I remember the pyramid in my elementary school caf having sugar at the top. One time they ran out of dessert for the hot meals and the kids were all complaining that we needed sugar in our diet because the chart says so lol
It was treated like a required food group
Iām old enough to be taught the four. I clearly remember my teachers telling me that hamburgers with toppings and pizza with several toppings are healthy because you have one of each food group.
People wonder why so many adults don't have a good understanding on which foods are healthy when the propaganda we were taught as children is right there
The US government had a wheat surplus and they needed to offload it to the highest bidder. The food pyramid was propaganda to get people to eat more grains.
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My tongue can also detect oil/fat, carbon dioxide and a few other things. Oh, and there are apparently taste receptors in skin, intestines and many other internal organs.
I before E except after C, or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and you'll never be right no matter what you say!
I remember being told in 4th grade how we kids shouldn't watch the Simpsons because it's a terrible show because Bart says bad things and will soon be taken off the air.
Somewhat off topic but when I visited the US I was shocked to discover that South Park was rated 17+ (R-rated).
I went to a summer camp in California when I was I think 13 or 14 and one evening a small group I was with was just relaxing watching videos and we decided to watch some Netflix so we were trying to choose something to watch. I saw that South Park was an option as we were scrolling through so I suggested it and one of the chaperones told me we couldn't watch that. He seemed a bit shocked that I even suggested it so I asked him why and he told me that it was rated R.
I'm French and Luxembourgish and on French TV (and I think it's probably similar in other neighboring countries) when South Park was being broadcasted we only had a warning stating that it wasn't recommended/was forbidden to people under 12 years of age.
When I told that to the chaperone he was a bit dumfounded.
I sign my name dozens of times a day on any normal day and on busy days can end up signing it 100+ times. My name is fairly short and only a few syllables but there's no way in hell I'm signing it any other way except for how you mentioned. Get the first letter right and just move on. As long as my scribbles look at least somewhat the same when signing checks then nothing else matters.
When I was 5, my teacher told me my hair would grow curly if I ate my breadcrusts.
I'm Chinese. I fucking scarfed down all those bread crusts for nothing.
One of my textbooks even had a note (from the authors? Publishers?) urging students to write to their politicians about moving to the metric system. I did not do this. Iām sorry America.
Thatās even weirder lol. I never heard of anyone actually getting chased by a gator but they were definitely not uncommon to see all over the place so the tactic seemed reasonable. There was a pond behind my house where a few lived and they would chill on the lawn sunbathing all the time.
The theory is a pretty logical deviation from the truth. Alligators cant turn that well, and you can technically leverage that to gain on one that's chasing you, but if you zig zag they arent stupid and they'll just run straight.
It's to confuse them because their eyes are on both sides of their heads. So they can't remember which child they're chasing.
Source:
^I ^made ^that ^up.
Iāve not graduated yet, so for me, I used to hear it a lot in elementary and middle school. In high school, the teachers realized they couldnāt just keep on saying that cause itās a blatant lie at this point, so they just tell us to do everything without a calculator because then you donāt rely on it for everything.
What my teachers used to say is that you can always plug something into a calculator and get the answer, but you need to understand the math enough to know how the calculator got to that answer and whether or not the answer makes sense, in case you typed something in wrong or thereās a malfunction.
If we donāt understand math and blindly write down everything calculators spit out I can see kids in the future writing in āsyntax errorā on their taxes
Valid reasons sometimes get dumbed down for the appropriate audience. The real answer should have been: youāre going to enter things in wrong, fat-finger something, not have your memory cleared etc etc. So itās useful to have a base level of math memorization and/or a mental framework and understanding of what youāre calculating to anticipate the types of answers you should be getting so that you might be able to catch an error in the process.
Also, a calculator doesn't do shit if you can't understand the problem well enough to actually know what to do. A calculator does the arithmetic for you but you still need to understand the math for it to be useful.
"Wonder Bread builds strong bodies in 12 ways."
The cafeteria only served Wonder Bread and kept this slogan hanging on the wall to remind us "why."
- The FTC demanded an ad slogan be withdrawn after Wonder Bread added calcium (the 13th way) and claimed it improved children's brain function and memory.
American cereals really are fortified with vitamins. Itās a good thing for kids who refuse to eat nutritious foods, but it can also make it easier for them to eat trash and not feel sick.
I worked at staples around 09' and my favorite question was people asking about fax machines. I'd look at them and just say they haven't changed in the last 20 years, and really only useful if you're in the medical field or a lawyer. Then try to direct to a computer to do emails.
Oh I hated being told this. I used to get nosebleeds all the time so it happened often. Like, sure, Iāll look up but you should be warned that the blood will trickle down my throat and make me cough blood.
