In olympics and world champion ships, people with an Y chromosome can not compete in women's leagues.
Breaking News! You are wrong. Rachel McKinnon (shown), an assistant professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston, who started life as a man, but now identifies as a woman, has won the women's only 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles on Sunday.
McKinnon, is very very proud of defeating the women, and tweeted “First transgender woman world championever,”
And make no mistake, if you have any sort of reservations, Rachel has branded you a transphobic bigot.
There is another aspect out there though, and that is at what point do we decide that it is time for the technology to stop?
Hey look, I'm rich; I can spend $50,000 on a brand new car, and in 5 years I'll buy another one.
You lot don't get that luxury. You can buy my nice, shiny Audi S5 for $12,000 when it's 10 years old and have a nice car with 70,000 miles on it. That's efficient. Your econoshitbox of today isn't on-par with a nice Audi luxury car from last decade.
But in fact, as he pointed out, repairing things is often trickier than making them.
That's usually a result of shitty design. Designing something so that it can be repaired easily costs money and is (usually) more difficult so unsurprisingly people/companies prefer not to bother if they don't have to. If something is difficult to repair it is usually because they didn't adequately consider repair during the design of the product. Once in a while you run into a product that is made intentionally hard to repair (Apple I'm looking at you) but most of the time it's just benign neglect and/or economics.
Okay, let's play the game.
You are designing an electronic device. You have been tasked with making it repairable.
How many years do you design it to be repairable for? To make it easy, choose between 5 and 250.
Do you design it to be repairable at the discrete or board level? Taking your length of repairability number in mind, how do you assure that the parts needed are available for that entire time. Include recalls up to 100 percent.
note: sourcing parts has become a bit of a headache for producers of electronics. Some times the parts makers give you a heads up that something is going away, some times they don't. This also plays into the production of custom parts.
How do you go about powering the device? Custom Li-Ion batteries designed to fit as efficiently as possible to enable a small case are probably out, unless you own the facility that produces them. Best to use replaceable "AA" or "AAA" Li-Po's, or consider Alkaline for maximum accessibility.
As likely as not, you will end up with a big, clunky feature poor, extremely expensive device.
You're going to spend $2,400 on high-quality oil changes for your engine, and another $100 on spark plugs, every 100,000 miles. You might spend $800 for an engine rebuild around 200k-300k. If you don't maintain that engine, you're spending $6,000 for a remanufactured engine swap somewhere around the 80,000-100,000 mark, if not closer to the 50,000 mark. Which is cheaper?
You must buy dome awesome spark plugs.
And you raise one interesting aspect that is true.
There is another aspect out there though, and that is at what point do we decide that it is time for the technology to stop?
When do we become technological Amish?
The right to repair concept includes a decision process enforced by law that will force interesting things like a return to discrete components, highly accessible design, and the death of a lot of the innovation we take for granted today. I could envision a future of olde school tube based technology. That stuff was easy to repair.
The movie industry will likely develop and exploit new "talent".
At one time, people would watch a movie because John Barrymore was in it. Very few people will do that today, but people may watch a movie because Drew Barrymore is in it.
Drew is a fascinating actress. She either looks stunning, or not at all, and can turn on the tears like a switch. Regardless I do like her.
Yes indeed. Aside from checking on Aunt Doris, using Facebook is like playing the lottery. A few people with the "best" lives or most sympathetic stories win, and everybody else loses.
I only use it now for the Marketplace. I get some stuff there, and I've almost convinced the wife to let me get a rat rod.
Socially isolated people often turn to Facebook to try to relieve their social isolation, but sitting alone in a room and pretending some pixels on your monitor are your friends is not a long-term viable substitute for actually spending time with people, so that mostly doesn't work.
One of the things that people forget is that there is a human on the other end of the intertoobz. I see many posting here who must think that they are in some sort of text based computer game where they figuratively yell and scream at whoever they are fighting with.
So outlet or enabler, I'm not 100 percent certain.
Actors will be all-CGI entities. Studios are obviously interested in this - imagine how much money they will save per movie by not having to pay the salary of the prima donna of the moment.
I am not sure it will be so simple. People choose the movie they will watch based in part on the actors in the movie. Think of the actors' salaries as a promotional expense.
But a hundred years from now, is Tom Hanks going to be the hot draw?
