chocosoldier

oh look yet another warmed over "DAE the kids r bad" talking point that i've been hearing literally since i learned language.

I've been saying for eight years he'd be more dangerous as a martyr than his stupid alive self.

Dude Socrates was convinced that reading and writing would ruin everyone's memory who grew up with it. Whining about somehow handicapping the next generation by making them "too dependent on technology" or whatever and couching it in reasonable-sounding terms is as old as language, and time always makes fools of those who indulge in that sort of masturbatory delusion. You're just jealous we had cooler toys, own it.

edit: replied to wrong user

"Gifted" education in the US means they burn us out with weird "critical thinking" extracirriculars and then berate us when the senioritis hits two years early.

I transferred schools in the middle of 10th grade, and the new Algebra class I landed in was several chapters ahead. I never caught up, but the teacher passed anyone who turned in literally anything for homework so I did that.

Now in my 30's I'm getting into indie game design, and I need that gap filled so I can write the code I need. So I went to the local thrift shop and picked up a couple old textbooks (since it's safe to assume that nothing groundbreaking has happened in the field of basic algebra in the past twenty years) for fifty cents and I've been working my way through them. I don't understand everything that's happening, but I'm pushing ahead with the faith that somewhere along the line things will "click".

who the hell calls rugby "rugger"? that's even worse than "soccer".

1. This is foosball.

2. The sport with the egg is "gridiron football", we call it "football" for short for the same reason other countries call association football "football" for short, it's the most popular variant here.

3. We don't call it "American football" because that's not what it's called, you lot say that because of point 2. Nobody is going to say "European football" because that's not what it's called either.

4. The word "soccer" was imported from the UK (seriously that word is british as hell, you really think we came up with that shit?), and we use it for reasons outlined in points 2 and 3, and also because "european football" is inaccurate, tiresome, and stupid sounding.

~~5. This is the first and only time I've ever heard of rugby union football being referred to as "ruggers", I never thought I'd read a dumber-sounding word than soccer but you're just full of surprises today.~~ For some reason i was imagining one of the replies was the same person, this was in error.

not at all, thank you!

fuck it, where do i start? if spending a little bit of my time writing a css sheet results in Google losing market share i'm 1000% down.

look im as stoked as anyone else but that information should really be in a section explaining it in detail further down the page, for Tyson, for Simpson, and even for Trump. Say who he is and what he did that's notable, not what the government did about it. it should say "fraudster" if anything, because that's who he is. i don't think labeling people vaguely as "felons" helps anything, and mostly serves to dehumanize people who have caught charges whether it was justified or not. that's just my two cents.

or, as i like to call it, gnu plus linux