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I want to believe, and find it interesting regardless of truth (of course it's probably not, but still) I just can't get past the immutable law of literate societies that anything worth knowing will be written down.

WTF, cranberry sauce is awesome. Even foreigners who don't know Thanksgiving food have loved it IME. Why do you hate sweet tangy deliciousness?

Ive only had brisket in TX. Ergo I've only had amazing, melt on your mouth, falls apart when you look at it delicious brisket Like my turkey

Now that its expanded to "what do you like about city vs suburbs etc" Every city smells fucking terrible. Just not fit for humans to breathe. In NYC it was predominantly the smell of piss. In LA it was exhaust and garbage. Where I live, the air smells like air with an occasional whiff of tree...

IMO a town with population 600 (where I live) is a pretty different category than 10k, needs a <1k option! The 2 mile radius rule is funny in my case... I dunno, probably well under 100.

My turkey was awesome. Slow roasted, just the basics. As tender and juicy as brisket. I'm convinced somebody's cooking turkey wrong if they don't like turkey, cause every year I go damn, why do we only eat this once a year?

Yes, and if its content worth finding it'll be in a written form.

Ya know, whenever I criticize Facebook someone brings up a legitimate and normal use for the platform. None of which changes the fact that Facebook has been a net negative, a cancer on society. So is YouTube. We are rapidly approaching a post-literate phase of Western society, and YouTube bears...

Yeah, but Miles Teg.

I wouldnt say struggle. More like kept trying to see past the over the top, everyone is basically a god, power levels to find the interesting story I kept reading people talking about. Was never able to find it. I dunno, maybe I should try them again, its been about 10 years. I listed...

Not to worry, our superiors in Hollywood have decreed that "acting ability" is all that matters. Elric will be played by a teenaged Afrcan American girl with a spunky attitude. Cause she has "acting ability". These books were too over the top for me to even get into as fantasy, and I generally...

Never had the honey but Australian butter tastes like distilled asshole. Uniquely, memorably terrible.

We cured the first two of picky eating but damn, no. 3 is winning so far. A daily battle right now. So nice looking at the first 2 and knowing she's likely to survive this phase.

Bland food. Like for example sandwiches in grocery stores. It fucking offends me that someone used up perfectly good resources to produce something so tasteless. A little salt and pepper, a little salad dressing, it could be a perfectly valid if ordinary sandwich. Instead its fucking garbage...

All this talk about being unable to browse from work cracks me up. Corporate culture sounds like Saudi Arabia or something, WTF. Can't imagine if they tried that shit in academia.

I actually got a smartphone to use only as a camera. I tried it on that. My actual phone (which hell yes is a flip phone: the pinnacle of cell phone design that will never be topped) doesnt connect to the internet. Cut me a break, its probably the longest message I've ever typed out on a phone!

Checked it out on a phone to confirm. Fuck this shit.

I'll never understand the appeal of browsing the web on tiny ass screens. My monitor in 1998 was 3 times bigger than these things, WTF? Phones are for calls and text if I have to.

Trapping and killing racoons with my son after they killed our chickens was some good quality time. But yeah, raccoons are never ending. Had to secure the coop to end the problems. The season we lost so many chickens, I saw a pack of 5 raccoons (mom and mostly grown cubs), I shit you not...

No, I was unclear, the coons got into the coop at night and killed like a dozen of them. We have a lot of predators around though, I am sure this varies from one location to the next. We've seen lots of big hawks and eagles hunting in our fields, a bobcat walked through our front yard a couple...

If you want to keep your chickens, I suggest giving up on the free range thing. Our average loss was 3 a week til my wife finally agreed we needed to keep them inside 24-7 Hell, even in a coop we've lost 12 in one night to coons. Not my new coop though, nobodies getting into this thing. At 2...

Plot twist: The Hulk comes out as trans and calls herself She-Hulk, and Mark Ruffalo plays Banner who still identifies as male but when he gets angry becomes She-Hulk now.

We're not arguing here but its an interesting discussion about how memory works. And maybe it works different for different people. But I actually think numbers are even easier to memorize than the strict comparison of bits accounts for; the comparison of bits was just a way to illustrate it in...

You're still memorizing. Except instead of memorizing 144 numbers, arranged in a symmetrical and regular pattern (276 characters), you've chosen to memorize a set of 599 characters arranged in irregular prose. Personally I find your solution bizarre, because why replace a regular array of...

Well, until the devices goddamn RIDICULOUSLY short battery life runs out. Then, its Flowers for Algernon time and we can sit around drooling on ourselves until it recharges. (Seriously, I don't do smartphones but I use one as a camera sometimes. I don't know whats funnier about smartphone users...

See, this is a good example of what I mean by vague, fuzzy, subjective standards being brought into education. How exacty does one measure the extent to which a student "thinks about multiplication in a more intuitive way"? Is this binary? Do we attach a score to it somehow? What test do we...

Look, another person falsely conflating VOLUNTARY SPENDING on one's own health care versus MANDATORY SPENDING on other peoples' healthcare. How shocking that these arent the same number. In our next post we can explore how housing costs are cheaper in HUD than the average cost of a new home...

No, seriously - you and a couple others have denigrated the idea of being math competent as being "human calculators". "Just use your phone dude!" I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.jpeg Yes, that was precisely the point. Somewhere in elementary school we used to train people to do math in...

I get what you're saying. I'm a scientist as well but after teaching for this long I can no longer delude myself into thinking the educational system is about scientists. We're training cashiers, baristas, administrators, and journalists here. The kids who are gonna become scientists are bored...

"understanding" is a vague and subjective term. How do you prove someone understands something? Its not a very useful metric, even though it gives educators warm fuzzies to talk about it. Whether you're calculating the dosage of a drug to put in my IV, or calculating the change to give me back...

Dont be too hard on the guy. I mean, even the people in charge of casting this movie are apparently unaware of this so-called "book version of Dune". How is a random fan on the internet supposed to know about it?

LOL I didnt realize there were people that did this. Why do you hate flavor so much?

Thats what I'm thinking. If MMO gold has to be reported then arent the computer, the internet connection, and all the mountain dew you can drink deductible business expenses? I suck at taxes and dont play MMOs anymore anyway. But its funny to think about.

How to best teach anything is a complex subject without obvious right or wrong answers. So I could be entirely wrong here. But what I do know is that when I meet an adult who obviously failed to memorize the multiplication tables it irrevocably affects my opinion of their intelligence...

That thing ruined an entire season of top chef. I still get mad every time I see her. Somehow she developed a successful food TV career after that. Single most unwatchable contestant on any cooking show, ever.

Important paperwork that can only be returned by postal mail or fax. Its 2019, I can upload documents online to *buy a goddamn house* but THIS little piece of trivial bullshit, THIS requires such high security that only a fax will do! Private entities can do what they like, but I propose it...

Democrats in 2019: selling parts of dead animals is murder, but cutting up babies to sell their parts is a constitutional right.

And I'm gonna add a second one, inspired by the example I gave in the previous post which reminded me. If you are speaking to me in such long, rambling sentences that I cannot mentally diagram your sentence and find the subject, verb, and object, I immediately and permanently label you in my...

Nobody takes more than 2 minutes to take a shit. Its just that while you're sitting on the toilet is one of the few times most people will leave you completely alone and not bother you. My latest rustle. People who talk to me while I am obviously doing something. Sure, I'm currently suspended...

No shit, that is the best purported UFO vid I've ever seen. Since its on Youtube I am 100% sure its fake, but it is a really good one.