The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[Krow]

Getting ready to go for a hike. Was going to cheat and buy some mushrooms from the store to beer batter and fry tonight but they all looked like garbage (and white button/portobello/crimini don't fry all that well and are the same thing btw, you're literally getting upcharged because some are brown) so I'm going to hope I find some while I'm out.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Do you actually think China will become so strong a world power that they'll be an existential threat? I thought you meant kill us economically or something.

Yeah I meant economically and was pretty much just joking, but I think their selective preference for aborting girls is something that is starting to fade as they modernize (it's more common in rural areas), and the higher mortality rate of adult males helps to narrow the gap.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

That's only a testament to how backwards and degenerate a significant part of America is. I can't wait until China fucking kills us.

Catering to the interests of kids isn't backwards or degenerate. They still take science classes and science regents while in middle school, still have science and math fair, and still take math regents. Socially, however, you are giving them an outlet with arts and sports. Some of the best schools in Europe have this very same approach and the kids end up doing much better on standardized tests as oppose to making everything in school about curriculum.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

business is a science hurr durr that's why you can get a bachelor and master of science in it

public funding should not be spent on special needs kids in art schools, at the very least put them in a trade school for fucks sake

liberal arts, ethnology, gender studies, and other shit degrees should be thrown out of every curriculum

They need to learn how to read and do basic math before putting them into trade school lol. I think on the high school level maybe but when they can't write, read and do math exactly what trade can they do? They all involve all of that. Also learning disability isn't the same as intellectual disability. Stuff like dyslexia is a LD. So the kids IQs can still be regular it's just that they need more help with reading

 

[The Ozzman]

Yeah but you apply mathematical formulas I'm sure, and do statistics?

I don't in my job personally but yes we learned how to calculate put call parity and the BSM equation for option pricing.

business is a science hurr durr that's why you can get a bachelor and master of science in it

You can also have it to where you can get a bachelor of arts or science in certain things. It doesn't automatically make anything a 'science'. Business concentrations are mutually exclusive from science fields, period.

 

[Onder]

Well I'm not a pro china man but still there's this trend in western society that there's too many fuckable girls that think they matter. Recently my cousin talked to my grandfather and told him she doesn't want a baby until she's well off and shit like that and he laughed and looked in her eyes and said YOU DON'T DECIDE THAT and laughed some more at that poor girl. I like when old people laugh like that. All the life experience ferments in their minds for years and then they just have to laugh at young girls like that.

I'm on neither side btw. I still laugh at shit like that though.

 

[arg]

your cousin has good sense, if only every female in the world thought like that instead popping out filthy spawn like a gumball machine of shit

 

[Baroque]

China's law takes away freedom, but it should be a rule people implement on themselves without the need for a rule. I cannot think of a good reason to have more than 2 kids, for yourself or for the world. Maaybe exceptional couples should have more than two to help spread their valuable genes, but the way it works right now is backwards.

 

[Baroque]

I always assumed high level business was math and science based given there are classes like business calculus and business statistics, and computer science for business majors.

 

[Dak]

Those are probably more oriented to analytics jobs than upper level management, at least "business calculus" and computer science. Stats are obviously widely useful.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Watching football, been away from UM for a while.

 

[The Ozzman]

I always assumed high level business was math and science based given there are classes like business calculus and business statistics, and computer science for business majors.

Business calc was a joke. My professor told me I would've done well in the science based calculus class. Business stats was also a joke. Actuarial exams are no joke.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Catering to the interests of kids isn't backwards or degenerate. They still take science classes and science regents while in middle school, still have science and math fair, and still take math regents. Socially, however, you are giving them an outlet with arts and sports. Some of the best schools in Europe have this very same approach and the kids end up doing much better on standardized tests as oppose to making everything in school about curriculum.

Most human beings are inherently degenerate, so absolutely can catering to their interests be degenerate. Just as the Romans catered to the degeneracy of the masses with the gladiators, our government does today with sports. The overwhelming majority of children will never make a career in sports or arts, yet they waste time, vital years of learning, the ability to put off pleasure for work, and even their health in pursuit of it. They take the most basic of math and science classes, and many of them graduate illiterate and incapable of performing basic algebra. I'd like to see what statistics you're referring to regarding Europe, because I'm 99% sure that we place more emphasis on sports in our schools than the rest of the world.

EDIT: Also, the schools with the very best standardized scores are usually either Asian or Finnish, both of which place hardcore emphasis on STEM.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Rhapsody station on Pandora
Fucking Monday
Been on a big power metal kick lately. But I don't own enough.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

when you're such a piece of shit that you hurt your leg jogging
dont think I stretched enough
Always something. So frustrated right now

 

[Funerary_Doom]

Most human beings are inherently degenerate, so absolutely can catering to their interests be degenerate. Just as the Romans catered to the degeneracy of the masses with the gladiators, our government does today with sports. The overwhelming majority of children will never make a career in sports or arts, yet they waste time, vital years of learning, the ability to put off pleasure for work, and even their health in pursuit of it. They take the most basic of math and science classes, and many of them graduate illiterate and incapable of performing basic algebra. I'd like to see what statistics you're referring to regarding Europe, because I'm 99% sure that we place more emphasis on sports in our schools than the rest of the world.

EDIT: Also, the schools with the very best standardized scores are usually either Asian or Finnish, both of which place hardcore emphasis on STEM.

I don't have time to go back and forth. Here's a video about Finnish schools. Their approach is way more lax than ours. Additionally, they spend way less time in school (here is what I was talking about with emphasis on social life) and are still able to get some of the best results in the entire world. Therefore, you are wrong about us placing more emphasis on social aspects than other countries. We actually do this way less just going by the amount of hours spent in school.



Edit: I also think it's interesting that Finnish schools also do co-teaching as well for kids with disabilities. Theoretically, it's s good idea but many co-teachers I worked with at my last job were often never prepared with a lesson. One co-teacher I just took over their entire class. That's also an issue. People just don't do their jobs right here(as parents and as educators).

 

[CiG]

 

[tagradh]

when you're such a piece of shit that you hurt your leg jogging
dont think I stretched enough
Always something. So frustrated right now

Do you mean pre or post run stretching? I'm a believer that the latter isn't especially useful and that the former, at best, also does little, but can often increase the risk of injury. I don't run much these days but I used to go a fair bit. Things improved lots when I stopped stretching beforehand. Now I just do what I do before deadlifts/squats which is bodyweight squats, cossack lunges and leg swings followed by warm up sets (in the case of running that'd be brisk walking for a a couple of minutes, old man jogging for a couple and then running).


Bout to download the latest Cradle of Filth.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

Bout to download the latest Cradle of Filth.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

@tagradh ya pre jog stretching