Oklahoma has to have something in the water. I had a parent teacher conference the other day and wrote “x+4=7” on the board as an example of something their middle schooler was struggling with, and I might as well as written 汉子.

Hmm, wonder if there were words before the section you decided to quote.

Rapping takes more skill than just saying a bunch of words fast over the right beat. A lot of middle/upper class white kids do not realize this and are not in the kind of environment to get real feedback on their rap.

Did you know that recruiters LIE?

Imagine being broke and struggling through college. You get an email from a recruiter - they have access to the university’s entire mailing of course - telling you that all you have to do is show up to a few weeks of boot camp, and do drill on the weekend.

You’re 18, and don’t know that recruiters are not just allowed to sell you up the river, but encouraged to. It seems like a nice alternative to student loan hell debt and living off jars of peanut butter.

I do ASVAB prep occasionally, which I have mixed feelings about, and have a client who I’ve just gotten to being able to borrow when subtracting. Do you think he’s equipped to make an intelligent choice when a recruiter promises him the world?

Made the mistake of buying a HP “gaming laptop.” The goddamn thing chugs if you have five browser tabs open.

Probably not too hard to make - maybe I’ll hit the thrift store and see if I can get a friend to help me test it tonight…

Is it more stingy or thuddy? The cables seem heavy enough for a lot of thud, are the sharp corners of the end connectors stingy?

Abughazaleh is awesome. She was just a guest on Behind the Bastards - she’s been doing a lot of researching/keeping up with/exposing the alt right for several years now.

It’s a problem when it’s all that your partner cares about. Sex is great, but the vast majority of the time you spend with your SO will not involve fucking. That other 90% is important too.

My concern is more the expansion of the governments ability to forcibly institutionalize people. Inpatient institutions are largely unregulated and unsafe.

Pretty sure that’d melt the silicone.

I left one of my packers in my closet just a little too close to the ceiling light and it melted.

MAGA being cucked by Israel.

Heritage Foundation is working on making HRT illegal.

This one fascinates me - did they cover up the woman and the girls face on purpose?

Would the “law of return” apply to Lamanites?

The story isn’t strictly on rails - you do get some choices (especially how your character reacts in the end.) When you reach the part where you are told that you have to kill one of two guys, you can actually refuse to kill either and take on a massive firefight.

Goodwill prices are out of control. Look for local/mom and pop thrifts.

It’s much better if you derive the quadratic equation. I don’t understand why more algebra 2 teachers don’t show the derivation from completing the square. I always do, and my students get it down quick!

Scrofula

Wolfram alpha is much better for the purpose you describe than a generative LLM. The “show steps” button costs $5/mth.

I’ve experimented with it for math (was stuck on a Project Euler problem, it did give me the algorithm but absolutely flounced it’s sample calculation), and it can get some stuff right, but provide an incorrect explanation. Or fuck up a numerical calculation entirely.

Depending on what you are pursuing a degree in, another thing to keep in mind is that math conceptually builds on itself. If you are just trying to survive a math credit it’s like Cliff’s Noting a book for a paper - nothing will stick for you long term using AI.

What class is it? PatrickJMT is good if you’ve gone to calculus.