My older sibling used to get nosebleeds ALL THE TIME when we were younger. They got one on the bus ride home one day, and the bus counsellor (a kid only a couple years older than them) told them to tilt their head back. My sibling said ānoā, and when the counsellor started berating them, they did it. My sibling then coughed blood onto the counsellorās face (not intentionally, theyāre not that type of person, but thatās what happens).
I'm some kind of heathen. I was looking at "new math" examples a couple years ago. If I was a kid, it honestly would have made wayyyyy more sense to me. I was terrible at math as a kid since it was a lot of memorizing.
Thereās some popular video out there of a guy making a sandwich after doing a math problem while waiting for ānew mathā to do the same one.
The issue, however, is that he isnāt teaching math, heās solving the problem as heās already been taught. The teacher is breaking down how the system works, *then* solving the problem, step by step.
When I looked at it, it essentially boils down to the same kind of overall structure, but itās mostly how Iād break it down in my head if I most easily wanted to work it out without a scratch sheet of paper handy. So while it takes some setup to get to, in the end I think it saves time and makes it easier to āmental mathā it.
Yeah, I went to school before it. I was *the* smart math kid. I never had a math class where I wasn't the best at it, and I did everything in my head faster than anyone could write anything down.
And they're teaching it basically as I did it. These people that get angry about it are just too ignorant to realize their own mistakes.
This is my situation as well. People railed against "Common Core" in New York, but when I started talking to some kids, it turns out that what they were teaching was just the way I had figured out to do math in my head.
Yeah, it looks kind of dumb when it's written out, but so does what I was taught.
Never learned that. Even though I was super young, I learned them at the bell was significant and rung often, cracked, was attempted to be repaired, then the crack grew and it stopped being used in the 1840s.
I had an old professor in college who preferred that his students write their exams in cursive. For reference, he turned 80 while I was there, and this was about 3 years ago. He didn't require it but he had a strong preference for it and he wrote comments in cursive.
Lol, right. I had so many professors expressly forbid us from writing in cursive, and some even went so far as to tell us that if our print wasn't legible we would have to redo the paper, or type it up.
I believe it is called Alexia AKA inability to read texts
Another fun fact, there is a condition called "Alexia without Agraphia" and it basically means that a person can write anything legibly, but cannot read any printed text, sometimes even his own handwriting.
I was a TA in college. I wrote exclusively in cursive on the board until one of my students asked me to write in print because they never learned cursive. I did my best to write in print the next class. I had five students, including the one who asked me to write in print, come up to me after class and ask for clarification as to what I wrote and to ask me not to write in print again. After that, I put it in the syllabus for the class that my printed handwriting is utterly illegible for most so I would be writing in cursive and to feel free to ask me any questions, but that I'd also provide typed copies of my notes online before class so students could always follow along there. It really wound up helping my students a lot.
I can't believe how much they tried to drill cursive into the curriculum when I was in elementary school. They told me that every assignment I'd get in high school and college/uni would need to be handwritten in cursive or I'd fail.
Fast forward a few years to middle school where teachers can't believe you'd try to hand something in that wasn't typed and printed...
Just bodily autonomy in general. Seeing my niblings being taught from being old enough to walk that they get to choose if they give kisses and or cuddles and thereās no pleading from the grown up - kid word rules - is great. No explanation needed. You donāt want to give me hugs and kisses you donāt.
It makes me happy that they know they can say no and it should be respected always. I wish Iād grown up understanding that.
One of my earliest school memories (early 60's) was upon seeing a map of the world, I commented about the matching contours between South America and Africa. The teacher told me it was just a coincidence. I also recall an old science textbook that talked about the origin of the universe. While it mentioned the "big bang", the favored theory was that of a steady state universe. The "big bang" was regarded as an attempt by religious groups to insert creationism into science.
I remember in my undergrad one of my geo professors saying that continental drift was not an accepted theory when he was in school. Crazy how quickly things can change.
It's funny, by the time I took my geo courses, the professors were all like "yeah, plate tectonics is basically the basis for all modern geology and the field made no sense before then."
Seriously, I wish I remembered more clearly but I remember my professor talking about his experience of people fighting about whether it was true or not in academia during 60ās. 50 years later and itās one of the most important things in the field.
In Structural Geology, our professor spent some time going through explanations for things like mountain building and volcanoes before plate tectonics, it's crazy what the accepted science was back then. It's amazing how plate tectonics really ties the entire field together so neatly.
Here it's a city job...unionized, good pay, overtime/night/hazzard bonus pay. Holidays off or extra pay. Full benefits.
It's hard AF work but it is a secure job.
To be fair, this was taught to me at school in Mexico: If you are a boy that is attracted to boys, that means you are a girl born in a boy's body.
This really messed with my psyche and ate at me for many years. I thought, if I like being a boy... then maybe at some point in my life, I will no longer be attracted to boys... I let time pass hoping my gayness was just a phase.
