…what you said you were looking for; Simon’s is a bit more “The world sucks and my brain is betraying me, I’d better (try to) hide it from everyone.” But…very similar internal monologue vibes, so maybe worth checking out, if/when you’re interested in reading something.
Oh, hey, this reminds me: I just read a book where the main character’s voice feels very Elliot-like to me: Star Struck by Cat Sebastian. I was a little hesitant to recommend because Elliot’s focus is very much “this world sucks and I’m going to make it better through diplomacy,” which matched…
A thing I saw awhile ago and still think about a lot was someone proposing that since everyone likes the adding-an-hour part of time changes, we should just do that six times a year and stop having leap years.
If I paused to think, I would probably figure it out, but I can understand why someone would just think “I don’t know anything about skateboarding!” and pick a number at random.
When I encounter the number 1980 in the wild, it’s almost certainly referring to the year. Knowing almost nothing about snowboarding, it doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility that a move would have that year in its name.
Apparently the Patriots planes get used for ICE deportations when they're not flying the team around.
It's like the whole order/civility vs justice thing taken to an absurd extreme. Democrats want to pretend that there's some proper appropriate way for ICE to carry out their mission in Minnesota (and elsewhere) when their mission is to KIDNAP AND TERRORIZE PEOPLE.
Like, what, would the agents be more polite and professional while kidnapping people of color off the streets?
Maybe they'd do a better job of not hurting the white people while terrorizing communities of color?
Every politician trying to claim that what's needed with regards to ICE right now is better training should be getting asked by journalists to explain just what, exactly, they imagine Minnesota would look like right now with better-trained agents.
are you interested in suggestions? I very much understand this sentiment, but I will also say that there are more sensory friendly clothing options out there than there used to be.
I also wouldn’t enjoy it as much, though, because “pick one card and try to find a set with it” is a slog and only a method of last resort for me.
Someone else told me about a rule where the fast people had to find two *with an overlapping card* before they could call set. I’ve never tried that one, but it would certainly slow me down a lot.
I’m actually better at seeing the sets with more differences than the ones with only one, so this wouldn’t have slowed me down much. (I’m also faster when I’m dealing?)
I’ve tried a few rules to slow me down: counting to 5 or 10 before calling set, having to find two before I can collect one.
I think I have seen letters that pretty much just straight-up say that?
“…and seeing where their ideas take us. If you want to become a good teacher, a good thing to focus on now is really making sure you understand your groupmates’ reasoning, asking clarifying questions as needed, and building on those ideas.”
I don’t know if this does too much to reinforce his self-image as a teacher but I’d be tempted to say something like “one of the skills that has been most useful for me as a teacher is being able to really listen to and understand students’ reasoning, especially when it’s different from my own, …”
Thinking about this more, I think maybe the answer is really that you can probably structure your sentence so that the word you want is “second”.
I don’t think there’s a single word for that. It’s “not the next one, but the one after that.” I could imagine saying “the next-next one” conversationally, but only after having established the “not the next one” part somehow.
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You’ve already got a lot of data on this, but to add a bit more: I do a lot of evaluation of calc I courses for deciding transfer credit. We don’t cover this topic, so I don’t look super closely, but I feel confident that I almost never see it on exams or even very detailed learning outcomes lists.
Looks like arctan(1/sqrt(3pi-1)). About .33 radians or 19ish degrees. I have...no useful intuition for this answer. The most astonishing part here is that I succeeded in calculating this by hand on the first try without making mistakes, which I wouldn't have believed without checking it with Desmos.
I managed to write “ceratian” on the blackboard today, which I also thought was pretty impressive.
My school district didn’t use the label gifted but it was such a culturally common term that I remember being aware in elementary school that our ELP (…Extended(??) Learning Program) was what our district called our gifted & talented program.
Also, it may be worth letting them know that it’s possible to accidentally have these things create something that looks to the student like a run-of-the mill letter but for the professor might read like the academic equivalent of having your lawyer write a letter threatening to sue.
I would also tell them that you’re going to take their messages as a good-faith effort to communicate with you and you’ll do your best to engage with whatever they’re trying to communicate about, so they don’t need to worry that you’ll judge them for things like grammatical errors.
the Potawatomi perspective on this is: why do we need a whole special word just to indicate that we’re asking for something politely? Why wouldn’t that just be the standard assumption?
I read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer this summer and one anecdote that stuck with me is that missionaries thought it was a sign of incivility that Potawatomi has no word for “please”, but…
“For any” is the real problem though.
Fun fact: the short story was written first. The author started writing a short story prequel online as a free gift to her readers and then like it just kept growing until it ended up turning into an entire book.
About what your therapist means.
Like what does it mean to operate safely in the world and is that even a thing one can do?
Does this mean most people are going around making decisions based on feelings instead of thinking through consequences?
Actually, that would explain some things.