If this were true it would have been released under Biden.
I still think they should be released, and that the Dems are correct to push for it now. But if we find out Biden or Garland was covering up for the Clintons they all should be fully persecuted too.
Part of the problem is that there are very few payment services and they all seem to be doing the same thing.
Disclaimer: Fuck trump, I hope he faves consequences for his actions.
But I also have to ask: Why were these files sitting in this cabinet during the entirety of the Biden administration? Does Merrick Garland have some explaining to do?
The just thing to do would have been to prosecute Trump according to the law.
The electorally savvy thing to do would have been to at least bring it up during the election cycle.
I was easier on Biden than most progressives. I could see that a lot of the legislation he publicly pushed for just got gutted by the likes of Manchin and Sinema. The Democrats had a tenuous majority, but not a supermajority, so they were limited in what Congress could accomplish. A lot of his progressive executive orders were overridden by an illegitimate Republican Supreme Court. But man… If he just sat on this for the entirety of his term that’s pretty damning.
Honestly I think you’re trying to justify your own approach with your child rather than looking at what should happen.
This has been a trend in US education for decades, maybe a century. The days of the old 1-room schoolhouse with a nun who slapped your knuckles for not memorizing your times tables are long past. Another commenter here pointed out to me that, for math in particular, you can see this trend in the New Math and later Common Core.
My same sister who taught me as a child later got a teaching degree, and one of the key parts of that I remember talking with her about was how the overall trend in the industry was to move away from memorization. Especially because they ran into the common issue where students lose good chunks of what they memorized over summer breaks.
Memorization can be effective, but it can also be a crutch. Those same multiplication tables you memorize as a child you then need to find a way to forget if you ever need to work outside of base-10. The cost of the ease and speed of memorizationks flexibility. Sometimes that’s a good trade-off to make, but sometimes it’s not.
Beyond that, memorization is just plain bad. Human memory is bad- anyone in criminal justice can arrest to that. As an accountant I can as well. You may think you still have your multiplication tables memorized. Maybe you still do, maybe you don’t. Maybe you will on a couple decades, maybe not. Depends on who you are and what you do to maintain that database.
I’m also surprised to see you describe learning the process as “inefficient”. To me it seems far more efficient to learn the code or function to do something abstractly and how to apply it than to memorize whole tables of inputs and outputs. I also don’t know follow how you think learning processes is harmful to advanced mathmatics either. There are very, very few advanced mathematical problems where memorization could be useful beyond what is taught in high schools. Like… Maybe Turing’s Halting Problem in earlier iterations? Kids (or adults) don’t have to think to multiply if they just remember the table- that’s part of the problem. So I think you’re the one with the harmful and outdated point of view here.
Well, memorization does have one good advantage. It’s easier to teach. Just hand the student the table and tell them to learn it. Very easy to test and evaluate on.
Ah I can see that take, especially after reading the recent quotes from Zenimax employees about how the recent round of playoffs went too.
The CEO also said “we’ll first support the platform that has the most users purely out of resource reasons”. He later says he expects to support all platforms eventually. So as much as I love to hate on Microsoft, this seems like more of the cold calculations of business than a response to a perfcoved slight. Xbox simply is not an attractive platform for anyone not owned by Microsoft to prioritize right now.
What “it” are you referring to here? What is the studio doing that is bad when the roles are reversed?
The article doesn’t get into specifics, but all you have to do is look at the units sold for the consoles to understand why some companies might not bother with Xbox.
I’m in my 30’s. Just barely missed Common Core but I remember hearing parents with younger children complaining about it. I don’t remember the math I was taught having any specific branding with it, though it may have been a late variant of New Math.
What I was taught in schools definitely still had a lot of memorization involved. I consider myself lucky that my sister taught me earlier, because I saw a lot of my bright peers struggle with the way it was taught in schools. I never had to study math outside of school for my entire academic career. She helped me to understand computers (she also taught me binary, octal, and hexadecimal systems. Hexadecimal is very useful for a kid with a GameShark and Pokemon).
I get the point, but often the answer to “what did you do before ___ was invented?” Is “we suffered and died”. Like vaccines for example.
It’s important to distinguish between what you memorized as part of a rote process as a child as part of your formal education process versus what you have remember as part of your lifetime of experiences. And if your own personal first exposure to multiplication tables was being made to memorize them, you are probably going to think that’s the only way to do it.
For example, most adults would probably the ones they use the most often memorized without any formal education. People use halves, quarters, doubles, and quadruples all the time, so the brain creates shortcuts for those.
