i gotta respect someone that keeps the post up, and corrects themselves. i really try and do the same, even if i had put my foot in my mouth.
I admire his desire for knowledge even if his wisdom is somewhat lacking lol
Right? I know a lot of people who were subject to absolute educational neglect for their K-18. Some lean in, but others have questions.
ETA - and some days I smack myself on the forehead and realize something I should have known at age 8 but it just clicked now.
I mean… my bachelors was largely neglectful tbh… if I didn’t know what I wanted to learn and how to learn it, it would have been nothing more than an extension of k-12.
They will let just any old shitbag teach certain credits… like my natural science 101 class, taught by a guy who bought into “organic is better”, “mindfulness will fix all your problems”, and various other pseudoscientific bullshit… such that my final essay (science is my auti special interest; I couldn’t ignore it…) was dedicated to pointing out each and every one of the pseudoscience claims he made in class which were demonstrably false (with citations). He initially gave me an A on the paper and then thought about how much I was insulting him and downgraded it to a C. That C was so worth getting. Fuck that guy. I learned more disproving his nonsense than I ever would have listening to him about anything…
But I also took a biostatistics course where the professor led by asserting creationism. Dropped that bitch right quick and complained to faculty about it (feel free to believe whatever nonsense you like, but I’m not paying tuition to hear your pet theories about thermodynamics proving creationism). Fortunately that was day two of the class, and still within time to drop. Unfortunately replacing that class fucked up my schedule for the semester big time.
And those are just two of a handful of issues with higher ed, and my school was actually one of the better for science curriculum… I started a masters program and dropped it when I got bad grades on papers for using accurate but simplified language (I’m a science communicator; using esoteric language is not something I do, even if I can easily do so. My life goal is to make science approachable for the masses, not a clusterfuck of specialized terminology that doesn’t even resemble the same term from another field)
I had this one time when I looked at my hand and freaked out because I had 5 fingers when I expected 4.
I am allowed to vote
It’s funny that most people are gonna assume you voted for a particular candidate AND the people who voted for that candidate are gonna assume this post is talking about them and get mad about it lul. It’s sorta telling.
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And the same goes for this comment too.
In a hospital I’ve been to, there is a skeleton poster by the MRI machine manufacturer (I think Siemens) smugly subtitled “without imaging techniques we wouldn’t know”. Apparently, it’s not just internet randos who forget. Too bad I can’t find it online.
To be fair, what if the entire skeleton drastically changes once you die? You can’t prove it’s NOT the case without an MRI.
Tho… What if an MRI causes the same changes as death…
Sometimes you smoke the blunt, and sometimes, well, the blunt - it smokes you.
