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Yeah come on. This thread is no place for programming talk

I agree. If she wants to see you that badly, she can come to you.

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Most people are biased in favour of their own country....in my experience it is particularly bad with Europeans and Americans.

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Which sort of exemplifies just how inefficient and student-unfriendly the current education system is, if it doesn't account for an experience that 'most' people will have. That would make it more in need of reform, not less: it's basically just an archaic, useless, and downright damaging time sink that utterly fails at preparing students for the basic foundational courses it professes to teach, let alone anything meaningful. And while there are always those life-changing moments that can't be accounted for, it's currently set up in such a way that an experience that 'most' people will have makes the entire effort wasted. Even the sorts of universal things that everyone can make use of are taught in such an esoteric way as to be both inflexible and useless, like you mentioned with middle-school algebra above, or things like the scientific method, or critical thinking, or what have you. I feel like I've learned more about the basic foundations of scientific theory from reading paleontology blogs than I have in 12 years of k-12 education. And I know non- native English speakers that write with more clarity than I did after being in the [bleep]ing IB program, because they write fanfiction regularly. Any system that is less efficient at teaching than fanfiction deserves to be torn down on principle /s (And yes blah blah blah information age and the practice aspect of writing and hobbyists being able to pursue their interests at their own pace and everything else people are liable to use as counterpoints- yes. That's the point. You learn more about sentence structure and flow and subtext and motivation by actually writing it, not by reading Shakespeare. And learning that Darwin studied finches as the groundwork for the theory of evolution is not nearly as interesting as seeing those ideas in action and applied to real organisms, their evolutionary theories, and their place in the tree of life. The point is that these are all pretty basic things that our current education system is wholly unprepared to teach. ) If I had to point to one overall problem with k-12 education, it's the lack of practice. Too many concepts are taught too quickly and blown off before anyone can get a handle on them. There's a reason programs like Kumon are so popular (and successful). It doesn't even teach as much as it just gets you to practice repetitively until you have a deep understanding of what you're actually doing. This ties in to your point about FF - people who write it spend a massive amount of time simply writing (practicing), so of course they get better at it.

Did jimmy milk your teats?

It's not just in the States - from what I've heard the UK is even worse.

The job market will almost certainly "crash" many times in the next sixty years.

someone's gotta do it

Just follow my flowchart. I had a girl respond to my opener with "come over?" a couple weeks ago... So I did :) I say "hey", you say "come over"

this quaterfinal is not getting nearly enough attention

"I have over 4000 posts on a runescape forum"

I know of a few women personally who do the whole friend cuddling thing

WHAT IF ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS CUDDLE THEN EH?

well that was fast

they look the same

Ahh that one is on my list to watch. Glad to hear you liked it, it seems pretty promising but Shakespeare is hard to do right.

anyone watch any Estonian jeopardy recently?

yeah he'll probably put himself in the next quaterfinal

saq has dropped the ball

doesn't matter only goes to 25

CC WINS I AM FINALLY ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY

They were selected for their community participation, initiative, and maturity. Their personal opinions were their own. Implying that the staff were not only corrupt but actively trying to damage the community is highly insulting to the time they volunteered here. If you're seriously proposing that the moderation staff should've barred people from sharing criticism on a game update, I vehemently disagree and question whether you were actually familiar with tipit at all. For every person who was a habitual whiner there were at least three active tipit users who simply used the boards as a place to talk about the game and its updates pleasantly and with good will. If you never saw those people because the disgust of a troll or two, I am very sorry you missed out on a fun experience. idk I was pretty corrupt. I will still take bribes, in fact. I won't do anything for you, but I'll still take bribes

once you vote we will have 25