I knew Dance Dance Revolution was good for something!

Sun tea is a thing. It’s quite good when made properly

I remember seeing an article years ago around 2000-2002 era. They claimed that the 56 retirement age was because of heart attacks and other stress/age related medical issues. Basically you don’t want Lesley Neilson having a heart attack while quipping jokes at you over the air.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

I thought we figured that out in 2020

It’s so much more than just that. I’m not even a Christian.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

To be fair, Algebra and Trig are mostly just stepping stones that are needed to understand Calculus. Calculus is the easy way to calculate curves, which you do instinctively. If you’ve ever thrown a ball, gone bowling, or driven a car you used calculus, just unknowingly, and, most likely, with poor precision.

What is the lower left one conveying?

In '41? We were sitting at home and selling EVERYBODY weapons. Staunchly refusing to get into the war. Again. For the second time ever. Right up until Dec, 8.

Or the last remaining black hole goes Big Bang. Either one could work.

I just noticed during my TA work that when most students were having issues in the more advanced maths, that their fundamental issue was a misunderstanding of fractions and decimals. Once I got them to understand how those two relate to each other, they started understand the rest of the math. The fractions in algebra are generally an entire term in the equation. The other issue that kids had was getting them to stop thinking literally about distinct numbers, and getting them to think about the concept of numbers.

I think the other guy was saying that calculus makes the mathematics of curves a whole lot simpler than algebra does, but that’s a weird way to describe that.

Having flirted with the education system of the US and having two parents with degrees in education, I can honestly and wholeheartedly say that I have no clue how to fix how math is taught in this country, just that the way we do it seems fundamentally broken right around 4th to 5th grade.

He didn’t specify how far into the future, just that would be the general direction

He didn’t specify how far into the future, just that would be the general direction

Replied to the wrong thread.

I was quoting you. I am musically and artistically inclined. I wouldn’t call myself a musician, I’m just a proficient singer and can play at a performance level with almost every instrument. I’m also just a tech guy, not really a computer guy. Really I have spent the last 20 years making myself a jack of all trades and a master of a few.

I was mostly studying all that because I have ADD, and no one tried to stop me, lol. I keep doing it because books are free.

I suspect you’re better at math than you give yourself credit for. Most Americans that are “bad at math,” weren’t taught fractions properly and without that, none of the rest (Algebra, Trig, Calc, Number Theory, etc.) could possibly make any sense. Geometry is really the only mathematics that you can do without understanding fractions, and that makes sense since we were using Geometry to build buildings for millenia before anyone did a fraction to decimal conversion.

The Moon is the only readily available source of truly ancient Earth rocks. If we want to know more about our planet, we have to go to The Moon, and do science.

Thus far exactly one scientist has ever set foot on The Moon. We’re going back with a team of scientists and one pilot, rather than the inverse ratio that the Apollo missions had.

I was a musician, and math was my very worst subject

How? I majored in Music Education and Computer Science, and minored in Psychology and Physics. I did that specifically because I thought Music, Physics, and Computer Science were all just math. I was correct about the first two. I would call CS linguistics, not math. The psych explains how the first two are math.

Nothing. Forever.

Either that, or we find out that the oscillating universe theory was correct.

“What does that mean anyway?”

“I don’t know, but that’s not the point.”

Why? We don’t have enough work for the number of people that our work can sustain. Our ancestors literally dreamt of a time when the labor of a few could allow the leisure of the masses. We would be better served at this point addressing workaholic tendencies and refocusing that energy into something they actually enjoy doing.

The US specifically didn’t choose a two party system. We accidentally set one up. The math proving that FPTP has a 100% guaranteed chance to devolve into a two party system hadn’t been done until the mid 1800s

He did it during the scheduled break, after he ensured the other ≈20 people were out of the building. He endangered no person.