A Solid Angle

So you’re licensing some dubsteb music from overseas. Of course you’re going to hire signers to cover the lyrics in your native tongue. But when it comes time to make a music video, you can barely make out the words over all the bass and distortion. The only thing to do is put the lyrics in captions.

Sub a dub dub.

From the TF2 Workshop.

notyourwaifu:

skullcapp:

IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE VOLUPTUOUS OR SKINNY YOU CAN STILL DRESS LOLITA

OR IF YOU’RE IN BETWEEN THAT

OR NON-EUCLIDEAN

OR A TREE

I draw the lines at non-Euclidean.

After spending all day in school, our children are forced to begin a second shift, with more academic assignments to be completed at home. This arrangement is rather odd when you stop to think about it, as is the fact that few of us ever do stop to think about it.
Instead of assuming that homework should be a given, or that it allegedly benefits children, I’ve spent the last few years reviewing the available research and talking to parents, teachers and students. My findings can be summarized in seven words: Homework is all pain and no gain.
The pain is obvious to kids but isn’t always taken seriously by adults. Backpacks stuffed with assignments leave students exhausted, frustrated, less interested in intellectual pursuits and lacking time to do things they enjoy. “Most of what homework is doing,” says literacy expert Harvey Daniels, “is driving kids away from learning.”
We parents, meanwhile, turn into nags. After being away from our children all day, the first words out of our mouths, sadly, may be: “So, did you finish your homework?” One mother told me it permanently damaged her relationship with her son because it forced her to be an enforcer rather than a mom.
The surprising news, though, is that there are virtually no pros to balance the cons. Even if you regard grades or test scores as good measures of learning, which I do not, doing homework has no statistical relationship to achievement in elementary school. In high school, some studies do find a correlation between homework and test scores, but it’s usually fairly small. And in any case, it’s far from clear that the former causes the latter. And if you’re wondering, not a single study has ever supported the folk wisdom that homework teaches good work habits or develops positive character traits such as self-discipline, responsibility or independence.

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Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Homework (via thislifeunforgiven)

Shit I knew in school but was unable to articulate.

(via catbountry)

I’m drawing a fairly powerful connection between this and something I reblogged earlier, something about the eight hour day at work being valuable not for the work that gets done, but for the fact that people with no free time spend more money in what little free time they do have, because they’re exhausted, miserable and desperate.

I wonder if homework is just a way of preparing children for that, for training them into that role. I wonder, I wonder.

(via drtanner-sfw)

I’m a teaching assistant at a state university. There’s a lot of people in my department who are deeply involved in pedagogy. They are allowed to try very new teaching techniques in the 100 level classes.

I forget the name, but one of the techniques is a complete reversal of time use. In a normal class, students spend class time in a lecture to get familiar with a topic, then are assigned homework in order to practice the skills they need.

However, in some classes, the students do their practice work in class, while the instructor is available for coaching. They are expected to read the background information on their own and come to class prepared to work.

I can’t speak to how widely this is accepted, particularly at the grade school level. Be aware that alternatives exist.

ghostbongweedofthesamurai:

its the year 2021. you download designer drug for your 3d printer off the bit torrent network. you go to get the drugs out of the printer but instead of drugs it printed a cop. Youre under arrest

This is some Transmetropolitan shit here. Late in the series there is a subplot involving a printable drug that gets the user and the replicator simultaneously high.

nutastic:

basically

fuckyeahsexyatheists:

proud-atheist:

How religion should be done.
http://proud-atheist.tumblr.com

There are two people that no one is allowed to speak ill of in my presence, lest they be faced with a colossal ass-whooping. Those two people are Willie Nelson and Mr. Rogers.

veryangrymouse:

veryangrymouse:

silthead:

silthead:

veryangrymouse:

beesmygod:

soselfimportant:

soselfimportant:

soselfimportant:

A castlevania au where everyone is a mugger

what a horrible night to have a purse

A castlevania au where the local senior center comes down with a bad case of food poisoning

what a horrible night to be a nurse

A castlevania au where you are in a contest to see how long you can make your sentences

what a horrible night to be so terse

a castlevania au where too many funerals are being conducted

what a horrible night to have a hearse

a castlevania au where you are a vapor and everyone has their fans on and the windows open

what a horrible night to be dispersed

A castlevania/homestuck crossover where Dracula usurps the Black Queen.

What a horrible night to be on Derse.

A castlevania au that takes place underwater.

what a horrible night to immerse

a castlevania au where everyone’s in a bad mood and nobody really wants to talk to you

what a horrible night to try to converse

a castlevania au where it’s open-mic night and everyone but you is feeling pretty serious

what a horrible night for doggerel verse

A castlevania au where forum moderators can see the future.

what a horrible night to type FIRS

silthead:

veryangrymouse:

beesmygod:

soselfimportant:

soselfimportant:

soselfimportant:

A castlevania au where everyone is a mugger

what a horrible night to have a purse

A castlevania au where the local senior center comes down with a bad case of food poisoning

what a horrible night to be a nurse

A castlevania au where you are in a contest to see how long you can make your sentences

what a horrible night to be so terse

a castlevania au where too many funerals are being conducted

what a horrible night to have a hearse

a castlevania au where you are a vapor and everyone has their fans on and the windows open

what a horrible night to be dispersed

A castlevania/homestuck crossover where Dracula usurps the Black Queen.

What a horrible night to be on Derse.

A castlevania au that takes place underwater.

what a horrible night to immerse

veryangrymouse:

beesmygod:

soselfimportant:

soselfimportant:

soselfimportant:

A castlevania au where everyone is a mugger

what a horrible night to have a purse

A castlevania au where the local senior center comes down with a bad case of food poisoning

what a horrible night to be a nurse

A castlevania au where you are in a contest to see how long you can make your sentences

what a horrible night to be so terse

a castlevania au where too many funerals are being conducted

what a horrible night to have a hearse

a castlevania au where you are a vapor and everyone has their fans on and the windows open

what a horrible night to be dispersed

A castlevania/homestuck crossover where Dracula usurps the Black Queen.

What a horrible night to be on Derse.

TW: Rape

femmesandfamily:

fucknorapists:

Do you know of a rapist that you want outed, but you don’t want to deal with being harassed for it?
You can submit to Fuck No Rapists and we will put them on blast without your name attached.
Because fuck rape culture, and fuck having to stay silent.

YES TO THIS

Dead link. Dead blog. Something really fishy is going on here.

veryangrymouse:

pit-of-legos:

waltdisneyconfessions:

“I don’t get how Atlantis (from the early 2000’s) can have a Black/Native American surgeon and a Latina mechanic in 1910 because hey, why not, while newer films have almost no POC because it’s “traditional”“

this is a very good point

i love (most of) atlantis’s characters

i just dont like atlantis as a whole that much

im not sure why and it’s a little sad

Most of the characters are kicking rad. A firebug who wants to own a flower shop. A radio operator who keeps up on her gossip while in a cave under the ocean. The performances are all around great, which really helps to carry the more shallow characters.

The problem for me is the plot. Parts of it don’t make sense and all the Atlantians look like idiots for falling for the military’s plan.

monetizeyourcat:

jesus, like libertarians, would have no understanding whatsoever of modern banking or the rules and regulations under which it operates. his critique of banking, unlike his searing critique of the temple priesthood, would have little bearing on the reality of the crisis our capitalist class has fostered. jesus had the excuse of living in the first century, whereas the ignorance of libertarians is as crass as using impact font to make a political point. a good cartoon