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  1. Re:I was a crappy student on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This 'nerd' is associated with everything considered smart.

    That explains why you're an arsesmart farmer.

    arsesmart? I have questions.

  2. Re:Anxiety for 1200 Alex on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is something we all felt in high school?

    But, math anxiety? Wow. If it existed, I rather convincingly suspect it was in back of dozens of other, considerably more important at the moment, social concerns.

    The anxiety is probably the enforcement of the ideological dictate that women are equal or better at math than males.

    When proficiency in math is actually based on individual ability, not the person's genitals.

    That doesn't matter to the idealogues, they attempt to force math proficiency on young ladies who may or may not have the individual traits.

  3. Re:Not my daughter. on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Girls can definitely do math. However, it seems like its more socially acceptable for them to brag about how they're bad at it. Maybe that's the real problem here.

    Females who can do math can do math. There is an important and critical distinction there.

    In out time of flexible everything, from gender to claims that anyone can be anything they desire if they only try hard enough - the article is kind of correct - parents and teachers are causing a problem.

    But this problem is going the wrong way. The poor young ladies brought to tears are perhaps not good at math. Not everyone is. Not all people with penises are good at math either.

    And it is not necessarily the patriarchy's cancerous influence if less females are interested in math than people with penises.

    If a woman is interested in math, and wants to pursue a career in a math heavy field, that is wonderful. That's the triumph of the individual. I've worked with women who make me look like a real slouch in these things. You go girl - you're bringing value.

    But today's opposite pressure on young girls, a weird enforcement of disciplines that the girls may or may not be interested in, is stupid, and more likely to backfire than succeed. You can't ideologize interest.

    You expose children to concepts, and if they like a field, you let them pursue it.

  4. Re:Why did the Facebook API dish out the data? on Facebook Sues Over 'Data-Grabbing' Quizzes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why was the App able to grab the data?

    How many other Apps are grabbing the data?

    Why did Facebook create the ability of third party apps/extensions to grab such data?

    This isn't dependent on any app. The way these data grabbing pages act is that the mark goes to the page - usually because some friend went to the webpage of whoever it was. So after getting to the "What Flavor Condom are You?" web page, they completely voluntarily type their personal info and give it to the website operators.

    Apparently this was how Facebook posts were targeted to specific users during the 2016 campaign. If someone is willing to share intimate personal data with a website of indeterminate ownership and ethics, they will be an easy target to influence.

  5. Re:But think of the children! on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    So every time anyone loses an hour or gains an hour of sleep and it causes serious health problems, it would be an easily proveable hypothesis, and a theory acceptable to near certainty.

    In fact, it is an easily provable hypothesis, and it is thoroughly proven. We do the same experiment every year, and every year, we see the same statistically significant increase in deaths.

    Does this statistically significant increase include those who get the same amount of sleep? Are their no effects related to the time of year?

    Do our bodies simply know that the standard time is the one true time, that is dangerous to alter lest we die?

    Here's a little thing that might need explained. According to your apparent sources, the heart attack rate drops when moving back to standard time from Daylight savings time. What causes this? 24 percent increase in spring, and a 21 percent drop in the fall. https://www.sciencealert.com/d...

    Seems like the body knows exactly what time it demands, eh?

    So you have to not only say that going forward kills people, and going backwards saves them. What happens if we keep moving the clock backwards? Will we eliminate heart attacks? What are the effects between the equater and the higher latitudes? If disruption in sleep, night, and day cycles is the cause, people in places like Alaska should be dropping over.

    I don't necessarily dispute the DST as a killer numbers. But here's the issue. We get to see many accusations. https://fee.org/articles/dayli... REad it. Here the poor fellow is whining about being groggy because of the change in teh fall. Oddly, that's when WebMD says that people have less health problems - when moving back.

    And interestingly, the same site claims that there are less assaults during the DST months because less people are outside after dark. I wonder how many of those were killed during those standard time assaults?

    But that's all beside the point, because when I see not necessarily supported "data" I get pretty suspicious.

    Regardless, does this mean that we need to classify loss of 40 minutes of sleep (from the last link) as a health hazard? Should tthis be made law? If we cannot change between DST and EST without causeing many deaths, should we likewise not cover people for risk-taking behavior like going to different time zones?

    I never notice the DST shift, but as a frewuent traveler, going between the east and west coast can be a real issue. In fact, if the DST killer is real, flying back anf forth across several time zones should kill people easily. I feel like crap when I'm jet lagged, and quite the same with the time of day shifts. It's much the same thing, only much exaggerated.

    As well, when I've gone to Alaska, the effect is even heightened - a 4 hour time differential, plus drastically extended daylight in the summer, and a lot of darkeness during the winter.

    My ending point? It the data is real, they do have to eliminate a whole lot of other things, then explain how thousands of people voluntarily go through much more drastic changes of exactly the same phenomenon and returning happy. And I've been on cruises to Alaska with some people who were obviously fulfillingt a bucket list.

  6. Re:But think of the children! on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    The basic unit the second, will now be known as the queef.

