Genuinely. After making the switch a few years ago, I genuinely can’t fathom using chrome again

Don’t take this to be me defending them; they deserve to be dunked on.

However, they didn’t make this claim. They claimed the converse.

he can have power of people in a business context, which is always morally good

What universe does this man live in?

This is a good-ass shitpost

I think the moral “dilemma” is supposed to be

1. You pull the lever and now you’ve now actively killed someone or,
2. You don’t pull the lever and 4 people died, but you weren’t the one to kill them so you’re basically clean

It’s stupid, but I think that’s the idea

Damn, that’s deep

After doing some searching, it appears that period life expectancy is a perfectly reasonable metric for life expectancy. It looks to be a clever way of capturing a sort of “instantaneous” life expectancy for a given year. In a given year, you can track how many people of each age range die, but that only tells you death rates, not life expectancy. And you can’t just average the ages of everyone living because you don’t know when they’ll die. So what they do is they take the death rates for age ranges within a given year and they calculate the expected value of an infant’s death age, assuming that infant would live through the same death rates that were tracked that year. In my opinion, this seems like a natural choice.

That said, there’s definitely other bullshittery going on.

Ah! I recently just finished Pedagogy of the Oppressed! I heard about it on a podcast and decided to pick it up. I haven’t heard of the other one, so I’ll for sure give it a read. Thanks for the recs, comrade.

I’m teaching a college class, and I mostly have freshmen. I’ve never heard of the love and logic framework (the only reason I’m teaching right now is because it’s part of my responsibilities as a graduate assistant while I’m getting a Master’s, so I know very very little about the education world).

My bosses have both said that students don’t know what they need to be able to learn and all they want to do is minimize the amount of work they gave to do (they have stereotyped the students who end up in remedial math as being generally bad students, which I hate. It’s a really toxic way of looking at the students you teach, and it’s just plain wrong. These students want to succeed. They have just been left behind by a broken system). But that’s not been my experience in the slightest. I got so much genuine constructive feedback just by being open to student concerns, and I would have never grown as an instructor if I hadn’t taken the time to listen to them. I can’t even imagine having the mentality that I just simply know better about what students need to learn than the actual students.

OH MY GOSH that’s exactly it. I just looked it up. Holy hell thanks for giving me that terminology

Well I mean the question is if I’m feeling it. Agreed, if I could figure that out, the answer is easy, but it’s not an easy question to answer for me.

Occasionally it happens that I meet someone that I vibe with more than I vibe with other people, and I find myself wanting to be around them more than usual. It doesn’t happen very often, like maybe 5 times in my life, but it does happen. But every time it does happen, it feels like it might be romantic interest. But when I ask myself what I would actually want to change from how things are at that time, I can’t think of a single thing. So I’ve never actually figured out what that feeling is, because it does tangibly feel very different from my regular feelings for people. I just can’t figure out what it is.

The reason I bring up the asexuality in this context is because that part’s real easy. I just don’t have a sex drive. So I can’t even evaluate these feelings from that point of view.

So my issue is I get these feelings, like where I enjoy someone’s company a significant deal more than other people’s, but I can’t figure out for the life of me what that feeling actually is.

I’ve been very slowly coming to terms with my aromantic side. It’s so confusing trying to figure out where the boundary between pure platonic and romantic feelings is, especially considering I’m also asexual, so sex isn’t a component.

I wish I could be as sure as you. I currently consider myself aromantic, but it’s hard to not worry that I’m missing out on something wonderful, y’know?

Oh I love Phil Ochs and Woody Guthrie. I’ll definitely check out the new stuff

My asexual ass can certainly get enough of that 😂

Oh yes I love all of his stuff a ton, I just have a huge soft spot for A Different Kind of Love Song. Easily my favorite. Thanks for the other rec, I’ll check it out!

Oh God oh fuck

“If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child’s natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn’t possibly do as good a job as is currently being done— I simply wouldn’t have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul- crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education” -Paul Lockhart

A few of the professors in other departments have some pretty interesting technique as far as grading goes, and they’re seeing a good deal of success. There’s also a growing body of research on alternative practices and the effects on student engagement, and the results outperform traditional grading in pretty much every way relevant to student learning in every study. I’m not saying we gotta immediately do something radical, but what I’m saying is we’re trying to pretend like we’re being radical, while not really making even the slightest push in the right direction. Like even just a little bit of trying something new in order to figure out what works would be wonderful. We don’t have to immediately figure it out. But what we can do is draw from other courses that had success and try to work the principals into our course. However, we’re just stuck in this nightmarish cycle of underperforming in some aspect and pinning it on the students, instead of doing what’s on our product label and making an attempt to free them from the same sort of BS they’ve had to deal with in other classes.

Nothing comes immediately, but it’s like we’re not even trying.

I hadn’t even considered the difference between bank and personal finance. Thank you for you well thought out response, Comrade.