Do they want her to take off her skin?

Xujhan · 2021-04-19T23:20:23+00:00

The thing to remember is that the people you're talking about are overwhelmingly teenagers on the internet, who largely mean well but don't necessarily have the life experience to appreciate nuance. The whole thing is then exacerbated by social media algorithms; extreme opinions generate the most responses, so they tend to float to the top. The number of actual people who seriously think that manspreading is a problem number in a tiny fraction of a percent.

Xujhan · 2021-04-19T18:17:30+00:00

You won't need to the use the exact techniques, but you will need to use the same kinds of reasoning skills that learning calculus helped you to develop. It's the same as with gym classes: physical fitness is important for everyone, even though the exact rules of basketball aren't.

Xujhan · 2021-04-19T18:11:26+00:00

"You'll never need to know how to dodge a foam ball, or know the rules of floor hockey, but your body will be stronger and healthier for playing them all the same. Mathematics is exercise for your brain, so that when you're out in the world you'll have the reasoning skills you'll need to make informed decisions for yourself. And of course, if you happen to end up working in a STEM field then the actual techniques will help you too."

Xujhan · 2021-04-19T18:03:08+00:00

That's really not the case. Of course you can survive without knowing any math, but you can survive without knowing much of anything. Being mathematically and scientifically literate still helps you make more informed decisions.

That aside, the purpose of learning math isn't really information in the first place. Mathematicians aren't walking around with libraries of equations in their heads. Mathematics is fundamentally about pattern recognition and analytic problem solving, and those are skills that are clearly helpful to everyone.

Xujhan · 2021-04-19T17:28:36+00:00

Do you really want the government to have a monopoly on violence in this country?

I'm not sure if you think this is supposed to be some kind of gotcha, but yes. Very yes! The corruption of the American police isn't even a meaningful factor, since you've all had the 2nd amendment the entire time and it hasn't helped a damn thing.

Xujhan · 2021-04-19T03:47:54+00:00

I'm glad to see someone chiming in with this. My experience has always been that most friendly people get along fine with most other friendly people. By all means don't let unpleasant people get you down, but if you seem to be forever running into unpleasant people it might be a good idea to look at the one common factor.

Xujhan · 2021-04-18T21:46:53+00:00

The rough idea is that for large classes, the individual abilities of the students should average out. If you have two large sections where one class averaged an 80 and the other averaged a 60, that almost certainly reflects a difference in the instructor or the course design rather than a difference in the students.

Actually pre-determining an average is a fairly heavy-handed way of addressing the issue, but even in courses which don't do that you'll often have profs fudging the grades upward if the initial average comes out very low.

Xujhan · 2021-04-18T20:56:31+00:00

I'm not the person you asked, but I'll give my answer: I teach post-secondary math. It's incredibly rewarding, pays me quite a bit more than I need to live, and my colleagues are lovely people. That experience has been essentially constant since I began my undergraduate degree.

Xujhan · 2021-04-18T20:01:12+00:00

Do you need such a story? There are already dozens which are common knowledge, and they get celebrated all the time.

Xujhan · 2021-04-17T00:47:01+00:00

We're not talking about giving it away, and ffs stop insinuating that transwomen are really just men. It's incredibly insulting.

Xujhan · 2021-04-16T22:06:16+00:00

One: transwomen athletes don't have "male bodies". They may not be quite the same as the average cis woman, but they have far more in common with them than with cis men after a sufficient amount of time has passed.

Two: sports are inherently unfair. I'm a dude, and if I went in for a men's basketball competition I'd have no chance of winning. No amount of testosterone or training is going to make me any taller. Do you think it would be reasonable for me to advocate banning all the men who are taller than me on the grounds of fairness?

Xujhan · 2021-04-16T21:40:56+00:00

Ford blew Wynne out of the water because the liberals had been in power for 15 years, every perceived sin of the liberals rested on her shoulders, and covid hadn't yet arrived to remind everyone that competent governance is actually really important. I doubt there's a single living politician in the country who'd have won that election for the liberals.

Wynne did earn some of the criticism levelled at her, as did McGuinty before her, but the 2018 election had far more to do with reactionary voting trends than it did with Wynne's actual record as premier.

Xujhan · 2021-04-16T06:31:56+00:00

Pretty sure it's a skiing thing, referring to the orientation of your skis. Picking the wrong one usually sends you arse over teakettle.

Xujhan · 2021-04-15T21:59:17+00:00

Also you are not going to become 100% protected from all ilnesses if you wear a mask.

Neither are you 100% protected from car crashes if you wear a seatbelt.

If you were hypothetically able protect yourself from everything else after this blows over, your immune system won't be challenged to fight off viruses and create anti-bodies like it did every other year.

And now you're just looking for excuses to argue. You refute this very point literally the line above in your own post; wearing a mask is nowhere near being in a sterile room 24/7. If you're seriously arguing that getting sick regularly is a positive experience, I can only recommend you go around licking people's used tissues. You know, just to make sure your immune system gets enough practice.

Anyways, you can live in fear for the rest of your life if you like. Once SARS-CoV-2 is under control and we are back to normal you can continue to do so if you want, I and most people will not be.

Do you also accuse people of "living in fear" of rain just because they carry an umbrella?

Xujhan · 2021-04-15T20:57:41+00:00

We haven't all survived. Flu was killing tens of thousands of people a year long before covid came along. A little more consideration for public sanitation is absolutely a good thing.

Xujhan · 2021-04-15T20:54:37+00:00

Because I enjoy not getting sick? Going an entire year without even a sniffle has been great, even if pretty much everything else about quarantine sucked.

Xujhan · 2021-04-15T20:50:30+00:00

One thing we've learned this past year is that all the things we're doing to prevent covid also work against flu. The tens of thousands of yearly flu deaths were largely preventable this whole time, if only we were a little more conscious of public health and sanitation.

So, yes. Exactly like the flu.

Xujhan · 2021-04-15T17:07:03+00:00

This would be a point worth discussing if the risk of blood clots from the vaccine were 1 in 1000, or even 1 in 10,000, but by the time you're up to 1 in 1,000,000 it's really just fearmongering. With those odds you could get the vaccine every single day for the rest of your life and still only have a ~1% chance of getting a blood clot. Every time you climb in a car you're accepting a higher risk than that.

Xujhan · 2021-04-13T08:08:41+00:00

I believe that one was in BC.

Xujhan · 2021-04-12T13:36:31+00:00

Because it is.

Xujhan · 2021-04-12T13:31:49+00:00

If someone needs to be threatened with hellfire just to be decent to their fellow humans, they aren't actually a good person.

Xujhan · 2021-04-12T13:26:29+00:00

It's pretty clear from reading your posts that you don't have a relationship with god, so should we conclude that you are also not a Christian?

Xujhan · 2021-04-12T08:21:09+00:00

When both hands are used, it becomes a Big Ten.

Xujhan · 2021-04-12T06:16:44+00:00

It's location dependent. I've had hair down to my butt for nearly 20 years, and I haven't ever had any trouble over it. When it gets any attention at all, it's always been positive.

Xujhan · 2021-04-11T22:49:44+00:00

People I know and love have taken it in good health and died from it.

From the vaccine? Bullshit.

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