    So like this: Hey Ol, I need a hand with something here- do you have a queef?

    Did I get it right?

    In principle, but in practice perhaps not.

  7. Re:This sounds like it may just govern radion cont on EU's Plan To Ban Sale of User-Moddable RF Devices Draws Widespread Condemnation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It sounds like it's just meant to not allow users to control the radio tranmissions, similar to how in the US the radio device has to be FCC-approved, and you can't for instance boost your CB power to 50 watts. If software allows you to turn your router radio up to 11 (like DD-WRT) does, perhaps it is just that component of it they want to control?

    There is a difference between "type accepted" and the sort of power I have as an amateur or professional. A Citizens band radio is a low powered unlicensed service. I an allowed to modify or build anything. But hey - if the EU says this is a great thing, the good citizens will comply.

    Sounds like the Volksradio is coming back, as the EU starts to demand and enforce complete conformity, and obedience to their benevolent governance. And sure enough, they are out defending this in the threads.

    So go ahead and mod me down, good compliant citizens. Differing opinions are dangerous.

  8. Re:But think of the children! on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't about inconvenience. It is about health. That much lost sleep causes serious problems for human physiology.

    So every time anyone loses an hour or gains an hour of sleep and it causes serious health problems, it would be an easily proveable hypothesis, and a theory acceptable to near certainty. Because in everyday life, people lose sleep or sleep in. If it is a true health crisis, the proof is so simple as to be something that we can find in ourselves. "Oops - I missed an hour's sleep , that must be the cause of my arthritis. And my uncle slept in yesterday - and we found him dead in bed - sleeping an extra hour caused this.

    You know, seems like your sleep apocalypse needs enforced by law, my very excitable boi.

    By the way - shouldn't insomniacs all die after a few sleepless nights?

  9. Re:Count me in on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    If we're going to have time zones at all, then the right time tries to align noon with the sun's zenith. A balance of sunrise and sunset at equal distances from noon (or midnight). At least as best as possible, since there are variations throughout the year, as well as each location within the time zone. \

    A lot of solutions like that end up with thousands of time zones, depending on the granularity desired.

    I went over this the last DST is cancer article in here. With living on a spheroid, with the world now being bigger than where we can ride a horse in a day, there simply is no system that works well. Tying the time to the local conditions doesn't help people around the world with all their local condition.

    So - let's say that Slashdot users have their way, and we have only one time zone - Something similar to coordinated universal time. The alternitive being hundreds ot thousands of local times tied to the local dark/light cycle.

    Who gets to force the rest of the world to obey the one true time zone. As gone over before, some people will be getting up, going to work, and having the day change partway through their work day. Or else work to local daylight time, which makes for a hellava mess.

    It's almost like those who came before us weren't actually stupid.

  10. Re:Count me in on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, it is amazing to me that it is easier to convince everyone to change their clocks to the wrong time instead of changing their schedules. I guess it's like programming -- change the underlying code (the time) rather than every place that uses it (the schedules). But still...

    I forgot to add about that comment - what exactly is the right time? I think maybe in the interest of personal freedom, everyone gets to choose their own time, since there is no right time, it's all relative.

  11. Re: Count me in on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    DST was invented before the rise of the 24 hour economy. Most energy usage was when people were at work, so by aligning work hours with natural light you could cut down on usage. That's not true anymore. People use a LOT more energy at home, air conditioning is far more prevalent, and almost nobody uses wood or coal for heat or light anymore. .

    Well hell, looks like we can save a LOT of money just by keeping people at work, amirite?

  12. Re:For christ sake people it's a clock. on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow - you're usually not so intense, my man.

    I ran out of Xanax because of the time change!

    Well played sir! A good Sunday morning laugh.

  13. Re:But think of the children! on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    You've got it backwards.

    I've noticed that people who like DST don't care about how inconvenienced everyone else is having to adjust their clocks twice a year. That disrupts everyone's day twice a year, and they don't even get a choice in it.

    People are killing themselves because life simply isn't worth living ewhen you have to (quick Brenda - get the children out of the room, lest they be permanently damaged - adjust a clock!

    I can see it in the future, Swat teams entering houses and summarily executing people who do not set a clock once, and leave it there forever. If the batteries run out, or you let your phone discharge, no excuses, you are done.

    PThey don't care how much trouble others have, as long as they get their way.

    In other words, everyone can adjust their schedules as needed, and not force people to do it if they don't want to.

    I trust you are being sarcastic. Otherwise, we need to get you on a suicide watch. Let us know, because one life lost is too many to the tyranny of clock settings and time zones. We love ya bro, and would hate to lose ya!

  14. Re:I was around when the USA did this, it was hell on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if these people complaining about a 1-hour change never even cross the country.

    A real good chance they are retired and living in the south, where the daylight/Dark cycle is less variable. Some of them are so localized they don't even want time zones, only the time where they happen to reside. That sounds like a strawman, but I've had arguments with the selfsame people in here.

  15. Re:For christ sake people it's a clock. on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing is stopping you from leaving your clocks alone either.

