• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    You’re not kidding. Public school in the city.

    There were so many dumb things I had to memorize. Periodic table. Solar system moon and planets. Multiplication table.

    Even worse is the people who see memory as intelligence because of that BS. I remember working at a office and the boss made Steve, the guy who knew 15 digits of Pi, his right hand man. Steve is currently still working there. Congrats Steve your superior memory apparently can’t get you out of your deadend job.

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      2 months ago

      If you haven’t already, you should watch Mystery Team specifically for the character of Duncan “Boy Genius” who absolutely fits this characterization to a T.

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        I always hated that they made us relearn the parts of speech every year in middle school and high school English. Surely by now it’s sunk in, I thought.

        But then the CHUDs started losing their minds about pronouns.