#i suck at measuring and math and thinking in 3D

[skunkes]

Wait why can't you get into sewing or clay sculpting? i actually do wanna start sculpting stuff, but working with ceramics is kinda intimidating so im gonna start with polymer clay instead. is that an option for u?

sewing and such mainly bc im stupid and its hard for me to do hands on stuff bc i become easily frustrated

I actually did mean polymer clay! I dont like ceramics actually (i love it in theory but my experience with ceramics classes ruined it) i meant more like polymer clay figures ^_^ but its just the same, it'd take me forever to get any good at it and thats hard to do with Tangible, Physical Medium hobbies because you have to keep wasting and buying more materials and have the flops just taking up space and making you feel bad for creating waste and such... The sewing and plushes also fall into this category... lots of waste on the road to becoming Good at it

[3liza]

what kind of air travel accommodations do you miss? i'm young enough to not remember pre-9/11 airports so the hell we live in now is all i know

the changes theyve made are basically total. a major one is plane seats and leg room are now much smaller, and those inches are either being used to cram in extra passengers, or give first class even more room. this article from 2014 goes into detail but a horrible/hilarious point among many is that the average USA hip width in 2002 was a little over 20 inches wide, and economy class seating in planes is now regularly 17-18" wide. thats unbelievable. can you imagine a car seat or a bus seat with rigid metal armrests that clamped you in for 12 hours at a time. air travel is one of the few times i am incredibly grateful to be built like a praying mantis because i can just jacobs ladder my gollum ass into the plane seat with room to spare. but theyre intentionally torturing everyone who is normal sized

as of 2018, American Airlines 737 Max seats were down to 15.9".

just doing some real rough math here: average woman in the USA in 2021 wears a size 16-18. size 18 hip measurement for most brands rn is about 50" (approximate, varies a lot by brand). so the diameter of a perfect circle with a circumference of 50 is 15.9, but people's hips aren't perfectly circular, we're mostly wider than we are thick, so it's safe to say that the average person is not fitting into the average airline seat comfortably anymore. in fact fat people started getting kicked off of flights, just for being fat, after the seats and pitch areas started to shrink. this famously happened even to Kevin Smith in 2010. if you're too fat to put your armrests down they make you buy a second seat.

so ive spent two big paragraphs just talking about seats but everything has been drastically cut down. people used to get a lot more comped food on airlines: i remember making note of it in idk, probably around 2008, when i started flying a lot again after having flown a lot as a kid (middle class white family with relatives on either coast meant usually flying several times a year, every year of my childhood), that meals and sometimes even basic snacks were being offered less and less. thinking about how much the average person absolutely freaks out if their blood sugar is even a little low, thats definitely contributing to the air rage incidents. you used to just get a hot meal (and it sucked, but it was edible) for showing up, or at least a substantial bag of peanuts.

since peanut allergies become widespread the peanuts have mostly been replaced with pretzels, and processed carbs aren't going to stabilize a stressed person's blood sugar the way legume protein used to.

and naturally you cannot even get onto a flight these days without spending hours in line at the various security theater displays, taing off and putting on your shoes, jewelry, bobby pins, the fillings in your teeth, your breast implants, etc. none of which actually works to make passengers or staff "safer" from "terrorism", and people know they dont work. TSA steals your shit at will, gropes you, and/or doses you with radiation in a body scanner which allows the agents to look at a 3d render of your naked body on a public screen.

all of this started with the 9/11 airline freakout, and once the airlines figured out exaclty how much people would let them get away with, and were bailed out by the government multiple times despite losing money hand over fist, they just went mad with power. seats constantly get smaller, security theater gets more ludicrous, TSA agents get more brazen, planes get more cramped and dirty, flight attendants are way more stressed, maintenance on the planes is more ramshackle leading to more delays on the runway which make people insane (there's a whole episode of 30 Rock just about this) and now, finally, people are justifiably freaking out about it. but of course the freakouts are only affecting other passengers and the low level staff, not the airline CEOs and government regulators who created this issue.

my oracular prediction is that pretty soon here there is going to be a mass casualty event caused by an air rage incident. either someone is going to manage to get an emergency door out (this is borderline impossible due to pressure differentials but never say never), or set a fire without being noticed, or stab or shoot up or nerve gas a cabin full of passengers, or successfully break into a cockpit, or something., and then theres going to be a reckoning, and it wil probably end with like. economy class being put into little dog cages for the duration of the flight or something

[ari-shipping-stuff]

hi ^^ it is much too late for me to rise and shine but yea hfsfkjsgkgdhgdj im eating dinner rn. we're watching a movie (but it seems to suck so we're gonna change it after we decide what to change it to)

Ooh what movie are you watching?? Wow maybe our timezones are closer

you doing anything in particular? also what's your timezone i think we might be similar hfsgkfdhgdh

Mine is ist what's yours?? Im doing compound interest problems because despite passing 12th grade I forgot how to calculate compound interest at least I remember how to do simple interest I hate maths im just that bored and I realized I need few parts of math for my course

What're your favorite subjects? And which ones do you absolutely loathe ??

we just ended up not watching anything actually 😭 it got too late lol

it appears im about 2½ hours ahead of you (im gmt+8) hgdsdgjjfsfhj but oughhgghhh math fuck math i hate math :( if im the one doing the math at least. much luck to you 😭 😭 😭

as you can probably tell i want to kill mathematics and all it's stupid branches <3 i can't say there's a subject i like? does technical drawing count? jfssfghn that's the only one i enjoyed. the teacher would give us 3d shapes and we had to create a blueprint of sorts to show the measurements :') it was very fun to me. and only me bc the rest of the class hated it lol sadly it stopped after middle school so im back to hating school /hj

the easier answer is english ig but only bc it's easy and im relatively good at it

[shrodingerspenis]

yeah I'm pretty sure I have this.

I'm pretty good at drawing 3d models using provided measurements, but that's where my math skills end. angles confuse me, geometry sucks, wtf is time, how calculate money, and why is algebra and equations Like That.

I have zero math skills and have been faking my talent since the age of (I had to think very hard and count on my hands what age I was at what time) ten. I have been faking since ten years of age.

Dyscalculia is a learning disability, a lot like dyslexia, but with math and numbers. Everyone knows what dyslexia is, but for some reason, dyscalculia isn’t as well known. I want people to know about this so no more kids are gonna believe uneducated adults who tells them that they’re just lazy and no more kids are going to think they’re just hopeless idiots when they try and try but just can’t understand. It happened to me, and I won’t let it happen to anyone else.