Update for Everyone VI: What Is and What Should Never Be

[Enduro]

Saw the new Avenger's movie tonight. I think I actually hated it.

After some thought, I don't hate it. I just hate one aspect of it.

I loved the movie. My new favorite. PM me the part you hated, please.

[KingSweden]

My wife and I got up earlier this morning to work out. I think it’ll be a system that’ll really work well.

[Trans Rights Are Human Rights]

So my classmates had no idea I was actually in this class.

[JA]

I think I just flunked a class. Haven't taken the final yet, but I just bombed a huge project.

Even a D is a flunk in this case...

I really hope you didn't flunk it. That's always been a fear of mine since my university sets failing grades at a 79% final grade in the graduate programs.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I think I just flunked a class. Haven't taken the final yet, but I just bombed a huge project.

Even a D is a flunk in this case...

I really hope you didn't flunk it. That's always been a fear of mine since my university sets failing grades at a 79% final grade in the graduate programs.

Very easy to avoid in the arts and social sciences.

[muon2]

I think I just flunked a class. Haven't taken the final yet, but I just bombed a huge project.

Even a D is a flunk in this case...

I really hope you didn't flunk it. That's always been a fear of mine since my university sets failing grades at a 79% final grade in the graduate programs.

I've never liked the restricting of fixed percentages for passing set by the institution. It makes it very hard to then award letter grades above passing since there is often little room to work with. It also eliminates the ability to spot top students by the use of more difficult questions while reducing the threshold to pass.

One grading technique I often used in upper level classes was to give each problem a raw score, then calculate the mean and standard deviation for each problem. The adjusted score for a problem would then be based on the fractions of a standard deviation above or below the mean. This way I could use both hard and easy problems and they would self-weight in the final grade.

[America Needs R'hllor]

Our macro economics faculty gave us a link to this speech by RFK in one of the presentations with explanations on GDP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6b9688K2g&feature=youtu.be
Politicians were so much more articulate and spoke about real issues compared to today.

[GM Team Member and Acting PPT WB]

I forgot to turn in one worksheet and my mom has banned me from using all electronics (except my chromebook for school) indefinitely. Don't expect me to post much outside of school.

[BenBurch]

Went to the woods and upon returning discovered myself covered with motherf**king ticks. Not cool.

Every spring I go hunting for morel mushrooms, and I came back and found myself with many ticks embedded deep.  We heated a pair of tweezers on the stove and got them out.  Not fun.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Our macro economics faculty gave us a link to this speech by RFK in one of the presentations with explanations on GDP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6b9688K2g&feature=youtu.be
Politicians were so much more articulate and spoke about real issues compared to today.

And you wonder why we want to Make America Great Again.

[GM Team Member and Acting PPT WB]

Retook the PM test, a little bit farther down-left.

[Sirius_]

I recently retook the test, if you haven't noticed, went more left socially and more right economically.

[YE]

I've been drifting rightward lately yet oddly enough my PM score hasn't moved much in the a little under a year on Atlas.

[KingSweden]

I've been drifting rightward lately yet oddly enough my PM score hasn't moved much in the a little under a year on Atlas.

You are more than welcome on Team Neoliberal Hack. We have cookies!

[YE]

I've been drifting rightward lately yet oddly enough my PM score hasn't moved much in the a little under a year on Atlas.

You are more than welcome on Team Neoliberal Hack. We have cookies!

eh I'm drifting rightward culturally but I'm not a neoliberal hack - a term that I'm not found of anyway and too often gets thrown around as a term for Democrats I don't like. Part of it is that the 2020 contenders have moved to the left so I no longer feel like an uber radical progressive like I did when or slightly before I joined Atlas.

[courts]

my regular laptop has something wrong with it.for some reason when i try entering my password it freezes up during log in..very annoying

[courts]

got it into repair mode..didn't really notice any errors when i applied first aid..which took no time at all.i'm reinstalling the os now and seeing if that fixes it

[bagelman]

My climate studies prof has been and continues to be a climate change denialist concern troll. He could be plotting to have me fail the class using cleverly hidden assignments as proof (though I have no evidence of this, so hopefully it's just paranoia). This is the field I'm planning on finally getting a bachelor's in.

If actual universities find out about this when I go and transfer, they could transfer fewer credits, forcing me to take more social justice oriented classes to graduate. You don't have to be a rapid Trumpist or even not a rabid left winger to be aggravated about social justice classes required for graduation, simply be from a medicaid household in an age of incredibly overpriced tuition to pay for unnecessary and unwanted amenities like giant stadiums for D list football teams that can only be enjoyed by those rich enough to live on campus. 

[Virginiá]

got it into repair mode..didn't really notice any errors when i applied first aid..which took no time at all.i'm reinstalling the os now and seeing if that fixes it

You mean a full reformat? Did you try a regular system restore? Usually installing new software via msiexec will trigger a restore point unless you have that disabled. Going back a month or two may be sufficient in most cases.

[courts]

unfortunately it's a mac.2012 air i think..solid state drive.haven't tried full system restore yet i don't want to screw this up.could try sending you more info later

[courts]

on the plus side i can at least browse safari (not what i usually use) while in repair mode.

[Virginiá]

Oh, whoops. For some reason I thought it was Windows. Unfortunately I don't know diddly squat about Macs.

[courts]

yeah i'm going to try calling some people.thanks though

[courts]

tried resetting pram/smc..and some other stuff. but that doesn't seem to work.guess tech support it is.or shop.

seems like a lot of people are dealing with this stuff after high sierra updates..ugh

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I love sports, but it seems like my favorite team(s) in every sport have been losing and losing for the past week or two.  This needs to end!