EncA Fool with CompassionPronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered Userregular
In all likelihood, the Human Superpower will be the ability to stand the normally incredibly corrosive and hostile oxygen and water based environments.
since I’m not tabling at TCAF, if you want a sweet piece of Partridge you’ll have to find me. here’s a handy chart to help you.
alternately, if you have twitter, just tweet @empartridge and I can probably let you know where I am. I’ll have some Mount Pleasant minicomics, and maaaybe some prints! even if you don’t want to buy anything, don’t hesitate to say hi if you see me.
if you're goin to tcaf you should say hi!
wish i could go to conventions where webcomics were
and than someone at gizmodo posted it and he said "nu-uh learning math makes me a better person because it is the language of science!" and other terrible things happened
EncA Fool with CompassionPronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered Userregular
Our education system would work a lot better if teachers sat down with elementary school students as follows:
Teacher: Do you wish you could be a wizard? Fly and make magic potions and cast all sorts of wonderful spells like in Harry Potter?
Class: Yeah!!
Teacher: Well, there is a magic in our world. It's called math. With it you can do all of the things in those fantasy stories!
Class: Awesome!
It's mostly true, too. People package math as terribly and boring. If you package it as "how to do magic in he real world" from an early enough age I would imaging at least a few more people would be interested in it.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
Our education system would work a lot better if teachers sat down with elementary school students as follows:
Teacher: Do you wish you could be a wizard? Fly and make magic potions and cast all sorts of wonderful spells like in Harry Potter?
Class: Yeah!!
Teacher: Well, there is a magic in our world. It's called math. With it you can do all of the things in those fantasy stories!
Class: Awesome!
It's mostly true, too. People package math as terribly and boring. If you package it as "how to do magic in he real world" from an early enough age I would imaging at least a few more people would be interested in it.
BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
the problem with that XKCD comic is that the people who apply that for everyone who feels happy not knowing math, there are at least as many people who feel happy not knowing another language or music or cooking anyway
and randall shows a lot of contempt for subjects outside of his specific interests
while constantly whining about how nerds are being marginalized
the problem with that XKCD comic is that the people who apply that for everyone who feels happy not knowing math, there are at least as many people who feel happy not knowing another language or music or cooking anyway
and randall shows a lot of contempt for subjects outside of his specific interests
while constantly whining about how nerds are being marginalized
see if you change nerds to black people and "subjects outside his interest" to "fair wages and equal treatment" then you can see that randall has made a pretty scathing commentary
I'm not sure whether the last panel of that Doghouse thing is supposed to be a self-aware jab at his own expense or not
Also I am terrible at mathematics, and various other subjects, but as an attempted educator it still weirds me out how people can be proud of being bad at something, flashing it around like a badge of honour
It's so hard! You can't understand I like this thing you see and other people sometimes don't and aaaarh why am I even bothering to explain to you you're so neurotypical ugh
BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
ALT TEXT: "Cue letters from anthropology majors complaining that this view of numerolinguistic development perpetuates a widespread myth. They get to write letters like that because when you're not getting a real science degree you have a lot of free time."
MATH IS FANTASTIC and with its power I can reach the pinnacle of human achievement as you might be able to infer from my stunted obsessive worldview and over-specialisation to the point that I even draw stick figures with wobbly inconsistent limbs
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actually I think the line is about human speech, and how primitive our languages are
That or music.
I wish I were going to TCAF.
I would steal her and put her in my pocket.
She is so tiny.
Ah! I think it was a universal translator but he still said thought i think
BUT WHO CARES BECAUSE THIS
XBL: JyrenB ; Steam: Jyren ; Twitter
"better than xkcd" is not much of a claim
machines can't know love!
how you make a living off of your garbage webcomic
and than someone at gizmodo posted it and he said "nu-uh learning math makes me a better person because it is the language of science!" and other terrible things happened
so there
I find people who know math
and force them to forget
Teacher: Do you wish you could be a wizard? Fly and make magic potions and cast all sorts of wonderful spells like in Harry Potter?
Class: Yeah!!
Teacher: Well, there is a magic in our world. It's called math. With it you can do all of the things in those fantasy stories!
Class: Awesome!
It's mostly true, too. People package math as terribly and boring. If you package it as "how to do magic in he real world" from an early enough age I would imaging at least a few more people would be interested in it.
I hate XCKD
every comic is ego-stroking for people who are good at math
dont tell @antimatter
children would see through you in an instant
Also, new Nerdroid:
racist
you're all racists!
and randall shows a lot of contempt for subjects outside of his specific interests
while constantly whining about how nerds are being marginalized
We know love
We prefer not to acknowledge it
I got my girlfriend a Beartato and it is so good. He makes you happy just smiling at you all the time.
I'm sure you'll meet a nice piece of hardware some day
Should just jump into a pile of magnets and let this mockery end
see if you change nerds to black people and "subjects outside his interest" to "fair wages and equal treatment" then you can see that randall has made a pretty scathing commentary
People like and hate different things
being shoved into a subject you're already not a fan off is going to generate some hate
Twitch (I stream most days of the week)
Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
Also I am terrible at mathematics, and various other subjects, but as an attempted educator it still weirds me out how people can be proud of being bad at something, flashing it around like a badge of honour
It's so hard! You can't understand I like this thing you see and other people sometimes don't and aaaarh why am I even bothering to explain to you you're so neurotypical ugh
ALT TEXT: "Cue letters from anthropology majors complaining that this view of numerolinguistic development perpetuates a widespread myth. They get to write letters like that because when you're not getting a real science degree you have a lot of free time."