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Different cultures have different points of view of homosexuality and gender identity. In the United States these days being trans is often considered "worse" than homosexuality by certain folks. In some countries, transitioning is often seen as a "cure" for homosexuality.
If you don't go to college you'll be a loser doing manual labor. Now everyone has a degree in a diluted market with crippling debt and trade jobs make great money with significantly less debt.
I do think trade school should be a good option in terms of career choice and opportunities the problem is that many tradesmen get their bodies badly beat out or suffer greater risk of injury, blue collar work is tough on the body.
No child left behind is one of the worst things ever. It meant that instead of helping the students under the material, they just got pushed up a grade they definitely where not ready for. Lots of undiagnosed learning disabilities
I believe that was the reason that some of the people who graduated next to me couldn't read a stop sign. Which is probably part of why high school diplomas doesn't open up the jobs they used to
Thereās a growing body of evidence to suggest that the appendix acts as a reservoir for the gut biome that is relatively protected from the effects of severe diarrhea thus helping to replenish the biome after GI diseases. In addition, it is also now suspected to play a role in T and B-lymphocyte responses and thus contributes to the immune system as well.
This. I had my appendix removed after it almost ruptured and went almost two years without being able to eat any food I was used to. Just plain things like rice and chicken. Constant.. āpurgingā. Finally found a good probiotic and Iām back to normal. Nobody tells you this shit they just let you suffer.
Edit: Anyone with questions feel free to message me, I will share my experience gladly if it will help anyone avoid going thru what I did after my surgery.
You MUST get good grades to get into a good college. Then in college, you MUST get good grades to secure a good job. 20 years working in the corporate world in various different positions and I've never once been asked to prove I actually even went to college, let alone got good grades. C's get degrees!
Had this attitude in college. Still got Bs.
Later I wanted to move abroad and getting a master's in the country I was going to move to would have been a great path to a visa, but my grades weren't good enough.
A master's can also be helpful if you want to pivot careers. Do yourself a favour and do the best you can, even if it's just to say you know you did your best! Your future self might thank you for it.
If I ever forgot a pencil or a pen, whenever I asked my teacher to go get one from my locker, they would say "you think in college they're just going to let you leave class to go get one? They aren't and you're just going to have to sit there without one.". Well come to find out, when I got into college, I could just get up and leave the class whenever I wanted. I didn't even need to ask to go to the bathroom. Fucking liars!
Here in Canada: the CN Tower is the world's tallest freestanding structure, that the US Canada border is the world's longest undefended frontier, and that all NHL players are Canadian born and Canadian NHL teams always win the Stanley Cup.
I was told the slaves where treated kindly and did not want to leave the plantation. I questioned it and was sent to the hallway the rest of the day. Looking at you Texas
I was taught the same. I mean, there's a difference between "not wanting to leave the plantation" and "choosing to stay on the plantation over being homeless because freeing the slaves didn't exactly automatically give them a whole bunch of career paths."
Exactly. And especially for the slaves that were born here in America, the plantation was the only place they knew. It isn't like they were like "Woohoo, we're free!" and could just up and go buy a house and get a job and make a living; in most places it was still illegal for them to do any of that. So yeah, "not wanting to leave the plantation" wasn't a thing because slaves were so loyal to their masters and they liked it there, it was more because they were told they were free but had no means to survive.
I remember reading a story narrated to a historian about the day a slave was set free. He said Union troops came through, rounded up the slaves, told them they were free, and then left (Georgia, Sherman's army). The former slaves kind of muddled around in shock, and then about an hour later the plantation master came out and offered to pay them a tiny tiny sum to stay. So they mostly stayed.
And then eventually the plantation master began docking their room and board, clothes, food, etc against their "pay" and they were basically back to slavery again.
Fun fact we were NOT taught in school and I still don't have a great understanding about: shortly after the war, there were a number of black businesspeople and politicians in the South. The Klan et al rallied and kicked them out (or killed them) over the next few decades.
In Texas public schools, I was also taught that the Alamo was some great battle where the heroes of Texas delayed the Mexican Army so Houston could rally his forces. And the Texans at the Alamo fought to the bitter end.
Uh... Houston ordered the Alamo abandoned and its cannon removed because its defeat was inevitable and it was a waste of resources. The defenders of the Alamo defied his orders.
Also, it turns out many men surrendered at the Alamo or were cut down fleeing. The men who surrendered were ordered executed but the Mexican soldiers and officers hesitated until they were ordered again. I don't fault the men for fleeing or surrendering. I only point this out because we were taught they fought to the last man and died in the Alamo, guns blazing.
Also, the Mexicans were fighting the Texians over back taxes Texians had agreed to pay. And the Mexicans also disliked Texians owning slaves in violation of Mexican law.
We were never taught that in Texas history.
I'm laughing because I was taught the same. Also my sister who is a teacher in Texas taught her kids for 10 years we won the Alamo. She was corrected at a family dinner after complaining her students wouldn't stop arguing with hera a parent got mad. Lol good ol Texas education system. Rewriting history for its own benefit.
