[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

I mean, ideally we avoid fascism BEFORE the point of civil war.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Pyrite: best known for "could be a conductor of electricity" and totally not "could be gold"

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I mean, few things in life can be graded objectively so that's not really the best standard to hold education to. There's a lot of value in learning and practicing the skill of taking in information and then rearranging it into your own words, creating and supporting arguments from the knowledge you've gained.

But the subjectivity of it DOES mean that occasionally teachers will need to set aside their egos. Those who legitimately want to educate the next generation usually can do that, but some just enjoy having power over children and absolutely will not units forced to do so (and doing so will just create a new grudge against that student).

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 67 points 11 hours ago

I once got a C- on an essay, but for extra credit we could submit that paper to a state essay contest. I was a state finalist in that contest, with my only revision from the class-submitted version being spell checking Britan->Britain.

Fuck you, Mrs Wickham.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Powerful words offering no solution, or even recommendation.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wait until you see the Nepalese flag. It's not even a rectangle!

(It's also the only flag in the world to be mathematically defined by its country's constitution)

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

That could realistically be around 1/3 yearly profit in a reasonable company (18% operating margin is common). No idea whether Twitter is currently profitable (it wasn't when he bought it).

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago

I got a call from this woman in Boston, out was just a product activation call so I had to read her a 20-character activation string. We use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for those, to reduce confusion over the phone.

The last character was Y-Yankee. I followed that up with "but I guess that's a politically incorrect word around Boston, huh?" And she goes on an absolute tirade about how people are way to sensitive, throwing out a few racist dogwhistles along the way.

I just said "Ma'am, I was making a joke about the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees."

She went silent for a few seconds and hung up on me.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

Blue MAGA

It's not even 8am and I've already read the dumbest shit I'll see all day

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

Radiating milk equally in all directions, of course.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

This headline uses "millionaires" to mean "people with over a million dollars in annual income" rather than "people with over a million dollars in net worth"

That's not your run of the mill "successful career with a healthy 401k" millionaire, that's at least ten-millionaires, mostly hundred-millionaires, and possibly some billionaires by net worth.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago

My advanced E&M professor said "Imagine a sphere of radius zero. Trust me, it works."

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