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[Dwarf]

Well, school should go beyond teaching merely that which is required for basic jobs and such.

[janglur]

I would be happy if school DID teach only what was necessary for basic jobs.

If I have to work with one more illiterate imbecile who doesn't have the slightest inkling on physics and can't even describe the difference between the metals he's working with... (Is it REALLY that hard to tell Stainless and Galvanized steel apart!?  Or Copper for that matter!?!?!)
Ironically, the non-english speaking greencard employees can actually do the work just fine.  Rigoberto is a master welder.  But the vocational schooled middle-aged guy?  He can't tell a wrench from a ratchet.


Sadly, my experience in highschool was a *lot* of theory, arts, and mathematics, and almost none of it was applicable in the real world.  An auto-tech class or maybe some basic physics and electrical knowledge would have been nice.  Basic a one-week rundown on metallurgy and thermodynamics, really simple stuff.  Nothing advanced, just that 'duh metal expands when hot' and 'friction causes heat' and 'water expands when it freezes'.  These would have saved me countless headaches by now had the American employees known them.....

[Cruxador]

You wish schools required a metalshop class, in other words? That was a pretty popular elective when I was in high school, but I don't know about mandating it.

And a lot of that basic material quality stuff is taught in Chemistry any way.

But yeah, education is geared towards college. College pays only token attention to those collegiate disciplines these days, but you still need to deal with that stuff anyway. Which is stupid, but so it goes.

[MiniMacker]

This thread made my day and it's only 9 AM in the morning.

[Blargityblarg]

If Toady someday starts selling dwarf fortress he should definitely implement a testimonials page:

Terry from Ohio: " Thanks, to dwarf fortress I saved my marriage and lost twelve pounds. killed my wife and gained 37 pounds of beard."

Much better.

Even betterererer.

[Acanthus117]

If Toady someday starts selling dwarf fortress he should definitely implement a testimonials page:

Terry from Ohio: " Thanks, to dwarf fortress I saved my marriage and lost twelve pounds. killed my wife, turned her into a lamp and gained 1,237 pounds of beard."

Much better.

Even betterererer.

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[Aramco]

In b4 company's factory mass slaughtering kittens for resources.

Cats?! You should know that dogs are the most embark-point efficient source of meat.

[darkrider2]

I'm going for engineering so I may actually need to know some of the things school teaches me. But most kids are never going to need it. Also weird how graduating high school doesn't make you a better employee than someone completely uneducated from another country, because they work for nothing.

[Cruxador]

I'm going for engineering so I may actually need to know some of the things school teaches me. But most kids are never going to need it. Also weird how graduating high school doesn't make you a better employee than someone completely uneducated from another country, because they work for nothing.

Actually, they're better employees because they know how to do the stuff the job requires. But I can understand if you have poor reading comprehension, seeing as you're apparently coming from the school system.

[NewsMuffin]

Off topic:
Internet>Video Games>School
Video Games taught me to read, the internet taught me to be literate, and all school did was fuck it all up.

On topic:
Wow, that's awesome!
My friends are amazed at my geology skills because of DF. Serious.

Hot Topic:
Wait, what?

[claer_runway]

people forget about Archimedes' screw. it's a darn reliable design.

[janglur]

Yeah.  Our options were:

Manually sludge around in 6 inches of ancient, rotting feces (literally) and haul out 3 to 60 lbs chunks of concrete, metal, wood, etc. by hand, and load the debris into buckets and bucket brigade it out, while using a pump that constantly clogs...

Or come up with a new plan.

A large archimedes screw can easily handle fairly large debris, and overall is a lot less work (and gross) than doing it other ways.  It also doesn't clog because of hair and plastic and string.  And it's manually operated, so no worries about electrical shorts in the water.  It was the solution that saved countless hours of effort and got the job done!

I came up with it when I was repairing the pump which had clogged yet again, and I saw it used a four-gate spinner method.  Basically a + shaped rotating gear which traps pockets of water in the reservoir under pressure and pushes it uphill through a hose.  It was too easily clogged.  And I thought, "What could transport semi-liquid without risk of clogging?"  I first thought of some kind of watermill design then it hit me-  archimedes screw!


Toady, the world owes you far more than just countless hours of entertainment.

[RiotHouse]

A friend of mine had a cat overpopulation problem, so I had a eureka moment.....we ate well....

Thank you Dwarf Fortress!