WATCH LIVE: Democratic National Convention (Day 2)
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First time in my life I watched the DNC through. And with enthusiasm too. Go Dems.
Postmaster general Louis DeJoy announced today that he’s suspending the changes that were blamed for mail delays (from @allmalone: https://t.co/5eXJCh0Q7P) but that didn’t stop Dem AGs from following through on their plan to take the fight to court: https://t.co/MXE4zXbgHs pic.twitter.com/yXYQVNHU2o
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) August 19, 2020
re: #3 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“Postmaster general Louis DeJoy announced today that he’s suspending the changes that were blamed for mail delays but that didn’t stop Dem AGs from following through on their plan to take the fight to court.”
It’s about damn time. More of this from the Democrats would be great.
Mali’s President announces his resignation hours after his reported arrest in a suspected coup https://t.co/FnxaCmIzzj
— CNN International (@cnni) August 19, 2020
re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Gee, wonder how they managed to convince him to…”resign”….?
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From the previous thread:
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
Except Democrats aren’t conservative:
Democrats aren’t conservative: pic.twitter.com/Q3v4kPrhJZ
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) February 4, 2020
We’re not radical, but we’re definitely not conservative.
https://t.co/Cd8rEvyf23 pic.twitter.com/2Po1Bl0dtl
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 18, 2020
Woman on the rail. What is she doing?
Shorpy photo. Click photo to enlarge.
re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“…Keita, who is often known simply as IBK, has been in power since 2013 - but calls for his resignation have grown since the spring, when a court threw out many election results, in a move that left Keita’s Rally for Mali party in a strong position in the National Assembly. This year’s tumultuous parliamentary elections were Mali’s first since 2013.”
npr.org
re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron
That means we’re on pace to hit 7 million by the end of next week.
My dad is becoming more liberal as he gets older. He comes over to our house to wash his clothes, and today he turned it on MSNBC and left it there all day. He also watched the entire first day of the convention yesterday.
Republicans want the US to be working like Mali in 8 years.
re: #7 Jay C
Gee, wonder how they managed to convince him to…”resign”….?H
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He found himself resigned to it.
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re: #4 EPR-radar
“Postmaster general Louis DeJoy announced today that he’s suspending the changes that were blamed for mail delays but that didn’t stop Dem AGs from following through on their plan to take the fight to court.”
It’s about damn time. More of this from the Democrats would be great.
They can sue right now because these actions affect the states directly.
Evening Lizards:
Could not agree more.
2/ Like really is it better to watch a state rep or congressperson suited up in a convention hall or in their living room doing a selfie video on an iPhone. Honestly it’s not even close.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 19, 2020
re: #8 Belafon
From the previous thread:
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We’re not radical, but we’re definitely not conservative.
We’re the most culturally diverse party in the western world. I’m proud of that
Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, states with a history of voter suppression have closed 1,688 polling places.
Pass it on.— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 19, 2020
They tried for 1488 but overshot.
re: #8 Belafon
From the previous thread:
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We’re not radical, but we’re definitely not conservative.
What’s the source of that scatter plot and what criteria do they use? Not disputing their characterization, just curious.
re: #22 JC1
What’s the source of that scatter plot and what criteria do they use? Not disputing their characterization, just curious.
I have no idea but I think most Americans don’t appreciate how even a lot of left European parties are hostile to immigrants. They just see health care.
re: #22 JC1
What’s the source of that scatter plot and what criteria do they use? Not disputing their characterization, just curious.
re: #24 Belafon
The secret is that while Dems are much more conservative on average economically than left wing parties in other countries, we have a significant socially left-wing platform which is something that’s far more scattershot in left-wing and radical parties in Europe.
Hey, it was two threads back, but I feel the need to remind anyone having nightmares about Constitutional Conventions that even if they manage to hold one, anything it passes would have to be ratified by 3/4 of the states (that’s 38 states). If it’s one of the right wing’s wet dream amendments, forget it.
