I think it comes from jobs where a physical limitation prevents people from “doing,” like retired athletes or really experienced surgeons who develop a tremor. Or even just people who no longer have the physical strength to do manual labor, but have a repertoire of techniques that will help others do it more effectively.

I agree that the quote doesn’t apply to teachers in general.

The US isn’t especially poorly educated on average.

The US is so unequally educated for many reasons, but the biggest one is the cost, which is mostly due to (as always) Reagan. He defunded K-12 education and public universities. When universities raised their prices in response, the government, which had been offering some need based student loans regardless of major since the sixties, greatly expanded the program, partially privatizing it. In order to make loans to very young people without immediate employment prospects a less risky investment, the loans were made unable to be discharged in bankruptcy. The increase in available loans allowed universities to further increase costs without risking pricing their applicant pools out. That became a vicious cycle and the tuitions and loans became so bloated that many graduates start with six figures in debt. It’s not a good deal for a lot of students, and it’s a worse deal, the less stable the finances of your family, unfortunately.

Those who can, do…

(Side note: I’m a language teacher for a language I began learning as an adult in a country where it is the national language, so, while I don’t support the quote in general or apply it to any other teachers, it’s definitely something that my brain sometimes snipes at me during moments of impostor syndrome)

Especially when he looks so pained in the picture.

/2017. I wonder what he’s up to, nearly a decade later.

Edit: actually, the initial arrest was barely over a decade ago.

It’s also the worst possible course of study to ever require for anyone outside organic chem majors.

I loved biology and statistics, and was pretty neutral towards calculus, but for some reason, chemistry is incomprehensible to me (Physics too, but that’s because neither the teacher nor I knew how to use my Casio graphing calculator, so I tried to do all the math on paper and ended up wasting the whole class doing arithmetic instead of listening-I’ve thought about taking a basic physics course at a community college, but I don’t think even that would help with chemistry).

My sister’s a science teacher and was taking masters level organic chemistry classes while I was taking high school chemistry. At one point she showed me some of her coursework and I literally decided in that moment that I didn’t want to study biology badly enough to go through organic chemistry.

That sounds like she’s a really bad teacher, lol, but my strengths are definitely in different areas, so it’s also a fair insight.

Some people say they like a cold shower, but nothing wakes me up in the morning like a nice cold glass of fluorine.

That’s roughly my proportion for iOS updates.

You were talking about Macs, right? /s

Yeah, I’m not under any illusion that it’ll be (literally) sunshine and daisies. The WHO estimates that 250k people will die annually because of climate change between 2030-2050 though, and (I sincerely hope) a shift in global power dynamics from something like this is unlikely to kill that many.

China will also be more focused on preserving stability in general as a global power than Russia or the United States, though this would probably be very bad news for Taiwan, if successful.

I agree that the effects for Europe are less clear. The EU is likely to benefit much more than Russia or the US, but it might lose power in comparison to an energy rich India or Indonesia. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, other places deserve a fair seat at the table, especially given the relative populations.

Especially if China’s the one controlling it. They’ll recognize the incredible benefit to the world and make sure as many people as possible are able to use it (I’m not saying they’re completely altruistic, they’ll also make it profitable and potentially predatory, but it’s still a net good for the world if we can largely stop using fossil fuels by mid century)

Holy shit, we might have controlled fusion generators soon?

I don’t think it’s possible to know now that there won’t be significant developments in the next three hundred years. Tech savvy people in 1726 would have been looking at this, which I don’t think would give them enough information to make any useful predictions about how jet propulsion works.

Even the idea that non-ICE means electric- maybe in three hundred years, we’ll be have a new type of engine. Or maybe more likely, we’ll have a type of fuel that doesn’t pollute and it will be an ICE, just without emissions. Or maybe nuclear waste will be a solved problem.

We can’t know, but we do know that space flight is currently super pollutant, and continuing to launch rockets at the rate we have been is unsustainable.

Yeah, at least normally resources are depleted by the number of organisms, not the greed of a few examples, but this is not a new thing.

Technology development is related to time. I feel like that sounds sarcastic, but I don’t mean it to be.

If we approached deep space flight anew in three hundred years after working on non internal combustion engines for other purposes in that time, we’d probably be much better able to reduce the total emissions from space flight than if we work on it continuously for the next hundred years, even if we reach zero emissions in a shorter timeframe that way.

The same is true for material sciences and trying to figure out how to reduce the level of metallic ions released into the ozone layer by spacecrafts. Hell, we’ll probably have more advanced international cooperation in three hundred years and language education/translation software, giving us a better ability to respond to an emergency in space.

Weirdly, the closest I’ve come to literally beating up a Nazi was a kid from my middle school I punched in the face (also the only person I’ve intentionally struck) for calling my friend the N word who later did gay porn.

Edit: I’m sorry, I forgot these:,

I was teaching my native English speaking students German and explained that woher and wohin are like whence and whither, and the looks of utter unrecognition made me realize I was doing this. I tried for a moment with “thence and thither? Hence and hither?” And 4/7 knew “hence,” but that was it, and it’s not really used in the same sense as the others, anyway (I mean, it is, but it’s metaphoric and most people saying it probably aren’t thinking of it in that sense).

That one luckily not so far. I do get lightheaded upon standing sort of often, just not enough to lose consciousness or anything like that.

No, not at all, I appreciate the insight and would love to have been given a hint about the gender thing younger. I didn’t realize those were related to sweating at all, and frankly I thought the flexibility was ED, the eating habits were ADHD, and the gender was autism, so I’m surprised you got all that. I know they’ve got high comorbidities, but I’m very interested in what links those specific symptoms.

I normally eat a bunch of tofu and legumes, so I get a lot of protein generally. Currently I’m doing a lot of (high protein and sugar free) skyr alternative that I mix with oats, almonds, chia seeds, frozen berries, and puffed amaranth, which is pretty nutritious, I just have to eat it very early or very late

lol, every tenth comment includes “probably an egg,” you mind reader

Not currently, lol, because eating makes me hot and it’s 38C. This has been the case for my entire life, through many years of more scheduled eating, though.