Right there with you. If you grokked diffeq it’s because you had the epiphany that it was differential calculus tossed in a blender with very large algebraic terms.
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It wasn’t a teaching standard in my area, while growing up in the 80’s. I never even saw anything like it until trying to help my nephew with his homework in the mid-90’s.
Yeah, me either; calcs were ver botten in class.
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Exactly. Television stations don’t release updates, newspapers don’t print them on the front pages, and persons rarely check online articles again after they are edited with more reliable information. Separate updates also get less shares.
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As opposed to every BB post, which are always well fact-checked, fair-minded stories that present both sides, and never, ever rely on hyperbole and cherry-picked facts…believe me, I’m as anti-Trump as they come, but sometimes the headlines and indeed entire articles here are but one step above BuzzFeed in terms of their ratio of clickbait and Chicken Little-esque declarations of impending doom. If you wanna take shots at Trump’s handling of the news, by all means, it needs to be done, but you can’t then turn around and just declare everything the right wing does as nefarious evil and everything the left does as thoughtful and wonderful for all involved. Both sides have creeps and both sides have people working to make progress across the aisle and this is what we need to focus on.
I love this analogy. Artisinal lies!
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I say most…they voted the man in as our next President didn’t they?
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Ah! Finally someone else that remembers that show! (Vegetable Soup, that is.)
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It benefits the Trump org by taking the story away from his team applying for H VISAs for foreign workers at his VA winery and his FL Mar a largo estate and puts a positive spin back on him. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
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I was reading the comments (I hate myself) on a Washington Post article about some Trump foolishness. A woman said with evident pride and gumption that “we” can no longer trust the (anti-Trump) media, so we need to find the facts on our own. Sounds awesome. I’ll just go and… investigate all the… news. On my own.
Back in a bit.
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People excel at believing bullshit.
You’ve seen the thing in the Washington Post about the nonsense Trump voters believe? (Footnote: Yes, it’s true—plenty of Hillary voters believe stupid stuff, too. But not as many.)
46% of Trump voters believe that Pizzagate is real or probably real.
52% of Trump voters think Obama was born in Kenya.
62% think millions of votes were cast illegally in the 2016 election.
74% think the number of uninsured people in the US increased or stayed the same during Obama’s presidency.
You can find other lists of similar mind-blowing dumbness. According to a recent PPP poll, 67% of Trump voters think unemployment is up under Obama. (It’s way down.) They think the stock market suffered under Obama, too. (It didn’t.)
What do you do when you see numbers like this? What can you do?
How do you reach people who are unsusceptible to fact-checking, correction, debunking, and other reality-reinforcing mechanisms?
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About half of the population didn’t even bother to vote. And roughly half that did vote went for Clinton as for Trump, with slightly more going for her. We can’t know how the half who stayed home feel, but I think it’s safe to say some and not most.
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He didn’t do it. He’s taking credit for something that was decided before the election.
At best, tRump can be said to not have been so terrifying to greedy psychopaths that they didn’t really change their plans due to him becoming president.
A minority of those who voted, voted for trump. The population isn’t majority stupid. The electoral college is apparently there to ensure the stupids and the corrupt who use the stupids get their way.
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Voter disenfranchisement is not the same as not bothering. Do we have numbers for people who were not allowed to vote?
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I’ve been wanting to ask that question during the entire election. But didn’t. For fear of being branded as some kind of ivory tower intellectual.
Really I needed to expose myself to a wider variety of people. Then I would’ve realized that I was right, not pretentious.
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Presumably this is some sort of lickspittle-competition to become Trump’s Pravda
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They’ve been trickling out. Ultimately, though, it’s going to be hard to prove beyond the number of people who didn’t meet the ID requirements, and drops in turnout from 2012.
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Once the press started giving a damn about access to the white house and the president, the stage was set. Now, instead of being a government watchdog, our press is nothing but propaganda. At least before Trump, the propaganda wasn’t so obvious and banal.
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Before you even look at what the GOP does to suppress votes, 6m+ are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.
10% of Floridian adults!
https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/voting-rights-restoration-efforts-florida
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It really wasn’t. I was just reminded of a particularly nasty gentleman that thought he was impressing his date. He proceeded to yak her ear off about how successful he was for an hour and I never saw them return together.
That was well over 20 years ago and I’m still emotionally triggered by his stupid face.
So, like I said, rage wasn’t directed at you.
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