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I don't know who Vic is, but if I came into serious cash, I'd rather spend it on this.Geez, Freehold, where'd you get that kind of cash?It's my belief that Lisa and Vic bought it for their collection.
Of course I would be naked. Gets hot in there.
I don't believe I have ever hurt my yog before.
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Then your athletic supporter has been doing its job, Vany.
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Just got off the phone with the shop, and it was so close to my expectations it was pretty hilarious. The Celica is currently sitting fully disassembled in their shop. They took off every panel and bit of trim, de-dinged everything, sanded it all down, and prepped it for paint.
I have no idea how long it's been like that, but it's scheduled for paint tomorrow morning, at which point they'll need to let the paint dry, then reassemble the car.
His quote was, "I'd love to tell you end of day on Friday, but I can't guarantee that."
At this point I'm expecting it next Tuesday.
Speaking of earthquakes, I'm really curious how other FaWtL members think of them: My manager lived in California for a few years and apparently earthquakes terrified her, and it was one of the reasons she moved. Because we're natives, most of the time we don't even notice them, and when we do it's either, "Meh," or, "Wow! That was a pretty big one!"
So, is the idea of the ground randomly shaking for a second or two a few times a year "scary", or, "no big deal"?
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The one earthquake that I’ve lived through just rattled the rafters. Not too scary. I did have a water main break to repair the next day though.
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I have never experienced an earthquake. We get them very, very seldom, though apparently they've become more common in areas where fracking for shale gas is allowed. Even then, they're pretty mild.
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Speaking of earthquakes, I'm really curious how other FaWtL members think of them: My manager lived in California for a few years and apparently earthquakes terrified her, and it was one of the reasons she moved. Because we're natives, most of the time we don't even notice them, and when we do it's either, "Meh," or, "Wow! That was a pretty big one!"
So, is the idea of the ground randomly shaking for a second or two a few times a year "scary", or, "no big deal"?
In the Midwest (and we're not *too* far away from the New Madrid Fault here) earthquakes act differently.
Typically, instead of a lingering few moments of shaking we get a 'sharp shock' with perhaps some pre- or after- shocks.
A lot of them barely register because a truck driving by on the street produces more of a ground shake.
However, there have been a couple where it felt like the house was going to collapse and *did* leave cracks in the walls/ceiling.
If we get a 'Big One' we'll probably see whole cities come down in IL.
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Wisconsin I believe only has one fault line, running from Illinois up through Freeport and Monroe and ending at Madison.
So if there is a big one, it won't be here.
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I've been through 2 "significant" earthquakes. As in, they were reported on the news, and people talked about what they felt. I slept through one, and didn't notice the other even though I was awake and at work. All my friends said that it woke them up, and even one guest called down to the desk and asked what had happened, but I didn't feel or hear a thing.
I lived in Seattle for 4 years and they only had a couple of earthquakes when we did and every one of them was when I was asleep.
Got to see Mount St Helen erupt though so that was pretty cool!!
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So, is the idea of the ground randomly shaking for a second or two a few times a year "scary", or, "no big deal"?
I live in new york so that's like wondering what living through the ten year winter from game of thrones or a rain of thread from pern would be like.
I've only ever felt one earthquake and I wasn't sure it wasn't me feeling a little dizzy.
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Speaking of earthquakes, I'm really curious how other FaWtL members think of them: My manager lived in California for a few years and apparently earthquakes terrified her, and it was one of the reasons she moved. Because we're natives, most of the time we don't even notice them, and when we do it's either, "Meh," or, "Wow! That was a pretty big one!"
So, is the idea of the ground randomly shaking for a second or two a few times a year "scary", or, "no big deal"?
The one earthquake that hit New York I slept through as a kid.
I was so mad. Mom thought it was hilarious.
*SIGH*. Why is communication so insanely hard for people?
I think I've mentioned before that I put a calendar on the front door so people could track what other family members were doing. That was an utter failure so I put it on the fridge. That's been better, but we still have issues like today:
- Impus Minor is in school from 8:30 am - 1:00 pm.
- Impus Major has a weekly D&D game so he needs the car right at 1:00 pm, but he didn't put it on the calendar.
- GothBard got invited out with a friend, checked the calendar, and slated it for this afternoon because the car was marked as free.
