I think this is just negging.
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I always found it overwhelming to get started on big messes, so cleaning everything up immediately would get around my executive dysfunction. When I got in a relationship with someone whose approach was to be a human hurricane and then deep clean every once in a while it was a culture shock and it took years of me being a bad partner to become more responsible. I didn't really understand the executive dysfunction so I self-loathed over it.
It's funny that they got it backwards but honestly getting an 80% success rate by picking the opposite is more accurate detection than I would have expected.
As someone who only follows one NHL team, it's crystal clear to me that Canada's problems were entirely caused by benching my team's goalie and not inviting my team's top defenseman.
Monster Sanctuary had much worse graphics and the story was not engaging at all but somehow I still enjoyed it a lot more than Cassette Beasts.
I was thinking to maybe connect programming with math but I don’t know how.
Try reading about the computer science topics that basically are pure mathematics. Read about automata (very simple models for computers) or about computability theory (which asks what problems are literally impossible for computers to solve, even with unlimited time and memory). There won't be too many numbers or equations involved in getting your feet wet with these topics.
Let's say you have a keyboard with only three letters: 'X', 'Y', and 'Z'. That's our "alphabet", it has just three letters in it. Let's plug this keyboard into a monitor that's really broken, actually all that works is one pixel that has four possible color options. We can have our machine start at white when you press the power button to turn it on, and when you hit black it shuts down. We could still teach a kid some basic programming ideas with this limited setup - If we're on white and press 'X', change the color to green. If we're on white and press 'Y', change the color to blue. Maybe pressing 'Z' from blue will get you back to white, but pressing 'X' will take you to black. Maybe some other rules too. This simple machine is called a finite automaton.
What "words" (strings) can we type in after powering on to shut the computer down? From what I've laid out so far, we power on to white, can press Y to go to blue and then X to go to black. "YX" is a string that works here. We could also do "YZYX" or "YZYZYX". The set of all strings that will power down our machine from boot are called its "language".
An automata theory question might ask if we can write a program on this machine that has both words "XYZ" and "XYX" in its language, but not "ZZZ".
If you've tried read this and have trouble following, that's because math is hard! (and totally not because I can't explain for shit.) If you've tried to read this and don't feel like it's hopeless to learn, that's probably because you're not even seeing this as math at all. (Theoretical questions like this are absolutely math problems.) If you've read this and have already figured out an answer to the question I posed in the last paragraph, then your problem with learning math definitely isn't that you're hopelessly bad, so we'll have to troubleshoot elsewhere.
If you learn these subjects you'll eventually need the groundwork from more basic mathematics, but you'll have some motivation for why they might be needed.
I started writing this intending to tag on a rant about how math being used as a gatekeeper in schooling poisons everyone's idea of what math actually is and makes a ton of people wrongly feel hopeless, but this comment is long enough as it is.
I think it's disingenuous to say those two murders turned public opinion when those two murders were a direct result of public opinion already turning. Everyone has grown up immersed in propaganda, it's not helpful to shame people for shedding that too late.
It's gotta be my favorite webcomic.
I loved that game, art style is beautiful.
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Had to check online to be 100% sure the superPAC that mailed it was Trump-linked. I've never heard of Elissa Slotkin before, but apparently she's a US rep for another district in Michigan. Our rep is Rashida Tlaib, who is Palestinian descent, so I'm guessing the PAC's thought process in designing this was they don't want to link Harris to our actual representative so just pick some other random rep nearby.
As someone who does not want Trump to be re-elected, it's at least relieving to know how easy it will be for the democrats to counter these dirty tricks. All they need to do is have their candidate make clear public statements to clarify that she doesn't want this linked to her campaign. Of course, she'll have to clearly point out which specific parts are offensive, so people don't just think she fine with antisemitism. Explaining that being anti-apartheid is not the same as being antisemitic is pretty straightforward though, so this should be no big deal.
I need some relationship advice. I suggested 125% but my wife won't budge from 10%. Is this normal? How did it go when you had this conversation with your romantic partner?
Roto-Borola usually likes to hang out with me when I'm working at my desk. Earlier today my wife snapped this photo of him chilling by me. Every so often he sits like this, but I think this is the first time we've seen him nap in this position. I laughed a little and it woke him up, he looked at me and did a loud meow and then got up.
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Monster Sanctuary is your best bet for hitting those points. The game is pretty lackluster in a few ways (graphics, storytelling) but the gameplay is really well-designed and that's been enough to get me to come back to it a few times.