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@hyfenphaye Right. Why would anyone call the guy who gives his last dollar to a homeless person despite the rent being due kind-hearted?

everyone's pointing out doom but spider-man is the real outlier

@IMLkaarthick @ThePrimeUltron Victor would sacrifice Latveria citizens in a minute if it served his purposes. And since he planned to overwrite Kristoff’s thoughts and memories with his own, essentially killing him, protecting Val like his own child doesn’t mean much.

@ThePrimeUltron Victor cares for latverian citizens and even he protected Mr fantastic's daughter like his own child.

If Doom is a kind hearted hero then I’m Jesus Christ.

@MarfyMan @PedroRivie95096 @johnsemley3000 Elvis was to the fifties what Michael Jackson was to the eighties. Everyone, everywhere, knew who he was. To give just one example, Kyu Sakamoto, a Japanese singer who later had a worldwide hit with Sukiyaki, started his career imitating Elvis.

@PedroRivie95096 @johnsemley3000 The only person on your list who would actually beat out Michael is Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler. You think non-english speakers know or care who Shakespeare, Taylor Swift or even to a lesser extent Elvis Presley are?

I think the argument can be made, rather easily, that he was the most famous person to ever exist, and the most famous person who will ever exist.

@PedanticPerson @soncharm Not according to this article, which blames “absenteeism and smartphones.”

@StevenJTrevor @soncharm Sure, but if we look at how things are going in terms of math proficiency you'll see that it's at a 20 year low; that's bad, isn't it? This suggests the classes are part of the problem...

Math Understanders are dunking on this saying ‘guess you just don’t have Number-Sense bro’ but the issue is that it’s just phrased weirdly for someone who wasn’t in the class when this ‘a way to make a ten’ thing was introduced. I and presumably everyone who criticizes this Understands Numbers just fine, but I also don’t know what ‘using a way to make a ten to calculate 8+9’ means. I could try to infer it from context? Do you ‘make a ten’ with the 8 by grabbing 2 from the 9 leaving 7, hence 17? Do you ‘make a ten’ with the 9 and 1 from the 8, again leaving 7? Do you round both up to 10 getting 20, then take away the 2+1? I’m sure it’s something like that. Or rather, I don’t know what the heck else it could be. Either way, rest assured, I ‘have number-sense’! But ‘make a ten’ is a weirdly specific phrase and (again) since I wasn’t in class when the teacher talked about it, and it wasn’t a phrase ever used when I was learning arithmetic, I can’t have confidence I ‘know what it means’ and ‘know what the teacher is asking for’ per se, so if I’m the parent trying to help my kid who doesn’t know what to do, this leaves me frustrated. Math is not supposed to do that! The great thing about math is there are objective answers ascertainable by multiple methods, and all methods are right as long as the logic is correct. You’re not supposed to *have to* ‘do it the way the teacher was going for’. But this thing says the student *has to* ‘make a ten’. Simply must replicate the specific arcane phrase and method the teacher went through in class, other ways are deemed ‘incorrect’. This is essentially wordcel-thinking intruding into math. Wordcels probably like that because it aligns with what they like about education (=secret learning & phrasing dispensed by special experts using specific phrases you must learn and internalize) and not what they dislike (=math).

@peafunkfan @batcountry1980 “Technically more accomplished” is not the same thing as “better.” Saying that it is reduces music to a finger-moving exercise.

@batcountry1980 Objectively, Steve Vai (for ample) is technically a more accomplished guitarist than those in the standard Top 10 lists but subjective preferences determine the lists.

The true measure of The Beatles is that everyone is measured against The Beatles. That’s not me claiming they’re the best or greatest, as music’s totally subjective. But when someone does try to make that claim about an artist, inevitably it’s the Beatles they’re put up against.

@soncharm That’s a failing on your part.

@StevenJTrevor I think this is unnecessarily imposing an a priori structure on what does and doesn’t ’help you understand’

@choose282 @soncharm Since I didn’t actually say that, I think you’re confused about how to quote people, but I would be more helpful than someone who can’t figure out what “make a ten” means in an addition problem. Which of those three words is giving you trouble?

