Teem in Italy

I'm just regular.

[aether @bluewdrift]

Remember this: even if you go for it and it doesn't work out, you still win. you had the guts to head into the unknown and try something that scared you. this type of bravery takes you places.

[•R•S• @Ay_Blinkin]

Tolkien himself actually had a lot to say about this topic:

"Children are not a class or kind, they are a heterogeneous collection of immature persons, varying, as persons do, in their reach, and in their ability to extend it when stimulated. As soon as you limit your vocabulary to what you suppose to be within their reach, you in fact simply cut off the gifted ones from the chance of ex-tending it."

—J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 234 (1961)

"Children's tastes and talents differ as widely as those of adults, as soon as they are old enough to be differentiated clearly, and therefore to be the target of any thing that can bear the name of literature. It would be useless to offer to many children of 14 or even of 12 the trash that is good enough for many respectable adults of twice or three times the age, but less gifts natural."

—J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 215 (1959)

[Digimon Games @digimon_games]

“I wish for the three of us to always be together.”
Now Playing: wherever you are by reche (English Version)

[aether @bluewdrift]

romanticize your life, take pretty pictures, feel like the main character, light up a candle, read books, go for a walk, dance to your favorite music, buy yourself presents, do whatever you want, be happy - this is your life, don't let anyone take it from you

[Dean Turner @DeanTTraining]

I’m BEGGING you guys….

Please spread the word:

Zero sugar soda is 99% water

Zero sugar soda is 99% water

Zero sugar soda is 99% water

Zero sugar soda is 99% water

Zero sugar soda is 99% water

Zero sugar soda is 99% water

It’s crazy how many people STILL don’t know this…

[Sid Ravikumar @sidravi_]

i've talked to a phd crystallographer and he was pretty candid and humble in admitting the limits of our knowledge.

some crystals apparently start forming everywhere at a much higher rate once one lab has grown them. apparently this is an unsolved mystery. the prevailing theory is that it's the effect of contamination and seeding. but afaik this has not been rigorously empirically proven as the cause. the alternate and currently fringe theory is that this is possibly pointing to non-local effects.

[Walmart Canada Gaming @WalmartCAGaming]

Hey, it’s Agumon!

Don’t scroll by without saying hello! 👋

[JuanSanchez @JuanSanchez0x0]

Here are racist tips to make your Italy or France trip kidnapping & crime free.

#1: A stranger says to you "Hey, where are you from?". This person is a giant piece of shit, all over the world. At best: they want to sell you something. At worst: they're distracting you to rob or kidnap you.

#2: Treat anyone with a clipboard as an enemy. These pieces of garbage hang out at the tourist spots, especially around the Eiffel Tower and Tower of Pisa. They're running variety of scams. They get close and touchy. The clipboard is to direct your attention away from both you and them so you can't see them reach into your purse.

#3: Purse & wallets in the front. My family was robbed within hours for not following this rule.

#4: No that stranger did not accidentally drop something on the ground. That was on purpose. At best: they want to guilt you into buying the thing they dropped. At worst: they rob you when you bend over to pick it up.

#5: Learn to spot gypsies and avoid them. Gypsies voluntarily live outside of the law. Your morals mean nothing to them, you're not 'helping disadvantaged people', you're aiding lifelong criminals.

#6: Stay in the tourist areas of big cities even though it costs more. My sister & her friend stayed in Marseille. The Airbnb host took one look at them and said: you girls can't stay here. The host was nice enough to help them book a safer place.

#7: Watch for people who don't fit in. We were walking home in Venice, followed by a Slavic looking man with a buzz cut (rare hairstyle for Italy). He followed us all the way to a dead end at 11pm in a sleepy district. We stared him down until he turned around and left. He was either planning on robbing, or wanting to check the locks on the door that evening or next day.

#8: The kids will rob you, too. French & Italian teens will ride the subway or walk popular promenades/sites for people to pickpocket. These are who robbed my family.

#9: All taxi drivers all around the world are subhuman garbage who want you dead. Do an Uber (or equivalent), or charter something with your Airbnb host or hotel. Or walk.

#10: No they don't want to help you with the subway fares. A popular scam in France is to "help" people confused at the ticket machine.

Libtards are especially vulnerable to the above because they think it's like the US. It's not. The third world of France & Italy need special treatment. My family laughed at me when I told them the above before our trip. Then they lost all their possessions.

So I've basically told you to avoid everyone in France and Italy. How do you meet people? Go somewhere where you have to pay: bar, restaurant, tours, coffee shop, anything. The cost of entrance to these places keeps out the trash humans. This lowers the chances of you getting robbed, but doesn't negate it completely.

Keep your back to the wall. Valuables in front of you. And monitor your credit card after you leave, because there will be fraud payments from Nigeria 2 months after you get home because they sold your CC info. That's just Europe.

Remember frens, racism is SAFE-ism.

[Alex Smith @ninja_maths]

For anyone wondering how a third-grader can complete six years' worth of math in a single year AND score a 5 on the AP Calculus exam.

This knowledge graph spans 3,000 math topics, from 4th grade to the university level, providing the perfect basis for mastery learning.

Students can go as fast or far as they want! There are no restrictions whatsoever. The only requirement is that they must demonstrate mastery of each topic before moving on to the next.