Also, that those far-right loons are winning repug primaries may not be a bad sign. As the repugs in California have become less relevant, far from starting a war in the party to restore sanity and moderation (yes, I’m laughing too), they’ve put forth more and more crackpots and loonies. If we can manage to render them irrelevant on the national stage (their racism is what did it for CA), I think that’s more likely than a “civil war.”
Warren for Education Secretary
AOC for Treasury Secretary! https://t.co/rxtVkNXohZ— #VoteBlue Blueberry Pie (@Pie_Overlord) August 19, 2020
I’m having a hell of a difficult time not going back to Twitter. It’s like an addiction.
Entertain me.
Just a little bit annoyed that Sanders didn’t bother to release his delegates to back Joe Biden. I guess his ego couldn’t stand to take that last important step.
Bush Monkey Flowers in Bloom.
It is plenty of humid hot out in Southern California - we live without air conditioning and dread these few weeks of unpleasantness. That said, I wanted you all to see two photos that best represent my zest for detail this month. They are posted on flickr at high resolution and if viewed full screen provides lots of detail.
The right goes Tea Party. Then it goes Trump. Now it’s gone QAnon. The left went Sanders.
What’s with the cult/conspiracy thinking going on in the US? Are many there tired of leading the world in science and civil rights?
She was banned from Uber, Uber eats, Twitter, but not the Republican Party https://t.co/ae0WDtJGCM
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) August 19, 2020
Let”s do it. https://t.co/GptoriYiw0
— Gary lee (@Lgary702) August 18, 2020
re: #32 b_sharp
I think it’s just louder and more connected. No more grubby mimeographs; now we have Breitbart.
re: #32 b_sharp
The right goes Tea Party. Then it goes Trump. Now it’s gone QAnon. The left went Sanders.
What’s with the cult/conspiracy thinking going on in the US? Are many there tired of leading the world in science and civil rights?
It’s really weird you lumped Sanders supporters in there. There are a lot of things Bernie ways that I want. I just don’t want Bernie.
re: #27 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Hey, it was two threads back, but I feel the need to remind anyone having nightmares about Constitutional Conventions that even if they manage to hold one, anything it passes would have to be ratified by 3/4 of the states (that’s 38 states). If it’s one of the right wing’s wet dream amendments, forget it.
Also, that those far-right loons are winning repug primaries may not be a bad sign. As the repugs in California have become less relevant, far from starting a war in the party to restore sanity and moderation (yes, I’m laughing too), they’ve put forth more and more crackpots and loonies. If we can manage to render them irrelevant on the national stage (their racism is what did it for CA), I think that’s more likely than a “civil war.”
The original Articles of Confederation required every state had to ratify any amendment to the original charter. The Convention at Philadelphia ignored that clause and required 9 of 13 states to ratify and enable the Constitution.
That is a legal precedent that any new Convention could change that ratification level to just 26 states and that is what the Koch’s ALEC Trojan horse and their stooge Ironside Abbott want to do. The Kochsucker Abbott “wrote” a book calling for a new Constitutional Convention that would gut the Federal Government.
Remember that 35 states have called for a convention to balance the federal budget. 3 more opens that dangerous door and that ass Cenk is helping them.
re: #37 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Bernie Bros are very cult like.
re: #37 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It’s really weird you lumped Sanders supporters in there. There are a lot of things Bernie ways that I want. I just don’t want Bernie.
Many Bernie Bros want everything Sanders proposes immediately. They outright reject incremental improvements, despite the fact most countries with those political features had to fight for them and convince a portion of their population they were good moves.
It’s a fundamental divorce from reality.
re: #38 🌹UOJB!
The original Articles of Confederation required every state had to ratify any amendment to the original charter. The Convention at Philadelphia ignored that clause and required 9 of 13 states to ratify and enable the Constitution.
That is a legal precedent that any new Convention could change that ratification level to just 26 states and that is what the Koch’s ALEC Trojan horse and their stooge Ironside Abbott want to do. The Kochsucker Abbott “wrote” a book calling for a new Constitutional Convention that would gut the Federal Government.
