This tweet has gotten 200k likes (lots of bots) and the woman is a studio manager at New Blood Interactive. Her profile describes herself as a "Studio Momager," further enforcing my theory that women are losing their minds and try to infantilize everyone else to compensate for the inability to raise their own children.
There is data to support that. Childless women who want kids but never had any will imprint the 'must care for child' onto work, hobbies, business, whatever.
even ones that have kids will do it. at my last job, the admin basically made me her work son, always making sure I ate the food that was ordered for the execs.
Her actual son had just moved out so I kind of went along with it, because it saved me a shit ton on food.
I like women like that. It is right for people to help each other, and feeding each other is a classic way to do that, and I know I have a lot of opportunities to pay back kindnesses that that have been shown me.
Childless women are probably the worst of the worst, but the ones with children are still being deprived of interacting with their children for at least 9 hours per day. That has a dramatic impact on their psyche and they try to imprint those instincts into everything else in their lives to compensate for the guilt of being absent from the lives of their children.
Unironically probably a bigger gain for society than 90% of birthday parties for adults, which are just excuses to drink heavily and waste a night doing nothing.
This might have them walk out of it with a marginal knowledge gain.
Me and the boys still do shit like that. When we are playing a game together one of us will just long form explain something we know a lot about during downtime.
One of my boys is working on his PhD in Physics and is the only reason I can even comprehend that nonsense.
"Alright, I need you all to pick an approximately 90 second scene from an anime or video game, and explain why it's the best one of all time for any specific category, like spectacle, storytelling, art, hype, whatever. Best one wins a prize, but if two people pick from the same franchise, they're disqualified."
The TM 31-210 manual appeared as an "Easter egg" in the 1995 CGI animated film, Toy Story. In the scene where Woody is trapped under a blue plastic box in Sid's bedroom, it's possible to see behind him a document titled "TM 31-210 Improvised Interrogation Handbook", a clear reference to the actual document
Which given it's a birthday party of a friend, odds are reasonable their friends are at least cordial with you, as a friend within the same "friend group".
You see this in school now. Instead of tests and studying everything is a fucking project, everyone has to do some gay presentation. Learning is irrelevant, it's just an opportunity to do arts and crafts and spread away all the responsibility.
They always excuse it with "you'll need to know how to work in groups and manage tasks efficiently for your job." When my adult life has literally been me finding jobs that let me work alone because I cannot stand the inefficiency that most people bring to every fucking task in their life.
My entire education was a long lesson in learning to hate people for how slow and stupid they were, and how many wasteful frills teachers add to tasks to keep me from doing more. From "showing work" to "draw a picture and color in the lines." All of it wasting time.
They do it so that when the kid gets the wrong answer, a reviewer can pin-point why they got it wrong and tell them how to correct it. "You flipped the sign on line 5" is significantly more useful than "you fucked up somewhere, IDK."
It's only a waste of time when you get the correct answer. Which is why I too considered it a waste for many years but first time you have to teach someone else, you get the point quickly. Though... I do doubt most teachers bother checking the work anyway.
It's only a waste of time when you get the correct answer.
Which is the point I was at. If I consistently got it wrong, then I would obviously need to step back and do things in more long form.
But if I'm clearly able to consistently get it right and just toss the answer out in 2 seconds, then the "work" is obviously unnecessary as I am showing mastery of the equation and concept. Which makes the "removing 50% of your grade for not putting an illegible left hand scrubbed mess on the paper" lack any principle behind it.
Which feeds into the bigger point of "intentionally gimping gifted kids into a schema meant for the drooling retards in their class" that plagues all education.
A sane world would give partial marks for correct working-out, in the event that the answer was wrong, not make full marks dependant on showing all working-out.
Which feeds into the bigger point of "intentionally gimping gifted kids into a schema meant for the drooling retards in their class" that plagues all education.
It really is abominable. Kills their passion, makes them lazy, robs them of ability to pay attention...
You knowing to step back means you're self-directed when it comes to learning. Most kids weren't. Most adults still aren't. You've correctly identified that schools are designed for the lowest common denominator. .
If you were fortunate enough to be in a school that actually rose to meet your level, the questions would become challenging enough that you you'd need to show your work for your own review.
