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SubmarineClub
·вчера·discuss
I don’t know…I think even if someone was really interested in something like organic chemistry or biochem, unless they had a very very abnormal memory they’d get wrecked on an exam without studying.

I used SRS when studying for OChem and got the highest grade across all sections my prof was teaching.
SubmarineClub
·вчера·discuss
You know you can just…create Anki cards with sentences, right?

Anki doesn’t force you to make cards with vocab words in isolation.
SubmarineClub
·5 дней назад·discuss
Probably because most people realize that it’s a horribly unpleasant way to go about it?
SubmarineClub
·12 дней назад·discuss
> idea of a representative democracy is rooted in the technical difficulties of implementing a direct democracy

In the US at least, no it is not. The founders were incredibly concerned about the ‘passions of the mob’ and deliberately built a system that they hoped would temper the excesses of the public.

And after seeing the wacko stuff going on in California, I can’t blame them!
SubmarineClub
·15 дней назад·discuss
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SubmarineClub
·16 дней назад·discuss
> I’m in LA

Oh gee, who’d imagine you’d be able to find a decent baker in in LA?

Always hilarious how people in LA/NYC assume that obviously the experience of living in one of the largest cities in the country applies to the whole of the country.
SubmarineClub
·16 дней назад·discuss
Because normal people are using the term as a short-hand.

It doesn’t seem especially useful to lump everyone from coffee drinkers to people using antibiotics to people shooting up fentanyl all together, so I don’t really see the point in insisting on such a literal use of the the term.
SubmarineClub
·17 дней назад·discuss
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SubmarineClub
·19 дней назад·discuss
Why shouldn’t we judge people for dumbass consumer behavior/ interests?

Disney Adults are fucking weird and I’m not ashamed about saying it.
SubmarineClub
·22 дня назад·discuss
> poor souls you're choosing to ignore

And why exactly should I give a fuck about people who are trying to bother and inconvenience me?
SubmarineClub
·22 дня назад·discuss
No, it’s because city politics in the US are dominated by naive bleeding-heart type leftists who are willing to overlook any and all forms of antisocial behavior if it’s committed by a poor and/minority individual.
SubmarineClub
·22 дня назад·discuss
Idk why you screeching AI touts are so confident about its ‘wild’ success in all areas given absolutely zero evidence to that effect.

It’s tiresome.
SubmarineClub
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
You do realize that basically all those fancy ‘exotic asset’ classes underperform the S&P 500, right?
SubmarineClub
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
And the money to pay for all those retirees comes from…where?
SubmarineClub
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> Say the 40-year-old millennials who were exposed to the Wild West of internet content as children and are still fine.

Prior to college, my only computer was the crappy family pc in a corner of the living room. Only had a flip-phone until college too.

That’s a completely different world than kids growing up glued to smartphones, and screens generally, from elementary school.
SubmarineClub
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Except evidence does not show that there are many more people trying and failing for kids as in past decades, so much as more people are delaying partnering up and having kids till later and later, along with many opting to be childless.

And most fertility issues people do encounter can primarily be explained by attempting to have children decades later than is biologically optimal.
SubmarineClub
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> There’s projections that college student populations will have shrinking male population.

We're well past that. In fact, the gender gap in college graduation is now worse than it was when Title IX was passed. But because the gap favors women no one gives a shit -- many 'progressives' even celebrate it and continue to insist we need all these programs specifically to get women into college.
SubmarineClub
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> It turns out that when you level the playing field, girls do better than boys.

Why is it that when boys/men where outperforming and out-earning women, people were willing to move heaven and earth to correct this terrible injustice, but now when outcomes have reversed (for years at this point) it's considered acceptable to say "Welp, that's just how it goes. Boys just aren't good enough."

Hmmm...almost like, it's not a level playing field??
SubmarineClub
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
I imagine it’ll be quite socially stratified - upper-middle class parents will be giving their kids dumbphones and keeping them off social media, possibly sending them to ‘tech-free’ schools, while poorer parents won’t.
SubmarineClub
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
? Who are you to say they deserve more than that.