Personally my older sister taught me the principles of multiplication and division a couple of years before I encountered them in elementary school. So I had already started to think of it as like… A nested adding function. And also using the algebraic properties (communicative, distributive, associative… I’m probably forgetting some of their names) helped me to understand the numbers and their relationships. So memorizing that 10x means you move the decimal place, but then extrapolating that so that n x 5 = n x 10/2 , which is often easier. Or that n x 9 = (n x 10) - n. So memorizing not the results, but the process.
So when I got to 2nd grade and they started teaching multiplication tables my experience was different from my peers. They would hand out sheets of multiplication problems for the class to do quietly, and at first I was about average: faster than the kids who weren’t trying, but slower than the ones who had begun to memorize the table. But I was less prone to the errors that other kids would make: mixing up 6’s and 9’s or 1’s and 7’s because they look similar, for example. And I quickly got faster than them, especially when we expanded beyond aingle-digit tables. It also helped me in the process of learning division: when we on from just leaving remainders as an R# to actually writing out decimals or using fractions. My peers would get tripped up trying to divide a number that did not fit nearly into the tables they had memorized. Then they introduced exponents, which a lot of people struggled with but for me was the next logical step to take (although my sister probably showed them to me earlier too).
And even today I totally break out the calculator app or even spreadsheet app on my phone. Not for help with the algebra, but to make a record and make sure that I’m including everything I need to. If I were in the grocery store trying to predict what my end cost will be at checkout, it’s much more likely I would get it wrong from missing an item, missing a promotion, or not knowing enough about sales tax eligibility than from any algebraic mistake.
Did you not read my 1st and 3rd paragraphs?
That’s why my first and third paragraphs criticized AI specifically.
I mean… Fuck AI and all, but hard way = better is definitely not some universal principal we should be applying to education.
The most famous example is all of the people who grew up when calculators were large and expensive pieces of equipment, who were told “you need to memorize your multiplication tables because you won’t always have a calculator with you”, which sounds absolutely ridiculous to anyone today.
I think it’s important for humanity to ask itself: which cognitive processes should we dedicate our fleshy organic brains to, and which cognitive processes are better off outsourced to external technologies? “AI” as a modern buzzword seems to be trying to positively brand these products that are trying (and usually failing) to take on processes that are best left within the brain.
The teacher probably said “yeah that’s a paper, and they are a good student who has already demonstrated their knowledge in class. I don’t need to read the whole thing”
In 7th grade I had an essay that I just totally skipped doing. The teacher handed them back to the class with grades and apologized for losing mine, but told me I got a B+.
I’m not convinced they’re done with Steam, or even videogames.
They could very well have a say in the content of GTA 6 for example. They could take down games like Cyberpunk and Baldur’s Gate 3. The Witcher 3 has sex scenes and nudity.
And if US Republicans lean on these US based payment processors, they could take down more. Games created by or positively depicting LGBT people, people of color, or any references to DEI. They are already leaning on other private companies- T-Mobile is the most recent one in the headlines.
They are burning books, taking down websites, anything they can to censor the things they don’t like.
For my credentials: I’m not diagnosed myself. Growing up I always felt like a watered-down version of my older sister: a genius who suffered mental breakdowns. She helped to raise me and was eventually diagnosed with autism in been mid-30’s. I’ve always been high-functioning and never had a reason to seek a diagnosis or treatment, but I’ve had a lot of non-professional opinions that I’m probably on the spectrum too. It’s also possible that I’m neurotypical and was just heavily influenced by her growing up.
Also I feel obligated so say that the technically correct answer is to seek professional help, but I’m assuming that either that’s not an option or hasn’t worked if you’re posting here.
For the intimacy part, it might help to plan and talk about it in advance. Discuss in the morning what the plans for the day are and bring that up as an option. Or perhaps a recurring weekly schedule.
I have also found with adhd partners that they seem to be able to turn things on FAST. Like, one minute there’s no sign of anything sexual. We might be watching some nostalgic stuff from our childhood like pokemon, or some gross out horror movie, or a video essay on marine biology, or it’s late at night and I’m about to pass out to get up early the next day. Then all of a sudden “hey you wanna fuck” out of nowhere really catches me by surprise, and I struggle to switch gears that fast. Whereas if we planned in advance I might suggest we watch something a bit sexier to prepare: an action movie or HBO drama perhaps.
I don’t know you so this isn’t a personal attack: it’s possible that you might be displaying a lot of emotion that is intimidating to her. Facial expressions, voice tones, word choice, gestures, tears. She could be afraid of upsetting you, or just afraid of being in such an… Energetic conversation.