We have car conflicts like this almost every single week and people are left scrambling. Last week Impus Major had to cancel the game at the last minute because he realized he didn't have a car. Every time it hapens I remind the family that if they don't list when they'll need the car, they likely won't get the car. And they keep making the same mistake. Week after week after week.
So... is it insanity to expect them to learn from their frustrations and start using the calendar, or is it insanity to continue to ignore the calendar and run into car conflicts?
I say get a bike.
I say get a bike.
That was my solution to the whole thing. Unfortunately, no one else in the family is willing to bike. Plus in today's case it's 20+ miles to Castro Valley and 15+ miles to Oakland, both at night, so a bike isn't a reasonable alternative.
Now I want to try "California Burrito"...
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*SIGH*. Why is communication so insanely hard for people?
I think I've mentioned before that I put a calendar on the front door so people could track what other family members were doing. That was an utter failure so I put it on the fridge. That's been better, but we still have issues like today:
- Impus Minor is in school from 8:30 am - 1:00 pm.
- Impus Major has a weekly D&D game so he needs the car right at 1:00 pm, but he didn't put it on the calendar.
- GothBard got invited out with a friend, checked the calendar, and slated it for this afternoon because the car was marked as free.We have car conflicts like this almost every single week and people are left scrambling. Last week Impus Major had to cancel the game at the last minute because he realized he didn't have a car. Every time it hapens I remind the family that if they don't list when they'll need the car, they likely won't get the car. And they keep making the same mistake. Week after week after week.
So... is it insanity to expect them to learn from their frustrations and start using the calendar, or is it insanity to continue to ignore the calendar and run into car conflicts?
Yes.
I say get a bike.That was my solution to the whole thing. Unfortunately, no one else in the family is willing to bike. Plus in today's case it's 20+ miles to Castro Valley and 15+ miles to Oakland, both at night, so a bike isn't a reasonable alternative.
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Speaking of earthquakes, I'm really curious how other FaWtL members think of them: My manager lived in California for a few years and apparently earthquakes terrified her, and it was one of the reasons she moved. Because we're natives, most of the time we don't even notice them, and when we do it's either, "Meh," or, "Wow! That was a pretty big one!"
So, is the idea of the ground randomly shaking for a second or two a few times a year "scary", or, "no big deal"?
In the Midwest (and we're not *too* far away from the New Madrid Fault here) earthquakes act differently.
Typically, instead of a lingering few moments of shaking we get a 'sharp shock' with perhaps some pre- or after- shocks.
A lot of them barely register because a truck driving by on the street produces more of a ground shake.
However, there have been a couple where it felt like the house was going to collapse and *did* leave cracks in the walls/ceiling.
If we get a 'Big One' we'll probably see whole cities come down in IL.
Similar to gran.
And yeah, the last time the New Madrid fault went ballistic it changed the course of the Ohio River and a town or two completely disappeared.
So... is it insanity to expect them to learn from their frustrations and start using the calendar, or is it insanity to continue to ignore the calendar and run into car conflicts?
Why should they learn to use the calendar when the consequences of not using it are less onerous than the effort to use it?
If you aren't enforcing the "you don't get the car if you didn't schedule your event", then there's no reason to write anything on the calendar. Everyone else will scramble to cover your lapse.
That's what happened to Impus Major last week -- he didn't get the car, flaked on a game, his friends are furious, and he's going to get thrown out of the game if he pulls it again.
And yet... he forgot to schedule the car again, so today he's hiking 3.4 miles in 95-degree weather to get his grandmother's car to avoid getting kicked out of the game.
I'd consider those "consequences".
Taking into account the high likelihood of Impus Major having ADHD (I don't recall if it was confirmed diagnosis or not), having him getting a job and buying cheap car of his own might have greater probability of solving the problem than making the calendar thing work for him.
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Oh, and in case anyone thinks Impus Major's friends are self-entitled jerks, it really was a catastrophe. He learned that he didn't have a car and he wouldn't have one before at least 2:00 pm the next week. So he should have texted, "I won't be able to make it at all today, and I won't be able to make it before 2:00 pm next week."
Instead, he somehow managed to garble it into, "I don't have a car today but I'll still see you all at 2:00 pm," (he's rather legendary in his miscommunications) so the two people who were expecting rides from him took public transportation and Uber to get to the location at 2:00 pm, only to learn that he wasn't showing up so they'd have to do the same thing to get home.
