Ambiguously Gendered Revenge of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Jdvn1]

Is "Ye Olde Body Shoppe" in their juristiction?

- Kemrain the Anatomic.

Why not?

 

[Jdvn1]

Not saying you are. Just saying that I'm not the right person to reteach things that have become so intrinsically basic to me that I can't imagine someone not knowing them (like mass)

Is going back to the basics so hard? Mass is weight/gravity. It's how much stuff there is.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Is going back to the basics so hard? Mass is weight/gravity. It's how much stuff there is.

Mass is not weight, nor is it gravity. Weight and gravity are both force.

 

[Jdvn1]

Oh absolutely. I know there are people who don't know this, but when I meet someone who seems intelligent enough, I assume the knowledge of Elementary School topics. I know it isn't a fair assumption to make, but its a basic heuristic that hasn't failed me until today.

Well, but the term isn't used very much regardless. Especially when it's related to names. You and I may know the Cartesian plane, but most people know it as a grid.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, but the term isn't used very much regardless. Especially when it's related to names. You and I may know the Cartesian plane, but most people know it as a grid.

The Cartesian plane is not a grid. They are similar but not the same. Just like weight isn't mass.

 

[Jdvn1]

Maryland. Assistant Superintendent and her husband threatened a teacher with firing him because he gave her daughter an F for plagiarism, then she claimed it was racism.

Wow, and Maryland is one the better states, IIRC. An ex-teacher of mine went to another school where the principal told her that she wasn't allowed to fail any student because it's bad for the students' self-esteem.

 

[Jdvn1]

If you were talking about anything but Math, and maybe Geography, I'd be alright. I'm pretty good with words (my spelling aside) and I'm not bad with science (as long as it doesn't involve equations), but Math is very bad for me.

- Kemrain the Linguistic.

Y'know, most science involves equations.

 

[Jdvn1]

Oh, lovely..

I'll assume it was plagiarism, and that the Superintendant was on crack.

That's icky.

- Kemrain the Disgusted.

Assistant Superintendent. They tend to be more overpaid than superintendents, for some odd reason.

Well, that depends on the state, maybe.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Wow, and Maryland is one the better states, IIRC. An ex-teacher of mine went to another school where the principal told her that she wasn't allowed to fail any student because it's bad for the students' self-esteem.

Maryland *is* one of the better states. That's why, since I've had personal experience, I can tell you with confidence that your quest would almost certainly make you a Don Quixote...

 

[Rystil Arden]

Y'know, most science involves equations.

Mass doesn't involve equations to understand....though you can certainly use it in equations