96 Replies to “Saving For Tax Season”

  1. Math, the universal language. They used to say that we’d only be able to communicate with alien life through a universal common understanding of math. Thanks to the libtards, we won’t even be able to do that if the time ever realistically comes. Yet, thankfully for the aliens they won’t have to deal with us. Lol.

    1. Well another way to look at this is through a hypothesis that humanity started when a drunk alien raped a monkey. Explains a lot doesn’t it?

    2. @Libtard
      Regarding a statement from the attachment:
      “Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction–Exercises for educators to reflect on their own biases to transform their instructional practice”
      What kind of muddled retarded useless thinking is that? We are doomed if this takes hold.

  2. Brought to you, I suspect, by people for whom university level math is too hard, having taken gender studies or social work.

    What they don’t understand, they fear. Normally that’s how the racists are, but innumerates are comfortable in their prejudice.

    1. Yes.

      “Hey Amir! What is the dynamic load limit on that bridge you’re designing?”
      “Shut up you racist. I am analyzing it in multiple ways to draw different conclusions. You are assuming there is a correct answer. We must ensure that our eventual design takes into account gender intersectionality.”

  3. I bought a book one time on the 50 cent rack. It was about sociology of colour. Some cultures have limited words for different colours. While some societies may very well consider blue and green to be the same colour, I will stick with the theory that they are stupid, just as I consider those that get the wrong answer in math to be stupid.

    1. In Japan, there is a word for blue-green (ao) and a separate word for green (midori).

      In Russia, there is a separate word for light blue and navy blue.

      These two countries produce students who can perform basic and advanced math principally because they don’t adhere to the crazy-@$$ sh– above.

  4. This sent a shiver down my spine.

    Keep your kids close and teach them all you can about life and even specific subjects you are familiar with.

    Tangentially related, here in BC in my son’s Grade 8 English class this week the kids had to answer a set of questions about their lives and homes. This produced a “privilege score” for each kid. They then had to reveal their score and got lectured about “privilege”, the higher scoring kids naturally being made to feel the most guilty.

    ‘Tis true, I exaggerate not.

    And this leftist nonsense all taking place in English class no less where they should be learning to read and write.

      1. Thinking the same AHH!!!
        Let’s not get sick or old and need medical attention. Medicine will be populated with equity hires.

        2. “let’s not get sick or old and need medical attention” … Or drive on bridges built after this lot graduates from college.

      1. Let these snivlleing soyboys try it.

        “Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face”
        … Mike Tyson

      2. Given what passes for higher education these days, I believe they’ve come up with a slightly different solution.

    3. I can only hope you marched down to the school and kicked the crap out of whoever was available. If not, give me shout next time, I”ll do it.

  5. My granddaughter is in college studying to become a civil engineer. I sincerely pray she gets the “right” answer on her calculations when she designs a new bridge over a very wide and deep river. I know that I’m an old person. I also know that in those years, I have seen a shit load of dumb stuff. These morons absolutely take the cake, the candles and the girl inside.
    Somewhere the Great Meteor of Death is circling our galaxy looking for the most deserving place to destroy. The hair just came up on my neck. Here it comes.

    1. I work for an engineering services company, and we have 3 levels of checking done by different people to insure that the math is right…

      if you learn woke math, or discovery learning, or whatever bullshit new method that the Mordor of education has come up with this week, engineering is not for you.

      1. True story….

        In 2018, I went into a bank teller for various issues. At the end I asked to withdraw $80, half in twenties and half in fives. The 24-ish year old teller pulled out his phone and opened the calculator to determine that he required 8 five-dollar bills.

        A bank actually hired this person.

  6. My example is an instance when 3rd year business students were unable to calculate 15% of 100 without using a calculator. How did they make it to 3rd year? How did they get past high school? How did they get past elementary school? Simple. Nobody can be told they failed. .

