Chess and go don’t need extremely high IQs, it’s mostly about the amount of time you invest in practice. I get annoyed by that cliche that playing chess, go, or with a rubik’s cube has anything to do with intelligence and it’s cringy to watch students on campus posing with their cubes to make an impression :)

You can pirate the ads and quizzes

Is that at the beach or in their infinite bed?

technically the same is true for chess and go, we’re just too dumb to grasp them to the extent we can grasp tic-tac-toe

Just pull yourself to your side and climb down

She’s a fascist politician herself if you were wondering

Deep inside, we all know it’s true though

GNU/Linux thank you very much

Different prof here, but a few thoughts:

• academia is not as shiny as it sometimes seems, but it can be great. You can have a lot of freedom to do what you like, work when you like, how you like… do meaningful things. Not always, but the chance is there
• it’s not to get rich. Selling expensive textbooks is rookie level exploitation compared to what people do in the industry, and most of the profit doesn’t even go to the prof

The book to read for this is “the professor is in”. The author takes quite a cynical perspective about academia, but in many ways it’s true. Worth a read (and probably you can get it for cheap second hand)

This guy also found a pretty nice (similar) solution for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3CY6RR4uns

They basically wrote their own textbook through class assignments, students are co-authors, seems to work great in their case. At least that’s how he presents it.

I’m still a bit unsure how to handle that in my own classes. There are not always suitable OERs or the ones you find come with licensing issues (CC-NC and afaik it’s not clear if you can use them because I do teach for the money).

OP’s not there for 50hrs

Unnecessary? He can have a snack without the pinworm? Even vegetarian

Billionaires will literally buy governments instead of going to therapy

Maybe they should just have fewer avocado toasts for a while?

On the plus side, it probably only gets better from there!

Exactly! It’s rare to find such old things that are still excellent today

tbh, one of the essential things vim gets right for me is that it’s designed as a text editor, not (only) a code editor. I use it for so much non-code text as well, but it feels weird opening a coding tool for such things.

“welcome” :)

Well, the father had his part in creating this mess we’re all now in. Now we have to watch a sad existence trying to compensate for their childhood traumas by buying governments instead of just going to therapy.

as in, bringing up veganism in a discussion that isn’t even about autism?