NeptuneOrbit @ NeptuneOrbit @lemmy.world

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Whatever the fuck podcast popularized the idea that blue just didn't exist? Yeah stupid.

I do believe there is some relationship between one's main language and how it affects thought patterns, but I mean cmon, even if I don't know every word for shades of green (avocado VS chartreuse) doesn't mean I'm not capable of distinguishing them. I may not have an exacting language tool set for distinguishing them. But I could.

Wanna see my sex pistol?

Go place a plaque that says "Mustafa Ataturk" and watch people's heads expose that he was actually a very small cat and not a normal sized human.

treble damages

Your new rack of beer?

Yes I'm implying student logic is only applicable in contexts where a teacher has laid out a test for you to intuit.

Student logic doesn't apply when you have to come up with a new idea to an actual problem that exists in the real world.

There is value to learning student logic. It shows creativity. It shows a level of understanding of the material and how to be a teacher. But it's not the same as learning the material.

Sure.

But if their isn't some human author to your problem, student logic will be way less helpful than logic actually honed by learning how to learn.

Because actually learning will do both. Learning only calculated guesses will only really teach you how to deal with manufactured scenarios. I won't really even serve you much past high school.

You would need to weigh the cost of

The IRS realizing their is un-reported or misrepresented income

Vs

The IRS reporting legally reported but otherwise suspicious income to the FBI or DEA OR whatever

Yeah I mean in some cases it's not hard to surmise. Given the context (class, diagram) and how many numbers you have assigned, what formulas are available to you, you might be able to guess the teacher shoved the numbers into the wrong formulas to create the incorrect answers. For some classes simply supplying nearby numbers to the correct response might not be "real" enough.

Student logic is certainly a thing, but I can't image it much help for the complexity shown in the meme. Basic geometry or math word problems as found in biology or statistics? Yeah sure

This is the first headline I have seen that excluded Airbus

Upsigh down? Or upside ouwn?

He took both sides of every issue

Don't jerk off with sewing machine oil

I think what makes this argument true is that it's FICTION. Even in a dystopia that is super bleak, with an ending where everyone dies, we can remain hopeful that it's cautionary fiction.

You could make similar arguments about any other fiction or genre as well. "All dark comedies are hopeful because they show the human ability to make light of bleak and tragically ironic situations". "All horror movies are hopeful because the fictional creature at the center of the story cannot be real".

Excel: a tool to make an ignored case that the data should be handled in a database

Usually when people say "gender is a social construct" they mean that when your 7th grade biology teacher told you there are males and females, there was more to the story.

If someone tried to tell you that you can fit everything into either the "food" bucket or the "not food" bucket, you would definitely have questions. How do we define food? Food for whom?

If you define food as something edible, with nutritional value... How much nutritional value? A stone covered in lichen probably has nutritional value and I might try to eat it if I were starving to death. Raw grains of wheat might have nutritional value but also might make me sick of I ate them whole, but we all recognize they are generally edible and are usually processed into bread.

"Food" is a useful concept in that it can usually help guide humans toward sustenance. It was never meant as some airtight philosophical concept.

Every word is created through human interaction.

Are you saying that because most people wouldn't consider acorns and dandelions edible, or worth processing into food, that the definition of food is meaningless?

Or are you saying that yes you can technically est mud and rocks (what is salt, anyways?) that food is a meaningless concept?

You can drink your coffee from a bowl but that doesn't make it a mug.

Still really valuable