    1. I once failed a student Nurse in a practical exam who couldn’t perform a basic mathematical calculation related to a simple drug dilution. Had no process with which to come to an answer, and we both ended up soaked in diluent that went everywhere. It was her final third year exam.

      I wondered how she got so far in, then when the race card was pulled at the appeal I understood.

        1. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate(s) objectivity….”

          So, is this statement right or wrong? If this statement is claimed to be right, then it is self-refuting.

    2. Change how much cash you give to a cashier after they have entered the amount tendered into the computer and see their gaze go blank. Total: $11.45, they see a $20 bill coming and enter that, then give them the 45 cents. I love having fun with that.

      1. True story….A couple of years ago I was heading to Windsor on my delivery route, it was 5 am so stopped at Timmies for a coffee and egg thing, can’t stand their s..t to this day. Anyway I gave the girl a 20 dollar bill. she proceeded to give me the 20 back and change for a 20. I told her she had made a mistake, she informed me that she NEVER makes a mistake so I said I’m sorry took my stuff and left. That was how my day started..it improved from there….Steve O

      2. Give them a small handful of change and you can see the terror build in their eyes as they know they can’t count very well.
        They tend to get the supervisor over to help count as they tell you their new to the job.

  7. It should be hilarious to watch a rocket launch in 30-40 years, when the generations raised on this garbage try to use it to send a probe to Mars.
    Maybe after enough disasters it will occur to someone that the rockets aren’t crashing because of systemic racism, but because of what people in the old days used to call stupidity. Or maybe that person will merely be imprisoned for saying it.
    Seriously though, I can see two standards of mathematics emerging – this trash, and mathematics you can actually do something productive with and the fact that there is a difference must never be spoken of. It will be in the same category of tacit lying as incarceration rates the result of racism, dozens of genders and a sexist medical system where women are victims but inexplicably outlive men by 8 years on average. As a citizen you are obliged to not call attention to any of it.

    1. No that’s private sector. If they are legitimate, they hire skill intelligence. If they are bogus, fly by night, they hire crap to save costs and maximize profits. If they are government, they only hire entitled crap, who proceed to complain further for promotions and more money for less work. .

    2. What do you think Boeing is currently having problems with.
      Reliant on schools to educate engineers properly and now the company is toast.
      Besides engineering problems, their quality tanked too.
      All their jets are garbage and lucky if they last a couple flights besides their newest one with the balance problem with bigger engines and computer take over switch was hard to find.
      This serious computer glitch had the computer getting two conflicting data and shut itself off as a resolution locking out the pilot.

      1. The automatic trim cut off switch is very easy to find. It is large and beside your knee on both sides of the cockpit. It also wasn’t new and performed the same function for quite a while.

        There are pilots and then there are pilots…

    3. It won’t be long now until we’re holding birthday parties at “Buttfu*kers”.

      (A Idiocracy Fuddruckers joke that’s becoming a distinct (not to mention frightening) possibility)

  8. “Equitable Math” will never get you a job where math is a necessity, even in the old Soviet Union. Sorry kids.

  9. Mathematics equations don’t give a tinkers damn what color your skin is; only the social justice warriors who don’t have mathematics or physics degrees would trot out this absolute twaddle. In short, they are funda-“mentally” clueless.

    You can pile your SJW manure 100 stories high but it won’t build you a safe bridge, nor get your space craft to Mars.

    Mathematics and Physics do give you the right answer WHEN YOU RESPECT HARD LOGIC.

    The SJW at their core have NO RESPECT for HARD LOGIC.

    Mathematics/Physics doesn’t need SJW BULLSHYTE; it requires two characteristics the HUMILITY of APPLICATION and DISCIPLINE; which our current lame brain media/political/societal construct effete artistes could only dream of achieving.

    I’d be happy to FAIL these undisciplined LOSERS! 🙂

    Full disclosure: My degree is in Mathematics/Physics

    Prosit!!

