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That strategy is valid but doesn’t work for most, because it assumes (1) a relatively high comfort level with selling your own skills, and (2) enough knowledge of local talent / labor market to realize what you can ask for. That’s a skill set you’d expect from an experienced consultant, not the average W2 employee, and if you swing and miss, or fail to swing at all, many struggle to pump the brakes and end up shouldering the additional responsibility without additional compensation.
Hence the common rule of beginning the hunt for your next job right away if you desire growth. Your manager probably won’t just promote you, so you have to promote yourself.
Sounds right. Some say education is what’s left once you’ve forgotten all you learned.
rabbling intensifies
Is it? There seems to be widespread agreement on that point, here on Lemmy, that expecting the worst of everyone is critical to motivate the Americans to go out and vote.
It’s a strong enough consensus, reinforced with absolute certainty over and over in our political communities, that I’ve been forced to ponder it myself many times. Because I also have an instinct that it’s quite possible to demotivate and even deactivate would-be voters by making them feel that theirs is a lone flame in the wind, or that the insurmountable forces of evil will make their efforts inconsequential.
As a counter example, here in New York, that wasn’t what brought people out to knock on doors and vote for the new progressive mayor. People participated because they had hope for change, or maybe just to be a part of a something new. They weren’t voting against Cuomo as much as they were voting for Mamdani, if that makes sense.
Are we confident that our all-in commitment to motivating people through fear of their neighbors’ inaction is a winning strategy?
The funnier interpretation IMO is that they’re all trying to be either wagons or minivans while maintaining plausible deniability.
No it’s an SUV! Right right…
There are a few countries that use 999 in addition, or for specific services like ambulance. (Ireland, Poland, Guernsey, and a few others IIRC.) 112 is just one of the more common.
Accidentally fall back into your system because you don’t actually have another, or really any backup plan whatsoever. Play it off like it was discipline. Share system with other NDs as if you have answers.
In Celsius? You’re cooked!
Edit: 112 is a common emergency services # in the EU, akin to 911, for any Americans wondering
I know it may be difficult for some to believe, especially from the outside looking in, but the sea change in the US is in progress.
With the ongoing suppression of our media and the limited means of the average household to reach an audience beyond their local government, it may be hard to see the trees for the forest in a nation that’s so spread out, but we currently have at least one national general strike scheduled, and with every public protest the resistance seems to grow exponentially.
Progressive campaigns like Mamdani’s are spreading and succeeding in many districts once considered solidly MAGA territory. It may take many more months for all of these efforts to reach the national scale and even longer to make it into the international headlines, but it appears Americans haven’t yet given up or fully taken to glassy-eyed complacency.
Whether it’s enough has yet to be seen. I would just offer that perhaps they’re not yet done fighting for their democracy.
Dear colleague,
By qualification I meant explanation. My doctorate is irrelevant to the truth.
Since you asked, my larger point was about the unhelpful nature of this content, which makes students of math feel inordinately inferior or superior hinged entirely on a single point of familiarity. I don’t handle early math education, but many of my students arrive with baggage from it that hinders their progress, leading me to suspect that early math education sometimes discourages students unnecessarily. In particular, these gotcha-style math memes IMO deepen students’ belief that they’re just bad at math. Hence my dislike of them.
Re: Dave Peterson, I’ll need to read more about this debate regarding the history of notation and I’ll search for the “proven rules” you mentioned (proofs mean something very specific to me and I can’t yet imagine what that looks like WRT order of operations).
If what riled you up was my use of the word “conventions” I can use another, but note that conventions aren’t necessarily “optional” when being understood is essential. Where one places a comma in writing can radically change the meaning of a sentence, for example. My greater point however has nothing to do with that. Here I am only concerned about the next generation of maths student and how viral content like this can discourage them unnecessarily.
Dear Mr Rules,
I’m not sure what motivates you to so generously offer your various dyadic tokens of knowledge on this subject without qualification while ignoring my larger point, but will assume in good faith that your thirst for knowledge rivals that of your devotion to The Rules.
First, a question: what are conventions if not agreed upon rules? Second, here is a history of how we actually came to agree upon the aforementioned rules which you may find interesting:
https://www.themathdoctors.org/order-of-operations-historical-caveats/
Happy ruling to you.