To my mind, there will be three things going on that work against this Actor immortality
1. It would kind of freeze actors at right now.
2. They would be paying great great great grandchildren huge amounts of money for not a whole lot, and would end up getting involved in family disputes.
3. Why would people in 2250 give a damn about Tom Cruise?
This could be a useful thing as a novelty, but like all novelties, it will grow old, and pretty fast.
I'd agree if they took the "creepy surveillance state is evil and bad for everyone" angle, I find it interesting that instead they went with the "this affects non-whites more so it's evil and bad!" argument, in that line anyways. I think that it reveals a lot about the author.
No idea how "adultery" as "break the marriage" as in "having sex outside of the marriage" moved into the english translation.
That's because someone wanted it to say that.
I grew up in a Catholic Household with fundamentalist Christian relatives. Imagine the different truths I heard.
Everyone has an interpretation of everything. So you can go on about the inaccuracy of a translation, but don't worry, there are hundreds of others.
Pick one.
Then add the plethora of other religions that have found the one real truth as revealed by gawd to man.
Then praise him with great praise that you were lucky enough to be born into the one and only real religion, and the one real interpretation.
Or then again, figure out that man makes gawd in man's own image, and this gawd just so happens to hate all the things that particular society hates. A much simpler explanation. There have been hundreds and hundreds of gawds over the course of history. It's amazing that the one true gawd picked nomads in the middle eastern desert to reveal himself to as the one true gawd. A true miracle.
except for the virgin girls, who will then be our sexual slaves.
No they wont. Because after having intercourse 5 consecutive days, or 4 weeks, depending on culture: they are your wives.
Make sure to get rid of them before that...:P
Well, for all of the fun and games of biblical interpretation, we don't look upon the commands of the angry desert gawd as morally acceptable these days.
Most of us anyway. Some of us use the angry desert gawd's demands as a guidebook.
"my logic" is that if they stop committing a disproportional amount of crime, then they won't have to cry about being arrested disproportionately.
It's pretty simple, really.
So its simple. They - that means everyone. How do you know that every person who isn't white is crying about this? Simpletons need things explained very concisley there.
I'll stand by on Al Gore's Internet for your illuminating and irrefutable truth.
The truly scary people are the people who think that atheists should have no morality.
I think atheists can live moral lives, it's just that they don't have any objective reason for living moral lives. From an atheistic worldview, it has to come down to personal preference.
Yes they can. Doing no harm to others because you wish no harm to yourself is the sort of moral structure that needs no command from on high.
I don't murder people bacause I would not want to be murdered.
I don't go around having sex with prepubescent cirls because it simply isn't right. They are not physically ready, and they are not mentally ready. It is obviously wrong.
I don't try to boink the neighbor lady because it makes for complications that are painful for my spouse, and the same with her for me.
I don't steal things. They are not mine. I do not want my things stolen.
I don't lie because I want people to tell me the truth in dealings with me.
I try to always be mannerful because that is the way I wish to be treated.
There you have it. The basics of a moral code that requires no angry Desert gawd to hand them to us.
I'm not only an atheist, but if the angry desert gawd is actually real, I want no part of being transported to wherever he is simply to worship him for eternity. And reading the olde testament, you can bet he'd get a kick out of kicking your ass into hell even after you get to heaven. Regardless, I'd no more worship him than I would Josef Stalin.
But yeah, the angry desert gawd's heaven is as horrible a place to me as is his special torture chamber he has provided as a kind and loving angry desert gawd.
In what you might call spiritual terms, yes. Morality is largely a human construct. As a social species we need rules of conduct, but the nature of those rules has varied wildly in time and space.
Ah, good and evil. After reading the old testament, killing people over incredibly minor things is good. Do not insult a bald man, because Gawd shall send a she-bear to tear you apart, kiddies.
I'd write more, but as God commands my tribe, we're off to kill all the neighboring Tribe's people, except for the virgin girls, who will then be our sexual slaves.
"The employee wrote that the government has used surveillance tools in a way that disproportionately hurts "communities of color, immigrants."
Perhaps they should stop committing a disproportionate amount of crime.
And the fucking technology appears to be an utter failure according to your logic.
Fight it if you want, but brace for impact. You can't uninvent tech
Ain't that the truth! After the Hydrogen bombs were invented, the whole earth was scorched and now we are only starting to go out of the mines and caves again.
Point is, if every technnology ever invented was used to control the citizenry, we'd be in an interesting place about now.