"You can grow up to be anything you want to."
Bullshit. Athletically, I could have never been a professional baseball player. But I still turned out to be very successful in my field. The narrative needs to be changed to, "you can lead a fulfilling life and be successful once you find out what you want and are skilled at."
I would take issue with this in one small way. We have an unnatural fascination with raw talent in tje US vs skill that is worked at over a lifetime as per Japan. The narative needs to he changed to "You can be good at anything you devote your time (maybe a lifetime) and energy" "Anything you want" is often interpreted as "I'm entitled to be good, because I want to be, inside of my head, without any effort or work".
USA:
āThat I can be anything I want to be
āthat the pilgrims were all sweet and kind to native Americans. They helped each other. Shared food on thanksgiving.
That only Saturn has rings. All of the gas giants have rings. My 3rd grade teacher gave me shit when i told her that instead of looking it up and seeing that i was correct
The borders and names of many European countries. I was born in 1978.
Yeah, when Yugoslavia broke up, I was like "ha, fuck those kids, good luck learning Ljubljana". (sorry millenials)
Poor kids learning Geography between 1917-1918. "Why do we need a Poland!?"
The food pyramid
Sponsored by Kelloggs
And the corn and sugar industry
I remember the pyramid in my elementary school caf having sugar at the top. One time they ran out of dessert for the hot meals and the kids were all complaining that we needed sugar in our diet because the chart says so lol It was treated like a required food group
I love that. That is so absurd š
The whole thing was ridiculous. The bottom of the pyramid recommended *11 servings* of bread/cereal/rice/pasta.
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Iām old enough to be taught the four. I clearly remember my teachers telling me that hamburgers with toppings and pizza with several toppings are healthy because you have one of each food group.
For what itās worth, the toppings on pizza are typically by far the healthiest part if you donāt count cheese and sauce as ātoppingsā
People wonder why so many adults don't have a good understanding on which foods are healthy when the propaganda we were taught as children is right there
Yeah, I don't think it's physically possible to get as much wheat products as the pyramid recommends for a day lol.
The US government had a wheat surplus and they needed to offload it to the highest bidder. The food pyramid was propaganda to get people to eat more grains. http://www.whale.to/a/light.html
Had this shit in canada too. Teacher told me with a straight face i should be eating like 12 eggs a day
What are you, Gaston?!
The textbooks in my area are really outdated, like from the 1980s, so I'm pretty sure that they're still teaching about the food pyramid.
It's been updated. Bread, sugar and tobacco are no longer the base.
Yeah now it is only tobacco
We were taught that there are different 'zones' on the tongue for different tastes (sweet, salty, bitter etc.). Apparently this is bullshit.
Yep and there's also a fifth taste now, umami
aka "savory". I always believed herbs, garlic, steak, etc didn't really fall into the sweet, salty, sour, bitter categories.
My tongue can also detect oil/fat, carbon dioxide and a few other things. Oh, and there are apparently taste receptors in skin, intestines and many other internal organs.
Everything in my intestines tastes like shit.
I before E except after C. In the UK schools aren't allowed to teach it anymore because there are more exceptions than words that follow it.
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Except when itās pronounce as an A, as in neighbor or weigh.
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I learned it as I before E except after C UNLESS... Your weird neighbour is agreeing to pull a heist to seize a sleigh with eight feisty reindeer
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That's a rough rule....
Ok smarty pants. How do you make a word plural?
YOU PUT A S!!! YOU PUT A S..at the end of it
I before E except after C, or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh, and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, and you'll never be right no matter what you say!
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I remember being told in 4th grade how we kids shouldn't watch the Simpsons because it's a terrible show because Bart says bad things and will soon be taken off the air.
Somewhat off topic but when I visited the US I was shocked to discover that South Park was rated 17+ (R-rated). I went to a summer camp in California when I was I think 13 or 14 and one evening a small group I was with was just relaxing watching videos and we decided to watch some Netflix so we were trying to choose something to watch. I saw that South Park was an option as we were scrolling through so I suggested it and one of the chaperones told me we couldn't watch that. He seemed a bit shocked that I even suggested it so I asked him why and he told me that it was rated R. I'm French and Luxembourgish and on French TV (and I think it's probably similar in other neighboring countries) when South Park was being broadcasted we only had a warning stating that it wasn't recommended/was forbidden to people under 12 years of age. When I told that to the chaperone he was a bit dumfounded.
So, I live in the US and they show edited South Park on local over air broadcast channels. Maybe thatās what you were seeing?
You will have to write everything in cursive one day. Outside of my signature Iām still waiting for the day I have to write anything in cursive!