"Show your work" itself wasn't the bad policy. The level of the work you were assigned was. The grading (which I agree is bad) is because it's the only tool they have to push the policy. At a good school they wouldn't need grading threats because, "I can't help you fix this unless you show me what you did," and your desire to understand the material is sufficient reason to show work.
You knowing to step back means you're self-directed when it comes to learning
Even if I wasn't, its not an unreasonable ask for a teacher to be able to identify if mistakes are being made in consistent areas and that that is where the focus needs to be on. And if they have "too many students and work" to have that level of individual care, then adding additional grading and disciplinary effort undermines that claim.
The grading is the largest issue, but there is always the problem of assuming there is only one method that is "best" that needs to be taught. I do math using what would later get formed into Common Core, because that works naturally for me. But the fact that its a hugely controversial policy shows how much it doesn't work for most people. Its an absurd method that requires your brain to be able to quickly and instantly solve dozens of small problems, often times at a rate that makes explaining it quite difficult if not impossible because you didn't consciously think of it.
Which is likely why as a young lad I didn't enjoy "showing work" but couldn't explain why. Because saying that you used Subtraction to solve 27+15 even confuses teachers. But it makes a lot more sense to subtract 3 from 15, add it to 27 and then just add 12 to 30 in your head than whatever dumb shit method they teach you to use when you "write it out."
I always thought it was to prevent cheating. In my math classes we had the actual answers in the back of the book, so anyone could have copied those. The homework was testing our knowledge of the methods.
If the projects were more like, "Use the physics concepts we learned to build a working wooden boat" or something that allows kids to see how the things they learn apply to real life, I would be all for doing projects more frequently than just doing tests, but of course that isn't the type of projects that they are doing in school, just dumbass shit.
One of my history teachers in middle school was huge on projects like that:
Write a rap song about your chosen African history subject
Build a sandcastle using what you learned about castles
Go and literally barter with beans for vegetables I brought in in a mock Incan marketplace
And I still remember that better than college courses I took. I still remember the day we had to start Standardized Test prep (which forced a textbook reading instruction set on her with no allowed deviation) and how absolutely miserable it made her and us.
Anyone who's ever lived with a woman can tell you that there's nothing they despise more than a man engaging in leisure activities. It's why they're always inventing new tasks for their beta slaves to do around the house. I think this is a manifestation of that same impulse, though I doubt any males with normal T levels participated in this nonsense.
I can't decide if I'd tell them their idea is fucking stupid and I would not be wasting time on PowerPoint for their entertainment, or if I'd dig around and find a 4 hour presentation on some old tech and suggest they sit through that. It's time to learn the advanced data structures of COBOL everyone.
Don't. Give a presentation about what a fucking stupid idea it is. Include a plot of "years since I've known Kelsey" vs. "times I've considered ending our friendship."
I also see it as also a corporate world problem with women who let corporate busywork intentionally infect the rest of their lives and try to turn it into a "fun game" that only other women and low-T men find a perverse enjoyment out of.
If you're close enough to somebody who would have a birthday like this that they invite you, you've fucked up so bad on your filter that there's no hope for you.
Yeah.. they come up with these bullshit activities that distract or woke. And then get offended or even report you to HR if you dont want to participate.
It's cringe, but if you know your own friend group and they're all the same kind of cringe, then there's really nothing wrong with this. Probably beats the "duuurr Cards Against Humanity is funny!" people.
This tweet has gotten 200k likes (lots of bots) and the woman is a studio manager at New Blood Interactive. Her profile describes herself as a "Studio Momager," further enforcing my theory that women are losing their minds and try to infantilize everyone else to compensate for the inability to raise their own children.
There is data to support that. Childless women who want kids but never had any will imprint the 'must care for child' onto work, hobbies, business, whatever.
even ones that have kids will do it. at my last job, the admin basically made me her work son, always making sure I ate the food that was ordered for the execs.
Her actual son had just moved out so I kind of went along with it, because it saved me a shit ton on food.
I like women like that. It is right for people to help each other, and feeding each other is a classic way to do that, and I know I have a lot of opportunities to pay back kindnesses that that have been shown me.
