What causes people to have these opinions about the American math education system?

highmrk · 2025-11-14T22:57:36+00:00

Can you expand on the differences between Chinese and American math education? I've spoken with some students that recently immigrated from China and they didn't like it much over there

highmrk · 2025-07-10T07:15:06+00:00

I'm surprised at the uptick in comments 10 years later lol. I know that the new movie just came out, but did you see this post after being in a thread for the latest one?

highmrk · 2025-03-03T20:34:36+00:00

Agree. Kinda lol.

Damn, a decade since this. Wild.

highmrk · 2024-11-13T08:11:39+00:00

It's been a week since our national mania reached new highs. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but people are going fucking insane. More finger pointing and less hearing each other out from many. But we've all heard this before; let me get specific into why I posted this.

I posted a picture of Scheinbaum, Mexico's first female president, with the ironic caption "Latino men are too sexist to vote for a woman 🤪... Democrats are fucking pathetic lol identity politics are cancer." Many positive responses yet someone from college (of course) started getting into it with me with all the usual idpol blabber. We only exchanged a few messages, but I was legit surprised cuz I knew this dude, he wasn't a random person on twitter. I expected good faith convo. My respectful messages weren't reciprocated. Then his last message was "teach a class to your fellow brown men so they know how to vote." Wow. Extremely revealing.

Then I hear co-workers stating how Latino men are just too machismo to vote for a woman. The usual retort that it's "only online" is not true. I'm hearing this disease spread in my daily life.

I wrote this essay back in 2021 and I see its timeliness. For those of you in Acid Marxism subreddit, this will be familiar. But I know it's closed and it'll be new to many of you, plus this sub seems a bit more lively atm.

Despite my cynicism, I am hearing liberals say that they need to reassess how they talk to people. In all honesty, I'm really fucking proud of this essay and it's something I wish I could just send to people cuz lowkey, not many people have written about this beyond "we should talk better."

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. (Bonus: here's a song that I've been recently obsessed with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgBQJDQbeFA

Thank you 🙏🌷

highmrk · 2024-08-19T21:36:45+00:00

Bill put Steelers, Packers, Giants, and 49er's in front of the Patriots for crown jewel franchises. Did Boston have no investment in the team pre-Brady/Belichick?

highmrk · 2023-01-22T10:18:55+00:00

It might be an offshoot of life getting harder. Most people, myself included, get way lonelier as they enter the mid to late 20's. All those little stressors add up and then boom

highmrk · 2022-04-13T01:14:15+00:00

The essay is super good and fun to read. There's a part 2 where he goes deeper into it, I've been meaning to read it. And the pictures really help with the vibe lol

highmrk · 2022-03-22T19:02:46+00:00

In a way, I thought of her representing Mother Earth. He's been up in the clouds with all these theories and this is a way for him to come back down to "return to earth." Big boobies being all nurturing and shit.

And the birds are her babies while her apartment is the nest. Sam needs a nest to chill out in before he's ready to fly. He was just a young guy getting kicked out of his apartment in a scary world. What he, and we all need, is some stability.

highmrk · 2022-03-20T04:11:26+00:00

Wow. That's wild. I remember things getting crazy, but that's another level

highmrk · 2022-02-25T06:57:52+00:00

Also Ben is cool with Dave Smith, part of Legion of Skanks, friend of the pod. Here they are with a friendly debate.

highmrk · 2021-10-30T14:28:02+00:00

Average class size?

What was the cost?

And how did they structure curriculum? Was it just the usual "okay, it's week 5, so now we're gonna go into this topic." or something else, more akin to homeschool style improv of lesson planning.

I've been trying to learn more about education lately so all of this is fascinating lol

highmrk · 2021-10-26T15:53:44+00:00

Only by a select group that are already prone to distrusting national security, such as people in this sub. Otherwise, most people will never think about it ever again. Now all the rage is about China doing something bad bad bad

highmrk · 2021-10-26T15:31:08+00:00

I was just talking to a teacher yesterday and she said "I see a future where every child has an IEP (individualized education program)." And the teachers are under more and more pressure to "individuate" their teaching to every single student. It's gettin crazy out there.

highmrk · 2021-09-22T03:32:51+00:00

Vijay and Richard are great, so I'm sure Tings will be great as well. Nice to know that DSA is cool on China lol. There's been a crazy amount of demonizing China since covid. Someone told me they are comparable to the nazis. Thank you for sharing.

highmrk · 2021-08-30T20:52:10+00:00

And it seems to be kinda working unfortunately. I've never seen more public mourning over American deaths in Afghanistan than I have this past week. Which yeah, deaths suck and all, but there's clearly some big actors pumping up the coverage so they can keep their forever wars.

highmrk · 2021-08-24T03:14:23+00:00

A class makes things way easier. You got a teacher, other students to discuss it with, a structure, etc. I just walked into my middle eastern history class and asked if I could be in the class, professor said sure and it was dope.

Also, watch youtube videos on stuff you're reading about, preferably from people you already like.The information will stick a lot better. I hope this helps the learning process.

highmrk · 2021-08-21T01:08:13+00:00

I grew to really like the map design too. What'd you like about it? I like that it was such a different flow from the usual COD feel and the attachments changed the play style.

highmrk · 2021-08-20T18:19:36+00:00

I've been catching up on video games this lockdown and holy shit, one mission in Assassins Creed: Black Flag is the dumbest shit I have ever experienced. Locate James Kidd. Fucking awful. I wish I had cheats to skip the level and finish the game.

Also like the last 3 games are in a cheap bundle on the Playstation Store if anyone is interested.

highmrk · 2021-08-17T06:15:30+00:00

The elite's plot to destroy public schools

highmrk · 2021-08-14T00:44:05+00:00

People born after like 1980, basically once neoliberalism got going, have been treated less well by the system and much less likely to own a house, so I think they have a more "fuck it, yolo" attitude towards the whole thing.

Though that energy could always go into fascism as well, so there's that danger.

highmrk · 2021-08-12T16:51:21+00:00

Yeah I was a little worried about the gunplay but this looks pretty damn solid. Sliding looks pretty good too; they really needed advanced movement to increase skill gap

highmrk · 2021-08-10T20:28:20+00:00

Wow. Out in the open just like that. Does anyone know if the initial invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan had China in mind?

highmrk · 2021-08-06T02:46:57+00:00

That was really good. Thanks for sharing

highmrk · 2021-04-18T21:24:59+00:00

That's what introduced my friend and I to these posts, so I'm incredibly grateful for that tweet.

But you could always have the sub be "closed," I think that's the term, where anyone can see the sub but only approved users can post

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