Costing your unemployed friends money for a game you canceled through your own lack of planning isn't cool.
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Taking into account the high likelihood of Impus Major having ADHD (I don't recall if it was confirmed diagnosis or not), having him getting a job and buying cheap car of his own might have greater probability of solving the problem than making the calendar thing work for him.
That's Shiro's proposed solution, too, but being around teens and twentysomethings in this area, working and college are now mutually exclusive. It used to be you could go to school MWF, work TuThSa, and have Sundays off. Instead of making things better, the ability to assign homework online means you might have class MWF, homework due TuTh, a quiz on Saturday, and a midterm on Thanksgiving. So college schedules are far less forgiving. At the same time with a local minimum wage of $16.52/hour in Alameda County, employers have no inclination to modify schedules to accommodate college kids. Every kid I know who got a job had to drop out of college because of schedule conflicts.
It's very much like the argument I always had with my parents: When my mother got her Ph.D., the house she bought was 4x her starting salary and she and my father could pick and choose where they wanted to work. When I got my Ph.D., the exact same house was 20x my starting salary in the same position and I had to send out 203 applications to get 2 offers for full-time work. But part-time work was still plentiful. For the Impii, the exact same house is up to 30x the starting salary for the same position and part-time work is only available to people willing to work a "gig economy" where their hours vary week by week and, "I need the day off to take a midterm," isn't an option.
It's ugly out there if you want to go to school and work.
EDIT: Both kids applied for jobs during their breaks; neither even got an interview because they listed too many "restricted hours". In Impus Minor's case I think he listed Wednesday and Friday afternoons and evenings and that was enough to make him ineligible.
Shiro took great delight in Googling "job openings in Albany, California" and sending me all the openings at McDonald's, Target, and so forth. And my response was, "Yeah, and try applying and saying you can't work MWF because you're in college and see how many of them call you back."
EDIT 2: TL;DR version: "In my day we did xxx" isn't a valid argument.
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I am not getting enough revenue from blog to hire him as proofreader, either.
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Taking the work home vacation, extreme edition.
My coplayer who is a M.D., went for her vacations in Barcelona, Spain, some one thousand miles from here.
Today, she wrote on our group chat that she has just witnessed a motorbike crash and had to handle the biker—mostly keep him calm and prevent him from moving too much as he clearly broke one leg and suffered some kind of neck trauma—until the arrival of ambulance half an hour later.
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I am not getting enough revenue from blog to hire him as proofreader, either.
GothBard was always amazed at my ability to generate additional income. In middle school, high school, and college I did paper routes and tutoring so I was always pulling in at least an extra $100/week. Paper routes are dead and tutoring has been taken over by "professionals", so even though Impus Major has a job mentoring kids with learning disabilities, it's all of $15/week. Or probably $16.52/week since they raised the minimum wage this year.
In grad school I had a sweet gig doing error-checking and writing solution manuals for McGraw-Hill. At $1/problem, I could easily clear $100/day during the summer months. Those are now done by AI and are uniformly terrible. (Have I posted my tirade about Numerade yet?) GothBard put herself through college delivering pizzas. That's now managed by the various delivery companies (DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.), so again unless you're willing to work whenever work is available you'll have trouble making ends meet.
All the kids I know who've gotten decent part-time jobs got them at local shops with standard 10-6 open hours, then had to drop out of college because the college instructors wouldn't respect their schedules.
And yes, I've tiraded about it ad nauseam, but watching another semester of Sunday quizzes and holiday homework incenses me.
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I am not getting enough revenue from blog to hire him as proofreader, either.GothBard was always amazed at my ability to generate additional income. In middle school, high school, and college I did paper routes and tutoring so I was always pulling in at least an extra $100/week. Paper routes are dead and tutoring has been taken over by "professionals", so even though Impus Major has a job mentoring kids with learning disabilities, it's all of $15/week. Or probably $16.52/week since they raised the minimum wage this year.
In grad school I had a sweet gig doing error-checking and writing solution manuals for McGraw-Hill. At $1/problem, I could easily clear $100/day during the summer months. Those are now done by AI and are uniformly terrible. (Have I posted my tirade about Numerade yet?) GothBard put herself through college delivering pizzas. That's now managed by the various delivery companies (DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc.), so again unless you're willing to work whenever work is available you'll have trouble making ends meet.