Remember that 35 states have called for a convention to balance the federal budget. 3 more opens that dangerous door and that ass Cenk is helping them.
By that same precedent, states that do not ratify need not consider themselves part of the new union. Without the formality of seceding.
Stop scaring yourself.
re: #30 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
Just a little bit annoyed that Sanders didn’t bother to release his delegates to back Joe Biden. I guess his ego couldn’t stand to take that last important step.
Yeah, but it’s ultimately only minimally-relevant. If the Bernbots get to cast their “pledged” votes for BS, and it makes them feel better-enough not to take to Twitter/Facebook and bitch endlessly about the “rigged convention” - which all too many of them will, anyway - so be it. Still better to have them inside the tent pissing out, etc.
And CNN is airing a Donald Trump campaign ad during the Democratic roll call. I don’t know who’s more crass on this, Trump for buying campaign ads during the convention, or CNN actually taking the money.
This roll call is the most traveling I’ve done in months. #DemConvention
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) August 19, 2020
re: #44 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
And CNN is airing a Donald Trump campaign ad during the Democratic roll call. I don’t know who’s more crass on this, Trump for buying campaign ads during the convention, or CNN actually taking the money.
Think of how many Biden and Lincoln Project ads can run during the GOP convention.
Reporter on MSNBC has just said that for the first time the media has not been allowed into a postal facility to witness the handing over of the ballots.
The orders came from Washington, DC.
What are they hiding?— NastyWomanWithoutMalice (@WithForethought) August 18, 2020
re: #44 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
And CNN is airing a Donald Trump campaign ad during the Democratic roll call. I don’t know who’s more crass on this, Trump for buying campaign ads during the convention, or CNN actually taking the money.
I’m watching MSNBC. They’re showing everything.
Great seeing the diversity of the party via the delegates.
BTW, I read that they have added former Pres Jimmy Carter to the speaker for tonight? Has he been on? Or scheduled later?
re: #48 Patricia Kayden
I’m watching MSNBC. They’re showing everything.
Me too. I haven’t seen a commercial yet.
re: #50 Jay C
BTW, I read that they have added former Pres Jimmy Carter to the speaker for tonight? Has he been on? Or scheduled later?
Him and Roslynn spoke briefly.
re: #50 Jay C
BTW, I read that they have added former Pres Jimmy Carter to the speaker for tonight? Has he been on? Or scheduled later?
Carter was on about a half hour into the program.
And it’s official. Joe is the official candidate.
This roll call may be the greatest political event I’ve ever seen.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 19, 2020
Jacquelyn: Your nomination means the world to me. Thank you — and I hope you know: we love you back. #DemConvention pic.twitter.com/BDS1HQAxhM
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 19, 2020
Kamala is loving this roll call. pic.twitter.com/sQtGnrKLAx
— Doug Emhoff (@DouglasEmhoff) August 19, 2020
Well Charlie Webster is going to be very upset. https://t.co/tnSjz9qsmf
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 19, 2020
re: #57 Charles Johnson
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You know that the wingers are gonna lose it over the multiple languages spoken.
re: #61 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You know that the wingers are gonna lose it over the multiple languages spoken.
Savor every insult as an act of panic and desperation.
I love this roll call, much better than the conventional way. The people they pick to speak, the locations they choose to speak from, all awesome. Such a beautiful illustration of who we are and how we live.
re: #62 Rightwingconspirator
Savor every insult as an act of panic and desperation.
Absolutely and here’s Mr. Khan speaking for the Virginia delegation!
re: #61 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You know that the wingers are gonna lose it over the multiple languages spoken.
I smile when I see official Minnesota state documents that are translated in English, French, Somali, and Hmong. Suck on that, wingnut assholes.
re: #63 sagehen
I love this roll call, much better than the conventional way. The people they pick to speak, the locations they choose to speak from, all awesome. Such a beautiful illustration of who we are and how we live.
Seriously it’s a wonderful display of this country is so special.
re: #65 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I smile when I see official Minnesota state documents that are translated in English, French, Somali, and Hmong. Suck on that, wingnut assholes.