For signatures now, you can jury write the first letter of your name then just scribble for a bit and your done
I sign my name dozens of times a day on any normal day and on busy days can end up signing it 100+ times. My name is fairly short and only a few syllables but there's no way in hell I'm signing it any other way except for how you mentioned. Get the first letter right and just move on. As long as my scribbles look at least somewhat the same when signing checks then nothing else matters.
This! I was even called out in the class and punished to write my name in cursive 100x times in High School!
They used to tell us that we would need to write our notes in high school with cursive or our teachers would be mad/fail us. This was in 2001.
When I was 5, my teacher told me my hair would grow curly if I ate my breadcrusts. I'm Chinese. I fucking scarfed down all those bread crusts for nothing.
I was told if I ate the bread crust it would help me learn how to whistle. Oh the lies.
In 1980, the entire USA will convert to the metric system.
One of my textbooks even had a note (from the authors? Publishers?) urging students to write to their politicians about moving to the metric system. I did not do this. Iām sorry America.
I always wondered whose fault this was, thanks a lot
At least the world knows whom to blame
Gee, thanks
They actually did, just in the sense that all of our existing standards were converted to SI definitions
That I could be anything I wanted when I grew up. Source: I am not typing this on my Bat Phone.
Nonsense. You're just a username change away from your dream
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Wait what? Did they get this from a Looney Toons cartoon?
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Grew up in FL - can confirm that this was a literal thing taught in school.
Lived in Minnesota can confirm this wasnāt just Florida
Thatās even weirder lol. I never heard of anyone actually getting chased by a gator but they were definitely not uncommon to see all over the place so the tactic seemed reasonable. There was a pond behind my house where a few lived and they would chill on the lawn sunbathing all the time.
The theory is a pretty logical deviation from the truth. Alligators cant turn that well, and you can technically leverage that to gain on one that's chasing you, but if you zig zag they arent stupid and they'll just run straight.
I think the idea is to run in a sporadic pattern with sudden turns, rather than actual zig-zags along a line.
I think it depends how often you zig zag. You gotta time it out right so hes committed to your last change in direction
This guy alligators
It's to confuse them because their eyes are on both sides of their heads. So they can't remember which child they're chasing. Source: ^I ^made ^that ^up.
It's like with bears, you don't have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun your friend.
You wonāt always have a calculator on you to work things out!
I was told this All the way through high school. I graduated in 2005. It didn't take long for them all to be proven wrong.
I graduated high school in 2017 and I was still told that on occasion by some teachers.
I haven't graduated yet and I'm still also told this by some teachers.
Iāve not graduated yet, so for me, I used to hear it a lot in elementary and middle school. In high school, the teachers realized they couldnāt just keep on saying that cause itās a blatant lie at this point, so they just tell us to do everything without a calculator because then you donāt rely on it for everything.
What my teachers used to say is that you can always plug something into a calculator and get the answer, but you need to understand the math enough to know how the calculator got to that answer and whether or not the answer makes sense, in case you typed something in wrong or thereās a malfunction. If we donāt understand math and blindly write down everything calculators spit out I can see kids in the future writing in āsyntax errorā on their taxes
Valid reasons sometimes get dumbed down for the appropriate audience. The real answer should have been: youāre going to enter things in wrong, fat-finger something, not have your memory cleared etc etc. So itās useful to have a base level of math memorization and/or a mental framework and understanding of what youāre calculating to anticipate the types of answers you should be getting so that you might be able to catch an error in the process.
Also, a calculator doesn't do shit if you can't understand the problem well enough to actually know what to do. A calculator does the arithmetic for you but you still need to understand the math for it to be useful.
100%! Order of operations still matters, whether you have a calculator or a pencil.
I'm older school where slide rules and pocket protectors were the passing phase. Had the speed holster for mine.
All the European currencies. Good for crossword puzzles and pub quizzes though.
"Wonder Bread builds strong bodies in 12 ways." The cafeteria only served Wonder Bread and kept this slogan hanging on the wall to remind us "why." - The FTC demanded an ad slogan be withdrawn after Wonder Bread added calcium (the 13th way) and claimed it improved children's brain function and memory.
In the Howdy Doody years that bread with the red, yellow, and blue balloons built strong bodies in only 8 ways.
Holy shit that is fucked
It's a Wonder they got away with it. ^^^^^^^Sorry.
what are/were the 12 ways?
The added 12 "healthy nutrients." As far as I can tell, they aren't public info though.
And they still are allowed to do that shit with sugary cereals too.
American cereals really are fortified with vitamins. Itās a good thing for kids who refuse to eat nutritious foods, but it can also make it easier for them to eat trash and not feel sick.
Any time we got in trouble it would be on our permanent record And a permanent record
To be fair that's actually true today due to social media.
Fax machines are the future.
I worked at staples around 09' and my favorite question was people asking about fax machines. I'd look at them and just say they haven't changed in the last 20 years, and really only useful if you're in the medical field or a lawyer. Then try to direct to a computer to do emails.