All the kids I know who've gotten decent part-time jobs got them at local shops with standard 10-6 open hours, then had to drop out of college because the college instructors wouldn't respect their schedules.
And yes, I've tiraded about it ad nauseam, but watching another semester of Sunday quizzes and holiday homework incenses me.
Tell them to learn a trade. College is overrated.
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Shoveling in the winter and raking in the fall used to be good for 20 bucks of movie and magic the gathering money when I was in highschool. Though sometimes the old ladies were broke and I got paid in cookies or chocholate instead.
part time college jobs are just not in it for science majors. Lab hours mean you're sometimes working a 12 hour day and its hard to hit work on a 4 hour lunch between classes.
Starting pay for shoveling snow where I work is 20 an hour.
I make over 30 an hour, this will be my 6th winter here.
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I know it might sound weird, but somehow I don't expect shoveling snow to be a valid career option for Impus Major...
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Speaking of the definition of insanity...
"We've trained this AI based on all the information available on the Internet. It's the most-advanced, most-complete, most-knowledgeable AI ever!!!"
"Hey! Our AI is a racist, misogynistic troll! How did that happen?"
EDIT: As a side note, Global Megacorporation has jumped big into the AI craze, and our alpha release of our HR application was pretty much exactly what you'd expect:
"Show me my paycheck." "Oh, you want to resign?"
"Help me file an expense report." "Oh, you want to file a sexual harassment claim?"
However, unlike Bethesda, we actually DO alpha and beta tests, so that kind of crap will never go to market. It was just entertaining see how excited all the evangelists were about the product, then watching their faces fall as the platform hit the real world.
I still see useful AI as at least 2 years away.
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One of my recurring starfinder jokes is to have the character sign something and then say "paperless office coming next year my <insert alien appendage here>"
And while we're speaking of AI, I should mention Numerade. They're a $20/month subscription "homework help" service where you can see AI-generated solutions to all your homework questions.
Since Impus Major is in relativity now and it's been nearly 40 years since I looked at the subject, I thought getting homework help would be useful.
With an AI, not so much.
(1) Its calculator was broken. Seriously, "You cannot possibly be this bad," broken. Things like, "The square root of 16 is 3." As a result, every numerical answer was out-and-out wrong. I was OK with that, because all I wanted was a general idea as to how to solve the problem.
(2) Its solutions frequently had incorrect algebraic steps in them. Since it was an AI trained on human input, things like 1/(a+b) = 1/a + 1/b happened all too often. I could catch them and correct them, but now I was error-checking their failed solutions.
(3) On every single problem, I filed an "Ask the instructor" question pointing out that the solution was incorrect. Every such question was Rejected, frequently with the response, "You're right," but with the incorrect solution remaining posted.
(4) The final straw was on a problem comparing two relativistic frames. If you've ever discussed relativity with anyone, you've learned that E=mc^2 and velocities don't add. The very first line of the solution was, "Since frame 1 is moving at v1 and frame 2 is moving at v2, the total velocity is v1+v2," and it went on from there. Since v1 and v2 were both 99% of the speed of light, the entire solution was a faster-than-light contradiction. But the AI insisted it was correct.
So yeah, AIs get it wrong. On technical topics they are very frequently wrong. And their insistence that they are right and you the human are wrong is terrifying.
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been out of the loop for a few days.
DISCLAIMER: i wrote a lot of words. a LOT.
i was in the 6th grade (or thereabouts) when some climatologist predicted we'd experience a massive quake within the year; i actually felt a little 2.3 that jolted the area in close proximity to those prognostications. i remember fully expecting more temblors to follow, to climax in a massive disaster, . . . but that's exactly what didn't happen.
San Andreas, Cascadia, and Yellowstone get more buzz due to greater activity and more "top-end potential" than New Madrid; that's more than fair, considering how long it's been since NMSZ ruined anyone's day. but -- but -- if and when we get another quake like the one that formed Reelfoot Lake, and made the Mississippi River flow backward for an extended period, and was felt as far away as Boston, NYC, and D.C., . . . .
some estimates of the 1906 quake that destroyed San Francisco put it at 7.9 on the Richter scale; some models, by comparison, put the peak of the 1811 - 1812 series of quakes that hit NMSZ in the neighborhood of 8.5 on the same scale. since it's logarithmic, an 8.5 is ten times stronger than a 7.5, as i'm understanding it.
