Maybe they can learn by osmosis?
The feedback I’m getting from students is, “I just can’t follow what you’re doing.”
“What’s the issue?”
“Too much math.”
“How much math should there be?”
“Uhhhh… none?”
Sigh. “You have a fine career ahead of you working for the government.”
Other people have a fine birthday today, including a guy who tried to make you less perplexed; a guy who shared my appreciation for naked ladies; a guy whose intellect was on fire; a guy who was half deaf; a guy who was true to his source; a guy I would love to send to congress; the progenitor of the Obama/Bush doctrine of secret war; someone who dropped a Duke; someone who fucked everyone; the father of a bouncing baby boy; and someone inspired by Speed Racer.
And before I lose you… Links.
Party of small government, right?
You know, there IS a solution to this.
Reporter discovers geography, is Very Concerned that the Belgian Army may not protect the US.
An excellent review of an actual warmest-year-on-record.
You know, trumpet playing gets no better than this. The Old Man says, “Lay back and enjoy it.”
the father of a bouncing baby boy
Ooof. That’s dark.
Yeah, not so much bounce in that.
Bravo!
I was thinking “this better be Clapton” before I clicked
Luxury
They should be glad in between the math you’re speaking English at least (well, I assume you are — if you’re teaching in Hebrew, l’chaim I suppose!). I hold deep in my tortured soul the memory of Second Order Differential Equations being taught by a Masters student from Germany who was completely and utterly indecipherable.
I should have bailed on attempting that class — I didn’t realize just how many subsequent classes seriously depended on it (and to be fair to him, at the time my work ethic was not what it should have been [young and stupid] and my biggest problem with DiffEqs has always been that my memory is lousy for the “solve it this way once you recognize the pattern!” which iirc was how they were teaching the approach to it.
Hope your students find it within themselves to buck up and buckle down. Or — as you say — go into politics and/or management of engineers who did. (yay)
Morning, all!
“a guy who was half deaf”
My birthday is in January,
So RC Dean?
George Bailey.
Belgium can’t protect itself, but it could hide in America,
They can’t protect themselves because they’re so indecisive. Always waffling.
Bad communications, the francophones are bogged down with flem.
Ypres! Forgot all about that!
They beer no responsibility for that, it was a Trappist!
But the chicken!
Flag on the play! That’s what — 90% of the male population historically? (Maybe only 80% for Gen Z if reports are to be believed).
Unless you mean the age of said naked ladies… then you’re on your own there in your van, sir.
(This may be one of my problems with art in general… I have no real appreciation for the male form — so a lot of Greek / Roman statues are just “Meh” to me. The female form is intrinsically graceful and beautiful… the rest of us are just bearish louts…. [not that Tonio minds that])
Heh.
But some of you are folically-challenged, so not bears.
Interestingly, Greeks and Italian men are a fur-rich population, but the classical sculptors rarely (never?) depicted chest hair.
Imagine 14 yo Tonio in the Capitoline Museum, embarrasingly popping a chub when he saw this guy.
I just assumed their ideal included shaving. Makes it easier to do the olive oil scraping they did for hygiene, wouldn’t it? (Plus with the Greeks… if it happened to make them look more prepubescent, I doubt that was accidental…)
I used to have the body of a Greek god. Now I just look like a goddam Greek.
It’s all those tall cans you abZorba.
Damn… I guessed Guy Fawkes.
Good morning.
Entirely by accident, I caught a few minutes of “The View” yesterday. It was even worse than I imagined. So much smug, feels, and virtue-signalling.
Vice President Harris was the guest, and was surprisingly almost coherent (no word salad). She assured us that President Biden was totally okay. Totally. And that she had been in the Oval Office when (unspecified) world leaders called Biden for advice.
Barf.
Oh hell… Wednesday is going to be a replay of that — with her under the desk, isn’t it?
I don’t even want to know what KJP will be doing (under the other side of the desk probably).
Catch some clips on Gutfeld or The Five once in a while.
The racism and hatred coming out of those hosts’ mouths would be a national scandal under under circumstances.