@StevenJTrevor @soncharm >you shouldn't help your kids with their homework Nice one dweeb, next time they'll know better than to ask you for help

@soncharm Learning these processes helps you understand math better. For instance “make a ten” teaches them that 8+9 is the same as 8+(7+2) and the same as (8+2)+7, giving the kid a leg up for more advanced math.

@StevenJTrevor the thing in math is there's no 'the' process by which you get the answer

@soncharm I’m not sure why the teacher giving the process by which you get the answer is a bad thing, but you can explain the obvious meaning of the words. After all, “add” was also a word they didn’t know until they were taught. Also, let them get some things wrong. It’s how they learn.

No one is describing or talking about 'doing their kids' homework for them'. That is a made-up straw man. People are describing the (totally normal human) scenario in which one's kid asks for help on homework, which for some reason people in this thread are totally unfamiliar with. Yes, as a parent, the parent can ask, Is this what it means. And then what if the kid says: I don't know/don't remember? Then they are stuck 'guessing' and trying to divine 'what the teacher meant/was going for'. In a math (arithmetic) problem. That is seriously stupid! Teachers should not set up that sort of scenario in the first place!

@soncharm You really shouldn’t be doing your kids homework for them, but since you’ve figured it out, you could ask them, “is this what it means,” or you could do it using what you think it means and hope for the best.

@StevenJTrevor Sure, but say you're the parent, and ask your kid 'so what did the teacher say make a ten means in class', and the kid says 'I don't know/don't remember'? Now what?

@FrankieInVegas @gooolixx Three guesses who Dylan praised as the best melody-writer in music.

@gooolixx Musician ? No. Sonny Rollins and several others. Songwriter ? No. Dylan, maybe a couple of others. Singer ? No, but a great singer nonetheless. Overall ? Yeah

Paul mccartney is probably the greatest living musician

@LindoAbyss Once, my mom was talking about comics she liked as a kid and asked if Plastic Man was still around. I had a very uncomfortable moment telling her “Yeah. He has an illegitimate son now,”

It's funny being someone who reads comics because when you explain something that feels normal to someone who barely touches comics it sounds insane. "What do you mean Alfred is dead, Superman is gone, green goblin is a good guy and is also Spiderman sometimes"

@countyingula123 @KindOfGuapo @9mmballpoint None of those mean the same thing.

@StevenJTrevor @KindOfGuapo @9mmballpoint weird, strange, out of place, goofy, derpy. I dunno. But i bet that word has been googled for it's definition more this week than any other time in history lul.

Guys, high schoolers should be able to read the word silhouette. That statement isn't controversial. We can argue all day about causes and solutions, but there's no point pretending the problem doesn't exist.

@SanicSoup @questionableway When I was a pre-teen, I read it in comic books and heard it in sitcom reruns.

@questionableway no its not stop trying to act condescending. i went through all of ap highschool and college, read and write all the time, never came across that word

yeah it definitely is. what.

@jamieclockwork The prevailing view on Beatlestwt seems to be that they started out making insignificant pop songs, but they matured and then they did their great work, but 90% of rock musicians from the sixties and 70s will say something like “when I heard ‘She Loves You’, it changed my life.”

Beatles Ranking Abbey Road Magical Mystery Tour Sgt Pepper Rubber Soul Revolver White Let It Be

@Breliloquy If you knew the word from popular entertainment, which you just said you did, it wasn’t that uncommon.

@KindOfGuapo @9mmballpoint You seem oddly attached to the idea that most high school students aren’t very literate. It’s not that obscure a word. I’ve seen it in Archie comic books. You know, entertainment for pre-teens. If you think it’s especially esoteric, that’s a failing on your part.

@StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint You seem really attached to this word for some reason. No clue why. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news that this is not on the essential word list for high schoolers.

@KindOfGuapo @9mmballpoint I asked you because you claimed the word was unimportant. To make that claim, you need to know something to replace it with. “Use whatever you want” doesn’t answer the question. “Awkward” is never a suitable substitute.

@StevenJTrevor @9mmballpoint Use whatever you want. Sometimes "awkward" will do. Sometimes not. Just don't talk to teenagers and expect more than a few of them to understand that word.

@gooolixx Because Jack Nietzche, Larry Levine, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, etc weren’t there.

Why did phil spector lose all of his talent when he had to work with the Beatles like what the hell happened