A woman with ten years martial arts training will beat the shit out of a man with 1 year or 3 years.
I believe that is the effect of training, is it not?
Is a woman with 10 years martial arts training equal to a man with 10 years training? In raw power likely not, in technique: yes.
And? I'm not arguing that women do not have physical skills, or are unable to master technique. In matters of dexterity, they generally excel over males, although there is some correlation with size. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... But I'm not certain that particular experiment is applicable to all dexterity factors.
While some want to turn this into male against female, that is just silly. It refutes evolution with as much aplomb as creationism. In general, women are smaller and without as much raw strength as men. Their physiology lends itself toward reproduction in matters o pre-natal organ and skeletal adaptations and post natal food production. Males are in general larger, stronger, and their contribution to reproduction is mostly in providing a support structure. But the male is completely replaceable, if the first one dies defending the woman and children, another one can be plugged in with little problem.
The very strange thing is that females, as the most important part of humanity, seem hell bent on emulating the less important, disposable utility part of the duo.
A lot of this might be attributable to the fact that humanity is not anywhere near the brink of extinction, so reproduction isn't as critical an issue as it once was. And that's good. If a woman is interested in things other than reproduction, she's able to pursue them. But denying evolution and it's effects is silly. Perhaps the feminists who are dosing young boys with puberty inhibitors will start daily dosing of young girls with testosterone as a next step. They do seem to have an affinity for chemical intervention.
And topping this: never underestimate a woman with a dagger or a sword... she simply slices and dices you as quickly as a man would.
Starting to entertain violent thoughts now, eh? Relax, homie. This is just conversation.
"I believe you are 100% correct in that the DNC will shortly start asking elections to not happen because they can't be done "fairly""
Yet it was Trump saying that millions of Dem votes were cast by illegals and that Russia plans to help the Dems in the midterms
AC has apparently not paid much attention to history.
Republicans wnat as few people to vote as possible. Their ideological leader Rush Limbaught was not at all facetious when He said that "When women got the right to vot is when it all went downhill" Here is audio of that from 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Anyhow, disenfranchising more than half of the population is one of their goals.
Keeping chocolate people disenfranchise is childs play compared to what they will do if allowed. There are indeed petitions to repeal the 19th amendment. http://fathersmanifesto.net/19...https://www.change.org/p/81-ma...
But AC is either a Russkie Troll, or a very useful idiot of their fifth column.
This is true. A lot of people with "learning disorders" don't have learning disorders, they received poor quality of education. Sometimes when you have a student that's not doing their work, failing to remember what to do, writing it poorly or staring off into space through the classes, that isn't a learning disorder it's a bad teacher or series of bad teachers.
And my algebra teacher was just that - bad. In addition to struggling, I was so bored that I wanted to scream. And the assholes in school and my parents were just "You're such a smart boy Ol, but you're lazy and don't apply yourself."
Dare I say that they were abysmally stupid assholes? A guy gets A's in everything else, and struggles with maths and anything beyond, and it is because he is lazy?
Then that slide rule epiphany .
And the aftermath was not all roses and honey either. I then understood that not only were they too stupid to allow me to learn, but that I was actually smarter than almost all teachers are. And I have not abandoned that fact - aside from the guy who found my problem, I developed an attitude against schoolteachers that continues to this day. My grades went up, my attitude shifted to getting all of my maths and above on my own, and virtually ignoring the assholes who should never have been teaching it in the first place. Took a while to develop a little humility to replace the low key anger.
Slashdot Mirror
In olympics and world champion ships, people with an Y chromosome can not compete in women's leagues.
Breaking News! You are wrong. Rachel McKinnon (shown), an assistant professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston, who started life as a man, but now identifies as a woman, has won the women's only 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles on Sunday.
McKinnon, is very very proud of defeating the women, and tweeted “First transgender woman world championever,”
And make no mistake, if you have any sort of reservations, Rachel has branded you a transphobic bigot.
Source: https://www.thenewamerican.com...
So celebrate with us as males say they identify as women, and we must allow them to compete in women's sports. Rachel demands it!
There is another aspect out there though, and that is at what point do we decide that it is time for the technology to stop?
Hey look, I'm rich; I can spend $50,000 on a brand new car, and in 5 years I'll buy another one.
