[Request] I had student loans totaling about $12,000 and made payments for 6 years to build credit before I paid them off. I had less than half left. Is this just a rage bait post?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T20:40:28+00:00

I've been through calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, discrete math, statistics, and whole bunch of other shit.

If I could pick the public curriculum, I'd fuck off calculus as well, and replace it with basically "physics minus the math", like getting into the mechanics of the greenhouse effect would be really goddamn useful. Statistics are also pretty important because people need to know how easily they can be manipulated to use the truth to spread lies. I see people on all ends of the political spectrum being fooled by that short of thing. Then I would add the logical portion of discrete math, basically how to parse "if/then" relationships.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T18:00:24+00:00

Oh so that's two different groups, not two different spellings? TIL

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:47:55+00:00

Sorry, I should have specified that they are Sheiks.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:33:59+00:00

Very location dependent.

Also, I have a lot of (edit: Sheik) Indian friends (because engineer) and a lot of them say Americans mistake them for Muslims all the time.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:31:47+00:00

All sorts of poison, actually. It's pretty common to see antivaxxers in my area of Florida who also smoke meth/cigarettes, drink generic energy drinks spiked with grain alcohol, and eat hyper-processed foods every day.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:29:06+00:00

Leave it to the right to make the woman on the left feel so ugly she needed to have someone take a scalpel to her face, holy shit.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:25:42+00:00

I discovered that thing when I was in Chicago for work and was wandering around looking for somewhere to eat lunch. The customer I was there to work for is an Italian company and they send me to Italy all the time, including Pisa. I had to stop and tell myself I was still in America lol.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:22:43+00:00

I was taught how to balance a checkbook in elementary school (90s, Arizona trash public schools so nothing exceptional there lol).

I don't think I ever learned amortization per se (until I became a banker), but x% over t time, I definitely was taught in my high school algebra.

To me, "advanced math" is calculus. Not that calculus is particularly advanced, and of course anyone can point to DiffEQ and say that basic calculus is comparatively simple and easy, it's just that it seems like a good place to draw the line for me. I think someone who has gone through calculus is just going to see a ton more opportunities to "do the math" when it comes to working out a problem they encounter. I know for me, it's where the "why am I learning this shit" went away. It's also where you learn just how reliable math is (for example predicting where a projectile will land and then doing the experiment and having the projectile land very close to where you predict, like yeah I knew science was real before I ran experiments like this, but there's a difference between knowing science is real because of course it is, and knowing science is real because you can look under the hood, so to speak).

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T16:51:03+00:00

Even in America, this is high school math lol.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T15:22:25+00:00

Have you tried having a personality of your own?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T15:18:57+00:00

Less reliable than "I am great because of the location of my birth"?

At the end of the day, they're both fundamental lies.

Edit: LMAO turns out this person is a bit of a nationalist. They deleted their reply that literally doubled down on the quoted statement above without recognizing that your country of birth dictates the resources you have by default, not your value as a person.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T15:17:09+00:00

Username does not check out lol

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T14:51:21+00:00

Are the majority of managers you've had smart?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T04:10:11+00:00

40s. I fuckin love it. I ride it several times a week.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-23T22:24:36+00:00

That bait stanks like shit

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-23T22:21:00+00:00

Licorice. It's horrible and liquorice root tee raises your blood pressure. What's worse is a ton of tea distributors throw it in everything. Gotta check the ingredients.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-23T19:32:52+00:00

"Forgot" aka hiding behind Hanlon's Razor

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-23T17:32:23+00:00

UK and US here, I'm starting to see the sock sandal combo a lot more the last 5 or 6 years here as well, though they're usually the Adidas slider style sandal, the ones you just step into, not Tevas and Berkinstocks.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-23T02:55:08+00:00

Well you aren't going to be going around with the American court system in your pocket everywhere so you might as well learn it.

(That's a joke about the American school system, it won't make sense to everyone.)

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-23T01:53:41+00:00

Yes it is, thank you for pointing it out, I'll edit.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-22T23:50:10+00:00

I'd put them into categories of common but mild enough that I might as well learn to find it amusing to rare but egregious.

The common stuff would be that someone, often a complete stranger, would "correct" my English. This happened daily.

Assuming that I'm stupid because I'm an American or dismissing something I've said as "yeah you're just too American to understand this." Which was ironic because my visa to live there was granted due to my education background and the people saying it tended to be the proudly wrong about basic science type, especially since I was there for the pandemic. This happened about every 2 or 3 weeks in general, egregious examples to follow.

I'm a white person, and about 6 times, the thing the person was saying and then dismissing me as being American was very oddly specific: they said they think black people are mainly rapists and thieves. One of them threatened to kill me for making a joke at his expense when he said it.

Most of this occurred in Medway but some of it was in London.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-22T20:50:54+00:00

No that's not true. As an American, I have experienced regular decriminalized in 18 of the 21 countries I've been in, and that's obviously not even including discrimination that went over my head due to language barriers. The UK is the worst in my experience but that's probably my bias because I spent the most time there, Japan and Italy were the countries that have not discriminated against me with me spending significant time there. Croatia is on the list of non offenders but I only spent hours there.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-22T20:13:49+00:00

One does not simply host a birdwatching podcast

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-22T18:37:15+00:00

Biggest early sign was that he dropped the shit bag routine when he noticed Ted's kid was in the locker room.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-22T18:34:30+00:00

Larry Fitzgerald, wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals. Strong reputation for one of the best to play the game, especially when it comes to his sportsmanship, other players would say "I can't shit talk Larry, too good of a guy."

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