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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Mistaking the bump for flashing high beams is the most common and serious problem for me. I keep thinking people are trying to get my attention with their lights. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve pulled over to make sure I didn’t run over some kind of debris I didn’t notice or check my tires or signals just to realize it was probably just their lights. Flashes and signals are for communication on the roadway. If everyone’s lights are flashing any time there’s a divot or crest in the road, we can’t effectively signal to each other.

    I’ve also noticed that this level of brightness is absolutely shit in fog and stormy weather. Nobody can see fuck all.

    I wish we didn’t have this problem to begin with and would greatly prefer to bike or bus to avoid this altogether, but since I moved out of the city, that is not a viable option.








  • I don’t like the Socratic method as it is employed in classrooms. I think the method of questioning is fine, and dissecting a subject can be fun with the right group and foreknowledge, but most instructors absolutely suck at making sure all students are up to speed with whatever is being discussed.

    I don’t see its value as a teaching tool without a strong enough instructor to prepare the students for its use and to guide the discussions in a productive manner.

    Every professor I’ve ever had who used this method basically wasted class time with fill in the blank response questions. These are not higher order thinking discussions and do nothing to actually broaden understanding of whichever subject is being discussed. It seems like a cop out for the professor to me, at least how I’ve seen it used in multiple major universities.

    I’ve had better Socratic discussions while high as fuck with my buddies after class than when we were actually in the lecture hall.







  • In its first years, it actually ran alongside a lot of interesting and significantly more scholarly shows (than what we have now) on those two networks. The early 2000s actually had some solid programming on the history channel. Pretty quickly devolved into pawn stars and ancient aliens after that, though. So, yeah, half to most of its run was alongside utter garbage.

    Edit for clarification: More scholarly than the current and last decade and a half of shows on history channel and discovery.