[Chode]

[justlurking]

Funny that you managed to post that just before my last paragraph:

Frankly, I think the attempt to teach advanced match is actually counter-productive, because too many people get frustrated by it and throw their hands up. They just think: "Math is too hard for me", when the real problem is they are focused on stuff they can't use.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

A group of engineers was waiting for their order, when one of them, in true liberal fashion, said of the gorgeous waitress who was serving our table: “Nobody ever gave her a chance to be an engineer.”

I replied that I was going to teach her calculus - but first he had to convince her that she would not be able to find a husband unless she learned it. The subject immediately changed . . .