You lot don't get that luxury. You can buy my nice, shiny Audi S5 for $12,000 when it's 10 years old and have a nice car with 70,000 miles on it. That's efficient. Your econoshitbox of today isn't on-par with a nice Audi luxury car from last decade.
Audi S5? That is so cute.
But in fact, as he pointed out, repairing things is often trickier than making them.
That's usually a result of shitty design. Designing something so that it can be repaired easily costs money and is (usually) more difficult so unsurprisingly people/companies prefer not to bother if they don't have to. If something is difficult to repair it is usually because they didn't adequately consider repair during the design of the product. Once in a while you run into a product that is made intentionally hard to repair (Apple I'm looking at you) but most of the time it's just benign neglect and/or economics.
Okay, let's play the game.
You are designing an electronic device. You have been tasked with making it repairable.
How many years do you design it to be repairable for? To make it easy, choose between 5 and 250.
Do you design it to be repairable at the discrete or board level? Taking your length of repairability number in mind, how do you assure that the parts needed are available for that entire time. Include recalls up to 100 percent.
note: sourcing parts has become a bit of a headache for producers of electronics. Some times the parts makers give you a heads up that something is going away, some times they don't. This also plays into the production of custom parts.
How do you go about powering the device? Custom Li-Ion batteries designed to fit as efficiently as possible to enable a small case are probably out, unless you own the facility that produces them. Best to use replaceable "AA" or "AAA" Li-Po's, or consider Alkaline for maximum accessibility.
As likely as not, you will end up with a big, clunky feature poor, extremely expensive device.
But it will be pretty easy to repair.
You're going to spend $2,400 on high-quality oil changes for your engine, and another $100 on spark plugs, every 100,000 miles. You might spend $800 for an engine rebuild around 200k-300k. If you don't maintain that engine, you're spending $6,000 for a remanufactured engine swap somewhere around the 80,000-100,000 mark, if not closer to the 50,000 mark. Which is cheaper?
You must buy dome awesome spark plugs.
And you raise one interesting aspect that is true.
There is another aspect out there though, and that is at what point do we decide that it is time for the technology to stop?
When do we become technological Amish?
The right to repair concept includes a decision process enforced by law that will force interesting things like a return to discrete components, highly accessible design, and the death of a lot of the innovation we take for granted today. I could envision a future of olde school tube based technology. That stuff was easy to repair.
Imagine, a hollow state smartphone.
The movie industry will likely develop and exploit new "talent".
At one time, people would watch a movie because John Barrymore was in it. Very few people will do that today, but people may watch a movie because Drew Barrymore is in it.
Drew is a fascinating actress. She either looks stunning, or not at all, and can turn on the tears like a switch. Regardless I do like her.
Yes indeed. Aside from checking on Aunt Doris, using Facebook is like playing the lottery. A few people with the "best" lives or most sympathetic stories win, and everybody else loses.
I only use it now for the Marketplace. I get some stuff there, and I've almost convinced the wife to let me get a rat rod.
More broadly: social isolation causes depression.
Socially isolated people often turn to Facebook to try to relieve their social isolation, but sitting alone in a room and pretending some pixels on your monitor are your friends is not a long-term viable substitute for actually spending time with people, so that mostly doesn't work.
One of the things that people forget is that there is a human on the other end of the intertoobz. I see many posting here who must think that they are in some sort of text based computer game where they figuratively yell and scream at whoever they are fighting with.
So outlet or enabler, I'm not 100 percent certain.
Let's hope they never to a study of this kind on Slashdot users.
I think we're mainly all just slightly insane. Posting here might fend off depression in many of us.
I am not sure it will be so simple. People choose the movie they will watch based in part on the actors in the movie. Think of the actors' salaries as a promotional expense.
But a hundred years from now, is Tom Hanks going to be the hot draw?
To my mind, there will be three things going on that work against this Actor immortality
1. It would kind of freeze actors at right now.
2. They would be paying great great great grandchildren huge amounts of money for not a whole lot, and would end up getting involved in family disputes.
3. Why would people in 2250 give a damn about Tom Cruise?
This could be a useful thing as a novelty, but like all novelties, it will grow old, and pretty fast.
They should preserve the sex funk scent for sexbot implementation.
Nah don't bother. I'm sure blue cheese + musty from under a log will be much more popular.
Good Gar! Everyone needs to take a shower first.
Any likeness, to a real person, living or dead is purely coincidental.
