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I think it def helps to make sure kids know the rules and logic of math before letting them use all the shortcuts. also this, 100% it was the only math I bombed out on. in 10th grade I got a 48% on the trig exam, which was probably my lowest grade (excluding like getting a zero for not doing something) until 11th grade/pre-calc when I got a 36% on that trig test. it just didn't make any sense, like you can multiple and divide, but you can't sin something? like what is that even? it wasn't until scrolling reddit long after finishing school and someone posted an animated gif of like a circle and triangle visually moving around each other and how that generates all the sin/cos/tan values and waves. the logic all clicked in that moment, long after any of it was relevant, just as it clicked for a thousand people in the comments. one of the commenters basically said that the reason no one understands trig is because the math teachers don't understand it either, so they can't elaborate beyond "this is what the rule is" to help it click like with that one gif.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time my older sister had the N64 cartridge I had the GCN Master Quest disc that was a reward for pre-ordering Wind Waker my dad got me a used copy of the limited edition Zelda collection on GCN (Zelda 1, Zelda 2, OOT, MM) I got the 3DS remake I just beat the game on the Switch virtual console

@cixblah if you are alive we are one day away from friending up

also (if you haven't seen Coco, don't spoil yourself - go watch the full movie right now)

Woody's Life Lessons: Toy Story 1: it is ok to not always be the center of attention Toy Story 2: love will always end, but it's preferable to emotionally sterile immortality Toy Story 3: it's ok to let them go when they move on Toy Story 4: it's ok to let yourself move on Toy Story 5: ... it's... ok to die...?

3 seemed like a good place to hang it up, and only do the shorts and seasonals after that to their credit though, the fourth one did continue to progress the existential "Woody's Life Lessons" to a reasonable next level

setting aside everything else in this thread experience, the one absolute positive is that after 35 years I've finally learned how to spell "heinie"

happy day

literally the only thing I watch close to that are Aussie Drongo casts of AOE4 matches https://youtube.com/@aussiedrongo?si=IKk5yIHdxJnJJwwg no idea why this broke through my otherwise general disinterest in competitive video games

my kid was the star of a "save the post office" protest a couple months ago, but that's a bit more niche

happy birthday @Inu_crazed_90!

happy birthday @garbagepailcat!

been buuuusy

guys i am internet famous now

he was talking to you [through the tv]

happy birthdya @-Ninja_Jesus- and @inuyashaboy05 !

sorry

kid won a slot in the pre-K lottery

happy birthday @JehutyNinja and/or @Judy

happy birthday @no members to show!

the short of it is that fast-track totalitarian overhauls tend to backfire monkeypaw style Mao's "great leap forward" probably led to more human death and suffering than any other single event in history

my undergrad capstone course was about various efforts by totalitarian governments to create utopias, and the dystopias that resulted

happy @mochi day