They seem like the kind of guys who would keep count

Bonus:

XD @roninhunt0987

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

THIS.

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one.  Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to.  But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from.  It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely.  Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction.  But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it.  (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)

— C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms (via clive-staples)

I fucking hate when you google some shit like "How to improve performance in video game" and then all Google gives you is a handful of shit-ass Games Journalist articles that somehow take like seven paragraphs that are all just like like "In order to improve performance in Video Game, go into "Settings" and set your Settings to Low"

Like fucking come on man what kind of sand-filled rock skull do you think I have? You think I'd be googling this if I hadn't already done that? Do you think I was born yesterday? You think I'm gonna alt+tab outta my shit, wait for Firefox to load, and then fucking Google how to improve my performance without checking my settings first? Do you think I'm fucking ten years old? Do you think I have no brain at all? Come the fuck on man

It always pisses me off too especially because of how annoying they are, when I google "how improve performance video game" I want an article thats like

"How To Improve Performance In Video Game:

STEP ONE: go rooting around in your game files and into this specific file (Program Files(x86)>Steam>Steamapps>VideoGame>279>Values>460>FrameRateProblemCauser) and set the value to 8. This will usually fix the framerate issues on its own, but steps 2-10 will help if you're still having trouble."

But no that shits always like

"(Banner ad)

How to improve performance in Video Game

Performance in Video Game is important!

(Screenshot from Video Game)

Video Game is one of the most popular games gamers are gaming right now, made by Game Developer and published through Game Publisher. Many people all over the world are playing Video Game with their friends and having a great time with Video Game's many unique features, such as its prized Mechanic System and System Mechanic.

(Ad)

But some players maybe like you can't enjoy Video Game's many features because their computers are put together with slabs of crudely hewn rock and string, what do they do? How can they enjoy Video Game's many popular features and start playing Video Game at a smooth and silky 457800fps like the rest of us? The answer may surprise you!

(Ad)

Game Developer was founded in 1987 by Some Guy and was originally called Game Studio before renaming themselves in 2001 to Game Developer following Some Guy's departure from the company, naming Some Other Guy as CEO before he left. Since then, Game Developer has made many amazing games such as Old Game, Cult Classic Game, Popular Game, Game, Game 2, and of course, Video Game.

However, Video Game has met with some controversy lately, as the dirt-covered mud peasants of the gaming community can't seem to run the game at 457800fps! But fear not, slop-dwellers, we at Gaming Website have a solution!

(Ad)

(Second ad)

While playing Video Game, open the Menu by hitting start and go into 'Settings'. Then, change your Settings to low.

(Ad)

And that's how you do it! You don't have to thank us, (though we certainly deserve it,) you're now free to enjoy Video Game with all your friends worldwide! Remember to share this article with your friends!"

Sadly, this just means that video game websites are copying recipe websites.

NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

GUYS STARFIRE IS GETTING HER OWN CARTOON

can we like, have adaptations made by people who care about the thing they're adapting

Every time some showrunner is like "I didn't read the book" or "I know nothing about the game" I'm like??? WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING HERE THEN?

Or just as bad, implies that the original work was boring and they’re going to “fix it.” 😡

Shout out to "The fans of the original are toxic/racist/homophobic/evil and so we're not making this adaptation for the likes of THEM."

movie called technically blonde where she goes to trade school instead

No but you don't understand. Rocking up to Welding class with 100% barbie pink tools is such a POWER MOVE.

"Jeremy, I'd really like my orbital sander back ^_^"

"... didn't know it was yours..."

(Legit excited, no sarcasm) "Someone ELSE has the original Box 20-Volt Brushless Cordless Detail Sander with Dust Management?!?!?!?!"

"...no..."

Teacher walking up like "Miss Woods, is that a nail file"

(Elle, blasting compressed air to get rid of the nail file sand)

"Actually, its an emery board. But yes! :D It's a finer grit than what we have, and I've always found these easier to handle"

"...Ok, fair enough."

Elle making friends with the 6 year old daughter of one of her classmates. (Child care ain't cheap, I get it. Bring your kid to class)

Elle learning how to drive a forklift/motorcycle/semi-truck

Elle giving an impromptu lecture in the break room about what gifts to give their wives/girlfriends/mothers

Fucking laser cut "bless this mess" sign on her locker (I lied. It would totally be live, laugh, laser)

Elle's car breaks down and 20+ dudes coming out to show her how to fix it. (And realizing her mechanic is ripping her off)

Every single guy in the building filled with instant despair when she gets with one of the butch lesbians in the program.

Gimme plzzz

Legally Blonde came out in 2001, so let's assume that that's the year Elle graduated from Harvard Law, since that's the last thing shown in that film. That makes her pretty much exactly Reese Witherspoon's actual age of 25 then, 48 now.

It's completely reasonable to think that Elle and Emmett would have started having kids when she was 30 - old enough to have established her career, young enough that she could have a couple kids with a few years between them while still young enough that pregnancy would be easier than if she waited until her late 30s/early 40s.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

Elle Woods' eldest daughter could easily be 18 this year. She would be the perfect age to graduate from high school and go into trade school, with the full and enthusiastic support of her high-powered attorney (or possibly politician) mom.

Hehehe…

Did anyone tell Ford

#I refuse to believe dipper wouldn’t join in to rewatch lotr with Stanford without a compelling reason#unless that panel is Ford already rewatching tags by @allkindsoffandomshere

Don't worry Dipper's there! he was just getting them snacks <3 (He didn't have the heart to ask Ford to pause.)

Dipper absolutely tries to do the obligatory 'he broke his toe here' bit. (Ford let's Dipper explain it on their rewatch. But first watch is for maximum focus)

(bonus doodle: family movie night)

By Stjepan Sejic

Twitter | DeviantArt | Patreon

Wukong, what have you done this time!

DUDE SUN WUKONG BE OUT HERE COMMITTING WAR CRIMES FR