—“And that she had been in the Oval Office when (unspecified) world leaders called Biden for advice.”—
I’ll take things that never happened for $1000, Alex
“Seriously though, how the hell does a guy like you get so much power?”
“I stick my finger in a light socket.”
I’m not sure. They could have been asking for advice on how to set up a grift or money laundering operation. He’s probably still quite adept at those.
“world leaders called Biden for advice”
I believe it… Then they did the opposite of what he said
Oh you evil man…. Now I’m only going to hear Fast Car with an Aaaah ha-ha-ha-ha after every line…
Gee… if only there was a Southeast Asian Treaty Organization or something that unlike NATO, knew when it served no purpose any longer to cover Hawaii.
I notice “Letting other countries defend themselves like they did prior to 1945” is nowhere in said article.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/the-week-in-pictures-building-bridges-back-better-edition.php
Cheers
The bridge stuff is funny but didn’t they determine that the cause was just the engine shitting the bed? Sometimes things just happen-does seem like they’d have some protective pylons or whatever for a bridge in the middle of a major shipping thoroughfare though.
While I do enjoy Tom Luongo (Gold, Goats, and Guns), he is prone to attributing everything to the machinations of global conspiracies emanating from London and DC, with a side of EU. His latest blames the terrorists in Moscow on London and, as near as I can tell, the Key Bridge on the UK and EU(!) because closing that port will collapse our entire economy, or something.
https://tomluongo.me/2024/03/29/asymmetric-response-and-the-perp-walk-to-world-war-iii/
Me, I think sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Yeah, that’s pretty stupid-The British intelligence services are basically a subdidiary of the CIA with even fewer behavioral restrictions and, as such, there’s no way they’d participate in something like an attack on our infrastructure. The Moscow stuff, probably not but it wouldn’t surprise me either if they were peripherally involved somehow but who knows?
Blaming everything on DEI is stupid.
Someone or thing must be to blame. God forbid shit just happens randomly.
Only a diversity hire would claim that.
On that last item…don’t know which I admire more, Sophia or the 300SL. But then, I’m an old fart.
Kidnapped in Haiti? Dumbass.
He thought if he came to their port he’d be treated like a prince.
Au, so sad
Is paying ransom money tax deductible?
Think her name was… Betty.
Normally I don’t search out gang leaders named Barbeque. But then I thought, “when am I gonna make it back to Haiti?”
Illegal voter: I do not believe
Well, what more evidence could anyone ever ask for?
The late Christian teacher Chuck Missler made a big deal about Maimonides figuring out we live in ten dimensions.
It’s also the birthday of the cav’s 4th tax deduction.
Happy birthday, cav973+4! How old is the chip off the old block? (For extra fun, tell us using math!)
The meaning of life does not include Andrew Jackson sucking Nitrogen in Maryland while watching Brenner & Co.
Ack! No word problems!
(Also can’t imagine what number would be associated with David Brenner.)
4t = HG – (1814 + MD + [14.006 43, 14.007 28] + MS)
😳
😜
Stop knocking the Belgians, the Flemish are good people. Those Walloons though, holy shit…
Glibs, do your duty.
Burger Mcflipperbus
It is amazing that nobody learns.
When President, I promise to name a super carrier Carrier McCarrierface.
Frédéric Bastiat Hayek Von Mises
“Viral Videos Appear To Show FBI Agents Visiting Homes Over Social Media Posts”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/viral-videos-appear-show-fbi-agents-visiting-homes-over-social-media-posts
Hmmm…nossir, I don‘t like it.
Can’t be FBI agents, no khakis and polo shirts.
Call to arms
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump drew criticism Friday for posting a video on social media that contains the image of a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck.
The Biden campaign was quick to condemn the video for suggesting physical harm to the sitting Democratic president. Biden has portrayed his likely 2024 opponent as someone who freely evokes Nazi imagery with regard to immigrants, while also stressing in speeches that Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 elections ultimately led to an assault on the U.S. Capitol.
“Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6,” said Michael Tyler, the Biden campaign’s communications director.