When Northam got elected so did quite a few immigrants. It’s awesome.
If there are silver linings to the COVID fiasco wrought by @realDonaldTrump’s failed “war” with the “invisible enemy” (his words), one is this: The right wing extremists whose aspirations Trump has enlivened can’t easily disrupt the #DemConvention in ways we know they’d hoped to.
— Michael S. Smith II (@MichaelSSmithII) August 19, 2020
re: #61 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You know that the wingers are gonna lose it over the multiple languages spoken.
Good. 😈
re: #63 sagehen
I love this roll call, much better than the conventional way. The people they pick to speak, the locations they choose to speak from, all awesome. Such a beautiful illustration of who we are and how we live.
Real Americans. Not just rail-thin blonde women, sharp jawed young men. Actual realistic folks.
re: #61 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
You know that the wingers are gonna lose it over the multiple languages spoken.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez nominates Sen. Sanders over Joe Biden at the #DemConvention: “In a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep systemic solutions to our crises … I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for president.” pic.twitter.com/CKc28FLzTq
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 19, 2020
If you were confused, no worries!
Convention rules require roll call & nominations for every candidate that passes the delegate threshold.
I was asked to 2nd the nom for Sen. Sanders for roll call.
I extend my deepest congratulations to @JoeBiden - let’s go win in November. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/uI92P3UfLn— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 19, 2020
re: #73 Dread Pirate Ron
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People bellyaching why she didn’t get more time should take note of that. I like AOC but she could be using her clout to speak on Biden’s behalf and not the lost cause of Bernie.
re: #74 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I don’t understand the point of this, to be honest.
If you were confused, no worries!
Convention rules require roll call & nominations for every candidate that passes the delegate threshold.
I was asked to 2nd the nom for Sen. Sanders for roll call.
I extend my deepest congratulations to @JoeBiden - let’s go win in November. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/uI92P3UfLn— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 19, 2020
re: #75 The Pie Overlord!
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I’m not confused by it. I just think she could be urging her influence better but it’s fine.
I remain inspired by Sojourner Truth: “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, & get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) August 19, 2020
What is this weird sensation I’m feeling? I haven’t felt this in so long, I forget what it’s called. I think it was good, though.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 19, 2020
re: #79 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Okay, now I can breathe just a liiiittle bit easier. Still seems weird for one of our highest-profile spokespeople to be chosen to second Sanders’s nomination, but if them’s the rules, I don’t treat them quite like the pirate’s code.
Well she was his highest profile endorser.
IMHO that MSNBC twitter post is pathetic, misleading click-bait at its absolute worst.
It’s political theater, as it always has been - the primaries are the election, and this is the party formally announcing the results. Someone has to second each nominee, it’s part of the ritual. And AOC doing it buffs her lefty creds in a relatively harmless way with everyone who’s important understanding she’s not causing problems with it.
And. It’s also about Bernie’s ego - if they had some unknown Joe Podunk congresscritter do it, it would be a slight.
AOC doesn’t need to have a big role this year. If I’m doing the math right, she’ll be 35 next presidential cycle, which would be the right time to show up and deliver a whopper of a speech… like Obama did in 2004, setting the stage for his candidacy. Better not to seem too grasping in this cycle, make sure her face shows up, and spend four more years taunting the ‘thugs.
re: #65 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I smile when I see official Minnesota state documents that are translated in English, French, Somali, and Hmong. Suck on that, wingnut assholes.
English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Tagalog here.
re: #88 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Tagalog here.
Come to think of it, Spanish might be on the list just because of the overall commonality of Spanish in the US, but the ones I listed are the primary ones I know to look for because those are our biggest communities.
re: #89 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Come to think of it, Spanish might be on the list just because of the overall commonality of Spanish in the US, but the ones I listed are the primary ones I know to look for because those are our biggest communities.
I imagine ours would be Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, & Chinese.
Loomer snags key Qanon support.
