It's just the 2000's version of the Me generation. The first use AFAIK, was in Fight Club.
I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 30
How is this different than going into a store, asking the owner how much a hat is. He responds with $15 to which you respond OK, he realizes that he didn't ask enough and says he meant $25? This happened to me in Russia. Actually people haggled over the price of everything. My parents had a friend (from Russia) visiting the US and she would try to haggle over the marked price on items in a store. She would go back and forth for half an hour to save $2 (at which the store manager was like whatever, just get out).
My next door neighbor's parents disowned her after she married a guy from Mexico. This was a couple years after I heard them go off on a rant about how racist Arizona was for some anti-Mexican law that had passed.
Why is this marked troll? I noticed this trend sometime around the mid 2000's starting at digg.com. Everything was becoming the outrage de jour like a real life Quincy episode.
Math also needs to be more practical at a young age. No more math tables. Teach length, area and volume before anything else and do lots of practice. Length of your arm, length of your body (height), length of your bicycle, length of a shoe box, area of a shoe box, length of the wings on an airplane
Grade 1 homework problem: measure the dimensions of your house.
Grade 2 homework problem: find the area and volume of your house
Grade 3 homework problem: find the volume of a person and calculate how many people can fit in your house.
Grade 4 homework problem: find the volume of your house including the pitched roof (complex shapes). Find the volume of the pyramids. Find the volume of a swimming pool.
These are problems without right wrong answers but require thinking and understanding of concepts. you probably wouldn't have to teach much as people are good at discovering the methods on their own if they have a goal. A report card grade is not a goal.
All of those benefits were taken for granted 30 years ago
Yes, but it was definitely on the way out by this time also. I used to read a lot of business journals in high school and knew that the lifelong employment of my parents was to be a thing of the past and planned my career around it. Life and the and the economic environment is always changing. My parents, or at least grand parents, probably grew up thinking that they would be farmers.
GenXer here. It was all very much about profits and money. Back then people celebrated Gates and how much money he had. And from what I've read about the early days of Atari - coke parties.
Slashdot Mirror
You can buy lab/food grade ethanol for $0.70/liter. That's the real sad part.
I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 30
You can never get screwed by pricing if you always pay what something is worth to you.
How is this different than going into a store, asking the owner how much a hat is. He responds with $15 to which you respond OK, he realizes that he didn't ask enough and says he meant $25? This happened to me in Russia. Actually people haggled over the price of everything. My parents had a friend (from Russia) visiting the US and she would try to haggle over the marked price on items in a store. She would go back and forth for half an hour to save $2 (at which the store manager was like whatever, just get out).
This is called haggling over a price and is very common in other places of the world and auctions.
People are stupid.
It's a natural negative feedback mechanism. Western civilization however tries to turn this into a positive feedback.
Should you pay a higher ticket fine if you make more money?
In the US it's the only way to get a job. Or so many here have told me. Ich weiß nict.
My next door neighbor's parents disowned her after she married a guy from Mexico. This was a couple years after I heard them go off on a rant about how racist Arizona was for some anti-Mexican law that had passed.
People are broken down
Anybody remember the Saturday morning cartoon PSA "I am not a label"?
Why is this marked troll? I noticed this trend sometime around the mid 2000's starting at digg.com. Everything was becoming the outrage de jour like a real life Quincy episode.
Grade 1 homework problem: measure the dimensions of your house.
Grade 2 homework problem: find the area and volume of your house
Grade 3 homework problem: find the volume of a person and calculate how many people can fit in your house.
Grade 4 homework problem: find the volume of your house including the pitched roof (complex shapes). Find the volume of the pyramids. Find the volume of a swimming pool.
These are problems without right wrong answers but require thinking and understanding of concepts. you probably wouldn't have to teach much as people are good at discovering the methods on their own if they have a goal. A report card grade is not a goal.
Beavers have been geoengineering for millions of years.
there would not be any global climate problems
What if all 500 billion lived like Bill Gates?
The red and white checkered one from 1962
The only thing that I was allowed to watch as a kid was Cosmos. Ona B&W tv. My parents sucked.
leap ahead
Aaaahaha
a stepladder to the stars
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaahahh. Aaahh. That's funny.
I noticed my right hand was moving of its own accord
So what you are saying is that Dr. Strangelove was taking LSD?
Yup.
I was getting full benefits from a contract company that I worked for in the 1980's.
All of those benefits were taken for granted 30 years ago
Yes, but it was definitely on the way out by this time also. I used to read a lot of business journals in high school and knew that the lifelong employment of my parents was to be a thing of the past and planned my career around it. Life and the and the economic environment is always changing. My parents, or at least grand parents, probably grew up thinking that they would be farmers.
Goodwin'd
Without Wozniak, Jobs would have just hired Jay Miner instead.
None of us is as dumb as all of us
GenXer here. It was all very much about profits and money. Back then people celebrated Gates and how much money he had. And from what I've read about the early days of Atari - coke parties.