I-40 is the busiest east-west trade route in the lower 48. and you've got -70, -80, -20, and -10 also that have crossings of the Mississippi. if those bridges go down . . . .
then consider the possible impact on river shipping. the Mississippi-Missouri river network is arguably the largest component in the lower costs of goods and services here in the US relative to the rest of the world. even a limited seismic event resulting in the obstruction or even constriction of the nearest major tributaries would quite literally have a global impact -- but we here in the States wouldn't really notice its reach just because of what it would do to us.
and then we can talk about air transport . . . . oh-boy.
no matter how sturdy an airframe is, it has a specific range of tolerances for weight distribution, whether in the air, at the gate, or taxiing in between. there's a reason why damaging airfields/airstrips was such a big deal during WWII -- you can have a thousand aircraft ready to go, but if you've got one busted runway and you didn't pack a spare . . . . you've got a metric ton of useless tech. and that works in the other direction, as well -- if you've got a ton of planes with one destination, but nowhere to land . . . .
hydroelectric power. flood control. agriculture. . . . . just a few more things to throw into one's deliberations.
when it happens, if in our lifetimes, just count:
1) how many interstate bridges go down
2) how many metropolitan areas are devastated
3) how many airports go out of service (however temporarily)
4) how many dams/levees break
5) how much shipping is lost/delayed
6) and so on
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if San Andreas or Cascadia 'go st00puhd', we've got some hellacious problems to address. if Yellowstone really goes up, then this discussion largely becomes a trivial matter -- too few people will survive to care. but if the Mississippi River basin takes a gut-punch from the New Madrid Seismic Zone, . . . .
Memphis. St. Louis. New Orleans.
Kansas City. Little Rock. Nashville. Cincinnati.
Dallas - Fort Worth. Chicago. Indianapolis.
Mobile. Houston. Shreveport. Cedar Rapids. Omaha.
the mind boggles.
we can look back at the hideous results of the pandemic and all agree "that was bad" -- but we lost almost no infrastructure. we can examine the massive storms that have hit the Gulf and the East Coast over the past 20 years and see how powerful those crises have been -- and then recognize just how much our meteorological advances have helped us.
a big enough quake centered near where TN, MO, AR, KY, and IL all meet geographically has the potential to effectively hit 'ctrl + alt + del' on about a third of the country, and the whole world would feel it, even if only in economic terms.
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The agricultural losses alone would cripple a large part of the world. That's not something where another major agricultural player could just quickly flip a switch and ramp up production to help offset.
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Speaking of earthquakes, I'm really curious how other FaWtL members think of them: My manager lived in California for a few years and apparently earthquakes terrified her, and it was one of the reasons she moved. Because we're natives, most of the time we don't even notice them, and when we do it's either, "Meh," or, "Wow! That was a pretty big one!"
So, is the idea of the ground randomly shaking for a second or two a few times a year "scary", or, "no big deal"?
I couldn't really say, I've never experienced one over a 2.something where I live and even that was a one-off thing and wasn't even super close to where I was at the time but everyone around ABSOLUTELY felt it and people were freaked out because we are all so unused to that kind of thing.
I think your attitude toward them is probably reflective of regional environmental hazards that are a regular thing in a given place. For instance, where I am I don't consider any snowfall accumulation of less than 3 inches of the wet stuff to be anything much more than a light snowshower and nothing short of a full foot of the stuff should be considered a snowstorm. It seems like the majority of the less northern (much less southern or southwestern) states in the good ol' united begin to worry as soon as there is ANY accumulation that the wind doesn't just blow away and if it stacks more than three inches deep they simultaneously panic, start driving like IDIOTS, and cancel absolutely everything.
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I think your attitude toward them is probably reflective of regional environmental hazards that are a regular thing in a given place. For instance, where I am I don't consider any snowfall accumulation of less than 3 inches of the wet stuff to be anything much more than a light snowshower and nothing short of a full foot of the stuff should be considered a snowstorm. It seems like the majority of the less northern (much less southern or southwestern) states in the good ol' united begin to worry as soon as there is ANY accumulation that the wind doesn't just blow away and if it stacks more than three inches deep they simultaneously panic, start driving like IDIOTS, and cancel absolutely everything.
