But that's good isn't it? That was from before games were WOKE.
DamarcusArt
joined 2 years ago
With all this Tariff talk I've been meaning to ask, do you think Xi is gonna raise our employee discount to make up for the higher prices?
Common core is more like this:
47+36 = ?
(break it down into smaller, easier math)
We take away the single digit numbers and add them separately:
7+6 = 13(10 and 3, hold onto these)
Then we take the two digit numbers and add them:
40+30=70
Then we add the 3 and then the ten from before (or vice-versa):
70+3 = 73
73+10 = 83
It seems convoluted to people who haven't tried it, but with a bit of practice it gets really easy to do fairly complex arithmetic in your head.
It's not hard to learn either, I'm only a couple of years younger than you and I've picked this up in the last 5 years or so, I'm much better at doing everyday math than I was when I had graduated high-school.
So I'm not a particuarly sexual person, not asexual, but my views on sex just seem so different to the norm. I don't find sex jokes and things funny and don't really like to talk about or have sex, and I hardly ever think about it. (And quite frankly, I've never enjoyed it and don't ever really try to pursue it).
I went to a party yesterday and we played one of those Jackbox games, it was really crude and sexual and I just didn't "get" it. A question came up "What is your ideal sex location" and I just flat out have never thought of that before. Like, is this sort of thing something that people usually think about? Everyone else in the room seemed to have an instant go-to answer, but I just didn't know.
A mate of mine made fun of me, implying I was a virgin for not thinking about sex enough apparently. It was just really gross and juvenile and I can't stop thinking about it. Like, he treated my lack of "getting it" as a moral failing or something, something to be ashamed of.
It's been on my mind all day, just really upsetting and I don't really know why. I guess it's the implication that I'm less of a man or something for not spending all my time trying to get laid. We're in our late 20s/early 30s, so I was really surprised to hear this kind of immature teenage shit coming out of a close friend, it felt kind of like he was letting me know how he "really feels" with that one line, when he normally holds his tongue.
It just feels so gross, like the idea that I need to go out and have sex in order to be considered more of a person to him. I might be overthinking it, but it just...hurts in a way I can't really describe easily. Which is why I'm writing this nonsense, to share my thoughts, and hopefully hear some ideas from other people about this sort of thing. Am I being the weird one here? Should I just "toughen up" or something and try and get a partner or go looking for a one night stand or something? I've always thought of myself as straight and cis, but my attitudes towards sex just seem so different from the norm. I feel like a failure of a person right now, though hopefully that's just because I'm really exhausted and low on energy.
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How can we answer the question "China is revisionist because of billionaires in the party?"
(lemmygrad.ml)
Hi! Long time lurker, first time poster. Been discussing stuff with MLs of all stripes recently, and have come across a common statement used by a lot of Maoists which frustrates me.
They seem to always fall back on statements like "The CPC allows billionaires in their ranks, so they are revisionist."
Maoists have often used this as a kind of "gotcha" argument against more traditional MLs, or "Dengists" as they love to label us.
It's frustrating, because...I don't disagree really, allowing members of the bourgeoisie to hold political power is pretty much the definition of revisionism. The problem is, this feels more like a way to silence dissent or discussion rather than facilitate it. Feels like an overly simplistic hard line that simplifies history into binary divisions. Often followed by an implied "China is revisionist, therefore Maoism is the only working form of socialism."
I'm reaching out to people to see if anyone has any ways to combat this, in a way that encourages discussion rather than it just devolving into insults or truisms hurled back and forth without thought.
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I was never taught it in school, but learned later that cutting arithmetic into chunks makes it much easier, though there is much more than one way to do that, I just used how I do it in my head, but other people might find it easier to do it other ways for sure.