Congratulations to Laura Loomer on her primary win!
Now Twitter should re-instate her account. @jack pic.twitter.com/SlDPToCS0X— Marjorie Taylor Greene For Congress🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) August 19, 2020
This is a very watchable convention. I haven’t watched one more than briefly in years. I’m sure they’re a lot of fun to attend, but just watching them reveals the amount of padding that happens to fill the whole evening. 2 hours distills it down and the roll call was fresh and fun with all the different locations.
“Our troops can’t get out of the way by hiding in the White House bunker.”#GOP
— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) August 19, 2020
re: #93 BeachDem
John Kerry looking good and pulling no punches.
First person I ever campaigned for President. Well Gore technically if you count 8th grade parroting my parents and grandparents.
2020 is just fucking weird.
The staff of the state board of elections has recommended that Kanye West not make the ballot because they didn’t file by the 5PM statutory deadline. His lawyers claim that 5PM deadline really means 5:01 PM. This video indicates that he didn’t make it either.
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 19, 2020
“Trump lawyer”
It uses the Apple Watch of the Democratic Party staffer to sync up all the timing. Kanye West’s attorneys have claimed that Apple watches “are known to be inaccurate and suffer from bugs” in their legal brief arguing that the rapper should be on the ballot
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 19, 2020
For the love of Dog, who taught this woman to teach math?
Didn’t know Biden knew McCain before he was elected.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
She makes math hard.
I have a love hate relationship with these guys.
Here’s the Melania and Donald love story 😍 pic.twitter.com/2AcAF6MVnp
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 19, 2020
re: #96 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Apple Watch can’t keep time accurately?
Homey don’t think so unless its time source from its own radio or its paired phone radio is connected to a bodies cell site with a bad GPS time reception….
re: #98 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
Didn’t know Biden knew McCain before he was elected.
Biden told a story once about the Congressional lunchroom where they all used to eat together, both sides, where they all saw each other as people, with families. They were friendly.
He said that once that lunchroom was removed it really hurt the whole body. It’s easy to see enemies instead of colleagues.
OT, but PG&E (our electric company) has finally done something useful. In the midst of the possibility of rolling blackouts due to the hot weather, they’ve put up a page with which areas are at risk, and when. It makes life less stressful.
re: #96 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
2020 is just fucking weird.
I used to work for the Wisconsin State Elections Board from 93 to 03. I am really thankful I am no longer the IT guy dealing with that nightmare.
He’s still adding to the thread
Fine, fine, I’ll keep going.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 19, 2020
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
She’s teaching the students how to understand how numbers relate and math works. It’s an alternative to simply learning by rote which itself leads to problems in math classes at the secondary and postsecondary levels.
re: #102 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Biden told a story once about the Congressional lunchroom where they all used to eat together, both sides, where they all saw each other as people, with families. They were friendly.
He said that once that lunchroom was removed it really hurt the whole body. It’s easy to see enemies instead of colleagues.
Yeah just didn’t know that the friendship went to McC’s Navy time. Biden ain’t wrong about that btw. McCain annoyed me a lot but he did love this country.
re: #106 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
He’s still adding to the thread
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“Joe Arpaio licking a Taser”
Oh my God, I’m dying.
re: #99 Dread Pirate Ron
She makes math hard.
She is teaching simple math with advanced math concepts. If kids use these concepts to solve simple math problems, they will find it easier to solve algebraic equations, geometry and calculus.
re: #110 The Pie Overlord!
She is teaching simple math with advanced math concepts. If kids use these concepts to solve simple math problems, they will find it easier to solve algebraic equations, geometry and calculus.
Bingo.
OMG. Home run: Jill as a teacher driving home Trump’s abdication of responsibility to parents by sending kids back to school without a plan:
“How do I keep my family safe.”
Home run. Brilliant.— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) August 19, 2020
re: #110 The Pie Overlord!
Teach kids how to think math, not just regurgitate algorithms.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
She ended up with the correct answer which shocked me.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
For the love of Dog, who taught this woman to teach math?
