shirgall

Ok, let's go to my situation. I've hired a tutor to come by once a week over the summer for the kids to improve their skills with. He's a special ed teacher who has experience with ADD. However, the kids don't want to work with him, because all I've asked is that they pick something they want to get better at and work with him. The kinds of things I'm tempted to take away are the mindless distractions. The TV, the phone, the Internet. When they come to the table with the tutor and just stare at the floor, what am I supposed to do. (And, yeah, I'm tapering off the ADD meds for the summer, just to see what will happen. We've tried it before, but the kids are older now.) I haven't listened to the recent unschooling cast yet, I suspect that will have something relevant too.

A few of theme were captured on http://althouse.blogspot.com/2014/06/endfathersday.html and http://twitchy.com/2014/06/13/trolling-hard-were-calling-bs-on-the-trending-endfathersday-hashtag/ My favorite:

The article indicated that it started as a 4chan hoax, but that other people seemed to jump on the bandwagon and take it seriously, and agree with the premise.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/endfathersday-the-latest-ridiculous-hashtag-from-the-feminist-outrage-machine/article/2549708 #EndFathersDay, the latest ridiculous hashtag from the feminist outrage machine BY ASHE SCHOW | JUNE 13, 2014 | 10:15 AM TOPICS: BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WAR ON WOMEN GENDER ISSUES Update 11:30 a.m.: It appears the hashtag was originally started as a joke from the troll website 4Chan but was picked up by feminists who were actually outraged. I’m hesitant to give credence to this drivel, but some things are just so ridiculous they need to be mocked. Apparently, Father’s Day is just another way of perpetuating the patriarchal dominance that is so rampant in American society. Forget that Mother’s Day is also a thing, that’s not important. All that matters is that we end a day dedicated to the monsters among us, or something. By that logic Mother’s Day promotes female dominance, but apparently that’s okay. Also, "all men are a threat"? Seriously? Others also appear to be taking the hashtag seriously. Because all fathers do is oppress their children. There’s never been a good father ever in the history of ever. The hashtag even brought out the cis haters: So don’t celebrate the father in your life who was not like that. The hashtag – which apparently is not just a giant troll effort – promptly gained backlash from people who either had fathers or have the ability to think. Apparently not.

Runs counter to the Stefan method: https://imgur.com/gallery/7OK9zh7

Maybe the FDR guys can get it into Tapatalk, it does support IP.Board, but it has to be registered.

I can come up with a good answer for this if I have a little more time.

The fact that you don't recognize it as an insult is telling. I'm seeing a snap decision based on a couple of posts that all situations fit into your mental model of "drugs bad" "religion" bad". Admittedly, I had a far longer discussion on the chat and I could easily find empathetic people there, but your approach does not elicit any desire in me to explain myself. I did not drug them so they could play the piano (let alone the "god damn piano"). I could have just as easily have pointed out difficulty with reading longer passages and picking out the themes and the points or simply learning Geometry. Performing complex tasks without struggle and angst is what I said. The fact that you dove in on a throwaway line in the middle of some serious meat about learning and keep harping on it is dishonest and insulting. Why would I "kindly" engage in conversation at all?

Who's standard of kindly are we going to use? Yours? Your comment is unfair because you boiled down years of experience into a throw-away insult, instead of seeking truth.

Well, as you said, at least I replied. But i have made my comments on other posts and I left it at that. I know plenty of podcasts where audio is better, but the audio isn't the message, unless it detracts from the message. Heck, I listen to the shows at 125% or 150%. I'm expecting some distortion. We have no idea what they are up to, sure, but I merely was acknowledging that I was hearing what you were hearing.

Yeah, Automatic Gain Control can indeed normalize the stream somewhat, but at the expense of dynamic range (and usually noise in the silent bits, unless you also gate). Do you want to lose the efficacy of a Stef rant by effectively compressing/limiting the audio? For what it's worth I believe FDR is working to improve things, but they are likely competing on the priority list against new content.

As they say "Zero Tolerance makes Zero Sense." It comes across that the point is to train future slaves, not to effectively deal with problems.

I have three bullying incidents in my past that stand out pretty strongly in my mind, which was why I asked. They all had significant effects on me. But since I've already said too much today (different thread) let's leave it there.

Whee, 6. How come there are so few questions about how you were treated by people outside the family?

Facebook is really good for seeing if your theories on how people would turn out after High School really worked out without the crappy food and dancing at a reunion.

It is unfair to take a single example from a post and claim it is the sole motivation for an action.