What if he shows an image of Biden drooling and nodding off in a rocking chair?
Remember when the AP reported news?
LOL do they really want to go there?
Look the
DarkDork Brandon speech in front of a glowing red building was completely different!Only if the President is a Democrat.
And who are we to say Biden isn’t into a little rope play, anyway?
Right? But a celebrity waving around a prop bloody severed head of Trump when he was president was just free speech, fascists!
The posted video shows a passing truck decked out with “Trump 2024” and flags claiming support for police, with the picture of a seemingly helpless Biden with his hands and feet tied painted on the rear of the vehicle.
How could that possibly be interpreted as anything other than a direct incitement of political violence by Trump himself?
Like that “comedienne” who held up a facsimile of Donald’s severed head. Has she been investigated by the FBI yet?
She was, and blames her recent nervous breakdown mostly on it.
I liked her about twenty years ago when she stuck to Anna Nicole snark.
Huh, didn’t know that.
I liked her on Seinfeld.
A double dose of titties for Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.is/8wAeg
https://archive.is/ZSy4m
“Lizzo QUITS music industry in shock post as star says she’s ‘tired of ‘being dragged by everyone’ and criticism over her looks – after being hit by sexual harassment case and online backlash”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13253995/Lizzo-QUITS-music-industry-shock-post.html
Tres hardest hit?
Maybe tone down the politics and the shoving your fat in everyone’s face. You know, if you want to be taken seriously.
I stand by her music being pretty decent for pop music. Her persona though is really awful.
Lizzo will step away from an all-you-can-eat buffet before she steps away from the music industry.
[rim shot]
She should change her name to Rollo.
“St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has announced new plans to make convenience store owners more responsible for the crimes committed on or outside their property.
Mayor Jones, St Louis’ the first black female mayor, told leaders at the the Black Mayors’ Coalition on Crime in Memphis that St Louis needs to combat violent crime and theft around convenience stores.
‘We have a lot of violence around convenience stores and gas stations,’ Mayor Jones said on Thursday.
‘So how can we hold those business owners accountable and also bring down crime?’ she asked.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13253823/St-Louis-Mayor-Tishaura-Jones-blames-store-owners-crimes.html
CWAC
Does she want to hear a real answer? Somehow I doubt it.
Blaming car companies for stolen cars did wonders to reduce vehicle theft, so this is bound to reduce street crime.
Unfortunately, loud stupid is everywhere. Public figures being what they are, it simply gives them more opportunities for showing loud stupidity.
What do you expect? You think she wants to confront hoodlums? Or their mamma’s claiming their boys don’t do nothin’ bad.
” You think she wants to confront hoodlums? ”
She has police for that.
Although I’m thinking it’s more because most of the store owners aren’t black.
Where is the White Mayors Council holding their convention this year?
I hope everyone’s day goes well. On Thursday The Cubs lost in an amazing, a thoroughly, ridiculously good MLB opener (if you like baseball, not quite-so-much if you’re a Cubs fan) baseball opener w the Rangers. I wouldn’t say I’m HALF-deaf, though I say I am. I have semi-played it up at my glorified daycare gig. I hope it was the last day of it but we’ll see. Big job possibility is available. Not a fan of the remote-ness, nor really of the testing of essays, but the money is necessary. A regimented schedule is welcomed. Details have to be ironed out at our meeting on Tuesday. Biggest question is how contracts are opted in-out. It should be an 8 week thing. It should be but it ends when the work order ends. I am open to sign up for more. I don’t want to be opted it.
I am in a predictably sticky healthcare situation. Being on Medicare is much ‘better’ until I make quite a bit more. I can’t imagine what a proper assessment of my medical charts/history would have them charge for a private plan. I am not incentivized to make more money. That line is going to be grey no matter what, and I dwell there. Hrm.
Time for middle nephew’s bday family lunch and day. Onwards and up!
Medicare?
Children were saved
A Texas appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court’s injunction blocking the state from investigating parents who provide their transgender children with gender-affirming medical treatments, which Gov. Greg Abbott has called abusive.
