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Because it was taught wrong to most adults when they were children. Pedagogy has changed, though, and gen alpha are actually becoming numerate instead of being told to just memorize things like my generation was. Maybe the zoomers got lucky with that, too.

But seriously, as a mathematician and a teacher, you’re not bad at math because of something inherent to you. You’re bad at math because you weren’t taught numeracy.

PC is what people call basic politeness when they don’t wanna do it.

Respecting basic human dignity for outgroups is a core part of being woke, for sure.

PB & mustard sandwich

it delicious

1. Make breakfast for kids

2. Go to work

3. Not sure what it says, but I just got a text from my wife so there’s at least one more thing I gotta do

4. Ensure kids all have clean uniforms for school tomorrow

By accident? Probably fine as long as it’s not a pattern.

On purpose? No, that’s shitty.

You can use any piece of cardstock. I used to cut rectangles out of cereal boxes and use those.

I think it does have to be cardstock or similar weight, though; cheese might not meet the requirements.

May Day used to be a spring fertility celebration with dancing and flowers. Young men would leave live flowers at the door of young women as a courting ritual.

Not very big in the US anymore, but florists still advertise for it and when I was young it was uncommon but not unknown for boys to leave flowers for girls they admired. I think it’s one of those traditions that’s dying out though.

keep the toggle flipped to “more magic”

Five years is nothing, if you’re both adults.

Five years is sketchy, if you’re both students at a university. A graduate student or senior undergraduate dating a new freshman seems predatory, and often is.

Five years is appalling, if one of you is a child. A college student dating someone barely out of middleschool is more than just predatory.

I know many happy couples that have a decade between them, because the problem isn’t a difference in age, it’s a difference in position. Two adults with jobs and a full education are at a similar level.

Blame OP, she’s the one who sent me back in time.

They were all almost exactly eighteen months.

Unfortunately in that circumstance, I’d likely be a horrible vector for disease. Not much chance of survival if I spread devastation wherever I go.

My wife buys and resells furniture a lot, and she haggles - usually for free delivery / pickup rather than price reduction. She always leaves a cushion she’s willing to drop when selling, in case the buyer wants to haggle.

use the !_@ format, like !community@instance.tld

that will make an instance-neutral link to the muni

Yes?

My whole life is a lie!

midwest.social

The 2002 film El Crimen de Padre Amaro did a lot of the heavy lifting on turning me around on keeping pregnancy termination legal. I saw it in the theater because I was with a bunch of Hispanophones and that was the only film playing in Spanish at the time. It was so powerful. It’s the kind of movie you only watch once, though.

French toast is too bipolar to marry. Sometimes sweet, sometimes savory; sometimes heavenly, sometimes lousy and embarrassing. She French though, she knows how to fuck.

Pancakes are marry. A pancake recipe is something you spend years perfecting, growing together into a more perfect breakfast. Pancakes are always welcome. Pancakes go with everything. Pancakes will always be there for you, supporting you, making any day with them in it a good day.

Waffles? If waffles suddenly disappeared, it might be weeks, even months before anyone noticed. True believers would keep looking, but most of us would move on. I’m not saying I would kill waffles! I’m just saying, if someone did, it might be the perfect crime.