What's your favorite "WTF did I just read?"

Rhesonance · 2012-05-27T19:29:06.063475+00:00

Wtf? Why are you being downvoted? I'm guessing most people really love the main characters.

MaverageAssassin · 2012-05-27T19:21:57.914826+00:00

Wrong. She's hard to get. He's the little guy. Always root for the little guy.

ohgoshwheretobegin · 2012-05-27T19:09:27.335152+00:00

Did you switch because you thought the field of psychology has been corrupted? It seems when a field having to do with people's minds (psychology/psychiatry) could be used to control thinking conventions of the masses and debase the rights of anyone via labeling, some evil entity will immediately jump to that potential. Like the DSM's long history of bullshit disorders: homosexuality (no longer PC to say homosexuality is an illness), ODD (school favorite), pedophilia (classic fear-mongering).

A few things, though.

Affection/touch (love) is probably more important than money.
Thoroughly ingrained sexism in nearly every culture in the world, particularly the dominant Western culture, probably makes the biggest contribution to the males' plight. For example: girls are allowed to express emotion and hug liberally while it is unmanly/unacceptable for a boy to do the same; men must be stoic.
If sex wasn't as demonized as it is, prostitution would vanish as an alternative. Sexual activity would just be so commonplace that prostitution would only exist as a skilled profession, as in maximum technique. In a natural state, I wager that sexual activity would be trivial but critical, like drinking water.
A 30 or 40 something married male so-called "preying" (how loaded) on anyone under 13 (arbitrary number) is not a wholly different story. The situation indeed is different but it is still inhuman to demonize these people.

What do you think?

ohgoshwheretobegin · 2012-05-27T08:44:26.957658+00:00

How am I just discovering you? You are a gem in a sea of uptight sex-demonizing pedohunters.

SupDoodlol · 2012-05-27T08:11:50.345753+00:00

Looks like she still has some of that self-esteem left. Ugh. She obviously didn't concentrate on her school work as a kid like the good, well-behaved children.

SupDoodlol · 2012-05-27T08:09:24.370016+00:00

10/10 fantastic argument of semantics, would read again.

The_Time_Vortex should have said "I forgot how awful I think Skrillex was." Though it makes little difference.

koobaxion · 2012-05-27T07:59:25.184999+00:00

What? More bots than humans commenting on your post? This must be remedied!

Grats! I am so jelly. You are a pioneer of bold new brony expressions to come.

loopuleasa · 2012-05-27T07:56:54.429349+00:00

Why titties

ScottFree37 · 2012-05-27T07:52:09.976234+00:00

Absolutely. If you cannot afford the consequences or the prevention of consequences of vaginal intercourse, stick to non-vaginal activity.

ScottFree37 · 2012-05-27T06:06:57.678971+00:00

Assuming the subject in question is having sex every other day, how often could they pregnant in a year if they terminated their pregnancy at the average abortion time? It would probably be more than 1 abortion per year, averaged.

Also, even if a year's worth of BC is more expensive than a single abortion, it might actually be less costly in terms of opportunity cost. For the abortion, you must allocate an "abortion fund" or add such burden to your emergency savings. For the BC, say if you pay for a month's supply each month, you would pay comparatively little amounts at a time, leaving other portions of your wage to be spent elsewhere.

j0npau1 · 2012-05-27T05:52:04.990239+00:00

r/parenting. r/punisher.

r/atheism has become a second circlejerk, except everyone here isn't pretending.

ScottFree37 · 2012-05-27T05:42:29.770900+00:00

Amateur. You forgot to photoshop out the small breasts and to photoshop in poisonous spiders. Classic mistake.

ScottFree37 · 2012-05-27T05:36:15.010871+00:00

It takes a particularly realistic teacher in AP to learn this? What a great success progressive education turned out to be... in producing an easily manipulated citizenry.

ScottFree37 · 2012-05-27T05:33:06.612231+00:00

Abortions are expensive. Birth control is cheap.

ScottFree37 · 2012-05-27T05:23:53.203346+00:00

You must have been downvoted by them.

Derp_of_the_hooves · 2012-05-27T05:10:04.957869+00:00

Meanwhile a little girl is crying because she lost her doll at the beach.

sociomaladaptivist · 1 day

Define exploitation.

TheShrekmeister · 1 day

Did you watch the whole thing?