Is that digital Hugh Jackman? No, it's purely coincidental. We don't have to pay the real one anything!
Which sounds quite fair, but merely hastens the day that CG actors replace humans.
Because Facebook causes depression. It's as toxic as methyl mercury
I'd agree if they took the "creepy surveillance state is evil and bad for everyone" angle, I find it interesting that instead they went with the "this affects non-whites more so it's evil and bad!" argument, in that line anyways. I think that it reveals a lot about the author.
Phrased that way, I agree with you.
No idea how "adultery" as "break the marriage" as in "having sex outside of the marriage" moved into the english translation.
That's because someone wanted it to say that.
I grew up in a Catholic Household with fundamentalist Christian relatives. Imagine the different truths I heard.
Everyone has an interpretation of everything. So you can go on about the inaccuracy of a translation, but don't worry, there are hundreds of others.
Pick one.
Then add the plethora of other religions that have found the one real truth as revealed by gawd to man.
Then praise him with great praise that you were lucky enough to be born into the one and only real religion, and the one real interpretation.
Or then again, figure out that man makes gawd in man's own image, and this gawd just so happens to hate all the things that particular society hates. A much simpler explanation. There have been hundreds and hundreds of gawds over the course of history. It's amazing that the one true gawd picked nomads in the middle eastern desert to reveal himself to as the one true gawd. A true miracle.
except for the virgin girls, who will then be our sexual slaves. No they wont. Because after having intercourse 5 consecutive days, or 4 weeks, depending on culture: they are your wives.
Make sure to get rid of them before that ... :P
Well, for all of the fun and games of biblical interpretation, we don't look upon the commands of the angry desert gawd as morally acceptable these days.
Most of us anyway. Some of us use the angry desert gawd's demands as a guidebook.
"my logic" is that if they stop committing a disproportional amount of crime, then they won't have to cry about being arrested disproportionately. It's pretty simple, really.
So its simple. They - that means everyone. How do you know that every person who isn't white is crying about this? Simpletons need things explained very concisley there.
I'll stand by on Al Gore's Internet for your illuminating and irrefutable truth.
The truly scary people are the people who think that atheists should have no morality.
I think atheists can live moral lives, it's just that they don't have any objective reason for living moral lives. From an atheistic worldview, it has to come down to personal preference.
Yes they can. Doing no harm to others because you wish no harm to yourself is the sort of moral structure that needs no command from on high.
I don't murder people bacause I would not want to be murdered.
I don't go around having sex with prepubescent cirls because it simply isn't right. They are not physically ready, and they are not mentally ready. It is obviously wrong.
I don't try to boink the neighbor lady because it makes for complications that are painful for my spouse, and the same with her for me.
I don't steal things. They are not mine. I do not want my things stolen.
I don't lie because I want people to tell me the truth in dealings with me.
I try to always be mannerful because that is the way I wish to be treated.
There you have it. The basics of a moral code that requires no angry Desert gawd to hand them to us.
I'm not only an atheist, but if the angry desert gawd is actually real, I want no part of being transported to wherever he is simply to worship him for eternity. And reading the olde testament, you can bet he'd get a kick out of kicking your ass into hell even after you get to heaven. Regardless, I'd no more worship him than I would Josef Stalin.
But yeah, the angry desert gawd's heaven is as horrible a place to me as is his special torture chamber he has provided as a kind and loving angry desert gawd.
If morality is a human construct, then it is arbitrary.
The underlying fundaments of morality are pretty simple. Pretty much the golden rule. Without which we'd probably not have survived to this point.
And the details of some group's "moral" structure are complicated to say the least. Such as the Decalogue's number 6 - Thou shalt not kill.
But there are incredibly specific demands to kill people for minor things.
Number 7 - Thou shalt not commit adultery
But it's a fine thing to kill everyone from the neighboing tribs and stick your dick in the virgin girls.
Number 8 - Thou Shalt not steal
I wonder what the people that Gawd just commanded you to kill and rape would think about that one.
No religious person can ever declare the moral high ground - History proves they commit evil with apparent permission and even encouragement.
Last question: Was your wife a virgin when you married her, and did you display the sign on the bedsheets from your honeymoon night?
In what you might call spiritual terms, yes. Morality is largely a human construct. As a social species we need rules of conduct, but the nature of those rules has varied wildly in time and space.