    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North

  11. “The idea is to get [students] to use the math to justify whatever position they’re taking . . .”

    We are so doomed.

  12. Click on the link in Kate’s post and scroll down to the very bottom to see who financially supported this project: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

    I suspect Bill had to focus on getting the “right” coding to make his billions with Microsoft.

    1. “Right” coding for Microsoft? Yeah, right. Considering some of the rubbish that outfit’s produced, that might be a stretch.

      1. I’ve seen some of the code that I know he wrote back in the 70s, the Commodore kernel. It’s elegant, but it may be the last code he personally wrote.

    2. Except for the millions of folks who’ve had the privilege of cursing the “Blue Screen of DEATH” numerous times over the course of the last 30 or so years…and $PAYING$ for the adventure. 🙂

      Yes the citizens just love experiencing cataclysmic events, like when Hurricane Katrina wiped out the dikes around New Orleans after the engineers told the politicos it needed fixing.

      Or the lovely folks who couldn’t build curtain wall reinforcements to the spillway on the Oroville dam; which could’ve wiped out the entire valley when it nearly completely failed.

      Yeah sure mathematics and physics are racist; when y’all drown like rats; because they acted STUPIDLY.

      Prosit!!

      Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
      1st Saint Nicolaas Army
      Army Group “True North

    4. Right coding at Mircosoft???!!! They put out beta versions for full-price and work out the bugs as they go along. Come to think of it, this right up Microsft/ Bill Gates ally, by using his modus operandum.

  13. I taught courses at Armpit College in which mathematics were essential. Of course, the emphasis is on getting the right answer, but I was more interested in how my student arrived at their solutions.

    I needed to know if they set things up correctly by using the correct equations and assumptions. Then, of course, there was the grinding through all the calculations and the proper application of their logic.

    As it turned out, I gave part marks. If, say, the first 80% of their solution was correct but they made their goofs in their algebra or in transcribing their numbers, I gave them 80% of the credit. Where possible, I pointed out where their mistakes were or how far they came to getting things right. The aforementioned errors could often be fixed if they were more careful, took a bit more time, or, simply, practiced solving similar problems.

    I remember one case where a student who, on an exam, got the correct answer, but his thinking was all cockeyed and I penalized him accordingly. He didn’t like that, of course and I’m sure he gave me a bad review. (He came to our institution by way of a dean’s vacation and, the last I heard, he returned to university and eventually earned a master’s degree. I hope he had smartened up in between time because I shudder to think about the quality of his work with the fuzzy approach he used on that exam.)

    Some of my colleagues, however, didn’t want to take the time to do things the way I did. Their exams were multiple guess (as we often referred to them) or they simply filled in the final result on an answer sheet. Grading those exams was, of course, a lot easier, but there’s no way of knowing what the reasoning behind that result was or if someone was lucky in picking numbers out of the air. If I couldn’t see how they arrived at their answers, I couldn’t help them.

    Some students appreciated it, particularly if I returned their papers or exercises all covered in red ink. That showed them that I actually looked at what they did. Others, naturally, squawked and those were the ones who made trouble for me.

  14. “We also wish to thank the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for their generous financial support of this project.”

    Thanks alot you asshole.

    1. It is to keep society at a 6th grade level.
      Don’t want people to think anymore.
      That’s is only for the privileged.
      Be happy with your computer toys, slaves…

  15. If “Upholding the idea that there are…right and wrong answers” is so abominable (a blanket and unproven assumption)
    why is it “wrong” for me to insist upon objective, correct answers? I realize that those who abhor simple mathematical reasoning would also eschew verbal reasoning, but if one authority figure (a teacher) cannot label anything as “wrong”, then the authors of that pathetic website also cannot label anyone else’s teaching methods as “wrong.”