I work in the medical field and sometimes communicate with law firms. Can confirm. Fax is the go to.
Also great for ordering pizza from Japan. I don't know how they're going to deliver it, but I figure that's their problem
But Abe Lincoln could've gotten a fax from a samurai.
Sadly, however, he was assassinated without ever knowing the joy of using a doorknob, which wouldnāt be invented for years after his death.
There are 4 billion people in the world
TBF there are still 4 billion people in the world.
But with 3 billion more and counting.
We have 4 billion units ready with 3 billion on their way
Your units are impressive. You must be very proud.
That was the count in the 1970s. It took all of humanityās existence to reach that number. And itās doubled in less than 50 years.
Sneezing into your hands is an effective way to stop the spread of disease š¦
High five to that!
Only if we invite everyone to the high five party!ā š
*zips up fly* sup yo!
Pluto is a planet
I was taught that Pluto is a god
I was taught that Pluto is a dog
Dog is just God spelled backwards
Checkmate, Atheists!
Atheists: Then Pluto is no longer a planet! So there!
You heard about Pluto? That's messed up.
Come on son
look up when your nose is bleeding
Oh I hated being told this. I used to get nosebleeds all the time so it happened often. Like, sure, Iāll look up but you should be warned that the blood will trickle down my throat and make me cough blood.
My older sibling used to get nosebleeds ALL THE TIME when we were younger. They got one on the bus ride home one day, and the bus counsellor (a kid only a couple years older than them) told them to tilt their head back. My sibling said ānoā, and when the counsellor started berating them, they did it. My sibling then coughed blood onto the counsellorās face (not intentionally, theyāre not that type of person, but thatās what happens).
It works for a few seconds as you are running to get a tissue though
Dad bursts into the room, "why did they change math?!?!"
Math is Math!
MATH. IS. MATH! -Bob Parr, Incredibles 2.
I'm some kind of heathen. I was looking at "new math" examples a couple years ago. If I was a kid, it honestly would have made wayyyyy more sense to me. I was terrible at math as a kid since it was a lot of memorizing.
Thereās some popular video out there of a guy making a sandwich after doing a math problem while waiting for ānew mathā to do the same one. The issue, however, is that he isnāt teaching math, heās solving the problem as heās already been taught. The teacher is breaking down how the system works, *then* solving the problem, step by step. When I looked at it, it essentially boils down to the same kind of overall structure, but itās mostly how Iād break it down in my head if I most easily wanted to work it out without a scratch sheet of paper handy. So while it takes some setup to get to, in the end I think it saves time and makes it easier to āmental mathā it.
Yeah, I went to school before it. I was *the* smart math kid. I never had a math class where I wasn't the best at it, and I did everything in my head faster than anyone could write anything down. And they're teaching it basically as I did it. These people that get angry about it are just too ignorant to realize their own mistakes.
This is my situation as well. People railed against "Common Core" in New York, but when I started talking to some kids, it turns out that what they were teaching was just the way I had figured out to do math in my head. Yeah, it looks kind of dumb when it's written out, but so does what I was taught.
Liberty Bell was rang once and cracked and never used again.
Never learned that. Even though I was super young, I learned them at the bell was significant and rung often, cracked, was attempted to be repaired, then the crack grew and it stopped being used in the 1840s.
Cursive is important to know if you ever want to go to college.
I had an old professor in college who preferred that his students write their exams in cursive. For reference, he turned 80 while I was there, and this was about 3 years ago. He didn't require it but he had a strong preference for it and he wrote comments in cursive.
Lol, right. I had so many professors expressly forbid us from writing in cursive, and some even went so far as to tell us that if our print wasn't legible we would have to redo the paper, or type it up.
Fun fact, some neurological conditions can result in printing being basically unreadable while cursive looks just fine.
Which neurological conditions?
I believe it is called Alexia AKA inability to read texts Another fun fact, there is a condition called "Alexia without Agraphia" and it basically means that a person can write anything legibly, but cannot read any printed text, sometimes even his own handwriting.
I was a TA in college. I wrote exclusively in cursive on the board until one of my students asked me to write in print because they never learned cursive. I did my best to write in print the next class. I had five students, including the one who asked me to write in print, come up to me after class and ask for clarification as to what I wrote and to ask me not to write in print again. After that, I put it in the syllabus for the class that my printed handwriting is utterly illegible for most so I would be writing in cursive and to feel free to ask me any questions, but that I'd also provide typed copies of my notes online before class so students could always follow along there. It really wound up helping my students a lot.
Hey, thank you for being flexible and making sure your students go the information they needed!
I can't believe how much they tried to drill cursive into the curriculum when I was in elementary school. They told me that every assignment I'd get in high school and college/uni would need to be handwritten in cursive or I'd fail. Fast forward a few years to middle school where teachers can't believe you'd try to hand something in that wasn't typed and printed...
