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ParabolicMotion , (edited )

It’s going to be okay:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/06ef91ab-6179-4c1b-be73-4b549154e240.jpeg

Edited to add this: Singapore math insists however, that we eliminate the use of visuals in describing arithmetic within the rationals. They encourage that users of common core rely upon the number line, and solely the number line for thorough and most mathematically sound representations of arithmetic, even when involving the division of fractions.

For those not up to speed to with common core, remember how the teacher used to draw a diagram of a bunny hopping from one integer to the next integer to represent adding given integers, such as 4+3, or -2+1? Imagine that representation being used with problems like 1/7 divided by 5/49, and no decimal approximation is allowed. It’s fascinating and truly something to appreciate from the standpoint of someone who truly loves mathematics. I think it makes for great discussions amongst math graduates like myself, and other math enthusiasts. What does that mean for those who are not so enthused? Sometimes it means the teacher receives death threats from angry students. You can’t make everyone happy.

ParabolicMotion ,

I get that. I like the number line approach, and respect it, but I have also observed seasoned math coaches fumble the visual explanation of a division by fractions problem where the numerators and denominations were relatively prime. As soon as the guy had drawn the first fraction and began to say, “we’d multiply by the recipro-…”, I could tell it was going to be long problem. He just stood there, and then asked, “well, how would I go about explaining the ‘keep change flip’, if you will?” He ended the problem by saying he might just explain that the distance drawn for the first fraction needs to be repeated on the other side of the fraction to show the multiplication by the denominator of the second fraction, and then that distance could be broken into parts to demonstrate the division by the previous numerator of the second fraction.

Basically he ended the problem by saying, “let’s just reflect it! Then we can break it up.” There wasn’t really a sound justification for the reflection piece of the process, other than saying, “we need to multiply by the reciprocal of the second fraction, so we’ll just have to multiply by its denominator it had, prior to flipping it.”

That was the quietest meeting I have ever seen amongst that group of adults.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

No, but if the hospital did switch my daughter at birth, after she was born blue and not breathing well on her own, I’m going to be asking where her remains went. Let’s hope they performed a miracle in ICU in 2015 when they carted her away from me in a hurry. I feel like asking for all the hospital surveillance camera footage from the day she was born.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

My daughter was born with complications in 2015, and was rushed out of the delivery room to the ICU floor of the hospital without me, after birth. I’m still upset over that, and have many questions for the hospital staff who were working there that day. Oh, and someone just downvoted me for discussing my daughter. It’s probably my distant cousins who keep cyber stalking me. God forbid I put my children on Ancestry.com and reveal which P.O.S. male relative actually made them, huh? They have been following my online accounts to encourage me to be silent about my children. I don’t care. Downvotes don’t hurt my feelings. In fact, it makes them waste their time.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

Thanks. Me too. Happy Mother’s Day, too, if you celebrate it.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

Thanks, but I also hate to assume that they made a swap after seeing her is such bad condition that day. I would really like to add my children to ancestry.com, just to have some peace of mind. My mother is just fighting it at every suggestion.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

No. I typically call trolls users that lie. Nothing I have said on Lemmy is a lie. I think this part of Lemmy just digs through each OP’s posts and comments to find out what gender they are, and then they proceed to attack the OP, if OP is female. I won’t bother posting here anymore. It’s just a good ol’ boys club for men to upvote one another.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

This post is 10 hours old. Whoever you are, please stop making new accounts to stalk my account and continuously downvote and harass me.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

I never threatened to hurt myself. I haven’t threatened to hurt others. This post is hours old. What did you do, dig through my account to harass me? I guess I’ll report your comment as abusive since you’re trying to frame me for threats I didn’t make.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

This troll is just trying to bait me into a conversation so he can start an argument. Its late. He’s obviously alone. It shows.

ParabolicMotion ,

Those people probably got the triad, though. Do you still wet the bed? Do you start fires? Do you torture animals? No? Then you’re probably fine! Being an introvert doesn’t necessarily make you a potential serial killer. Now, if you fit the triad, you might want to get some help.

ParabolicMotion ,

Eh, some studies say it’s nothing. Here’s the wiki for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macdonald_triad

ParabolicMotion ,

Maybe they could also offer free EV charging spaces in parking stalls that are close to the store, in addition to still offering gasoline. They’re going to have customers that drive both.

