I knew Dance Dance Revolution was good for something!

Puerto Rico

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I remember seeing an article years ago around 2000-2002 era. They claimed that the 56 retirement age was because of heart attacks and other stress/age related medical issues. Basically you don’t want Lesley Neilson having a heart attack while quipping jokes at you over the air.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

I thought we figured that out in 2020

California IS working on the HSR leg, it’s just taking longer than expected due to red tape. It’s going to open at some point though.

https://hsr.ca.gov/

To be fair, Algebra and Trig are mostly just stepping stones that are needed to understand Calculus. Calculus is the easy way to calculate curves, which you do instinctively. If you’ve ever thrown a ball, gone bowling, or driven a car you used calculus, just unknowingly, and, most likely, with poor precision.

What is the lower left one conveying?

In '41? We were sitting at home and selling EVERYBODY weapons. Staunchly refusing to get into the war. Again. For the second time ever. Right up until Dec, 8.

Or the last remaining black hole goes Big Bang. Either one could work.

I just noticed during my TA work that when most students were having issues in the more advanced maths, that their fundamental issue was a misunderstanding of fractions and decimals. Once I got them to understand how those two relate to each other, they started understand the rest of the math. The fractions in algebra are generally an entire term in the equation. The other issue that kids had was getting them to stop thinking literally about distinct numbers, and getting them to think about the concept of numbers.

I think the other guy was saying that calculus makes the mathematics of curves a whole lot simpler than algebra does, but that’s a weird way to describe that.

Having flirted with the education system of the US and having two parents with degrees in education, I can honestly and wholeheartedly say that I have no clue how to fix how math is taught in this country, just that the way we do it seems fundamentally broken right around 4th to 5th grade.

That’s only $20,000 a year. Did I set the joke salary too high?

I was quoting you. I am musically and artistically inclined. I wouldn’t call myself a musician, I’m just a proficient singer and can play at a performance level with almost every instrument. I’m also just a tech guy, not really a computer guy. Really I have spent the last 20 years making myself a jack of all trades and a master of a few.

I was mostly studying all that because I have ADD, and no one tried to stop me, lol. I keep doing it because books are free.

I suspect you’re better at math than you give yourself credit for. Most Americans that are “bad at math,” weren’t taught fractions properly and without that, none of the rest (Algebra, Trig, Calc, Number Theory, etc.) could possibly make any sense. Geometry is really the only mathematics that you can do without understanding fractions, and that makes sense since we were using Geometry to build buildings for millenia before anyone did a fraction to decimal conversion.

I was a musician, and math was my very worst subject

How? I majored in Music Education and Computer Science, and minored in Psychology and Physics. I did that specifically because I thought Music, Physics, and Computer Science were all just math. I was correct about the first two. I would call CS linguistics, not math. The psych explains how the first two are math.

Nothing. Forever.

Either that, or we find out that the oscillating universe theory was correct.

“What does that mean anyway?”

“I don’t know, but that’s not the point.”

Why? We don’t have enough work for the number of people that our work can sustain. Our ancestors literally dreamt of a time when the labor of a few could allow the leisure of the masses. We would be better served at this point addressing workaholic tendencies and refocusing that energy into something they actually enjoy doing.

Android is Google, not MS. Not much better.

Human shield, but your beneficiaries get the full 42 years of salary, at 26,322,500,000.00 Iranian Rial per year. Paid out yearly over the remaining years.

Is Junior more famous than Han?

It wouldn’t be enough. Sure you could use magnetic boots to keep you “attached,” to the outside of a magnetically affected spaceship’s outer hull, though I would imagine that with the lack of atmosphere and magnetic field to protect you from space radiation we may be inclined to use materials that aren’t necessarily magnetic in nature.

All that was to say, yes it would possibly work as a backup tether, but since nothing is pulling on the rest of your body it wouldn’t simulate gravity as much as simulate a tether rope that keeps you from floating away.

Inside the ship it is easier to pretend to be a parkour expert than having magnetic shoes.