Are you one of those guys that goes to the club and chills with their drank, or do you go full animal and just dance all night? Are you somewhere in between?
Why?
Do you dance at home for laughs? Stress relief?
I am the guy that hits the club in order to dance 'til I drop. I don't really practice -- and I ain't that good, but not only is it fun for me, I like to entertain people; if people are laughing with you or at you is all about your mindset. Plus, I know there are others out there who just like to see people having fun and I know I'm bringing them some pleasure.
I like to promote expression and entertaining people. Soon I may post a video of myself dancing in order to fulfill both of those objectives. My biggest wish is for it to be socially acceptable to break out in dance or song in public places rofl Baby steps..
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we have a 7780 all-in-one HP. We're trying to print off some copies of a flyer, the printer does the job for like 5 copies (which come out perfectly) and then stops the job and says that cartridge C (cyan) needs ink. But it doesn't. Cartridge is full, and it was JUST using it to make 5 perfectly fine prints before that.
I am pretty clueless when it comes to printers.. didn't find anything on a brief google search.
Thought I'd give a quick update, as I just found out myself...
G-ma went to a conference this weekend. She came back having dumped"invested" $22000 into the MLM company's stock.
They are a multi level marketing company. (<---instant reason to never touch them alone)
Their financials are awful.
Their posted financials have practically no controls (traded over the counter).
Their product is built on lies, falsified and misleading research. It is a sham product.
She just dumped"invested" 22k which is not THAT small a chunk of her retirement..
Fool and their money are soon parted. I'm about done with morals. To be so powerless and have it happen in my own household against all reason.. holy SHIT its mentally scarring.
I'm so fucking furious. I can't really describe how I feel.
A while back I blogged about how one of the differences between 'smart' and less 'smart' people was not just that they were better, but that they had better strategies for thinking. I should of thought of this myself at the time but.. anyway I've come across research on this very thing, in this case applied to mathematics.
The study is ( Gray, E., & Tall D. (1994). Duality, Ambiguity, and Flexibility: A "Proceptual" View of Simple Arithmetic. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 25(2), pp. 116-140 if anyone has a clue on how the public can access such a thing I'd like some info though I imagine this one isn't publicly available from such a niche journal )
Anyway, this is what happened: They took a group kids (age ~8) and sorted them into two, one "high achievers" and another "low achievers". All of these kids had received the same/comparable educations but ended up in different places as far as ability goes. So, they asked the kids to do simple arithmetic problems and to explain how they did them. There were 4 strategies that the kids used when presented with an addition problem such as:
0 0 0 0
+
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
1. Counting all: This is where you count your numbers up to add or subtract them, literally counting (1-2-3-4..etc) everything up
2. Counting on: Whereupon a person counts from 1 to 4 and then continues from 5-17
3. Known facts: Where the person just knows that 4+13=17 automatically/without thinking because they've done that problem a bunch of times
4. Derived facts: (I will copy this straight from the summary) "This is where students decompose and recompose the numbers to make them more familiar numbers for adding and subtracting. So they may say, "Well, I know 10 and 4 is 14," and then they add on the 3."
ie doing 96+17 by saying "Ok, 96 -> 100 leaves 13, 13+100 is 113"
Now when they did the study they found for each group..
Above average students: Counted on 9%, known facts 30%, derived facts 61%
Below average: Counted all 22%, counted on 72%, known facts 6%, derived facts _never_
The researchers drew two main conclusions: Low achievers are often though of as "slow learners" when they are infact not learning the same things slowly, but literally learning a different mathematics. They view math as a ladder whereupon procedure after procedure is to be memorized and 'stacked up'. They are literally learning a different subject from kids who have an understanding of the big picture of math (something that is critically missing from America's education system, we about always learn math in a very compartmentalized, zero critical thinking way which is why I fuckin HATED math until I took statistics and saw real world problems being related to math).
Experiments have been done, taking these low achievers and teaching them better thinking strategies, and the results were very very good.
So yeah, this is just one example of ways that thinking strategies are at the core of smart vs dumb people. My view is that this concept definitely applies outside of math.
Some of you may or may not know, but I've mentioned on here that I have a relative (grandmother) who is a huge MLM victim and wastes thousands of dollars in multi level marketing "Business opportunities". One of her long-time swindlers/con men (a disbarred lawyer who has spent time in prison, but is charismatic and clearly without a conscience) convinced her to join yet another MLM.. somehow under the pretense that *I* will handle this opportunity for her.
Yes, without consulting me she literally shelled out the several hundred dollar joiner fee & committed to the monthly distributor fee (dunno how much, usually its 40-200 dollars a month in these scams), with the idea that I will do the "business" for her.
I didn't even know what to say when she told me yesterday, and now she's given my phone number to the disbarred lawyer (MLM scammer). He is going to call me and brief me on this "opportunity".
What the fuck?
I am trying to figure out how to turn this into a positive thing. Maybe I can somehow maneuver into such a position where the ole grandma will trust me more than this con man, but dunno....
What's my play tomorrow when this motherfucking scammer calls? I can't just tell him to fuck off because he holds a strong sway with my grandmother, as does the idea of MLM in general, and I'm sure he'd appropriately label me an enemy of his financial interests.
I don't think I want to become a scammer myself.
I am just awe-struck that she signed up for this thinking I would take over when I've told her how unethical and amoral MLM is.. Of course she doesn't understand because she is incredibly naive and ignorant.
All of this is kind of whatever, I guess, but she mentioned that they convinced her to buy more of their stock, which is literally lighting money on fire. I honestly think she is losing rational control of her retirement money. Will I be to blame when she is broke in whatever number of years down the road?
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if you win when your roll of 50 is greater than the result of [ ( random1-100) + random1-100 ) ]or [ (random2-200) ], are you doing the same thing in both cases? ie do you win ~25% of the time in both situations?
I sympathize with the cause based on actual honest arguments. So why do people make disingenuous arguments for their side when there are perfectly legitimate arguments to be made?
Both sides do this, in fact every side ever does this. Propaganda is ubiquitous.
Really, I guess we know why they do this: It works. It actually takes a bit of knowledge and a second of thought to deduce the bullshit sometimes.
For myself, I probably saw this pic several times and never paid it any attention past a cursory glance that made me go "yep".
I wonder what else we see like this, every day, without a second thought? Anyone else have some modern day stealthy propaganda to post, and if it isn't obvious, why its propaganda?
Baby steps..