ParabolicMotion ,

I agree, but I don’t think D.A.R.E. was dumb. It was just difficult to hear the personal opinions that officers had of people who had been on particular drugs that are so often used in a hospital setting. Between the time I was an infant to the time I was ten, I had already been hospitalized for various illnesses and injuries that sometimes required hospital grade medications. Try telling a third grade kid that she is a bad person because the hospital put her on intravenous pain medication after having both her radius and ulna completely broken in a fall from the school’s playground equipment.

On a side note, after so many hospitalizations in my life, I absolutely hate people who use drugs for fun.

ParabolicMotion ,

It’s everyone’s business when some recreational drug user makes bad choices that impact the lives of others.

ParabolicMotion ,

I don’t think it was dumb to educate children about the dangers of drug abuse. What I think is dumb, is the new program they have created to replace D.A.R.E. That program has representatives that stand outside of stores, pestering shoppers for donations, and when the shoppers decline, the representatives say things like, “guess you choose drugs!” while fake coughing to mask their remarks. That’s immature and unprofessional. D.A.R.E. was more professional.

ParabolicMotion ,

D.A.R.E. never hurt me. Sorry it seems like the program did something abusive to you personally. You could always file a police report about it, if it was that bad. It’s not like the officers who led it were abusive drug users in our lives, sent to the classroom to beat us with belts, or closed fists. If your biggest gripe from childhood is a bunch of drug abuse resistance education officers, lecturing you for less than one hour, then you had a pretty privileged childhood.

ParabolicMotion ,

Well, I had D.A.R.E., and unless someone put something in my food, or stuck me with something, I haven’t used illegal recreational drugs. I say illegal recreational drugs, because I can’t be held responsible for what the hospitals have given me in surgeries, and during labor/delivery. I don’t blame D.A.R.E. for the things that have happened to me in my life.

ParabolicMotion ,

D.A.R.E. pretty much defined all of the drugs and their side effects, so children could be educated about drugs. Nothing they said about types of drugs, their uses, or their side effects was medically incorrect. I don’t know why you’re calling it dumb.

I’m sorry, did you say YOU make me uncomfortable? Because putting words in my mouth does that. I didn’t say anything about being uncomfortable before that.

Hey look, if you want to say D.A.R.E. was dumb, and you would rather have a lifestyle that includes recreational drug use, who am I to stop you? I just think you would feel differently if you were in the hospital, for some surgery, or emergency, and had to have some of those drugs given to you intravenously. I doubt you’d go looking for more of them after an experience like that. You’d be looking for a garbage can to puke the next morning, and crying about having a splitting headache from hell. You’d be crying because you want to eat food, but can’t trust your stomach to handle it. Go have your “fun”, and denounce programs like D.A.R.E. Maybe you’ll feel differently if you find yourself in a hospital recovery room one day.

ParabolicMotion ,

No, as someone who has had many of the medical drugs they discuss in D.A.R.E., I wouldn’t compare myself to some cis gendered person who happens to be transphobic. That would be comparing opposites. I’m a person who has been given morphine several times in surgery, and after hemorrhaging in labor. I don’t think the government should legalize recreational use of morphine and regulate it. That seems dumb to me. D.A.R.E. doesn’t seem dumb. Sorry if you feel differently, but I don’t think we should legalize all drugs. You might argue for different drugs being legalized. I don’t want people that hate me to be allowed to carry drugs that they might put into my food order at a restaurant, either. You can’t assume that people who want to legally carry, or keep, drugs want to do so for personal use. It isn’t safe to have people carrying drugs on them that can be used to poison others. Not everyone who is into drugs is looking to party with you. Some are looking to get rid of people.

ParabolicMotion ,

You think that would end the illegal drug trade? People can legally own guns. They are legal to own and we have regulations for owning them. Guess what is still traded on the black market, and moved by gangs for cash? Guns are. Legalizing drugs will not solve the problem. Instead, you will have food service workers carrying drugs like opium on them, without legal repercussions. You want a blueberry smoothie your ex is making for you on your next lunch break? I guess it depends on who that is making it, and how much they hate you. I would hope they chose a lifestyle that didn’t involve drugs. Hopefully, it wouldn’t be a drive-thru order for you. Wouldn’t want someone to get drugs in their food and then drive away while consuming it.

I don’t have to agree with you. I just see too many problems arising from legalizing all drugs, as you suggested.