You aren't the only one troubled by it. I hate medicating, but the evidence is overwhelming. We tried several ways of doing the self-directed thing yet still cover what we felt were important things to learn when dealing with the world, including homeschooling with tons of resources, an online school called "Washington Virtual Academy", and others. The most academic progress is evident with a structured school environment with small class sizes supplemented with tutoring. The kids like free-ranging discussion, and I do what I can to help with that, but I also try to get across to them that the fundamentals are important. For what it's worth they hate working on math and science with me either because I'm a poor teacher, or perhaps an impatient one (I really do try), but they seem to love argumentation and rhetoric. The daughter loves drama, for example, and we let her run with that. But she has to know enough math to make it through a grocery store. The son likes video games, but we try to urge him in a direction where he critiques them, because he has a bit of a creative writing streak. Yes, stimulants are troublesome and tuning dosage is a big pain in the ass, but when it's too low or not taken you can definitely tell. It's more than a simple obnoxious streak. It's more than bull-headedness. It's an inability to deal with organizing one's life but developing priorities and sticking to them. They have goals, and the vyvanse helps them actual make steps towards goals. If you could see the level of frustration that comes from trying to master a task (like, say, playing the piano) and failing to get past a certain point because something (if not anything) else is suddenly seems more important, I think you'd understand why this hard decision was made. As for the emotional issues, yes we are dealing with the fact that their father died in a plane crash when they were very young. Therapy was certainly used, but we aren't doing that at the moment.

I second this one, it's a good book and the new edition has even better illustrations. Believe it or not, we do but we resisted the stimulant-based treatment. It makes a huge difference while we try to develop in them the appropriate coping mechanisms. This is not a "sedate obnoxious kids so they shut up" situation. This is a be able to complete complex tasks without angst and disorganization thing. Both my wife's family and the children's father have ADD symptoms through the generations. I did not do this lightly and I would not do it if I didn't see a difference. Even my wife is taking ADD meds and it makes a difference for her! Is this turning into a call-in show now? I hadn't expected to be doing that just yet.

I tried homeschooling, but I wasn't able to get the kids to be self-directed enough. Public school had a huge class size, so I went with Christian school. My wife is also Christian, a lapsed Mormon, so she preferred that. Daughter is 17, will be a Senior in the coming year. Son is 14. He is even more of a skeptic than she is. I should add that both of my children are ADD and I have elicited help from both the school system and private tutors to help with the situation.

The local Christian school here actually claims that logic and evolution are atheist dogma and instructs students on how to resist proselytization. I got into trouble because I told my daughter that "you cannot cherry-pick from the Bible" and she said the same thing to the school administrator.

The hard sciences are not immune. For example, F=ma is wrong too. http://usersguidetotheuniverse.com/?p=2718

You might think so at first blush, but companies larger than that often lobby to get benefits, especially costly rules and regulations that serve as barriers to getting to market. It's the mid-sized businesses that pose the biggest threats to the bigs, and they are getting hit with a new massive cost. There are enough laws that treat the magical level of 50 employees as a dividing line that going above 50 just got another little bit harder in the Bay Area. Look at McDonald's, which traditionally pays better than minimum wage, agreeing with an increase in the minimum wage. They have a CEO that happens to come from a robots and electrical engineering background. Which company is likely to achieve the economy of scale necessary to reap the benefits of automating hamburger production further while other companies have to struggle with high-priced labor?

The reality is that we don't know how the podcasts are recorded. My suspicion is that previously the entire Skype call was recorded as a single track, and as a result it is extremely difficult to separately level the various participants. The previous way to get around this is to have each participant send the audio of the call in separately, and then try to match it up. This requires some delicacy. This is why I wasn't sure if the new studio also meant moving to multitrack recording, like this: http://lublog.tuttoeniente.net/archives/399/record-multi-track-skype-group-call-on-os-x I'm a Linux guy, so I mess around with Jack instead of Soundflower, but it's the same basic idea. And, of course, I'd prefer mumble to skype for multiparty calls.

Nah, you aren't alone, I've pointed out some of the ones that were really noticeable. I think we're all waiting to see how the new studio works out, as it may improve the mastering workflow.

There is a rumor that the US is preparing for a negative interest rate as well. Forgive me quoting InfoWars http://www.infowars.com/economist-u-s-banks-preparing-to-charge-customers-for-deposits/ but even the National Enquirer does investigative journalism from time to time. I lot of people have not realized that inflation is effectively a wealth tax as well. As this spurs demand for the stock market, creating a bubble...