Kids are capable of incredible things when given that kind of freedom and support.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

How to compress a grade level’s worth of learning much, much shorter than a year:

1. Identify what the student already knows

2. Overlay that on a knowledge graph to construct their personal knowledge profile

3. Teach only new topics for which they've mastered the prerequisites, their "knowledge frontier"

4. Each lesson cycles through minimum effective doses of explicitly guided instruction & active practice problems

5. Enforce mastery relentlessly: if you can't consistently solve problems correctly, then you don't move on to more advanced material that depends on it. You continue on parallel learning paths and come back to the halted one later.

6. Review previously learned material using spaced repetition & frequent broad-coverage closed-book timed quizzes

7. Review old stuff by learning new stuff -- i.e., knock out as much review as possible by learning new material that exercises those review topics as subskills.

[Hood Wild @hoodwild_]

Back in 1991, James Brown called Eddie Murphy to the stage mid show to test if he could actually imitate him, and seconds later Eddie delivered one of the most absurd impressions of his career. Takes serious guts to imitate James Brown right in front of him 😭

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

For anyone wondering how a kid can learn six years' worth of math in one year -- really *learn* it, not just "cover" it:

Each circle represents a topic. The darker the circle, the stronger the student's knowledge.

Students systematically master prerequisite topics before approaching more advanced ones.

While pushing forward, they interleave across many learning paths to improve transfer.

They also systematically review previously learned content at optimal intervals to strengthen long-term retention.

What you're seeing is a student's math brain getting wired up under maximum-efficiency learning conditions.

(The animation below is just for one course, a smaller subset of the entire curriculum.)

[Mecha Girl Of The Day* @MechaGirlOTD]

I guess the U.S team's World Cup game didn't go so well, because the whole TL is just this right now.

[callie 🌑🕷️ @value_meal_]

No blood no organs no nothin that little dude is straight cheese

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Every summer, the Netherlands splits itself into three zones so the whole country doesn't try to leave on the same day. North, middle, and south each get out of school on a different week. The government set it up this way for one reason: traffic.

Look at the map and you can see why. A thick blue cloud of movement sits over the Netherlands, then drains south in thin lines through Belgium, down across France, over the Alps into Italy, Austria, and Croatia. Roughly the same roads, every July.

A big part of what makes it so packed is the caravan. Dutch families own more of them per person than anyone else on the planet. Around 450,000 on the road, another 20,000 sold each year, at least one household in ten with one parked somewhere. They sit in old greenhouses all winter, then get hooked up to the car in summer. The Dutch nickname for them is sleurhut, which means "dragging hut."

This is a fairly recent thing. Kip, the most popular Dutch caravan brand and also the Dutch word for chicken, sold its first one in 1947 and took off in the 1960s, right as the two-week family holiday became a normal part of Dutch life. Time off helped it stick. Dutch law now gives every full-time worker at least 20 paid days a year.

All of it pours onto a few big motorways at once, and the jam spreads across the continent. France has a name for the worst weekend of the year, samedi noir, or black Saturday, when the roads south lock up. In 2021 the traffic jams inside France hit 1,096 kilometers in one day, longer than the whole Netherlands three times over. The A7 out of Lyon, the old Route du Soleil, backs up for hours. The Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland can add two more. Dutch, German, and French drivers all aim for the same beaches on the same afternoon.

Which is the whole point of the three zones. Spread across three weeks, more than 18 million people can get away without every road grinding to a stop. The dates are set years ahead and printed on every school calendar. The tweet calls it a canonical European event. For a country that rearranges its school year just to get everyone out the door, that reads about right.

[LED @mrledtasso]

hayatın hilesi:
herhangi bir konuda uzmanlaşmak istiyorsan sadece haftada 3 kez pratiğini yapacaksın.
sadece 3 kez çalışacaksın.
böylece insanların %90 - %95'inden daha iyi oluyorsun.
araştırmalara göre sürekli pratik yapan birisi kolaylıkla uzman oluyor.
neden peki sadece 3 kere tekrarla uzman oluyorsun?
çok basit... çünkü kimse bunu yapmıyor.

[Uncle Lou @UncleLouPKMN]

She asked me "what are we" and I sent her this

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

So i started dating this guy who's "really into birds." Thought that meant he had a bird feeder or whatever. Showed up to his place for the first time. This man has SEVEN parrots. Seven. They all talk. They all have opinions. One of them heckled me during dinner. Called me "the new one" in a British accent for some reason. My boyfriend thinks it's charming. I'm being bullied by a bird named Gerald. Tried to have a serious conversation with my boyfriend last night and Gerald kept interrupting with "IRRELEVANT" in that same British accent. The other birds think Gerald is hilarious. They're learning from him. I'm outnumbered. My boyfriend proposed last week. Gerald said "she'll say no." I said yes out of spite. Gerald has been sulking for three days.

[Kris D. Lofton @RealKrisDLofton]

Every NBA coach next season pregame speech before they play the Lakers…

[Hoops McCann @ravidravidravid]

we are so goddamn lucky to have our eyes witness something like that. a guy with a nice camera, the foresight, and the modern internet to carry that vision as it was seen right into our laps. more than 100 billion people lived and died without seeing that once, ever