Study something they don’t need to know! I don’t know...I like to read about things for fun as well as to learn how to do something. I learned how to say the longest place names in the world for a cool party trick that impresses precisely no people at all.
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Study something they don’t need to know! I don’t know...I like to read about things for fun as well as to learn how to do something. I learned how to say the longest place names in the world for a cool party trick that impresses precisely no people at all.
must make an academic setting more difficult? with the crap on the internet?
back when I was in institutionalized education, we researched from books
while librarians would stock publications from differing bias
they would not put outright false garbage on the shelves
this shitstain was a perfect example, published many books
but you never find them in a library
nowadays it's difficult to avoid this level of garbage
there must be a way to qualify electronic sources to weed out the ****?
Actually it does make an academic setting more difficult but in a way you might not have considered.
For instance...a carbon atom has 4 bonds to it when neutral 99.9999999 of the time. When it’s charged it can have 3 and in certain cases it can have 2. But we always teach never 5.
Google 5 valent carbon and you’ll find a very obscure and extremely unique way of making it. So in essence the student now has a get out clause if they make an error drawing a 5 valent carbon.
What does this mean for me? It means I have to be a fricken lawyer and word questions on exams so accurately there’s no “get out clause” for some whacko obscurity that can be googled. Students are now doing precisely this...they will look at their wrong answer in an exam and try to negotiate using obscure googled **** in order to get marks. It’s quite tiring.
I tried to get an incorrectly marked question adjusted on one midterm. The prof went with, "If you want it remarked, I am happy too, but if I made one error I might have made more so I will be remarking the whole thing, not just the question you raised. Based on a cursory review, I did make a mistake where you indicated but I was generous here and here and here and here, are you really sure you want me to remark this?" Umm. No. I'm fine. I can see where this is going. Have a good day.
that’s actually my standard response to students....it’s a “stock market“ statement...marks can go up or down.....and it’s usually down. I also like to use the casino analogy if they want to gamble....I’m the house...and the house always wins.
I'll edit this a bit....the above puts off the chancers, students with legitimate grievances get their ”day in court”.
Can't be bothered with replying to the attitude-problem crap.
Two-part answer.
(1) We know more now than we knew then, and recommendations were adjusted. That's how science works.
(2) Masks that were much more likely to be effective (i.e. N95) at the outset of the infection were in short supply, and from the system level, it was better to reserve them for medical personnel. The message that was sent was at least in part to discourage people from hoarding them and thus keeping them away from those who actually needed them.
With this virus, one infection can easily become 3, then 9, then 27, then 81, then 243, then 729, then 2187 ... and yet ... stop that one infection at the outset, and you stop all those subsequent infections.
There is (for N95 masks). But there's limited supply of those. For "lesser but good-enough" masks ... Researching what was needed, and developing a standard, and implementing it, takes TIME, which was not available. Consequently ... a number of recommendations were informally developed for producing home-grown or very simple masks, and implemented and put into production in a big hurry.
In early June, a customer of mine (normally an automotive parts manufacturer) had me do my thing on a piece of equipment that they were going to use to make masks. (I contributed my services for free, by the way,) This means that in the two or three months leading up to that, they committed to doing this, designed a piece of equipment, built it, commissioned it, powered it up, arranged for sources of materials, and put it into production. They sent me a little note a couple weeks ago that they had (at that time) produced 2 million masks with that piece of equipment.
If they had to contend with building those masks to a standard, and it went according to the normal time scale, the standards body wouldn't even have agreed on what the standard had to say yet ...
It has been established that physical contact through a secondary object is not a primary means of virus transmission. Nevertheless ... lots of stores have put out hand-santizer. And they recommend people to use contactless payment.
So in the absence of a proven total one hundred percent effective solution that's guaranteed to work (but which doesn't exist), what are YOU doing? Nothing?
"Think for yourself". Okay, that implies that you have done so. What's YOUR public-health recommendation? Nothing?
And I won't argue the point about us being late to the game ... because indeed, our government (and most others) was slow to react, initially. But ... It's water under the bridge. You can't put it back. What should we do NOW to deal with this situation? Nothing??
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you would get better answers if you ask straight forward questions instead of being a knob
Is it an animated message like Clippy, or do I have to decipher it myself?
^ I can take a teasing no problem, I had an older brother
and I have no problem admitting I'm wrong when that happensI is human.
... puff balls are out, found 4 so far lol there be free food in the woods tonight.
oooh.....where?
Trials
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One was just past the old house, two out near the main road and one right in the middle of one of my motorcycle trails.
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