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That’s the good stuff. Makes algebra and the like much easier.
re: #113 b_sharp
Teach kids how to think math, not just regurgitate algorithms.
10s and 1s are a lot easier to think mentally. I wish is have learned that.
I do a lot of stuff like that in my head using 10s and 1s.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
For the love of Dog, who taught this woman to teach math?
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Common Core…
re: #103 calochortus
OT, but PG&E (our electric company) has finally done something useful. In the midst of the possibility of rolling blackouts due to the hot weather, they’ve put up a page with which areas are at risk, and when. It makes life less stressful.
I’m in a Block 50 area. Block 50 is not subject to rolling outages. Yay. I think it’s because I’m on the same feed as the morgue, juvenile hall, and county comm tower.
Dems got this virtual convention stuff down, I doubt the GOP does.
That was sweet. It was so relieving to see normal, loving people who weren’t consumed by rage, but instead are eager to serve and help us all.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) August 19, 2020
I have to admit when I heard the DNC was going to be a virtual event, I never dreamed I would enjoy it this much. It’s a little weird to not be embarrassed by American politics.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 19, 2020
re: #119 Dread Pirate Ron
I’m in a Block 50 area. Block 50 is not subject to rolling outages. Yay. I think it’s because I’m on the same feed as the morgue, juvenile hall, and county comm tower.
My kids both live in Block 50 areas, but I have no idea why. We’re Block 12 ourselves.
I loved the virtual roll call. Next time they should do it again. The inperson is just boring and dull and boring and repetitive.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
For the love of Dog, who taught this woman to teach math?
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That’s worse than my long division classes, in which we had to write out all the zeroes.
re: #110 The Pie Overlord!
As someone who survived a couple years of college-level maths, I can understand and appreciate this.
As someone who watched classmates struggle in math classes for fifteen or so years of my life, I can tell you that the modern “style” of teaching mid-tier arithmetic via gimmick is going to immensely help a very few kids who understand why something works, and it’s going to confuse the shit out of all the other kids who will just see a trick that you apply to numbers… and then go on to apply it in the wrong ways at the wrong times.
Trump administration’s fetal tissue ethics board urges rejection of nearly all research proposals that NIH judged worthy of support https://t.co/c6GTWVkZeU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 18, 2020
re: #126 NetworkKed
Not a gimmick. It breaks the number system down into understandable chunks, then shows the relationships between those chunks. It’s algebra with simple terms.
I too survived multiple university math classes.
I wished I had been taught how this teacher is showing. I likely wouldn’t have had the problems with calculus I did.
re: #114 Patricia Kayden
She ended up with the correct answer which shocked me.
She drew a picture that represented the long multiplication we all used to do. You might have never wondered what it would look like geometrically, but that’s all it is.
Also, for the person on the right, they took too long. The correct way to solve it is to realize that I can borrow a two from 12 and multiply it and 35 to get 70 * 6 which equals 420. If you see a 5 on the end of a number, look to see if you can double it.
Edited because I meant right not left.
Jill’s fantastic. That gives me an idea: How about a debate between the candidates for First Lady? Ok, I know the Trumpsters are as likely to agree to that as they are a 5K footrace between Joe and Cheeto, but it’s still fun to think about.
re: #127 Dread Pirate Ron
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I remember the stem cell and fetal cell research to alleviate rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes that FUCKING PRUNEFACE, OLD FART BUSH, DUMBYA and SHITHEAD stopped.
So folks get to suffer in the name of Jesus to placate the Xtians.
re: #107 b_sharp
She’s teaching the students how to understand how numbers relate and math works. It’s an alternative to simply learning by rote which itself leads to problems in math classes at the secondary and postsecondary levels.
I get that, but they managed to teach new math in my school without being that… abstruse.
re: #127 Dread Pirate Ron
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Trump trying to cancel science is sadly on brand for this year especially .
re: #123 calochortus
My kids both live in Block 50 areas, but I have no idea why. We’re Block 12 ourselves.