It’s worth noting that the trope of autistic people missing social cues is an oversimplification, and I suspect that only applies to people deep in the spectrum that do not function well. For myself it’s the opposite: I spent my childhood careful observing and noting social rules to try to follow them as best as I could, but the frustrating part is that no one else does. Everyone thinks they do, but people are just different from each other and most individuals are themselves inconsistent. So it might help you to keep an eye on your own mannerisms and behaviors too.
I understand my last 2 paragraphs were suggesting you change yourself. It’s totally valid for you to not want to, I’m just laying out options.
In my mind, emotions are the end result. They are a reflection of the past. Decisions, including communications, should be made rationally with the goal of producing good emotions in the future. In my experience, most people make decisions irrationally based on the emotions they are feeling in the present. Negative emotions can lead to bad decisions, which creates a downward cycle. Positive emotions can also cloud rational thought. To avoid the cycle, you need to make calm and rational decisions. When something goes wrong I set the emotions aside to become cold and calculating and make the best decisions I can. An important part (and one it sounds like she needs to work on) is to go back later and reflect on that emotion. Feel it fully, understand where it comes from, and understand if there needs to be any communication about it.
The unnecessary Photoshop to add the fire is kind of annoying. The picture is already hilarious without it.
WTF is going on with this website? I had to turn my phone to read it in landscape lol.
I am 100% sure that Microsoft was asked about the impact to their staffing by various government regulators and media for each of their recent acquisitions. Zenimax and King are the most relevant ones here, but I would argue the rest of them like Activision-Blizzaed would still be relevant too. Disappointing to not see anything in this article.
Not sure if this is more or less of a problem for people wtih red-green colorblindness.
On the one hand, it’s harder to differentiate at all. On the other hand, it kind of removes that established expectation and keeps you in the habit of adapting.
So they can go work for EA? Or Ubisoft? Or one of Take-Two’s dev teams? Or something owned by Tencent or Embracer or Epic?
This isn’t just “Microsoft bad”. It’s “Microsoft is one of many giant mega corporations that are ruining the entire industry”.
Maybe some of these people could join or found smaller indie studios, but there are reasons why they didn’t do that already.
Honestly I don’t think the Steelers WR2 is going to be all that important. Arthur Smith has historically liked to use just 1 dominant WR2, and while you can point to occasions where he did have a decent WR2 the usage still is less than most offenses.
Arthur Smith is going to run the ball a lot, so there aren’t going to be a ton of targets to go around. Assuming everyone stays healthy, Metcalf is clearly going to lead them in targets this year. Freiermuth came in 2nd last year- I think some combination of him and Jonnu Smith will be 2nd and 3rd this year. They have been running 04 personnel in camp. Gainwell has been used as almost more of a slot receiver than a RB according to a lot of reports. Warren is also a very good receiving RB, and Johnson appears to be capable too. Jonnu Smith has been getting carries, and Conner Heyward has a lot of experience carrying out of the backfield too. Arthur Smith has already demonstrated a love for 12, 13, 22, and 23 personnel. I suspect that at the end of the season, the WR with the 2nd most targets will still be behind multiple TE’s and RB’s.
Reports are that Roman Wilson was struggling up until yesterday. Robert Woods and Scotty Miller are fine WR5/6 guys, but I don’t expect more than that. Skoronek is a borderline TE- I expect to see him get a lot of snaps as a blocker but not a lot of targets (similar to Van Jefferson last year), especially if Roman Wilson struggles. So that really just leaves Calvin Austin, who is probably a WR3 on most teams.
To be fair the battle between Austin and Wilson for snaps might still be the most interesting one on the roster. QB is pretty much a lock (QB3 slightly complicated by Will Howard’s hand injury, but I still expect the team to keep him and cut Thompson). The 5 starting o-linemen are locks, and none of the backups have done a ton to make a case for themselves (arguably they could still use a proper OT3). The top 3 RB’s and TE’s are all locks. The only questions left on offense are how they allocate across positions and make room for Special Teamers. WR6 vs TE4 vs FB1 vs RB4 for example.
Not a whole lot of questions on defense either. The D-line has the top-3 locked, and the top-5 basically locked. OLB has the top-4 locked. ILB has the top-4 locked. CB has the top-3 locked, and top-5 close to locked. Safety has the top-4 locked. So the battles are for things like DL6/7, OLB5, OLB5/6, CB6, Safety 5.
In general, there doesn’t seem to be a ton of competition for the Steelers this summer. The real battles are for guys who are fighting for helmets, fighting to justify carrying one position vs another for the sake of special teams value, or fighting for a helmet on game days.
Boswell is a lock as arguably the best kicker in the league, and Christian Kuntz seems like a lock a Long Snapper. So really the most exciting battle in camp might be for Punter between Waitman and Johnston.