Jung wrote:Speaking of this thread gives me a strange feeling
I mean here we are with a massive unemployment problem and we've got a discussion about how we've apparently got to bump the retirement age up to 70 to save costs
This may be a really stupid opinion but I can't help seeing "we need people to retire only right before they die" in terms of capitalism's inherent institutional tendency to want to squeeze as much as possible out of as few employees as possible while paying them as little as possible, and wonder if this is actually the way we want to run our society
Like I wonder how much liesure time we could actually afford as a society with modern technology if the model was to try to maximize it in balance with material living standards and within bounds of practicality instead of letting capitalism set the tune with some restraints to keep it from going full dark satanic mills on us.
Is this hopelessly idealistic?
It is in a capitalist system, yeah. You need some kind of centrally-organized economy for that to work. Otherwise you get stupid economic infighting and stuff like what we have today.
What the hell are Duchess' politics anyway? It's like she wants everybody to suffer. I don't get why.
No she's actually not. She has dumb attitudes towards retirement but she's not Shep, or Bart Blade.
She's also Trans which makes her a non person to the right. And despite all the crazyness and shitty upbringing she's got more education, a better job and is happier then 95% of the members on there.
Yeah sounded kinda odd that she'd be conservative. That's good to hear that she's changed.
Oh hey, Aaron, PM me if you'd rather not discuss here, but you're up near Ottawa right? I may be up there later this month. If you're still down for it I could use the opportunity take you up on that offer to visit a shooting range to prove that I'm not a total haplophobe.
The Massive cognitive schizophrenia in that thread is super irksome and makes me sincerely doubt so many people's intelligence.
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RyanThunder wrote:Yeah sounded kinda odd that she'd be conservative. That's good to hear that she's changed.
Oh hey, Aaron, PM me if you'd rather not discuss here, but you're up near Ottawa right? I may be up there later this month. If you're still down for it I could use the opportunity take you up on that offer to visit a shooting range to prove that I'm not a total haplophobe.
so after reading the algebra thread over on that other forum, you know the one, i have one response
possibly the reason that people fail exit exams involving algebra at such high rates is because the methods used don't encourage them to retain anything and so they only memorize for the class and let it go afterwards, rather than kids these days (or rather, younger members of one's own generational cohort, lol) being mentally handicapped universally
so this would suggest reworking the way algebra and other mathematical subjects are taught to improve retention, but of course pedagogy is a useless bit of humanities lol
besides these kind of people would then feel a sense of anger at no longer being an elite, i'm sure
Broomstick just isn't bright. Her problem wasn't the calculus. It was the algebra. If you can't figure out that the limit as x approaches 5 of 3x is 15, you're doing something wrong. It's gets difficult when you get indeterminate limits. Don't get started on fucking integration by parts and U substitution. The algebra fucks you, not the calculus.