    I think everyone should use their Gawd given right to determine their own time. See my queef based time system elsewhere in this topic.

  16. Re:For christ sake people it's a clock. on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing is stopping you from fucking with your own clocks twice a year but the rest of us have better things to do.

    Wow - you're usually not so intense, my man.

  17. Re:Count me in on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 2

    So, you don't travel, do you?

    Not certain what angle you are working Bruce, since no quote. But I've travelled a lot over the years, and have to chuckle at the folks for whom the twice a year shift is an insufferable assault. Typically across 3-4 time zones. The past 5 years or so, it's been across one time zone, but hey - the day/night cycles are all different.

    You simply adapt. Or if I was just on a short duration, I kept my own time zone schedule as much as possible. Just tell me when its time for breakfast, and I'll get by.

  18. Re:Count me in on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    DST may have been an energy saver back when most people primarily used electricity for lighting.

    Some of us still use electricity for lighting. What do you use, whale oil lamps, or maybe Camphine?

  19. Re:But think of the children! on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1
    I think that the government telling us what time it is is an unforgivable infringement upon out basic freedoms. I call for humans having the right and dignity to set their own time, as they see fit. Stand up to the man!

    In the spirit of the people grabbing back their freedoms, I will now observe only my own clock.

    The metric clock. the minute is based on 100 seconds, the hour 100 minutes, and the day 10 hours.

    But none of this numerical bullshit. The basic unit the second, will now be known as the queef. Standard units apply scaling up and down.

    The year will consist of 10 months, or Squanches.

    Wake Up America!!!!

  20. Re:But think of the children! on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    That would make life difficult for parents who need to get their kids ready for school and then get themselves to work though.

    You are under the mistaken assumption that they care about others inconvenience.

    The most vociferous opponents of DST tend to come from places where it means the least. The closer you get to the Equator, the less seasonal differential between light/dark cycles. When you are in the far north or south, no amount of clock diddling will help. Seasonal extremes are just beyond adjustment.

    But there are those mid-northern or mid-southern temperate zones. Damn! Here in PA, before we changed the clocks this morning, it was getting light out way too early for my schedule. But my schedule aside, light at 0530 is less useful than light at 7 p.m. P> We're all living on an oblate spheroid orbiting a single main source of light. And we're on a tilt as well. We'll ignore wobble for the moment.

    There is simply no problem free way to work the time of day. Any fix will simply introduce new problems.

  21. Re:But think of the children! on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    so change the time your school starts if it means so much in your district

    That's much more impractical, especially for those trying to mesh work schedule with school schedule.

    I've noticed that the folks who hate DST don't care bout anything more than how inconvenienced they are with having to reset their clocks. As Iggymanz notes, disrupt the school day, disrupt an entire process - they don't care how much trouble others have, as long as they get their way.

    I'd be willing to wager that most live in apartments, don't have work that requires going outside, or no evening chores. But that clock shift - insufferable!

    In other words, everyone else adjust their schedules all over the place. I'm off to play FortNite.

  22. Re:Count me in on DST-Hating Reps in Washington State Vote To 'Ditch the Switch' (komonews.com) · · Score: 1

    If this ever comes up for a vote I'll be first in line to abolish DST and the pointless back-and-forth with the clocks.

    It's stupid and serves no purpose except to fuck up everyone's schedule twice a year.

    Next, we need to stop the bullshit of it getting light and dark at different times. It needs to get light at 7 in the morning, and dark at 8 in the evening, all year round, everywhere.

  23. Re:yes and no on Is Bad Customer Service More Profitable Than Good? (hbr.org) · · Score: 1

    I used to go to a bar that and restuarant that got bought out by Joes Crab shack chain of restaurants. Food sucks and cost accountants now determine the food but hte prices remained high. The good rare European beers are dissapearing because folks from the marketing department said they should serve miller light and coors shit because that is what else the majority of people buy. ... but kept the same high prices where I can buy at the store or another local bar for half price.

    Guess what? I only go there a few times a year now instead of once a week.

    And when they declare bankruptcy, they'll blame it on millenials.

  24. Yes, I get that telling this to a patient is hard. But if you cannot do it in person, then do not be a doctor or do pathology were patients are already dead.

    I dunno. I could really care less who told me I was going to check out. Way too much is made of the sensitivity aspect, and half of the other crap around death. I cringe when I read about how so and so "passed away peacefully surrounded by family". Screw that. I've done the other side of that equation enough times, and it's seldom all that peaceful, and I intend to check out all by myself.

    So if someone on Mars tells me I've only got a few hours, or in person - I'll thank them, have a shot of tequila, say goodbye to everyone, then tell them to get the fuck out of the room, and get ready for the ride.

  25. When I get mod points, I open the level filter. You make a choice. Want to start a 1? open an account. Want to be a Coward? post and accept starting at 0. That's it. Simple.

    When I get mod points, I browse at -1. As the moderator guidelines say (or used to say?) you should be on the lookout for other abusive moderators, and have the chance to repair their harm.

    I tought that was what I said.

    Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant when you said "open the level filter".

    No problem - I did use non-standard terms.