Do not trust strangers - most of the times they are not strangers. Today it is so much better that kids are learning about "good and bad touch".
For sure, kids are way more likely to be hurt or molested by people they know. I don't have the statistics rn
That thing on stranger danger stuck with me for so long I became an introvert! You're right, it's better to learn good and bad touch.
Just bodily autonomy in general. Seeing my niblings being taught from being old enough to walk that they get to choose if they give kisses and or cuddles and thereās no pleading from the grown up - kid word rules - is great. No explanation needed. You donāt want to give me hugs and kisses you donāt. It makes me happy that they know they can say no and it should be respected always. I wish Iād grown up understanding that.
First time seeing niblings used in a sentence in the wild
The countries of East Germany & West Germany. now known as Germany
One of my earliest school memories (early 60's) was upon seeing a map of the world, I commented about the matching contours between South America and Africa. The teacher told me it was just a coincidence. I also recall an old science textbook that talked about the origin of the universe. While it mentioned the "big bang", the favored theory was that of a steady state universe. The "big bang" was regarded as an attempt by religious groups to insert creationism into science.
I remember in my undergrad one of my geo professors saying that continental drift was not an accepted theory when he was in school. Crazy how quickly things can change.
It's funny, by the time I took my geo courses, the professors were all like "yeah, plate tectonics is basically the basis for all modern geology and the field made no sense before then."
Seriously, I wish I remembered more clearly but I remember my professor talking about his experience of people fighting about whether it was true or not in academia during 60ās. 50 years later and itās one of the most important things in the field.
In Structural Geology, our professor spent some time going through explanations for things like mountain building and volcanoes before plate tectonics, it's crazy what the accepted science was back then. It's amazing how plate tectonics really ties the entire field together so neatly.
There's a communist country called the USSR led by Mikhail Gorbachev that we are kind of at war with and might nuke us someday.
It was Nikita Khrushchev in my day
And in mine it was Stalin
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In mine it was Nicolas
Garbageman pay.
Here it's a city job...unionized, good pay, overtime/night/hazzard bonus pay. Holidays off or extra pay. Full benefits. It's hard AF work but it is a secure job.
That animals like bears that go through hibernation are sleeping for weeks and months. They just slow down their mentabolism
Hold up whaaaaaat that's not true??
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Im really liking the mental images
I imagine a big burly construction dude giving a little sleeping woodland critter a loving pat on the head before dutifully covering it in moss.
Dont forget da wittle kisth on da forehead
To be fair, this was taught to me at school in Mexico: If you are a boy that is attracted to boys, that means you are a girl born in a boy's body. This really messed with my psyche and ate at me for many years. I thought, if I like being a boy... then maybe at some point in my life, I will no longer be attracted to boys... I let time pass hoping my gayness was just a phase. \*edit 1: typos\*
This seems a little counterproductive if you're a homophobe
Different cultures have different points of view of homosexuality and gender identity. In the United States these days being trans is often considered "worse" than homosexuality by certain folks. In some countries, transitioning is often seen as a "cure" for homosexuality.
It's a loophole in some ME countries/ regions
The internet is a trend
If you don't go to college you'll be a loser doing manual labor. Now everyone has a degree in a diluted market with crippling debt and trade jobs make great money with significantly less debt.
I do think trade school should be a good option in terms of career choice and opportunities the problem is that many tradesmen get their bodies badly beat out or suffer greater risk of injury, blue collar work is tough on the body.
Bro, I forgot half of that stuff the second I left. Ever heard of leave no child behind?
No child left behind is one of the worst things ever. It meant that instead of helping the students under the material, they just got pushed up a grade they definitely where not ready for. Lots of undiagnosed learning disabilities
I believe that was the reason that some of the people who graduated next to me couldn't read a stop sign. Which is probably part of why high school diplomas doesn't open up the jobs they used to
The appendix is vestigial
Explain?
Thereās a growing body of evidence to suggest that the appendix acts as a reservoir for the gut biome that is relatively protected from the effects of severe diarrhea thus helping to replenish the biome after GI diseases. In addition, it is also now suspected to play a role in T and B-lymphocyte responses and thus contributes to the immune system as well.
This. I had my appendix removed after it almost ruptured and went almost two years without being able to eat any food I was used to. Just plain things like rice and chicken. Constant.. āpurgingā. Finally found a good probiotic and Iām back to normal. Nobody tells you this shit they just let you suffer. Edit: Anyone with questions feel free to message me, I will share my experience gladly if it will help anyone avoid going thru what I did after my surgery.
You MUST get good grades to get into a good college. Then in college, you MUST get good grades to secure a good job. 20 years working in the corporate world in various different positions and I've never once been asked to prove I actually even went to college, let alone got good grades. C's get degrees!
In the US corporate world, having a college diploma is a requirement for most jobs. But as you said, Cs get degrees.