    But we all know that is not the issue. The real issue is that some individuals (not races – individuals) are unable or unwilling to apply themselves enough to get things right, but somehow want to be coddled into thinking that they are as good as those who actually have worked at acquiring some skills.
    And these useless quimbies pride themselves with how “caring” they are! Sending kids out into the world with no skills, no work ethic, and no practice in acquiring either. But look how caring their teachers were!
    You wanna build a kid’s self-esteem? Teach them some skills, so they know they can succeed at something! I know, I know…..Social Marxism dictates that anyone who succeeds did so because of some privilege, or by oppressing others.
    Maybe the next winner of the 100m at the Olympics should be made to grovel and apologize to the losers?

  16. The “right” answer is that the people promoting this are retarded.

    And I mean that in the sense as you describe the performance of an engine with not enough advance in the ignition timing.

  17. I used to make up exam questions for the Society of Actuaries. We had to create a grading outline as well, and grade the papers (our questions). There were people who reviewed the questions to ensure they were appropriate and not ambiguous (i.e. multiple ‘correct’ answers were frowned upon). In addition, grading partners didn’t like to have to consider answers that were ‘outside the box’, as it took away from our bar time.

    Ah, the good old days. I’ve seen math questions for my son (age 15) that in my mind allow for any number of answers that aren’t ‘wrong’.

    How did we come to this? The inmates are running the asylum. All levels of government should be cut back a minimum of 50% (in year 1), then another 50% in year 2. Ditch all non-essential functions.

    1. Start with HRC
      Then ombudspeoplekind
      GG
      1/2 of miltary upper management
      CRTC
      CBC
      Senate
      Deputy ministers
      Ministers w/o portfolios
      Carry on…

    2. “I’ve seen math questions for my son (age 15) that in my mind allow for any number of answers that aren’t ‘wrong’.”

      It’s called sloppy grammar.

  19. Sooooooooo,,, what their saying,,, is that whites are supreme ! ??????

    If math can’t be right,,, then science can’t be right !

    1. Don’t ya know “science” is something to be “believed in” now. It is no longer a rigorous method for examining ideas and concepts.

  20. “…perpetuate objectivity…”

    And that’s is a bad thing? Trofim Lysenko is smiling in hell.

  21. “Supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” because of course it is.

    I don’t recall Bill Gates ever appearing on any kind of ballot for any elected office. Must have missed it.

  22. ““Supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”

    Finally an explanation of Windows.

  23. I can buy that math is creative. But arithmetic isn’t. And for the majority of elementary school kids, they’re not learning math, they’re learning arithmetic.

    1. That’s what I was thinking. Statistics are a branch of mathematics, you can do the math correctly and interpret the results in any number of manners. With modelling you can do all the math right and the model still not give you the answer you think is correct because you make wrong assumptions.

  24. …and yet there are people who don’t know math saying multiverse theories are bunk, or that dark matter or dark energy don’t exist.

  25. Drill in the *right* answers to the multiplication tables, by rote, and you will lay the foundation for math success. It doesn’t cost much money, so that’s a real drawback.

    1. It is also important to teach them how it is that 3*4=12. Memorization will not do once you get into more advanced math.

  26. More and more I am thinking that Jesus return won’t be to save us from destruction by warfare, but to save “mankind” because we have no longer the smarts left to survive, never mind thrive.

    1. It might be not Jesus who returns – it might be the folks who cut, lifted and stacked the blocks in the pyramids and henges and taught us all that fancy math and engineery stuff a few thousand years ago. By the time a couple more generations go by we’ll desperately need them to return and run a “summer school” for the human race.

  27. From time to time I encounter an academic who proudly proclaims a total inability in math.

    I then note that if I were as illiterate as he is innumerate, I would be unable to compose a coherent sentence.

    They go really quiet at that point.

  28. You can be sure they’ll count on your tax dollar to fund their unemployment. Suing school boards should prove a be a profitable future for many lawyers.

