When Pressed For A Response

 If you are a kid....say ages of ten to eighteen...and you have some teacher or person of authority asking you a question you can't answer.....here is how you respond.

You look intently at the person...give them 10 seconds of silence, and respond....'I grew up in a middle-class family, middle-class neighborhood, and just RAMBLE on.  

Talk some BS over 'life is unfair but we proceed on'....mixing it with 'they don't really eat dogs and cats in Springfield'....throw in toward the end....say 'all can be well, if we just try harder'.

Moisten your eye a little, and avoid grinning.

If the person acts puzzled.....just repeat the whole statement a second time.

Don't worry....we are a dumbass society, and perfectly capable of accepting statements like this.

Math Chatter

 

I remember this day....around the 6th grade, where the logical way of handling the problem...COULD NOT be explained to a group of 25 kids.  It took maybe 2 or 3 sessions, and then  eight of them had some grasp of the (*-*) problem.

Even 12 sessions later....there were still 10 of us in the room without any idea of how to solve the problem.

I always thought this should be a two-line problem:

(8-5)=X

2 plus 5X = Y

This agenda to disallow 2-line problems?  Well....you'd think it'd make more sense. 

But the other side of this....more than 50-percent of people need a problem to relate to.  This would be like saying the store has apples at x-price and needs to make Y-amount of profit.  

It just always seemed like math teachers were anti-business types and wanted the math equation to avoid any connection to commerce or capitalism.

The end-product?  Well....math should have never been rocket-science.

Just A Humble Thought

 As the smoke clears on 6 November 2024....I generally expect now for Trump to be declared the winner.  Yeah, there will be six states with counting problems, but I suspect those six will clear mostly for Trump.  So the analysis will start up and these five reasons declared as Kamala Harris problems:

1.  Tim Walz was not a plus-up for VP candidate.  Between the goofy behavior, his wife, the military record deal, and handling of the riots in the state....he didn't improve the 'ticket'.

2.  Kamala Harris, in the eyes of roughly 25-percent of American voters....was a unknown.

Other than standing around for 4 years as VP.....a lot of people simply couldn't say much of what she did....which was remarkable.

3.  Flipping Joe Biden to Kamala Harris at the last minute?  This will  be talked  about for decades, and deemed a big mistake.  

Joe should have said back in the fall of 2023.....he was not running, and allowed the primary system to work, as designed.

4.  Whoever in the White House made the decision to allow the economy to go off in a crappy way for the past year or two....deserves some blame.  Same story with the migration  strategy.....they goofed up and allowed problems to mount against Joe Biden and Kamala  Harris.

5.  Finally, starting all these legal matters against Trump....probably was one of the weirdest strategies ever.  

But adding to these situations....the key factor that changed the race?  Twitter being bought by Elon Musk.  You could analyze this a thousand times....and the original crew thinking they could damage Twitter enough that it'd never recover....were remarkably wrong.  In the end, without much thought....they made Elon some Jesus-like character, and he was up to the task.