least up to trigonometry, its surprisingly important just in everyday life and knowing math unlocks a lot of skills in life. Just think about how much math is used in the trades, cooking, running a business, doing drugs, going shopping, etc. As a tutor I used to see so many people that just couldn’t even do basic order of operations or understand negative numbers. This was never a case of unintelligent, more a failing of their education. These people were, much like you, genuinely operating with a handicap of understanding and academic support.

One of my favorite professors literally convinced me to like learning math and pursue a degree in physics in a single conversation by doing nothing more than being a huge fucking nerd about diffraction lenses when he saw me goofing off with one in lab instead of paying attention. The lenses had nothing to do with class and we never did any math, and yet instead of snapping “eyes front” at me like most teachers, he derailed teaching the actual course for no other reason than to talk about something we both just thought was cool as shit. He cared more about teaching me what I wanted to learn than anything else and, as an accidental result, 180 my entire academic career.

That and we both agree that canned peas are an abomination sent from the depths of hell entirely unfit for consumption by any living creature.

I would’ve probably straight up laughed and said “About fucking time you old fuck”, and then immediately regret it, lol. In my experience, professors and teachers are THE thing that makes or breaks any class. They can turn the most enjoyable and interesting classes into living nightmares like this, but hey can also transform the lamest and most terrible of classes into the single most fascinating thing the universe for a couple hours. A good teacher is never the one that knows the most shit or is right the most times, its always the ones that genuinely care about teaching and guiding their students. Any teacher that fails to fulfill that basic mandate, simply should not be allowed to teach (and we need seriously reform the education systems to give teachers the space to actually care, but that is a different discussion).

I think you mean Firefly

The real answer is Stargate SG-1

Drugs

I entirely agree, except I don’t think it has anything to with maximizing profits for Facebook. If it did, then the logical thing to do is whatever gets the most people on the site the fastest, not do something that instantly alienates a massive amount of people. It does have everything to do with maximizing profits for those in charge of running the Facebook show, though. Then it makes perfect sense to align the company with whatever political regime can promise the most bloody money for the new yacht and underage ‘entertainment’.

Also, I genuinely think the Zuck gets off on being a slimy little cunt and is probably really excited right now. Facebook has always been a little too quick to go down the scummy road, even for capitalism.

Honestly didn’t know Facebook even had a fact-checker system. They are pretty explicit in their mission to sow discord and disinformation, it’s basically their whole business model

Forever? Where do I sign up

Then there’s me who could probably snort 1000mg of caffeine and then go take a nice nap

I second this. Variety of communities, not generally a creepy or racist shithole, mostly neutral politics and moderation, shit just works

And at worst, they will kill you for perhaps being gay, trans, having a different religion, or otherwise not conforming to ‘normal’ society

Perhaps, but for a lot of people it can be incredibly dangerous or even lethal to be that social target

Not contradicting anything you said or trying to make an argument, just thought it would be a cool thing to share and let people learn about.

But if you do want some kind of argument, then I would say that while you are not wrong here, conformity has basically nothing to do with drawing reasonable conclusions and that really isn’t it’s purpose. Conformity is almost more of a defense mechanism (which can go wrong rather easily, hence this discussion) meant to keep us comfortable and prevent accidentally painting a social target on our own backs. It’s when conformity is conflated with logical reasoning that we start to get problems.

This is a little concept known as conformity, and it’s a pretty big and interesting part of sociology

I forgot about the song for a sec and was sitting here wondering what the hell Santa ever did to you

I’m way to special about how the things that go in my pockets physically feel and work for anyone (unless they know me really well, which is like two people lol) to ever get me a gift like a wallet.

This must be what all those conservative weirdos think abortion is

I sincerely hope you never do, seeing gore does something to you that you can’t take back and needs to be respected