Abbott, a Republican, had ordered the state Department of Family Protective Services to carry out child abuse investigations into families whose children were receiving puberty-blocking treatments in February 2022.
A month later, a district court judge imposed a statewide temporary injunction on such investigations, saying the probes endangered children and their families.
The appeals court in Austin upheld the district court judge’s injunction in a pair of rulings on Friday, delivering a victory to LGBTQ groups, medical professionals and civil liberties advocates opposing moves by conservative politicians in dozens of states to criminalize the provision of gender-affirming treatments for trans youth.
“This is a much-needed victory for trans youth and those who love and support them,” the American Civil Liberties Union said on X on Friday.
Right on.
But parents who let their children play outside are still fair game.
“medical professionals ”
$$$$$$$$$$$
Now do home schooling and vaccines that most people over 35 (or loving overseas) have never gotten.
too much math
I’m lacking context, but I’m just wondering how you can have a definite integral over P and end up with a function of P. Unless it’s in integral over P’ and an obscured upper limit of P.
The upper limit is P, it just got decapitated when I erased the stuff just above it. A math guy would whine that I used the same notation for variable and upper limit, but when I start adding primes and subscripts to make it more rigorous, the kids start whimpering.
math guy would whine
Whistles innocently and wanders away from computer.
(in reality, not a math guy at all, just play one on the internets)
the kids start whimpering
Strangely enough, I would have thought that was your ‘thing’
“New York City public school students as young as 4 are learning the ABCs of HIV in kindergarten, including through a book that identifies vulvas and penises, The Post has learned.
The city’s HIV/AIDS curriculum, which was revamped in September, centers lessons for 4- and 5-year-olds around a book called “These are My Eyes, This is My Nose, This is My Vulva, These are My Toes,” by Lexx “The Sex Doc” Brown-James, a St. Louis-based sex educator and therapist.
“Some girls wear dresses, some girls won’t, some girls have vulvas and some girls don’t,” the book says. “Some boys have a penis but not all boys do. To always use your manners, ask ‘What may I call you?,’” it continues.
“EJ is not a girl or a boy. So not he or she. To show you care, always use ‘they,’ ‘them’ and ‘theirs.’””
https://nypost.com/2024/03/30/us-news/nyc-kindergarten-students-learning-about-penises-vulvas-through-citys-hiv-aids-curriculum/
Trans brainwashing aside, why the fuck do kindergarten kids need to learn about HIV in the first place?
Because indoctrination works best at an early age.
*Jesuits and Lenin nod in agreement*
I severely doubt that is the justification given.
It’s to ‘keep them safe.’
Which is a load of shit. It’s about normalization.
What this country needs
There are “structural problems” that frustrate people, Obama said, including the suppression of unions. That’s something Biden has specifically battled against, he said.
“If you’re working hard, and your paycheck is getting stretched, beyond the breaking point, and you’re worried about rent, and you’re concerned about the price of gas, it’s understandable,” Obama said.
The thing Biden and the people who support him need to communicate is: “Who do you think is actually going to look out for you?” Obama said. He made clear he did not think former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, would meet that test.
Trump and Republicans have blamed Biden for high prices that hurt American pocketbooks in grocery stores, the housing market and other sectors of the economy. Biden has pointed to company profit-taking, lack of competition and argued that inflation is coming down but there is still more work to do.
Whip greedflation now.
*spits coffee*
Hot dog down a hallway.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/im-gran-who-slept-800-32474939
NOFX’s got your back.
“President Trump, let’s be honest, had a pretty good couple of years ‘cause he stole them from Barack Obama,” Clinton said about the economy Trump inherited from his predecessor.
Shovel ready.
Any glibs at the Tampa air show today?
A new crisis to shovel money at
The U.S. government is mounting an emergency response in an effort to save a unique and endangered fish found off the coast of Florida.
The details are strange. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had received reports of “abnormal fish behavior, including spinning and whirling” affecting roughly 40 species of fish, and that there had also been reports of fish deaths.
