i gotta respect someone that keeps the post up, and corrects themselves. i really try and do the same, even if i had put my foot in my mouth.
Yep. I have posted some really dumb shit, especially on Reddit. Just badly thought out or very fucked up on drink and drugs. Years ago I deleted them in embarrassment. Now I just let it ride.
Owning your mistakes is sexy as hell.
I admire his desire for knowledge even if his wisdom is somewhat lacking lol
Right? I know a lot of people who were subject to absolute educational neglect for their K-18. Some lean in, but others have questions.
ETA - and some days I smack myself on the forehead and realize something I should have known at age 8 but it just clicked now.
Isn’t it usually K-12? K-18 sounds like it includes a masters degree.
Lol yes.
I mean… my bachelors was largely neglectful tbh.. if I didn’t know what I wanted to learn and how to learn it, it would have been nothing more than an extension of k-12.
They will let just any old shitbag teach certain credits.. like my natural science 101 class, taught by a guy who bought into “organic is better”, “mindfulness will fix all your problems”, and various other pseudoscientific bullshit… such that my final essay (science is my auti special interest; I couldn’t ignore it..) was dedicated to pointing out each and every one of the pseudoscience claims he made in class which were demonstrably false (with citations). He initially gave me an A on the paper and then thought about how much I was insulting him and downgraded it to a C. That C was so worth getting. Fuck that guy. I learned more disproving his nonsense than I ever would have listening to him about anything..
But I also took a biostatistics course where the professor led by asserting creationism. Dropped that bitch right quick and complained to faculty about it (feel free to believe whatever nonsense you like, but I’m not paying tuition to hear your pet theories about thermodynamics proving creationism). Fortunately that was day two of the class, and still within time to drop. Unfortunately replacing that class fucked up my schedule for the semester big time.
And those are just two of a handful of issues with higher ed, and my school was actually one of the better for science curriculum… I started a masters program and dropped it when I got bad grades on papers for using accurate but simplified language (I’m a science communicator; using esoteric language is not something I do, even if I can easily do so. My life goal is to make science approachable for the masses, not a clusterfuck of specialized terminology that doesn’t even resemble the same term from another field)
I don't mean to shit on your education, but that story raises some red flags about the institution. Care to share it?
The University of Wisconsin system of schools is well known for being good for the sciences, while still being state colleges, and thus more affordable for average individuals, particularly residents of the state.
However, in pursuit of profits, some of their academic hiring decisions have been…. Unfortunate. I won’t name the specific school this occurred at as the problem occurs across the board for associate+/-lecturer positions. And it occurs in most states. Education as a whole in the US has been commodified, and thus reduced.
What kind of college level instructor changes a grade from an A to a C?
The kind who uses their platform to spread misinformation, in my experience. :)
He's a little confused, but he got the spirit
I admit I had to pause and think about it for a minute.
I think his knowledge was lacking, he did have wisdom to first put enough effort in searching for it and then once he realized, he admitted to it.
I had this one time when I looked at my hand and freaked out because I had 5 fingers when I expected 4.
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And the same goes for this comment too.
Meh, it's Lemmy. It's pretty one sided here.
There has been at least one person on lemmy who said they supported fascism
In a hospital I've been to, there is a skeleton poster by the MRI machine manufacturer (I think Siemens) smugly subtitled "without imaging techniques we wouldn't know". Apparently, it's not just internet randos who forget. Too bad I can't find it online.
To be fair, what if the entire skeleton drastically changes once you die? You can't prove it's NOT the case without an MRI.
Tho... What if an MRI causes the same changes as death...
Shrodingers skeleton
Sometimes you smoke the blunt, and sometimes, well, the blunt - it smokes you.
I once got banned from that subreddit for asking a question that was too stupid
That’s not very nice, there are no stupid questions; seeking knowledge isn’t stupid.
That said I am curious what the question was.
The question is right there - how did people in the middle ages know what skeletons looked like without x-ray machines?
No silly! The question asked by u/ntma ⬆️
I once got banned from that subreddit for asking a question that was too stupid
Well, they don’t have to be dead.
Nonlethal skeleton removal
Oh god
Marked safe from the skeleton press gang today!
Yes, and in middle ages they loved to torture and mutilate people
Just mostly dead
No one tell them.
In their defense, it is easy to forget about dead people, it's hard to remember all of them.
Strong disagree, there were far fewer dead people in those days, so remembering them all was a lot easier. Gen-M ‘sjust spoiled brats!
They just tried mortal kombat xray attack and then they knew it was that way
In toasty we trust
I wanna see Ryan George make a video about the first human to ever look inside another human.
Either Sam O'Nella od Bluejay did a video and one part was about some Greek "scientist" who did live vivisections of humans in Egypt. Can't google right now, so someone pls correct me.
Pretty sure it was Bluejay; I saw it not all that long ago as a recent upload and Sam hasn't posted in months.
Dead or alive?
It's funny to imagine 'another human' amazed, wide eyes looking at his insides (also realising his boner is boneless),
I forgor 💀
Straight from bored panda after they stole it from reddit. This meme has legs!
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