What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[Contradiction]

TTS is equally depressing.

 

People who I knew/was friends with when I joined in 2009 who still post at all: 0. Or maybe Ryan counts, but I don't know how often he trolls.

[Contradiction]

I think it's bad when I say 'fuck it' to a project because I know I'll be able to get away with it.

 

*guilt*

[Tally]

I wanted to go to bed three hours ago. Have the SSATs tomorrow, and while I took the SATs in January and got pretty good scores without stressing to studying, not to mention that it seems like an easy test, I'm ridiculously nervous about this. Usually I do well with standardized testing, but not that it's something that will actually effect my future, I can't sleep any feel sick.

 

[Xuut]

Snow!

But it's melting!

 

MORE NANO. SCREW OUTSIDE.  -So behind-

I also painted snowmen nails, snow, and a cat. I spent two hours on it and now have to redo 8/10 nails. I should have just done Nano instead.  

[Fake]

Why is it that I can post a five thousand word roleplay character bio for a roleplay on TVtropes (For the record, most of their bios are, like, one hundred words) but I can't write a thing for Nano?

 

Oh well.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Maybe we have the schools to blame for the ignorance of people on the internet?

I recently got this in response to one of my replies on MDW

it would be easier to let nature do it's thing. when the human population hit's it's carrying capacity (around 9 billion) then there will be a shortage of everything, and natural selection will take place. this gives the human race a chance to evolve into a better species. those less fit to survive will die off. when the population dramatically falls, there will be a ton of empty land left, and it might give plants a chance to reforest, like when Columbus brought diseases to north America.

So this person clearly hasn't studied why Darwinian theory doesn't apply to humans, generally, but then we get something that completely floored me. He/She continues:

after a lot of the natives were killed off, plants took over their former lands, and all the new plants sucked so much carbon dioxide out of the air that it caused what we now call the mini-ice age i believe. it wasn't as dramatic as the other six, but it got so cold that the people in Europe had to wear heavy coats in the middle of July for a few years. i think that could happen again. so then if that happens, afterward, we wold be left with cleaner air, and a better species, so let's go with that plan...

 

To which I replied with a short lecture on why Darwin doesn't apply to us, and a German historical meteorology paper that shows that summertime in 1500 Vienna was about the same temperature as summertime in 1960 Vienna.
Really, what the hell are they learning in school these days? If you're on, is this a singular case, or have teachers lost their minds?

[Xuut]

What country are they from and what part?

Having moved from province to province, you will find that there is LOTS of educational disparity between the provinces. 

[EndOfTheEarth]

Grapevine, Texas, USA.

 

I'm tempted to comment, but won't.

[Contradiction]

Not exactly related, but did you hear about this?

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html

[Omega]

Um, ew. That's seriously disgusting. That.... ugh. Words fail.

 

See, a good deal of the rest of the world thinks the USA is a heavily-armed, toddler-like joke, and a good deal of the USA seems to think Texas is a joke.

 

But this isn't funny.

[EndOfTheEarth]

See, a good deal of the rest of the world thinks the USA is a heavily-armed, toddler-like joke

 

I have news for you, the USA thinks the USA is a joke. Every world history unit I've had since 7th grade has included a week or two discussing parallels between the present state of the US and the decline of the Roman Empire. Every paper I wrote in 10th grade has as its  prompt, "Describe how this event portrays the decline and fall of the American Dream"

[EndOfTheEarth]

How the hell do you cut Thomas Jefferson from the list of great Enlightenment writers? Sure, The Declaration of Independence was no Gulliver's Travels, but damn it, we discuss it in history class almost every year!