Maybe fascists and capitalists need a little oppression.

Some good explanations of math concepts.

Numberphile on YouTube is all about showing the fun and creativity that real mathematicians experience in their work.

A rule says you can’t do something? Just make up a new rule that says you can and see what happens. That’s how a lot of progress is made in mathematics. Too bad school doesn’t teach it that way.

If you like programming, you could try to do project euler problems. They are little programming challenges with a mathy focus. You can do them in your own pace with any language and learn math on the way. It mostly won’t be the kind of math you need for your tests, but it will help you with basics and might also bring some fun back to math for you.

However, it won’t be easy. You might have to learn some basics first. And don’t hesitate to google the topics a lot to learn about them. After you solve a challenge, you get to see how others did it.

You could even do them on your phone, if you like Python.

I think that these fundamentals were skipped during my education.

Yes, that happens way to often unfortunately. And since everything in math builds on earlier stuff, it’s very easy to completely get lost just because you missed a few things. The school system doesn’t tend to help (unless they offer extra courses), so you’ll have to teach yourself until you catch up. Thankfully there is lots of stuff online, like Khan academy. I’m sure you can do it, since you already love programming.

It would be better for me if I didn’t have to walk to this school and waste my time on that and instead just learning to exams on my own rules.

That’s probably true. Unfortunately, we’re stuck with this system for now. Good luck making the best of it. Take the good for your own goals and ignore the bad as best as you can.

Math is wonderful, but our system is bad, if you struggle with math, that doesn’t mean anything is wrong with you. Don’t let it affect your self esteem. Just try to learn the way that’s best for you. I hope you’ll find a way to enjoy math eventually. But if not, that’s okay too.

all these libs/Dem party people on here are all as guilty

True

Advanced enough dialectics is indistinguishable from a curse and a blessing.

Look, you’re 100% right about the US, but the person you’re arguing with is obviously not representative of the average USian. Don’t take it all out on them. Also Europe is shit too, maybe slightly less so, but still.

telling them any Democrat that runs is going to be the same

No, not the same. Any Democrat will make things even worse than they are now. The speed of worsening will just be slower than under Trump. Vote for them if you want, sure, but don’t lie to people. False hope in the Democrats is what really kills any hope for the revolutionary change that is so badly needed and that is the only thing that can save us (I mean the whole world, not just the US).

Found more than I’d hoped on Wikipedia:

So in the thirteenth century, Antonio of Padua was fed up with how unimpressed his (supposedly heretic) audience was with his preaching. So he literally went to preach to the fishes instead who, surprisingly, stuck their heads out and listened. This then impressed the heretics so much, they too started to listen.

Anyway, 1654 or about 450 years later, on the feast day of Antonio, his namesake António Vieira, a Jesuit Monk in Brazil, gave the “Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish”. In it, he argued against the cruelty of the colonizers against the natives and condemned slavery. (Also he includes a list of good fishes and bad fishes)

Accordingly, three days later, Vieira secretly set sail for Lisbon to plead the cause of the Indians, and in April 1655 he obtained from King John IV a series of decrees which placed the missions under the Society of Jesus, with Vieira himself as their superior, and prohibited the enslavement of the natives, except in certain specific cases.

Conflicts between the settlers and the Jesuits in Brazil went back as far as 1549, and were to last until the latter were banished in 1760.

This is not the full story and the Jesuits probably wanted the natives alive and un-enslaved mostly for the sake of more easily converting them to Christianity, but it still sounds cool, that they opposed the settlers for so long.

This is the best image I’ve seen all week!

That goes for the piping. But it’s it true for the pumps? Are they using pumps that adhere to strict drinking water standards?

Yes! It’s so annoying! Saying “USians” sounds weird, but it’s the USians own fault for having a stupidly named country on stolen land.

I feel like only having a choice between dementia, Alzheimer’s and brain worms in the next election is not enough. The US needs more plurality in the democratic process. People should be free to cast their vote for any number of degenerative neurological diseases. What if voters want to stand up for Parkinson’s or multiple sclerosis? More and more people look at US society and feel like terminal brain tumors are clearly best suited to represent it in office.

Thanks for checking!

Every accusation a confession. Again and again.

Don’t dehumanize victims of landlords by calling them “mob”. There are way more empty homes than homeless. The picture obviously is about needs based distribution instead of hoarding for profit.

Sure, the government just found the land laying around unused, no colonialism or genocide of natives involved at all /s

They were simply lying in the beginning to device people.