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Where in other subjects the knowledge you gain is related but not completely contingent on everything else you were taught, e.g. you don't need to remember too many exact details about the Mayflower pilgrims to understand the American Civil War, math requires a solid throughline from the basic arithmetic, through algebra, geometry, and so on. You can't really do anything with trigonometry if you didn't understand algebra well. You can't really do algebra if you didn't understand arithmetic. You definitely can't do calculus if you struggled with any of the previous areas.

So the problem is the continuity required, combined with the way most students learn simply not being thorough enough to completely internalize the intuition for each math concept they're being exposed to. Ask a 9th grader about the differences between rational numbers and irrational numbers that they may have learned in 7th grade: you'll probably get answers that are about right, but might start to get a little vague or confused. Thankfully I might be overstating the interconnectedness a bit, but I know I definitely had some hiccups in college related to how I had only learned some of the advanced concepts halfway in previous courses, which led to me just barely understanding the really abstract concepts I started to get into like Stokes' Theorem and Greene's Theorem at the end of Calc 3.

The Blue Prince enjoyers are in the general mega talking about Northernlion.

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If your job resulted in the design, testing validation, construction, streamlining, or otherwise indirect contribution to a weapons system that is actively killing children in Gaza as I write this comment, why should I consider the reasons you had to take the job? Should I also refrain from shaming an organ trafficker or a mafia capo?

edit: ah sorry, checked your profile and literally every single comment is concern trolling. Won't waste my time here!

looks like i am right and u are wrong, as always

I haven't read through all of it, but Federici's Caliban and the Witch is really good. bell hooks' entire works seem appropriate to recommend, especially The Will to Change, sadly though I haven't read them myself so I can't be all that specific!

As for other media, I think Waymond from Everything Everywhere All at Once is a great male role model.

How do you feel about going into academia? I'm not in physics but I have a similar predicament (I have more options though, not just bombs) and I considered the idea of continuing studies, getting a PhD and just being a professor so I didn't have to worry about ethics, but the lack of opportunities to organize labor + the fact I'd probably just be training students to go work for defense companies anyway convinced me to just try to find a more benign job in industry.

Department of Defense should be called Department of Ethnic Cleansing.

These people would have my whole family killed for a $200 raise and then tell me I'm the bad guy when I say the American military industrial complex is one of my greatest enemies, including its workers.

There's nothing incorrect about this comment but I get the feeling you're getting something backwards. Dems weren't getting anyone closer to revolution, but Trump is. Under the past few Democratic admins, most of the US were complacent and they just put their faith in the imagined progressive forces of the Democratic Party to make things better. Under the Republicans, way more people get radicalized and start to look for solutions outside of electoralism. That does come with the flipside that the Republicans are more brazen about crushing dissent and arresting protesters, but Democrats also happily use the surveillance state and the militarized police against the left (see: Palestine encampment crackdowns last year).