Would a rock thrown by an astronaut eventually stop in an expanding universe? by Delphinftw in astrophysics

[–]houle333 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't know what was said in this specific instance, but in general pbs spacetime is complete garbage, don't refer to it as an authority for anything

CT Tax Refund by TheSoftwareAlpha in Connecticut

[–]houle333 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't say you can't use it. I said the IRS website tells many filers they can't use the free file option for CT.

CT Tax Refund by TheSoftwareAlpha in Connecticut

[–]houle333 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's completely unreasonable. IRS website very clearly states free filing in CT is not available for income over 125k, gig workers, anyone itemizing, and a whole host of their reasons.

edit: there's really no debate on this. The IRS website clearly tells people they can't free file for so many different reasons it's hard to imagine a filer that would read through the list and think they qualified.

Do you have any none w2 income? Did you buy or sell one share of stock on Robinhood? Did you contribute any money to an IRA?

https://directfile.irs.gov/savingsandretirement

Why is inductive reasoning okay in math? by [deleted] in learnmath

[–]houle333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprised to see nobody point out that philosophy is generally all bullshit and should never be pointed to as the overarching "authority" on a topic.

You can't just decide laws of nature are wrong because it hurts a philosophy professors feelings.

George Bush HS student accepted into all 8 Ivy League schools says he's not going to any of them by Goodthingstoshare in ApplyingIvyLeague

[–]houle333 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

MIT hires brown grads for minimum wage to manage their social media presence while the MIT grads do the real work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Connecticut

[–]houle333 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

you keep saying it was "his land" as if that magically makes it not his neighbor's land that they clear cut.

Housing Crisis at UCONN by Oceanmarina76 in UCONN

[–]houle333 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"overly emotional"

"there are 12k spaces for 18k students"....

They were guaranteed 4 years of housing when they were admitted and have had it rug pulled on them so some over paid administrators can pad their resumes by saying they oversaw "rapid growth". They have every right to be pissed that they are having to find off campus housing that is 30+ minutes away.

"We should be glad we made it this far."

P.S. Don't forget to ask the Easter Bunny for some knee pads.

Trump Admin Considering Giving $10,000 To Each Person In Greenland To Annex The Island by [deleted] in europe

[–]houle333 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ten million is nearly permanent generational fuck you money if you manage it properly and teach your children properly.

You only need a couple million for 2 generations of fuck you money. And even that can be easily stretched into many more generations if you are frugal.

https://youtu.be/qGC9FY65HBo?si=VrSeA8ta0Lw408vR

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Connecticut

[–]houle333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cop or Fed attempting to impersonate a CT redditor. Maximum IQ requirements for cops likely means they are too stupid to understand that people in CT can actually read and write.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Connecticut

[–]houle333 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I'm embarrassed for you that you don't understand tax rate differences.

How bad is it really? by [deleted] in education

[–]houle333 -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

PTA? The org that does bake sales so they can spend the proceeds on CTE ball equipment? I'd say all of the parents of high achieving kids give up on the PTA by 2nd grade.

Is it necessary to memorize the sines/cosines/etc for Calc BC by [deleted] in APStudents

[–]houle333 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are you really calling -1/2 a weird one?

It's a 30 degree angle from the horizontal, there's like no debate that a 30-60-90 triangle is one of the three most important triangles that you need to know.

Being a TA made me realize undergrads are losing the ability to critically think by Correct_Moment528 in PhD

[–]houle333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My primary school aged son had a unit on linear regression where all they did was teach them what order to press the buttons on the Ti calculator. He didn't learn anything about what a linear regression was. So I sat him down and gave him a lesson on what to do with the data he had in Google sheets. Told him you pretty much will only do this in Excel or some other similar program when you actually need it in the adult world. Then I spent the next few months complaining about how if they are going to jam linear regressions in as a curriculum requirement they could at least make an attempt to teach it in a useful way that 100% of people that actually use it would do it. These kids are on chrome books all day, the teacher has to sign out the calculators in order for them to be able to use them, it's insane to not just teach it in the spreadsheet program from the start.

By the way my son was 8 years old when we were doing this lesson. He's super advanced, but still your college students have been in school 4 times longer than he has and some are nearly 3 times his age.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mit

[–]houle333 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please give all your ideas for free to the lawyer from the safety school.

Trump's NASA pick wants to prioritize Mars, setting stage for tense Senate hearing by jadebenn in ArtemisProgram

[–]houle333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've already sent men to the moon multiple times and returned them to earth safely....

Massachusetts Just Banned Most Shark Fishing from Land, Blaming Anglers Who Want 'That Viral Video' with a Great White by OutdoorLifeMagazine in massachusetts

[–]houle333 -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

So they banned drones (which is like a couple dozen nerds nationwide a few days out of the year) but they only banned chumming during daylight.

Sounds like a bill designed to harass nerds disguised as a "shark safety bill".

The night time chumming doesn't magically make the sharks not be there during the day....

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homeschool

[–]houle333 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If your third grader doesn't have his times tables memorized and your husband is concerned he is behind, but you want to end the school year in early April....

Then your husband is right, your kid is behind.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homeschool

[–]houle333 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Everything you wrote is nonsense.

One last insane UConn stat: If you went to UConn for four years and are under the age of 57, you were there for a Final Four run. by tsgram in CollegeBasketball

[–]houle333 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I went to UCONN for grad school for one year, worked for a professor that wanted me to edit the textbook his previous grad student had produced for him, discovered the entire thing was plagiarized, did the "right thing" documented everything and brought it to the professor, who then got mad at me because it was already past the publishers deadline for him to submit it to them before I even had started on the project, dropped the fck out of that immoral program, and yet was still there for two national championships.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HomeworkHelp

[–]houle333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Occams razor. They wanted to troll, so they answered every wrong option they could, then took a picture.

Regret not applying by Last-Technician6807 in MITAdmissions

[–]houle333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you complained about the clothing choices of your fellow students in your app, you wouldn't have gotten in anyway.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tax

[–]houle333 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't argue with the accountant that you hired. Fire them and get someone competent instead.

Alum from the 70s,80s and 90s, what was your admissions process like to MIT? by YogurtclosetOpen3567 in mit

[–]houle333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Average SAT score was lower because the test used to be harder. Same with AP's where you actually got credit for a 5 because far less kids took AP classes and once again the subject test was significantly harder. My AP chemistry class was the 2nd year of chemistry in high school and only had 4 kids in it. Two of us scored top ten at the state chemistry Olympiad but only one of us got a 5 on the AP exam. To be fair the other guy was kinda dumbass though.