ParabolicMotion ,

It’s like I’m looking at a line from a Pretty Reckless song, but it’s not about a party.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c90ff8ef-37f7-4d3b-b19f-0c429720e5f1.jpeg

ParabolicMotion OP ,

Yeah, sure. Tell that to my degrees and my ASVAB score.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

There’s no elasticity in the drawstrings to pull them tight around the can. It’s a flaw in the design. Also, I’m not a man. Keep your “my guy” comment to yourself.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

Nope. They are the right size. I checked.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

No, the bags reach the bottom of the can the edges of the bag don’t cling to the edges of the can.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

They are the correct size, unfortunately.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

Yeah, it might be a problem with the can, but I remember trash bags that had more elastic ties/handles in the early 2000’s. These bag handles don’t seem to be made of that material, so I can’t tie knots in the handles to secure the bags to the can.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

When you take the ASVAB and outscore my 97th percentile, or earn a graduate degree in a STEM field, I might take your insult to heart. As of now, you don’t strike me as very intelligent, or very polite.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

I don’t need to engage with them at all.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

Really? Do you have pictures of the non-official report form they give you, after taking the exam?

ParabolicMotion OP ,

No, I graduated from a CSU and took the exam in at a recruiting office in Fresno, California. They have video of me taking the test, since the facility had cameras.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

My complaint is they make the trash bags the wrong fit for the circumference. The volume of the bag and the height of the bag are fine.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

You shouldn’t have to overpay for bags that are too large for the garbage can, just to avoid having the bags slip.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

The previous commenter implied that I needed to provide proof of my education. Who are you to judge intelligence? You’re commenting on Lemmy. You didn’t write the codes to create it. What are you, a rat in their maze, funding the world’s millionaires and billionaires? What’s your claim to intellectual fame?

ParabolicMotion OP ,

Responding and having an opinion doesn’t make a person unhinged. I hope one day you have the opportunity to experience an interaction with a person who is actually unhinged. Maybe it will be you since you see yourself fit to seem others as unhinged. You must have first hand experience.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

The trash can is the correct size for the bags. You act like you own stock in the companies that make them. I’m simply pointing out a design issue that could be improved.

Why don’t you be mature, and take your own advice. Find a better use of your time as an adult than attacking others online.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

It isn’t pulled tight in this picture. It was originally placed over the edge. Under the weight of trash, it slipped and became lodged in the can. The bottom of the bag was already touching the can when placed into the can. I think trash bag manufacturers should have an elastic band within the top of the bag that can prevent this.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

UPDATE:

My trash can is 13 gallons and so are the bags. Here is proof.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/368739e7-38b8-474c-9031-90e25afc00a7.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/04ec4f3b-5f44-462a-942f-99207c5fc156.jpeg

I’d like an apology from those who called me dumb for “using the wrong size trash bags”, or “not knowing what size garbage can” I have. I have the correct size trash can and liners. I think the makers of trash bags should fix the design flaw and make the edge of the bag contain an elastic band. I don’t believe I should be verbally attacked for posting something that seems to be a common issue for many Lemmy readers. My post isn’t in the negatives here. Some others must be experiencing this same problem.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

92?

ParabolicMotion OP , (edited )

If you had scored within the 99th percentile, I don’t think you would call your score a “99”. You didn’t score 99. You scored within the 99th percentile, if what you say is true. Also, if you scored within the 99th percentile you would have a career within the military that would most likely deny you the privilege of a civilian social media account, even if it were semi-anonymous. I don’t think your commanding officers would be happy with your wasted time spent arguing on the internet. I also think they would see your use of profanity as a liability.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

I did try using plastic clips that are meant to be used for hanging items on the fridge. They lost traction with the side of the can as soon as the can became half full of trash. I’ll try some laundry clips, if I can find any around the house. Thank you for your suggestion.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

I don’t listen to people who use bro to address people.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

My life skills included manners. I don’t believe yours did.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

Not really. Every time someone has used “bro” in my presence to address someone, they’re usually speaking down to them.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

84 upvotes from others who have experienced this problem, and Hefty now makes bags called “grippers”, which contain elastic to combat this problem. I thought it was funny. I didn’t realize other readers were going to attack me over how I put a 13 gallon bag into a 13 gallon garbage can. Everyone can post here. No one is obligated to interact with the commenters. Sorry you feel differently.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

I’m not even angry in any of my comments, and other commenters are trying to frame me as being angry at them. I’m disappointed in them for calling me names like “dumb”, or “s_it for brains”. Apparently, the mods don’t care. This community is really toxic, and I’ll be removing my post. The mods refuse to reprimand the people who are making personal attacks against my intelligence. Instead of addressing their comments, they removed my reply and sent me a message saying, “nuking it!” How immature they are.

ParabolicMotion OP ,

Thanks. I’ll look into those. I had considered a box with a cover, but I think it would scare him.

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