Alex Grounds
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Alex Grounds
@agrounds.bsky.social
Programmer, dad, math nerd
I’ll be honest, I don’t know anything about those phrases. Assuming your account of them is accurate, yes, that would make them problematic and threatening to some groups. The history matters.

It’s the same reason us folks in the US shouldn’t sing songs from minstrel shows
November 9, 2023 at 2:58 PM
I disagree, this sounds just as bad in my opinion
November 9, 2023 at 2:41 PM
Sure, you’re right. Israel has been effectively imprisoning Palestinians for decades. I was primarily focused on their more recent genocidal actions. To be 100% clear, I condemn all of the above.

My opinion is that even a country guilty of all of this does not deserve to be mass murdered
November 9, 2023 at 2:33 PM
Yes! They’re committing mass murder! They should answer for their crimes! But they shouldn’t be genocides either. Genocide is always wrong!
November 9, 2023 at 2:23 PM
That is not the only future that users of the phrase have imagined. Others, such as Hamas, have historically called for the murder of all Jewish Israelis
November 9, 2023 at 2:21 PM
And they are right to worry about this possibility! There are a lot of neighboring countries that historically have supported the idea of wiping Israel out entirely
November 9, 2023 at 2:20 PM
I agree that Israel is the country committing genocide right now. It’s hard to put into words just how wrong their actions in the past three weeks have been. That being said, they don’t deserve to be the target of genocide, actual or imagined, either
November 9, 2023 at 2:19 PM
Given that, it’s not hard to see why Israelis and Jews across the world would be deeply offended and threatened by the use of the phrase
November 9, 2023 at 2:17 PM
The phrase has a history, a big part of which is one group or another calling for the elimination of the state of Israel. Other groups have used it to simply call for Palestinian freedom, true, but that doesn’t negate the rest of its history.
November 9, 2023 at 2:16 PM
We took out a loan on sunlight and now repo man came and took it back
November 6, 2023 at 4:22 AM
This is my biggest annoyance after switching to iPhone. But in my experience iPhone has many fewer technical issues on many other fronts so I’m willing to deal with it
November 4, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Too many fingers on the hand on his shoulder
November 3, 2023 at 12:36 PM
Lol, like cats ask for anything. They just show up and say “hey, how about you go get some more cheese because this is OUR house now”
November 2, 2023 at 12:24 PM
Not too mad that the shoe’s on the other foot this time
October 22, 2023 at 12:46 PM
Look, I’ll take any win we can get. The shit that happens is just part of the game and I can accept that. But damn, if I were a Houston fan right down I would be FURIOUS at that spot. How in the hell do you not even review that??
October 22, 2023 at 2:19 AM
Thank you for sharing!
October 22, 2023 at 2:15 AM
Granted, I’m very biased because they were the first Zelda games I ever played
October 19, 2023 at 2:25 AM
I love this game, especially the linked content between it and oracle of seasons
October 19, 2023 at 2:23 AM
So I’ve gotta spend hundreds of dollars on a phone AND an expensive monthly internet subscription? So much for this app being “free”… 💸💸💸
October 18, 2023 at 12:40 PM
We chose the latter every time and students always complained that they couldn’t follow the course because it jumped around so much. We also didn’t do a great job motivating each topic because we didn’t have time to do so
October 18, 2023 at 12:32 PM
Maybe if it’s done well it would work 🤷. But for us, we were choosing between keeping the material so shallow that it was basically useless, or treating each topic more deeply and leaving students overwhemed
October 18, 2023 at 12:30 PM
I used to TA a class that came close to this description. Sure, we covered all the integration tricks, but after that we pivoted to a survey of linear algebra, differential equations, probability and statistics. It was called Calc 2 for Pre-Meds. It was horrid. Everyone was always confused
October 18, 2023 at 4:40 AM
It’s misleading though because of the one guy eating billions per hour. The median is only 200 spider per hour
October 17, 2023 at 7:01 PM