Block 13.
re: #128 b_sharp
Not a gimmick. It breaks the number system down into understandable chunks, then shows the relationships between those chunks. It’s algebra with simple terms.
I too survived multiple university math classes.
I wished I had been taught how this teacher is showing. I likely wouldn’t have had the problems with calculus I did.
Ditto. Especially since I never got that far in college so my calculus was all self taught. That was … painful… at times. Thank goodness for “Calculus made Easy” by Thompson and Gardner.
For me, calculus was where it all started making sense.
But I still think that the idea of that math video may be impeccable, but the execution is execrable.
The Republican convention is going to be nothing but hate and grievance. It’s going to be Debbie Downer on steroids.
re: #135 William Lewis
Ditto. Especially since I never got that far in college so my calculus was all self taught. That was … painful… at times. Thank goodness for “Calculus made Easy” by Thompson and Gardner.
My CS degree required calculus, as did my stats classes which were required by my Psych degree.
re: #122 Charles Johnson
Seems a lot of people agree:
48 hours ago, people would have thought, or at least I thought: How can they do a “virtual” convention?
-Now: Why haven’t they been doing it like this all along?
Very impressive imagination, coordination, and making the “virtuality” a plus:
1. Short speeches!
2. The roll call!!— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 19, 2020
re: #137 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
What grade level is she teaching?
God, you’re all just the shittiest possible versions of yourselves over there in the GOP’s gated community. https://t.co/IsKNMhURVS
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) August 19, 2020
So, I was feeling much better today and went on a nice long photo drive this afternoon down several fire roads in the national forest I’d never driven before. Some serious boonies in the middle of northern Wisconsin!
Photos here:
A Drive Through The Woods
re: #30 Vote Cthulhu - No longer the greater evil!
Just a little bit annoyed that Sanders didn’t bother to release his delegates to back Joe Biden. I guess his ego couldn’t stand to take that last important step.
The idea, as it were, is that gets Sanders people enough respect to go ahead and vote for Joe. Because it’s a shared fight.
HOLY SHIT THOSE ARE MATTHEW SHEPPARD’S PARENTS!!!
ALL THE FEELS GUYS!!!!!— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) August 19, 2020
re: #139 b_sharp
My CS degree required calculus, as did my stats classes which were required by my Psych degree.
Well, when I was IN college (long story, GF did graduate however) a Philosophy/English Lit double major wouldn’t have required it. However the self taught computer science that put bread on the table needed bits and pieces so I ended up having to teach myself what I needed.
It’s interesting to compare the idea of mathematical limits with Wittgenstein’s language games and see how many people you can confuse with a single very long sentence… :D
re: #145 Belafon
Context:
Matthew Shepard’s parents announce Wyoming’s vote.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 19, 2020
NEW: Republican Voters Against Trump Ad running in SC/NC/DC.@lindseygrahamSC on @JoeBiden: “as good a man as God ever created.”
WATCH & SHARE #LGLovesJoe pic.twitter.com/qyWCSccfXZ— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) June 12, 2020
re: #146 William Lewis
I like to joke that computer science is the art of actually running proof by induction over every number.
And who’s in charge of your Putin Party? pic.twitter.com/qqLYBKYiGs
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) August 19, 2020
re: #122 Charles Johnson
Weird = Refreshingly different and enjoyable.
re: #39 b_sharp
Bernie Bros are very cult like.
They don’t understand that Trump winning will set back any progressive change they want for at least a generation. Yet they stomp off saying they aren’t going to vote or will vote 3rd party.
They’re childish, self-defeating idiots, and we could all pay for it.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Before COVID I tutored 12 year olds in math. I had to learn the way they do it now, which was way different than the way I used to do it. Oftentimes I had to do the problems “my way” before figuring out how their way worked.
re: #153 thecommodore
Have to agree. Some of these Bernie Bros seem to think there’s no difference between Biden and tRump. Hw blind can you be? Also, when it comes to this “energize the base” thing, maybe it’s true, but personally, the thought of getting rid of tRump is all the energizing I need.
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