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  • Semisimian@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Construction workers or people in business and all who is right in this scene the teacher or Rodney Dangerfield?English
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    3 months ago

    I am in construction (not manufacturing) and own my own business. Truth is, they are both right.

    Rodney is right because there are a huge number of variables that the prof’s equation is ignoring. Also, it is generally a good idea to know what you are manufacturing and work to produce that product as efficiently as possible. The professor is sort of putting the cart before the horse by building a factory with no product.

    That said, we are in a learning environment and seemingly in a lower-level class. You have to strip away real-world variables to teach the lessons at hand. The professor is right not to include corrupt politicians and mafia folk, it’s too much when you are trying to start with the basics. But he should’ve had the class decide on a product - he said it himself, it could be anything - and then build up from there.

    Mafia payoffs are a 300 level course.

  • Semisimian@startrek.websitetoComic Strips@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    6 months ago

    I agree, which is why I don’t see why people are saying the answer is 16. You add in the parentheses, you multiply, then you divide. The answer is 1.

    This left-to-right business linked below is complete nonsense when it comes to equations. That’s how westerners read books, but not how math is communicated. Am I that old? Like Mr. Incredible said, did they change math!?!

  • Semisimian@startrek.websitetoCurated Tumblr@sh.itjust.works•meta holidayEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’m a staunch atheist who likes a holiday.

    Jesus was most likely born in the spring or fall a few years earlier than we recognize, if he was even a single person or existed at all. The Church, as it did every time, took existing holidays and co-opted them.

    The end of the Roman calendar year is an amalgam of pagan holidays that celebrate the shortest day/longest night. A lot of the traditions we associate with Xmas are celebrating the beginning of the lengthening of the day and the return to life/springtime.

    Xmas has always been a meta holiday. Most are. Enjoy the company of friends and family just as people have for millenia, no matter what banner is hanging over the mantle.