Childless women are probably the worst of the worst, but the ones with children are still being deprived of interacting with their children for at least 9 hours per day. That has a dramatic impact on their psyche and they try to imprint those instincts into everything else in their lives to compensate for the guilt of being absent from the lives of their children.
I didn't even notice that you said she works at New Blood Interactive.
They mostly publish boomer shooters like Amid Evil, Gloomwood, Ultrakill, and Dusk.
But they also make games, too.
Oh cmon it's only a strage way to have fun during a birthday party
Aw...
A presentation on Army TM 31-210.
That actually sounds kind of fun, if you have the right people.
Unironically probably a bigger gain for society than 90% of birthday parties for adults, which are just excuses to drink heavily and waste a night doing nothing.
This might have them walk out of it with a marginal knowledge gain.
In the 1800s people would literally be like "come to the pub on saturday i'm gonna explain magnetism" and it was a good time.
Me and the boys still do shit like that. When we are playing a game together one of us will just long form explain something we know a lot about during downtime.
One of my boys is working on his PhD in Physics and is the only reason I can even comprehend that nonsense.
You get a group of autists together it would be great.
"Alright, I need you all to pick an approximately 90 second scene from an anime or video game, and explain why it's the best one of all time for any specific category, like spectacle, storytelling, art, hype, whatever. Best one wins a prize, but if two people pick from the same franchise, they're disqualified."
The TM 31-210 manual appeared as an "Easter egg" in the 1995 CGI animated film, Toy Story. In the scene where Woody is trapped under a blue plastic box in Sid's bedroom, it's possible to see behind him a document titled "TM 31-210 Improvised Interrogation Handbook", a clear reference to the actual document
Which given it's a birthday party of a friend, odds are reasonable their friends are at least cordial with you, as a friend within the same "friend group".
Haha it's going to be an office birthday party for coworker you give a shit about
You see this in school now. Instead of tests and studying everything is a fucking project, everyone has to do some gay presentation. Learning is irrelevant, it's just an opportunity to do arts and crafts and spread away all the responsibility.
They always excuse it with "you'll need to know how to work in groups and manage tasks efficiently for your job." When my adult life has literally been me finding jobs that let me work alone because I cannot stand the inefficiency that most people bring to every fucking task in their life.
My entire education was a long lesson in learning to hate people for how slow and stupid they were, and how many wasteful frills teachers add to tasks to keep me from doing more. From "showing work" to "draw a picture and color in the lines." All of it wasting time.
They do it so that when the kid gets the wrong answer, a reviewer can pin-point why they got it wrong and tell them how to correct it. "You flipped the sign on line 5" is significantly more useful than "you fucked up somewhere, IDK."
It's only a waste of time when you get the correct answer. Which is why I too considered it a waste for many years but first time you have to teach someone else, you get the point quickly. Though... I do doubt most teachers bother checking the work anyway.
Which is the point I was at. If I consistently got it wrong, then I would obviously need to step back and do things in more long form.
But if I'm clearly able to consistently get it right and just toss the answer out in 2 seconds, then the "work" is obviously unnecessary as I am showing mastery of the equation and concept. Which makes the "removing 50% of your grade for not putting an illegible left hand scrubbed mess on the paper" lack any principle behind it.
Which feeds into the bigger point of "intentionally gimping gifted kids into a schema meant for the drooling retards in their class" that plagues all education.
A sane world would give partial marks for correct working-out, in the event that the answer was wrong, not make full marks dependant on showing all working-out.
It really is abominable. Kills their passion, makes them lazy, robs them of ability to pay attention...
You knowing to step back means you're self-directed when it comes to learning. Most kids weren't. Most adults still aren't. You've correctly identified that schools are designed for the lowest common denominator. .
If you were fortunate enough to be in a school that actually rose to meet your level, the questions would become challenging enough that you you'd need to show your work for your own review.
"Show your work" itself wasn't the bad policy. The level of the work you were assigned was. The grading (which I agree is bad) is because it's the only tool they have to push the policy. At a good school they wouldn't need grading threats because, "I can't help you fix this unless you show me what you did," and your desire to understand the material is sufficient reason to show work.
