TA;DR (Too Ape; Didn't Read): How do y'all want us to tell MSM to fuck off?

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Holy shit! We asked, and YOU responded. That was A LOT of feedback and it was cool as fuck to see it all unfold in real time. It was so refreshing to see us all united against the MSM 😂 But yea, we mods took your responses and feedback and these were the prevailing suggestions amongst the Apes.

Just so everyone's aware of what you're voting for, this video is pretty much what we are telling MSM in ALL of these poll options 😂:

credit: u/kzoxp

So now it's time to choose which specific response you'd like to go with. Bear in mind, once you vote, YOU CANNOT CHANGE IT. So choose deliberately.

OPTIONS

Poll Option 1: We ghost them. No response at all.

Poll Option 2: We send them just a link to this meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/r8xy56/in_the_words_of_mark_baum/

Poll Option 3: We send them just a link to the DD library: https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/kosyg

Poll Option 4: We send them JUST a link to the meme AND the DD library. No flowery message included.

Poll Option 5: We send them this exact message --- “Thank you for contacting r/Superstonk. While we understand your request to speak with the community/moderators would make your job easier, we would encourage you to do some investigative journalism. Our official response is read the Due Diligence and please fuck off.”

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Hi all,

I am currently doing my student teaching and really starting to get my hands dirty with the planning and execution of lessons. I have really taken ownership of the 9th grade earth science class, but I am struggling a bit in getting buy-in or participation from my students. My cooperating teacher plain doesn't like to teach the class, and has had pretty low expectations for the students overall. In general he uses some pretty low level teaching methods for this class in the form of notes, vocab lists, crosswords, word searches, etc.

I am wondering if anyone has some ideas or resources for problem-based or inquiry-based earth science resources they could share with me? I am covering the water cycle right now and will be moving into the carbon/nitrogen cycles, along with weather and climate in the future.

I understand that getting students to buy-in to the lesson is always going to be an issue, but I think that more engaging lessons that are centered around problems or inquiry could help students get involved with the material in a more in-depth manner.

I hold this view because EVERY source I've seen that casts doubt on the safety or efficacy of the Covid vaccine goes right back to right-wing politics. They're political sources, they're published on political websites, they're bloggers who also post right-wing political view.

Any non-political source I've found is clearly in support of vaccines.

I want my view changed because I do try to look at both sides of an issue. I do want all the information about a topic, especially in regards to mine and my family's health and safety. And if nothing else, I want to be able to respect the views of friends and family who feel otherwise. I would love for it to simply be a difference of opinion that's intelligently based in reality.

Edit- i would add that any irrational, non-credible reason would be included with political, even though I only specified political. Whether it's fear, conspiracy, or anything along those lines

Edit 2- ok I've spent way too much time on this. I'm getting a lot of the same uncited talking points I've seen over and over again, and I'm noticing more and more conspiracy theorists jumping in. I will try to continue to read replies, but I won't comment unless it's awfully compelling.

I know that taking the 5th cannot be used as an indication of guilt regarding the original impeachable offense (assuming it was also criminal in nature), but could it be taken as a new and separate impeachable offense? I’m not suggesting that it be a “crime”, but maybe a violation of their oath of office for some kind of failure to protect the Constitution, or impeding an official governmental function, or something like that, which could be grounds for impeachment?

For that matter, what about a complete refusal to appear for questioning such as ignoring a subpoena? Would that be impeachable for a current office holder?

Can I write about the lyrics of a song? Does that fit into poetry, or should I play it safe with something more science based

I'm currently starting my journey into teaching in international schools. I am a qualified primary teacher with experience in Aus and UK. I know many schools are IB, and it seems like a lot of the good ones are too. I'm not too familiar yet with IB, but I know that it favours an inquiry based approach that promotes discovery learning, real-world skills and critical thinking. While of course I'm not against any of those things, they are not my preferred way of structuring learning experiences. I very strongly believe in a knowledge based curriculum, explicit teaching, retrieval practice, etc. I don't want to start debate about the pros and cons of the two approaches here, as I know that people have positive and negative experiences with both and strong feelings. My question is basically: is my philosophy of teaching and learning going to be incompatible with the IB approach? Is it likely I will feel dissatisfied in this environment? Or do I have a too simplistic view of the IB curriculum?

Introduction

In early December, there was a bracket conducted by Riot Mortdog asking TFT players what, in their opinions, was the most overpowered (OP) team comp of all time. Players voted in the bracket and the results can be found here: https://twitter.com/Mortdog/status/1468361897426632708/photo/1.

There are many factors influencing the poll, such as recency bias, different definitions of OP, etc. Influenced by this, my goal in this study is to perform a data-driven analysis using some data science techniques to give a more data driven answer to the question: what is the most OP comp of all time?

This reddit post is an abridged version of my full document, which can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UyrVtR_FG5ZZMhdu8-lMTcm1dgpwGUdlsNlI1fPHbg0/edit?usp=sharing. A bunch of details are omitted so see that doc for the full story!

Methods

The general idea is as follows:

1. Pull about ~1500 games from each patch of TFT for Sets 2-6. These games were played by players who were in Masters/GM/Challenger in the NA server at the end of the season. I did not include Set 1 because of some technical issues.
2. For each patch, NOT INCLUDING b patches (because of technical issues), find the most played team comps in that specific meta through some data science techniques (i.e. clustering).
3. For each comp, compute the frequency played, the average placement and analyze the data. I present a metric which I call the OP-score which takes into account both frequency of play and average placement.

Example of clustering -- finding the meta comps

In the above figure, for patch 10.12, each data point represents a single instance of a player in a match and their team composition. The colours indicate clusters of points i.e. points that should be within the same overarching team comp.

For every player in every game, we can treat their team composition instance as a data point. The goal is to group together these data points (i.e. team comps instances) into clusters. By detecting “clusters” of data points, I can discern popularly played team comps.

For example, in the middle-right blue cluster, also labelled as 1,

Greetings all,

CDC recently placed a halt on my account in terms of withdrawals pending the return of the following information:

1. What your source of funds is? - Some examples are salary, savings, loan, inheritance, and etc. (article on crypto.com describing this in more detail)
2. Your occupation - your job title and your employer's (company) name.
3. Purpose of the account (why you have chosen to open the account).
4. Please clarify the reason for multiple payments (via my CDC debit card) to [merchant x].

Background information on myself, unsure of how much to provide and/or what's actually relevant here...this is what I'm hoping to get guidance on.

I certainly don't begrudge CDC compliance with the various rules & regs but am not quite certain on how much documentation they're looking for me to provide.

Certainly do not mind providing requested docs but would ideally like to not go on a massive manhunt on my side to create a 99+ page PDF detailing every single transaction I've engaged in over the past few months...nor am I really sure CDC compliance wants to sift through that either.

Happy to provide any more clarification on my side to the thread here if that'll help as well.

Thanks in advance.

John Sweller is the creator of cognitive load theory and one of the most influential cognitive scientists alive. He recently released a report that convincingly lays out the case against Inquiry-based approaches in education.

Cognitive Science is increasingly pointing in one direction when it comes to pedagogy, but science teaching in many places is moving in exactly the opposite direction. It's ironic for science to be the subject least in line with the science of learning.

Here's the paper. Give it a read: Why Inquiry-based Approaches Harm Students' Learning