Ah, good and evil. After reading the old testament, killing people over incredibly minor things is good. Do not insult a bald man, because Gawd shall send a she-bear to tear you apart, kiddies.
I'd write more, but as God commands my tribe, we're off to kill all the neighboring Tribe's people, except for the virgin girls, who will then be our sexual slaves.
"The employee wrote that the government has used surveillance tools in a way that disproportionately hurts "communities of color, immigrants." Perhaps they should stop committing a disproportionate amount of crime.
And the fucking technology appears to be an utter failure according to your logic.
Fight it if you want, but brace for impact. You can't uninvent tech
Ain't that the truth! After the Hydrogen bombs were invented, the whole earth was scorched and now we are only starting to go out of the mines and caves again.
Point is, if every technnology ever invented was used to control the citizenry, we'd be in an interesting place about now.
A woman with ten years martial arts training will beat the shit out of a man with 1 year or 3 years.
I believe that is the effect of training, is it not?
Is a woman with 10 years martial arts training equal to a man with 10 years training? In raw power likely not, in technique: yes.
And? I'm not arguing that women do not have physical skills, or are unable to master technique. In matters of dexterity, they generally excel over males, although there is some correlation with size. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... But I'm not certain that particular experiment is applicable to all dexterity factors.
While some want to turn this into male against female, that is just silly. It refutes evolution with as much aplomb as creationism. In general, women are smaller and without as much raw strength as men. Their physiology lends itself toward reproduction in matters o pre-natal organ and skeletal adaptations and post natal food production. Males are in general larger, stronger, and their contribution to reproduction is mostly in providing a support structure. But the male is completely replaceable, if the first one dies defending the woman and children, another one can be plugged in with little problem.
The very strange thing is that females, as the most important part of humanity, seem hell bent on emulating the less important, disposable utility part of the duo.
A lot of this might be attributable to the fact that humanity is not anywhere near the brink of extinction, so reproduction isn't as critical an issue as it once was. And that's good. If a woman is interested in things other than reproduction, she's able to pursue them. But denying evolution and it's effects is silly. Perhaps the feminists who are dosing young boys with puberty inhibitors will start daily dosing of young girls with testosterone as a next step. They do seem to have an affinity for chemical intervention.
And topping this: never underestimate a woman with a dagger or a sword ... she simply slices and dices you as quickly as a man would.
Starting to entertain violent thoughts now, eh? Relax, homie. This is just conversation.
You like movies - here's my response to your violent themed reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"I believe you are 100% correct in that the DNC will shortly start asking elections to not happen because they can't be done "fairly""
Yet it was Trump saying that millions of Dem votes were cast by illegals and that Russia plans to help the Dems in the midterms
AC has apparently not paid much attention to history.
Republicans wnat as few people to vote as possible. Their ideological leader Rush Limbaught was not at all facetious when He said that "When women got the right to vot is when it all went downhill" Here is audio of that from 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Anyhow, disenfranchising more than half of the population is one of their goals.
Keeping chocolate people disenfranchise is childs play compared to what they will do if allowed. There are indeed petitions to repeal the 19th amendment. http://fathersmanifesto.net/19... https://www.change.org/p/81-ma... But AC is either a Russkie Troll, or a very useful idiot of their fifth column.
This is true. A lot of people with "learning disorders" don't have learning disorders, they received poor quality of education. Sometimes when you have a student that's not doing their work, failing to remember what to do, writing it poorly or staring off into space through the classes, that isn't a learning disorder it's a bad teacher or series of bad teachers.
And my algebra teacher was just that - bad. In addition to struggling, I was so bored that I wanted to scream. And the assholes in school and my parents were just "You're such a smart boy Ol, but you're lazy and don't apply yourself."
Dare I say that they were abysmally stupid assholes? A guy gets A's in everything else, and struggles with maths and anything beyond, and it is because he is lazy?
Then that slide rule epiphany .
And the aftermath was not all roses and honey either. I then understood that not only were they too stupid to allow me to learn, but that I was actually smarter than almost all teachers are. And I have not abandoned that fact - aside from the guy who found my problem, I developed an attitude against schoolteachers that continues to this day. My grades went up, my attitude shifted to getting all of my maths and above on my own, and virtually ignoring the assholes who should never have been teaching it in the first place. Took a while to develop a little humility to replace the low key anger.
Ohhhh, touched a nerve did I tovarisch?