Even if I wasn't, its not an unreasonable ask for a teacher to be able to identify if mistakes are being made in consistent areas and that that is where the focus needs to be on. And if they have "too many students and work" to have that level of individual care, then adding additional grading and disciplinary effort undermines that claim.
The grading is the largest issue, but there is always the problem of assuming there is only one method that is "best" that needs to be taught. I do math using what would later get formed into Common Core, because that works naturally for me. But the fact that its a hugely controversial policy shows how much it doesn't work for most people. Its an absurd method that requires your brain to be able to quickly and instantly solve dozens of small problems, often times at a rate that makes explaining it quite difficult if not impossible because you didn't consciously think of it.
Which is likely why as a young lad I didn't enjoy "showing work" but couldn't explain why. Because saying that you used Subtraction to solve 27+15 even confuses teachers. But it makes a lot more sense to subtract 3 from 15, add it to 27 and then just add 12 to 30 in your head than whatever dumb shit method they teach you to use when you "write it out."
It's also useful for proving that you're not cheating.
I always thought it was to prevent cheating. In my math classes we had the actual answers in the back of the book, so anyone could have copied those. The homework was testing our knowledge of the methods.
I remember our textbooks having solutions to only even or only odd questions. You'd get assigned from the set without answers as graded work.
Of course PDFs of the teacher's guide with all the solutions weren't hard to come by either.
If the projects were more like, "Use the physics concepts we learned to build a working wooden boat" or something that allows kids to see how the things they learn apply to real life, I would be all for doing projects more frequently than just doing tests, but of course that isn't the type of projects that they are doing in school, just dumbass shit.
One of my history teachers in middle school was huge on projects like that:
And I still remember that better than college courses I took. I still remember the day we had to start Standardized Test prep (which forced a textbook reading instruction set on her with no allowed deviation) and how absolutely miserable it made her and us.
Hype song for the Rhodesian mercenary forces capping commie jogger Africans incoming.
Work the rhyme wacky/khakis in there somewhere please.
Dats raciss.
And yet to this day I still know most of the story of Mansa Musa, something 99% of blacks do not.
When men say they want peace, they are talking about the opposite of this. Fucking homework for a birthday party? Fuck off.
Anyone who's ever lived with a woman can tell you that there's nothing they despise more than a man engaging in leisure activities. It's why they're always inventing new tasks for their beta slaves to do around the house. I think this is a manifestation of that same impulse, though I doubt any males with normal T levels participated in this nonsense.
I can't decide if I'd tell them their idea is fucking stupid and I would not be wasting time on PowerPoint for their entertainment, or if I'd dig around and find a 4 hour presentation on some old tech and suggest they sit through that. It's time to learn the advanced data structures of COBOL everyone.
/cracks out 1991 gaming history.
"Welcome to the world of Battletoads, everyone. Strap in, this is going to a roller-coaster unlike any you have ever experienced!"
Don't. Give a presentation about what a fucking stupid idea it is. Include a plot of "years since I've known Kelsey" vs. "times I've considered ending our friendship."
I'd probably just not go to the birthday at all. I'm glad I don't have these kinds of "friends" in my social circles.
Oh ha, I don't either. Speculative talk here. Reality, if any of my friends tried to pull such a stunt they would be mocked relentlessly.
this is half of what is wrong in health and academia
I also see it as also a corporate world problem with women who let corporate busywork intentionally infect the rest of their lives and try to turn it into a "fun game" that only other women and low-T men find a perverse enjoyment out of.
If you're close enough to somebody who would have a birthday like this that they invite you, you've fucked up so bad on your filter that there's no hope for you.
Reminds of a government.
Yeah.. they come up with these bullshit activities that distract or woke. And then get offended or even report you to HR if you dont want to participate.
It's cringe, but if you know your own friend group and they're all the same kind of cringe, then there's really nothing wrong with this. Probably beats the "duuurr Cards Against Humanity is funny!" people.
Seeing stuff like this on an invite is kind of a blessing, really. All you need is a two word RSVP.
"fuck off"
If it’s illicit mushrooms, lame as fuck. If it’s mushrooms for survival, this can save your life.
Judging by the ugly creature in the picture, I'm guessing it is illicit mushrooms.
North Korea’s secret police are often female. They fucking love policing thoughts and microcontrolling men.