Snowflake proof job

[garandman]

As the great philosopher Rodney King said "Can`t we just all get along" .

Two sides to that. We can try, but not every behavior is acceptable. Addressing the unacceptible ones should be done humbly, admitting our own faults. And correction (if justified) should be accepted graciously.

In short... these days.... no, We cannot all just "get along."

Sad. True. "Philosophical" rant over.

 

[ronsatspokane]

Its really NOT more difficult.

Adding 1-14/16 to 13/16 is not more difficult than adding 1.875 to 0.8125.

Its ONLY different. Not "messed up" or any such.

I dare say the negative associations made with SAE / British Imperial are due to the dumbing down going on in the schools that teach "values clarification" instead of mathematics, personal finance, reading and writing.

ETA: and civics and the Constitution

I would agree. And just to add a bit of texture to this, those computers and cell phones people are typing their posts into don't do base 10. Base 2 (binary) with character representation in base 16 (hexidecimal) and in some cases even base 8 (octal). Those whose world is limited to base 10 are unaware that there are other worlds available to them. In particular all the people I see with their heads stuck in their cell phones. If they had any idea of the chain of events taking place within that little box upon the depression of a single key and the form of data passed between those events, their heads would explode.

Bottom line, complexities of fractional verses decimal arithmetic is a argument that should be reserved for 3rd graders. That does not discount the possibility that fractions may not be covered until the 6th grade these days. Unless, of course, Common Core has eliminated fractional arithmetic from the curriculum.

Snowflakes indeed. It's not the melting that people need to be concerned about. It's the separation into Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms should they get even a glimpse into the depth of the world beneath their very finger tips that is the real problem.

How's that for bait?

 

[fyrewall]

Being stupid and having a college degree and $100 thou in student debt is a real handicap.