sfacets · 1 day

In theory. In reality, a high school level education means that some know exponential growth, probability, permutations, and grammar. Virtually no one learns how to take out a loan, set up a savings account, take out insurance, start a business, or write a business letter that actually has a purpose. Your last sentence, "you're going to need a high school level education" says to me that you have replaced your perception of reality with a rigid, plainly tiered model just because it's easier to understand. Do you concede that there is more to reality than "primary school education = this, secondary school education = that," or do you truly believe that school provides all of those things which it promises?
Spoken language doesn't magically appear. I, and probably everybody else, learned to speak from my infant school teacher at infant school. Just kidding. I didn't. I learned it on my own by observing the world around me, making random noises to exercise command over my voice, and trying to copy the more complex and patterned voice of the bigger people. There is no reason to believe something similar can't be accomplished with literacy and numeracy. Also, secondary education does not accurately resemble tertiary education, much less employment. School teaches school. Secondary education will help kids get their useless liberal arts degrees, but it won't help them after the first couple years. Why is that kids who didn't go to school and do not have high school diplomas do so well in college? It's because they chose to be there for their own personal academic reasons.
If the skills are not integrated into their interests, they will not be interested in learning those skills. If they are not interested, then for them it is not worth learning. As simple as that. If you wish to force kids to conform to your rigorous standards of "how well can you deny your self-interest and eliminate your self-esteem," then working with kids isn't the best career choice for you. But this is something you probably would not intentionally do. You care about kids and you want them to get the best education possible. What right now would help the most to accomplish that goal is to stop treating them like slaves -- their lives are theirs, not yours, not mine. In opposing school I don't mean to say all kids shouldn't go to school. I mean no one should be forced to have decisions made for them, whether that is to go school or to pay for it. Therefore, no public school. Please.
"We don't have enough -- if we just had more money, we could finally get something done." The fallacious argument is a favorite for government bureaucracies. Having a university degree doesn't mean they deserve to have a high pay. There's a reason the U.S. has secret torture facilities: they work. You're right though. Primary and secondary education is a part of every developed country because it works -- not in education, but in indoctrination. How many people in the U.S. think democracy is great, something to be exported across the world? How many know what started the financial crisis? How many believe the solution is more regulation? How many people think drugs are bad, something to be made illegal and something that will always remain illegal? Interpreting your last remark as it was meant to, the answer is no. It doesn't work. What is education? Education shapes our deepest views of the world. It empowers us to understand things. It helps us become productive. It helps us be rational individuals ready to interact rationally with our peers. With a successful education, a society eliminates most if not all of its problems. That is the most obvious sign that the education system is not working: government-exacerbated financial crisis, government-sponsored crime, government-inspired crime, very limited understanding of politics and even less understanding of economics in the hoi polloi. We have people saying we need this law and that regulation because people are dumb and need a wise government to take care of them -- if so, then what was that 12-year government education program all about? Did it not work? Of course it didn't.

Bripocalypse · 1 day

I had to look at your username to see if you were a "Public School Graduate" novelty account. I seriously hope you're joking.

sfacets · 2 days

True that literacy and arithmetic are useful or even critical skills for most careers. For this argument to defend public school (and consequently standardized tests), you would have to assume true what has yet to be proven (begging the question), that is that school gives these skills.
Argument assumes the student wants to pursue medicine, business, law, university level science. Also the phrasing of "bullshit your way through calculus" really shows where the priorities of this argument are: not in learning, which is what school is supposedly all about in the first place.
Are they taught those skills? Or are they taught how to pretend to have those skills? The fish is really good at swimming. He may cheat off the seal's ladder so he be over with it and go home to swim. Whatever they do, climbing the tree is not an important skill to them and won't affect their future productivity.
Shitty overpaid teachers. What that job has become with the expansion of progressive education costs way more than what its utility justifies. True there are some gems in there, but the administrations makes sure they can't do anything useful.

sfacets · 2 days

What?

sfacets · 2 days

I'm quite suspicious of that sort of justification. If you want people to fund your business (either by investing or buying your stuff), you have to produce results: make a promising number of sales, sell high quality items at a competitive price. For government bureaucracies such as public school, the funding comes in no matter what. Budgets don't shrink -- even if they do, that amount is added to another budget. There is no incentive to provide a quality service or to make it cheaper. Doing good: "Give us money we're doing good!" Doing bad: "Give us more money we just don't have enough!"

What do you think of the efficacy of those tests in reaching that end? Have you considered the sheer number of students that cheat on those tests? Or even the schools themselves that cheat on those tests?

sfacets · 2 days

I interpret this cartoon as criticizing the standard school system for ignoring the individual, having a one-size-fits-all structure and judging the future productivity of students according to that standard. The monkey and the bird will do fine, and be praised for their good work. The others will be scolded in a disappointed tone, "You need to work on this. You don't want to work at McDonald's, do you?" So the unable animals go home feeling like failures, a very dangerous blow to a child's self-esteem that may spawn a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The comic does not imply that humans are of different species, or that a majority of people have disabilities preventing them from doing Math, English, History, or Science. Many have dismissed this for that reason, as if to say "That doesn't portray our education system! All I see are a bunch of pixels!" Some have turned the criticism not on the system, but on the children. "It's just lazy kids. If they studied they could do it. The cartoon is wrong because it compares the kids to animals who, even if they tried, cannot possibly do it." This interpretation is also wrong, because in taking the side of the school, the interpreter fails to take into account the child. What purpose does a fish have in being able to climb a tree? As a penguin in Antarctica, there aren't any trees where I'm going. The seal just doesn't want to climb a tree at all.

Playing devil's advocate to suggest that this humorous cartoon may be wrong is fine. It's great. But when the comments degenerate into a circle-jerk thread about how great school is and how it's all the student's fault, there's something wrong here. It's as if the people ITT do not even want to consider that their childhood schooling was flawed or in vain in any way. For those looking for more things to get unreasonably upset about.

So, can you provide your interpretation and substantiate your argument of why it's wrong?

sfacets · 3 days

Then what's the point of giving them? To spot the special needs students? If you didn't spot them with weekly tests for a whole semester, your bureaucratic institution isn't worth existing.

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