Concerns center on the smalltooth sawfish, a species that is part of the ray family and known for its long, flat nose, which is accentuated by sharp teeth and looks much like a saw (hence the name). It is listed by NOAA as an endangered species, and was “the first marine fish to receive federal protection,” according to the agency. Sawfish can grow up to 16 feet in length.
The cause of the bizarre behavior and deaths remains undetermined.
Global warming has shifted the magnetic poles!
“It’s a mystery,” said Adam Brame, the sawfish recovery coordinator for the National Marine Fisheries Service, a part of NOAA. “Our partners are working around the clock to try to reach a decision on what has caused this fish health event.”
——-
NOAA said that it will initiate an emergency response effort next week in an attempt to save sawfish. It’s the first such effort in the country’s history, the agency said, and will also involve the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and some local partners that will help house rescued fish.
Where would we be without the Ministry of Fish?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnq96W9jtuw
“Experts”, bless their hearts
Because in a quirk of geography and history, Hawaii is not technically covered by the NATO pact.
Could it be because Hawaii is not in the Atlantic Ocean?
This is the first I’ve heard of that volcano. I’ve heard a little about it being an El Nino year.
I’ve heard a lot about warmest year on record and the End Times.
Basking in the warm glow of adulation
On Thursday night, the president put on a show of Democratic unity and invoked the party’s glory days at an event in New York with ex-Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama that the campaign said ahead of time had raised more than $25 million. Those big bucks could be critical in what is likely to be a tight race with Trump that could be decided by a few hundred thousand votes across a handful of states.
Without that money, people won’t even know who Joe Biden is.
Does Biden even know who Biden is?
I wonder what the relationship is like, these days, between the Obamas and Clintons? I guess their Secret Service protection rules out unexplained “street muggings.”
https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/03/monkey-man-dev-patels-directorial-debut-has-john-wick-vibes.html
How is he “allowed” to say monkey in our currently stupid world?
The fucking news has been saying “m pox” instead of monkey pox lately.
Well the real question is are we talking about Toots era or one of the later covers?
“Women’s National Team player Korbin Albert apologized on Friday after backlash, led by former pro soccer player Megan Rapinoe, that came in response to Albert sharing a post of a teen recounting how he desisted from being transgender.
In the video Albert shared, Quin Thomas recounted how he had seizures in the womb and was diagnosed with epilepsy, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and an intellectual disability. He said he began watching pornography at the age of 12, witnessed his mother being beaten, had thoughts of rage and joining a gang, and had “stopped feeling like a guy.”
He started taking hormones but later came to church with a friend and was “introduced to Jesus” and “God told me to stop taking the hormones.”
“It’s because of God that I’m alive today,” he added. Albert shared the post and liked it on social media.
In response to the post, Rapinoe posted on her Instagram story, “For people who want to hide behind ‘my beliefs’ I would just ask one question, are you making any type of space safer, more inclusive, more whole, any semblance of better, bringing out the best out of anyone?”
“Because if you aren’t, all you believe in is hate. And kids are literally killing themselves because of this hate. Wake TF up!””
https://thepostmillennial.com/megan-rapinoe-tries-to-cancel-womens-soccer-player-for-posting-video-of-teen-who-desisted-from-being-trans
She shouldn’t have apologized.
Damn right she shouldn’t have apologized.
“He has also told American parents to “affirm your kids,” meaning to believe and encourage them when they say they were born in the wrong body and want to change sex.
He said “extremists are proposing hundreds of hateful laws that target and terrify transgender kids and their families — silencing teachers; banning books; and even threatening parents, doctors, and nurses with prison for helping parents get care for their children.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-celebrates-trans-day-of-visibility-on-easter
CWAA
Laboratory
In recent years, the battle for higher minimum wages has increasingly played out at the city, county and state levels as the federal minimum wallows at $7.25 an hour.
Broadly, California often sets the bar for many business decisions that other states later follow. Advocates hope something similar will happen with fast-food pay – spreading to other industries in the state and across the country.
Pay no attention to that unemployment rate behind the curtain.
Of course, everyone here knows the minimum wage is $0: if you don’t offer value at the legally-mandated minimum, you’re not getting hired.