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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • A line (to me) is defined as two or more points that connect. On point it’s one point, and no line can be made until another point is defined to connect them. I was never taught the parabolic function that turned that single point into a line, the calculator did that for me.

    And to your second “point”, how is learning to do the math, rather than just memorizing a list of answers, “directly involved in what we do as an adult”?



  • I hated learning the calculator stuff in high school, because it was never explained what the calculator was doing… How the hell does x=1 make a line, when it’s a literal one dimensional data point!

    It wasn’t until I was in my late twenties before watching a Numberphile video that explained exactly what a damn parabola was!

    Calculators are just a symptom of a more systemic problem, like memorizing times tables. You need to teach how those numbers/lines came to be, not just ‘memorize this list that has nothing to do with 98% of the math you’ll be expected to do as an adult…’






  • Empathy fatigue.

    I’m an obnoxiously empathetic person. I spent a week in a “mental health facility” last year, and it was an emotional nightmare. I hate seeing people in pain, so being involuntarily admitted into a dumpster filled with people in the worst pain, and at the lowest point of their lives…

    Not amusing to say the least.

    By day four, I didn’t even look up when someone screamed screamed, or i heard the “thud” of someone succumbing to the “let’s try you at this dose” reactions of the drugs.

    Sometimes you just don’t have the empathy to deal with these people, and the older I get, the less empathy and more ‘hatred’ I have for people that just constantly hurt themselves. Their actions are their own, I’m done trying to empathize or ‘understand’ their perspective. /rant