  30. Let’s keep an open mind, but the concept must pass the following tests:
    -Short the proponents pay by several hundred dollars.
    -Overcharge them on everything they buy.
    I would think that correct answers to math would suddenly matter again.

  31. Non-retarded places like India, China and Russia aren’t doing this to their children. The death of the west is one of those things folk think is gonna happen tomorrow, when it did in fact happen yesterday.

      1. The way I heard it, the saying goes: “If you can, do. If you can’t do, teach.” Then some wag added, “If you can’t teach, administrate.”

        Many of the administrators I encountered at Armpit College were blithering idiots, but they were loyalists to the system and, thereby, were rewarded with promotions.

    2. Justin Trudeau… engineering school drop-out, former part-time drama teacher, noted snowboarder. “Budgets balance themselves!”

  33. Mathematics is the law by which God governs his universe.

    Mathematics, it may argued, is God himself.

    No wonder our masters hate mathematics so much—except when they have need of it to design a new way to murder the righteous on an industrial scale. When their minions are designing a hydrogen bomb or a new plague, they happily accept that two and two make four.

  34. I so look forward to chemistry lab in the near dark future.
    At least these children will never be in danger of becoming mad bombers,as they will be living proof they are too stupid to do so.
    And the Trades are going to become ever more exclusive.
    The surly tradesman’s association will take care of that.
    Already you risk criminal conviction if you hire a real greenhorn,courtesy of Bill C45 and now,what is the point?
    You will have to teach remedial maths as well as so many other life skills ,such that you are better off in every way just doing it yourself..
    Once we trained apprentices,now we raise other peoples children.

    Of course I will start using the “new math” as I invoice.
    2+2=22.

    1. What’s more crazy…we have to import what is illegal for us to make… by our government laws.

  35. My favourite personal math story:

    A Starbucks barrista recommended a 1 lb blend of 3 different beans:
    A: 2/3 lb. B: 1/6 C:1/6. ‘A’ was Sumatra, my wife just told me.

    It was very nice!
    Trouble was that subsequent purchases were problematic for the attending barrista and a source of high anxiety for me as I entered the shop to buy more. They could, of course, weigh out the components but couldn’t ring it up due to the three different per lb prices. Invariably I had to coach them through the transaction to get to the correct composite price for the 1 lb blend.

    One day I arranged to meet my wife and daughter there. When I entered the shop there was a panicked cry, Oh God here comes THE BLEND!!! followed by dives below the counter by the more cowardly staff.

    Before abandoning “the blend” I would even generously suggest that they just charge me for a lb at the highest component price. But that was not not permitted either for a reason that escapes me now.

    Needless to say my wife and daughter found it wildly funny.

  36. Shortly after my father died, I was back at my parents’ house. I happened to be at the bank on March 14th of that year (which has, in recent times, acquired the name Pi Day) and I was joking about it with one of the tellers. She had only heard about that cultural aspect some time before and I then recited the first few digits.

    One of the people in the lineup, a woman about my age, asked me why it was necessary to know that. After groaning mentally at the question, I informed her that one can use it to calculate the circumference of a circle. Her response was a quiet, “Oh.”

    It makes one wonder, doesn’t it?

    1. So, does there exist a non-transcendental curvature of 2-space such that a unit circle in that 2-space has a non-transcendental ratio of its diameter to its circumference?

      Also, I have a statistical argument as to why Pi and e are transcendental, that same argument suggests that the answer to my question is no, but its not a proof.

    2. Tried to use pi in my research study on velocities in motion.
      Found it failed terribly being an open ended calculation.
      The more I used it in a velocity, the more distorted the results.
      I had to go back to the old measure the distance from point to point for accuracy.
      Velocities mapped our planet at sea-level at 5 degrees latitudes to show the huge difference in our orbital windshear when you take away pressure.
      Our government and educational systems ignore fact based mathematics.
      It’s published on an Australian website.

