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My biggest problem with VAR letting the referee know about it was that I don’t see it as a clear and obvious error - which I thought was the point of VAR. The shot was a desperation hoof from well outside the box that is sailing well high and wide of the goal. The defender is a foot inside of the box and jumping across the shot. Does he let his hand dangle? Okay, sure. I don’t think he knew too much about it especially since it was so far off target, but I was kind of a shit defender anyway. If the ball went anywhere near the target it would have been scooped up (presumably) by Buffon. But instead it goes out for a corner - Man U is content and PSG try to get their head out of their ass. In real time nobody - not fans, not commentators, not coaching staff, not substitutes, not any of the Man U players (although they are appealing for the corner) are going to the ref with any outrage. Kimpembe even looks genuinely surprised (not some sort of Tim Duncan “who me?” bullshit) when the referee gets called. If the ref called it immediately or the AR called him over and they called it on the field, I would have thought - that’s really harsh, but whatever - Fuck PSG. The fact that nobody knew anything about it suggests it wasn’t some sort of clear and egregious error by the referee, but instead a game being refereed remotely. I just really don’t want this to turn into an NFL style reviews that just plain suck. That being said, at least more Qatari money will go to football instead of terrorism and Neymar will still have only found success as a fucking waiter, so alls well that ends well.

Big balls by Rashford

Oh shit

No way they give a penalty here

If only Mbappe played for a team I could root for.

God damn Buffon Dont go out like that

That free kick by Rashford was ....odd.

Klopp is really trying to make shinola out of shit on the field after the game.

Come on now. It’s not all bad. At no point in the 98 Finals did I ever believe I would be blessed enough to read a letter on Dennis Rodman stationary written to POTUS in an effort to promote global diplomacy.

Can anyone explain the idea behind adding butter to coffee? Is it a meal replacement or simply swapping diluent for more “healthy” diluent? It just seems like a gross way to ruin a cup of coffee. The only people that swear by it at the office are orca fat, yet constantly talk about diets and shit.

So the moral is Dont bring a fake gun to a knife fight.

Somebody just realized that they have “Replica” on the side of their gun instead of “Desert Eagle 0.50”.

So most of the complaints I have heard are about the Singapore Math style curriculum of Common Core for K-6. As I understand, these started being implemented in the US in the late 00-early 10s, with implementation increasing with time. So the set of ACT scores probably doesn’t reflect that change (first link). The second link is for 15 yo who would represent the guinea pigs kids of that change, with Singapore topping that list. The third link says that while the 15 yos haven’t improved the fourth and eighth graders have been vs the kids from 1995. So while it is too early to say that the new system is the cause for the improvement in the younger kids, I don’t think there is a reason to abandon it yet. This really isn’t about wearing scarves and drinking Pinot Grigio while listening to Sigur Ros smelling you own farts while turning the future generations into Europhiles who hate America. It’s about implementing a program that has resulted in the Singapore kids being top ranked in math for the past two decades. Whether it will work with a significantly larger/diverse population remains to be seen, but there is reason to be optimistic.

All new hires require some sort of training to tailor them to the specific role. If you have to actively untrain your new hires, that is on the hiring manager. If everything you do is on flash cards, then maybe you don’t need to hire college grads. The only line of thought I am advocating is for school to be the place to get a solid knowledge base and learn different ways to solve a problem. Not develop robots for computations and chart reading. There is a reason that works gets outsourced overseas. Defining the problem, setting shit up, making correct assumptions is the hard part. A simple computational error is a pretty minor/easy overall fix. That kind of error would be caught by someone who had the fundamentals to check their answer using another method. Same but switch to ChE and no Facebook account.

Isn’t this where.....

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I’m not a teacher you troglodyte. The goal of a kid learning in school is to learn how to go through the thought process and all the possible ways to solve a fucking problem - to learn how to think and reason. That way when you are presented something in the workplace/life you can find the quickest solution or a solution at all. School is the place to learn these things so you don’t shit the bed too badly at your first job. You may only need to know how to calculate sales tax or make sure someone isn’t over 40 hours for the week, but some of us solve abstract problems from large data sets with a lot of unknowns that require critical thinking. These necessitate skills and understanding of fundamental concepts greater than the rote memorization of flash cards.

As an engineer as well, I don’t really agree here, but obviously don’t know the specifics of the complaint. Sometimes the teachers are trying to teach a specific method. Sure you can solve a problem more than one way depending what information is available, but when the question is to solve it a specific way - there is only one path to take. The final answer isn’t the goal of the question. The thought process is the goal. It is why showing your work is important. When you actually go out and work, you have to make all sorts of assumptions when the data isn’t available that you need different methods to solve the problem.

Did you learn no concepts that required a solid understanding of the fundamentals? You used to have to three or four long form versions of solving derivatives/integration before you got to use the “easy” way. At the time it seemed tedious, but it eventually helped you in the long run with higher level concepts. Most of the Singapore Math concepts seem pretty intuitive when I compare it to how I do math in my head. I really think it is like what was mentioned above - trying to instill number sense to those that don’t have it naturally.

No. Internet overreaction to a shocking event.

Not sure about that. At least in the 80/90s, it was LSU with a few La Tech fans mixed in. NFL was fairly evenly split Saints/Cowboys, although there was a noticeable shift toward Dallas during their early 90s run.

On a side note, Rocko now has the second lowest pay stub I have ever seen posted on the internet.

I don’t know who the fuck Jillian Michaels, but she doesn’t seem to have any sort of scientific background. That being said, the WHO has published a extensive long term study in The Lancet this week about the health benefits of dietary fiber. To suggest that fiber is somehow bad for you or that it shouldn’t be included in a healthy diet seems to lack any basis in peer reviewed science.

The la bbq is $45/lb for brisket vs $20 on site. I love a muffuletta from Central, but 3 for $150 seems a tad high.