IMO memorizing those multiplication tables was one of the most useful things they taught in elementary school. They are teaching tricks now that separated the kids who were good at math from the ones who weren’t (since the ones who were good could figure out a lot of these tricks on their own to get through the grind of pages of questions quicker), but knowing my multiplication tables was and still is an essential part of doing quick math in my head.
Personally, I don’t really consider what we’ve got to be really VR yet. IMO that won’t come until we have interfaces that take direct nerve input and override our sensory inputs. And given how our economy runs, I don’t think I’ll trust any company that develops that, as much as I really want it.
Though I also wonder if our brains can handle switching between that and reality. After playing hours of Horizon VR, I noticed having the feeling a few times that my hands weren’t real because I got used to thinking that when I looked at my fake hands in the game.
In the university physics classes I took, if the final answer was 47/69, then that was acceptable because the goal was to show you knew how to get there, and the actual value didn’t really matter.
Also, when the final value does matter, each time you round a number (which you often do when it’s a division you want a calculator for), you’re adding error to the final answer. So avoiding using a calculator as much as possible will increase the accuracy of the final answer when there’s many steps.
That said, they didn’t disallow calculators and didn’t want to see long division or multiplication steps.
While I agree that it is good to learn to do math without a calculator, it’s not necessarily the case that the teachers who said “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time” didn’t think that was the exact reason. Also, there’s nothing wrong with just stating the real reason if that’s what they really believed.
Goku and Vegeta don’t actually go all out and kill their opponents very often either. They like to tell their opponents to go all out while holding back as much as possible themselves because they don’t respect their opponents unless they make them go all out. Pretty much every single character in that multiverse is like that. But it does sound badass, even if it’s a subtle insult to their opponent.
Hmm it’s possible but I’d think a cat would easily be able to stay on its feet if the top was pushed off. But losing its balance and ending up like that also doesn’t make sense to me.
My guess is the picture taker gave the cat some kind of jump scare (which tbf could involve pushing on the top) and had the camera ready.
Though if that is the case, the joke might be on them because that cat might look for new places to do its business now that the litter box isn’t safe.
Edit: looked again at the pic and I see that this might be a box where the cat stands on top of the part that fell rather than that being like the top of a “cave” like I had at first assumed. That makes both the cases I didn’t think very likely much more likely and my own guess less likely.
Not to mention being so easily manipulated into turning and then immediately diving in to his new role to the point of killing younglings and force choking his wife. He was very weak mentally and incredibly immature. He was powerful but wasn’t a master for a very good reason.
10:30? More like whatever time it is in that frame plus however long it takes to walk to the car and say “good luck with your crazy father, but I’m out”.
I don’t think smoking 20 cigarettes at once through that will result in 20x the effect of one smoke (even ignoring the fact that one isn’t lit). You can only pull in so much from your mouth, and with the resistance a single cigarette gives to pulling air through it, you’d probably get to no extra resistance after just a few of them, after which everything is just burning a bit slower when you take a drag unless you suck harder. But they all remain lit (except for the one), so they are burning up at their normal idle rate.
In effect, after maybe 3 or 4 of them, you’re just wasting cigarettes and creating more second hand smoke.
I suggest instead to take a little bit of tobacco from one of the cigarettes and put it at the bottom of a bowl of weed. You’ll get that smoker head rush the first few times you do it, but eventually you get used to it, so save it for special occasions. Or just throw out the cigarettes because that smoker head rush isn’t that big of a deal.