  37. Now … All colleges will HAVE to admit “equitable” numbers of Black, LatinX, and random multi-cultis. Those colleges will HAVE to graduate those “students” at the top of their class. Businesses will HAVE to hire those “top” graduates … really “top” people. “Top”. People. And the government will become even MORE flooded with incompetent employees than they already are. And if businesses CHOOSE to not hire these graduates with dubious abilities … they’ll be sued out of existence.

    Remember the “Rubber Rooms” the NYC School District had to create to stockpile incompetent and pervert teachers that they couldn’t fire? Soon … every functional business and corporation will have dedicated Rubber Rooms for their employee mistakes.

    This is nothing more than “social promotion” taken to an absurd extreme. Now, every student will be a “math whizz” … and woe to whomever challenges that fact.

    1. every functional business and corporation will have dedicated Rubber Rooms for their employee mistakes

      They already do. It’s called constructive dismissal. The company’s bad boys are shunted aside and given less to do and, with time, they eventually have no tasks whatsoever. The smarter ones take the hint and skedaddle.

  38. About 18 years ago, I once underwent an entrance/selection math exam at an establishment that prided itself on developing and testing aircraft projects (I applied there). One problem took about 4 pages of calculations (so not too complicated) and the answer was square root of 25. Being a thorough fellow, I solved it to 5. I only got 50% of the mark. I was told square root 25 is either -5, or 5, so there are 2 solutions and I only got one of them (if I had left it to square root 25 I would have had full points). True enough, I said, but if you choose -5, your aircraft is actually making gas instead of burning it. They still would not budge and only gave me half points. Buch of fucking idiots. Unfortunate because some people working there were smart and on the ball, but the place had a toxic atmosphere and you could see it in some people’s eyes. The people in charge of recuiting and admissions could not organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a credit card. The management was sure full of itself, being mostly on the government’s teat. Obviously many engineers there believed the glossy brochure about doing flight test and were instead chained to a cubicle doing projects going nowhere. I’m glad I didn’t get a job there. That’s a place where math had 2 solutions, even if one of them was wrong.

    1. That outfit sounds an awful lot like a place where I worked nearly 40 years ago.

      I thought the company was genuine in how it described itself and I was led to believe that it was actually interested in my experience and what I had to offer, since I was close to finishing my first master’s degree. Instead, I ended up doing low-level calculations that of the type that I did when I was a rookie with a brand-new B. Sc.

      Any sign of initiative or insight on my part was quickly discouraged, particularly if the resident anointed “genius” (who was a crap artist) didn’t like it.

      The management was too dumb to understand that the square root of 25 could be +/-5, so debating that point with my superiors would have been pointless. It was too busy running the company into the ground. (Things were so bad there that it was given a very bad review in The Financial Post at the time.)

      I was canned after less than a year there, right in the middle of the devastation left by PET’s war on Alberta, namely NEP I. There are lots of times when I wished I’d never taken the job as I didn’t have much to show for my time there.

  39. L – So, this solves the mystery origin of Justin Trudeau’s idea “The Budget will balance itself.”

    (“Neurotics build castles in the sky. Psychotics live in them.” axiom in Clinical Psychology.)

  40. At the very bottom of the equitablemath.org website, there is a thank you to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. If Bill backs it, it must be right, eh? Methinks he’s a dangerous man.

    1. Dr. Laura Schlesinger, who was a popular no-nonsense radio psychologist, used to always chastise callers who described their children as “beautiful” … saying that instead you should strive to raise your children to be “good”. Inotherwords, external beauty is irrelevant … but what matters is morality and goodness.

      I would extrapolate that admonition to include “wealth”, “power”, “notoriety” … and esp. “education”. None of these will overcome a soul that is rotten to the core and evil. So, I am never moved by some rich or famous person telling me anything or doing anything … I want to know whether their soul is basically EVIL or GOOD. Because that fact influences all they do.

      I have grave reservations about Mr. Gates.

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