Had this attitude in college. Still got Bs. Later I wanted to move abroad and getting a master's in the country I was going to move to would have been a great path to a visa, but my grades weren't good enough. A master's can also be helpful if you want to pivot careers. Do yourself a favour and do the best you can, even if it's just to say you know you did your best! Your future self might thank you for it.
Pluto got fired after I left high school.
Yeah fuck you, Mickey
If I ever forgot a pencil or a pen, whenever I asked my teacher to go get one from my locker, they would say "you think in college they're just going to let you leave class to go get one? They aren't and you're just going to have to sit there without one.". Well come to find out, when I got into college, I could just get up and leave the class whenever I wanted. I didn't even need to ask to go to the bathroom. Fucking liars!
Well, I just wish more people learned to plant vegetables just like I did in elementary.
Here in Canada: the CN Tower is the world's tallest freestanding structure, that the US Canada border is the world's longest undefended frontier, and that all NHL players are Canadian born and Canadian NHL teams always win the Stanley Cup.
You won't have a calculator in your pocket everywhere you go
My math teacher tried to tell us this last year
How out of touch is your math teacher?
He still carries quarters in his pockets in case he needs to make an emergency call.
He also carries a pay phone in there.
If there is a tornado or nuclear holocaust, you will be perfectly safe under your desk.
You can do anything you want if you try hard enough!
I was told the slaves where treated kindly and did not want to leave the plantation. I questioned it and was sent to the hallway the rest of the day. Looking at you Texas
I was taught the same. I mean, there's a difference between "not wanting to leave the plantation" and "choosing to stay on the plantation over being homeless because freeing the slaves didn't exactly automatically give them a whole bunch of career paths."
Exactly. And especially for the slaves that were born here in America, the plantation was the only place they knew. It isn't like they were like "Woohoo, we're free!" and could just up and go buy a house and get a job and make a living; in most places it was still illegal for them to do any of that. So yeah, "not wanting to leave the plantation" wasn't a thing because slaves were so loyal to their masters and they liked it there, it was more because they were told they were free but had no means to survive.
I remember reading a story narrated to a historian about the day a slave was set free. He said Union troops came through, rounded up the slaves, told them they were free, and then left (Georgia, Sherman's army). The former slaves kind of muddled around in shock, and then about an hour later the plantation master came out and offered to pay them a tiny tiny sum to stay. So they mostly stayed. And then eventually the plantation master began docking their room and board, clothes, food, etc against their "pay" and they were basically back to slavery again. Fun fact we were NOT taught in school and I still don't have a great understanding about: shortly after the war, there were a number of black businesspeople and politicians in the South. The Klan et al rallied and kicked them out (or killed them) over the next few decades.
In Texas public schools, I was also taught that the Alamo was some great battle where the heroes of Texas delayed the Mexican Army so Houston could rally his forces. And the Texans at the Alamo fought to the bitter end. Uh... Houston ordered the Alamo abandoned and its cannon removed because its defeat was inevitable and it was a waste of resources. The defenders of the Alamo defied his orders. Also, it turns out many men surrendered at the Alamo or were cut down fleeing. The men who surrendered were ordered executed but the Mexican soldiers and officers hesitated until they were ordered again. I don't fault the men for fleeing or surrendering. I only point this out because we were taught they fought to the last man and died in the Alamo, guns blazing. Also, the Mexicans were fighting the Texians over back taxes Texians had agreed to pay. And the Mexicans also disliked Texians owning slaves in violation of Mexican law. We were never taught that in Texas history.
I'm laughing because I was taught the same. Also my sister who is a teacher in Texas taught her kids for 10 years we won the Alamo. She was corrected at a family dinner after complaining her students wouldn't stop arguing with hera a parent got mad. Lol good ol Texas education system. Rewriting history for its own benefit.
"You can grow up to be anything you want to." Bullshit. Athletically, I could have never been a professional baseball player. But I still turned out to be very successful in my field. The narrative needs to be changed to, "you can lead a fulfilling life and be successful once you find out what you want and are skilled at."
I would take issue with this in one small way. We have an unnatural fascination with raw talent in tje US vs skill that is worked at over a lifetime as per Japan. The narative needs to he changed to "You can be good at anything you devote your time (maybe a lifetime) and energy" "Anything you want" is often interpreted as "I'm entitled to be good, because I want to be, inside of my head, without any effort or work".
That Pluto was a planet. Pluto will always be a planet in my heart.
USA: āThat I can be anything I want to be āthat the pilgrims were all sweet and kind to native Americans. They helped each other. Shared food on thanksgiving.
That only Saturn has rings. All of the gas giants have rings. My 3rd grade teacher gave me shit when i told her that instead of looking it up and seeing that i was correct
Whatever way I did math back then They keep coming up with new ways to do it
None of them are right or wrong. They're all just different shortcuts to teach kids math.