I think this is highlighting the American need to crowbar America into every conversation.

Labour MPs taking £250k bribes from Israel lobby?

“But genocide Joe!?!??!”

🦊

Lemmy isn’t big enough to be blocking shit left and right.

Mackerel is better than tuna OP.

Dutch is a strange language.

Thanks!

Holy shit! That Swan guy is a fucking legend. I’ve never seen Trump get that hounded by a journalist before!! He needs to et this more often. Why the fuck aren’t more people pressuring him with questions like this?

Having played HOI4 I can attest to how fucking impossible it is to win without getting Czechoslovakia rolled over first.

hbomberguy - releases a 6hr epic every 6 months.

MSM confirmed the existence of unicorns!

She has a very round face nowadays.

And you know nothing about sarcasm you witless moron.

I get a strong taste of sick everytime I hear someone say “math” in singular/American-English.

I know it’s simplified English but it sounds so fucking lazy and stupid.

It needed a separate co-processor

Such a great time to be alive. 🥲

Nerd argument.

I fucking loved maths mechanics which is like applied maths/physics. So you’d calculate the distance a ball is thrown or a cannon ball dropped from a cliff. Don’t think we ever did matrices in it though. I enjoyed it so much I’d do excersizes in the book for fun!! That and politics were the only courses I was passionate about.

But I became a software dev that didn’t use maths or politics. :/

So from age 5-17 I hated maths cos I saw no point in it. Until I hit 17 and someone said I can work out how fast a fucking cannon ball travels on impact?! I mean holy dog shit! If someone told me that in primary school I’d have loved maths!

It was very much taught as a means to answer questions though rather than application. So as an adult I’d have to be shown how a number could be found using algebra. But because it wasn’t in an algebra question format it went over my head. It literally required someone taking numbers I’d been given and putting them in a line with letters before my brain engaged to “Oh shit - algebra! I know this!”.

Another example is differentiation. I recently looked up my notes and remembered it was told to us very mechanically: f(x) = 4x^3 => f'(x) = 4(3x^2) = 12x^2

No idea why that’s the case - it just is.

It’s a shame cos I learnt I love maths at 17 but by that point I’d lost years of potential.

P.S. any advice on where I can re-learn real-world maths? I’d love to redo my teens maths learning for fun.

as a door-opener

You say that but they still need to teach you the “why”. For example I did A-level maths which was a door to learning discrete maths in uni. Matrices, graphs, etc.

In 20yrs as a software dev I never used any of it. Only needed basic arithmetic.

To this day I’ve got no bloody clue what the point of matrices are.

I wish I was taught about the usefulness of maths growing up. When I did A-level with differentition and integration I quickly forgot as I didn’t see a point in it.

At about 35 someone mentioned diff and int are useful for loan repayment calculations, savings and mortgages.

Blew my fucking mind cos those are useful!

I’m free!!! Thank you!

Speaking of bitches. I much prefer them to dogs - better temprement, smell better and no undercarage for you to accidentally brush/knock when rubbing their belly.

drugs, alcohol, and mental illness,

I’ve had/have all 3 of those an I’m still not a cunt like Elon.