BamaChemE

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Who shot Biden in 2019?

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Anybody got more than the screen grabs shown so far? As in who wrote this thing, and why they insist on spelling it “Bidan”

Until more is given, I don’t think this rises of the level of “crazy poster says something crazy”

Did anyone call him out? (Or cane him)

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There are plenty of protests going on in the big cities in TX.

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Please share any of these large scale protests, bonus points for ones that would be classified as “mostly peaceful”

This seems like a case of being hoisted by one’s own petard

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Ever notice how many books and movies aimed at women are a woman deciding between a rich guy and a rebel/bad boy?

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It’s a classic trope of the safety and security or excitement. Phantom of the Opera comes to mind, and in the sequel it’s revealed that Christine’s kid is actually the Phantom’s

That class seems like it’d be perfect for someone who wanted to hone debate skills. That person would definitely get a bad grade in the course as humanities has opted for grades based on what you think instead of teaching how to think and express your ideas in a convincing manner.

I’m a chemical engineering professor and one of my most difficult classes to teach is Mass and Energy Balances. It’s not because the material is particularly difficult, but I have to completely break students’ patterns of “thinking.” These kids are typically ones that have done well in school and fall victim to the “memorize the test, get A, feel good about yourself” that K-12 education has become. I get lots of upset comments about how I don’t give study guides, and that my exam questions are different from homework textbook problems… I have to spend so much time explaining that engineering is about problem solving. That there’s not one single way of doing a problem. That you have to have an understanding of the physics, chemistry, and math concepts to be able to logic out a solution to a problem, and that if you have those fundamentals you can actually solve problems you haven’t been directly taught.


There are bright spots of students who eventually get it, and most of those tend to be athletes. My hypothesis is that students that played competitive sports are more comfortable with negative emotions and understand that failure (on the small scale and in practice) is how you ultimately achieve the learning outcome. That class has become less about teaching the material and more about being a therapist for students who have never faced adversity in anything. I keep hoping that it’s the last variations of the Covid math kids, and that we can return to a more comfortable steady state of expectations, but it’s rough.

Gotta be at least three right?

It’s not fun being on the receiving end of a Sabanesque beat down.

At least we didn’t get shut out…


That was a sad field goal.