Chess and go don’t need extremely high IQs, it’s mostly about the amount of time you invest in practice. I get annoyed by that cliche that playing chess, go, or with a rubik’s cube has anything to do with intelligence and it’s cringy to watch students on campus posing with their cubes to make an impression :)

You can pirate the ads and quizzes

Is that at the beach or in their infinite bed?

technically the same is true for chess and go, we’re just too dumb to grasp them to the extent we can grasp tic-tac-toe

Deep inside, we all know it’s true though

Different prof here, but a few thoughts:

• academia is not as shiny as it sometimes seems, but it can be great. You can have a lot of freedom to do what you like, work when you like, how you like… do meaningful things. Not always, but the chance is there
• it’s not to get rich. Selling expensive textbooks is rookie level exploitation compared to what people do in the industry, and most of the profit doesn’t even go to the prof

The book to read for this is “the professor is in”. The author takes quite a cynical perspective about academia, but in many ways it’s true. Worth a read (and probably you can get it for cheap second hand)

This guy also found a pretty nice (similar) solution for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3CY6RR4uns

They basically wrote their own textbook through class assignments, students are co-authors, seems to work great in their case. At least that’s how he presents it.

I’m still a bit unsure how to handle that in my own classes. There are not always suitable OERs or the ones you find come with licensing issues (CC-NC and afaik it’s not clear if you can use them because I do teach for the money).

Unnecessary? He can have a snack without the pinworm? Even vegetarian

Well, the father had his part in creating this mess we’re all now in. Now we have to watch a sad existence trying to compensate for their childhood traumas by buying governments instead of just going to therapy.

as in, bringing up veganism in a discussion that isn’t even about autism?

At least he didn’t suggest that health insurance should use a deny, delay, and defend strategy for insurance claim payments

huh, I thought they would bake him :)

IMHO English is easier to learn in the beginning, but gets ridiculous later on. Pronunciation is completely random and makes no sense, vocabulary as well. German pronunciation is probably harder (maybe? The English “th” is a challenge as well!), and articles are stupid. But: once you have a certain level it gets way easier. Pronunciation makes sense, vocabs make sense.

For example, what’s a “plane” supposed to be? Flugzeug (“flying thing”) makes much more sense, even if it’s the first time you read it.

Like that cat from 20yrs ago?

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At some point you realize that many of the classic books are just… really good books! The terrible part is what they do to them in literature class. But many of those old books have become classics for a reason.

How did he do that with his one inch weenie?

“italian restaurant”

Pretty sure that sweater wouldn’t come across too well either if she were a middle school teacher