Growing up with a Michigan father who insisted on ruthlessly training us all to drive in the worst icy conditions possible (i.e. go up to the Sierras, watch for/feel for black ice, then yell "Brake Now!" and watch the kid go out of control and see how well they can recover), I cannot tell you how refreshing it was to drive in Chicago during a snowstorm (about 18" in 4 hours). Drivers slowed down, gave each other plenty of space, took turns and stops extremely carefully, and I didn't see a single collision.
In the Sierras I'd've seen at least 3 4-wheel drive vehicles overturned on the side of the road because somehow Californians believe that 4-wheel drives conquer physics.
Starting pay for shoveling snow where I work is 20 an hour.
I make over 30 an hour, this will be my 6th winter here.
That sounds like heaven.
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Impus Minor is in Freehold Hell.
Math Assignment: Use the obviously-wrong method to try to determine whether or not this series converges or diverges.
Impus Minor:
Math Assignment: WRONG!
I ask: What is the educational value in teaching a student 8 different tests for convergence, then forcing them to use the wrong one?!?!?
It's hard enough to give them the experience and confidence to choose the right one. "You must use the wrong one," is just asinine.
EDIT: My favorite comparison would be Captain Yesterday's boss saying, "OK, today we have the Honda Accord hybrid, the gravel truck, and the back hoe. CY, take the Honda and go pick up 2 tons of gravel from the yard. Just so you can learn how much it sucks to use the Honda for that."
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Impus Minor is in Freehold Hell.
Math Assignment: Use the obviously-wrong method to try to determine whether or not this series converges or diverges.
Impus Minor:
Math Assignment: WRONG!I ask: What is the educational value in teaching a student 8 different tests for convergence, then forcing them to use the wrong one?!?!?
It's hard enough to give them the experience and confidence to choose the right one. "You must use the wrong one," is just asinine.
EDIT: My favorite comparison would be Captain Yesterday's boss saying, "OK, today we have the Honda Accord hybrid, the gravel truck, and the back hoe. CY, take the Honda and go pick up 2 tons of gravel from the yard. Just so you can learn how much it sucks to use the Honda for that."
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While it's gratifying to be the "mental health refuge" of all the kids' friends, it frustrates me in the extreme that we're yet again dealing with two crises this week, and the kids' parents are nowhere to be found.
- How is it that a teen posts some disturbing thoughts on self-harm then goes silent, and it's me and the Impii driving to the kid's house to do a wellness check instead of someone calling their parents? (I don't know the kid that well at all, but their peers all said, "No. Don't tell their parents. That'll just make things worse." And we did resolve the issue.)
- How is it that a kid with clinical depression is coming to my house today to talk with me about their issues instead of their parents or a therapist?
- Why is a teen girl more comfortable talking to me about her sex life and her issues with her boyfriends than her parents?
Yes. I listen. I don't judge. I provide the best advice I can from my personal experiences. I am big and round and comfortable to hug. My sofas are a great place to sob. But with all the modern-day focus on mental health issues, I'm baffled that GothBard and I seem to be the only parents that the kids are willing to talk to. Heck, we even have one kid show up here just so can do his homework because issues at his home make it too loud and distracting for him to work there.
I like that the kids and I are apparently a great deal of help to these other kids. I hate that we seem to be their only easy resource.
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You succeeded too much in being a good parent, maxed the mastery bar, and now the excess xp is spilling around?
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You succeeded too much in being a good parent, maxed the mastery bar, and now the excess xp is spilling around?
It concerns me that this sets the bar pretty darned low, in my mind. The greatest "gift" I gave to my kids was the straightforward, "As long as it won't have lifelong repercussions, they can do whatever they want. I'll warn them what'll happen, they'll experience the consequences, and they'll learn to listen to me."
Seems more like laissez-faire parenting to me, but I am d**ned proud of how they turned out, even if they could stand to be a little a lot more organized.
On the off chance anyone else knows: If someone's filed a claim against me, shouldn't I be able to see the details of that claim?
As I mentioned, Impus Minor rear-ended a woman and nicked her bumper, and we got a call from State Farm that she was claiming repairs and a rental car. But when I check the claim status on State Farm's web site I see nothing at all, nor have I received anything in the mail.
I'd think that as the policyholder I'd get told something about the claim, but it's the first time in my life someone's filed a claim against me so I don't know how such things work.