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[ShadowHammer]

See you later, dad.

I'll miss you.

* Kevak hugs

* ShadowHammer adds hugs too

[Tack]

* Tack lends a manly shoulder-pat

[hops]

My condolences, Derm.

[Yoink]

Can't sleep, too tired.

Bloody naps. -_-

[Putnam]

Aren't they mostly lactose intolerant anyway

Also can"')t sleep wwke up in 4 hours yeehaw

[miauw62]

My cat is really sick :c

[RedKing]

Aren't they mostly lactose intolerant anyway

Supposedly. But most Chinese dairy products (even liquid milk) are usually reconstituted from powdered milk, which I believe breaks down a lot of the lactose. Dairy products are something of a luxury item in China, and the growing middle-class is consuming a hell of a lot of it, the same way that beef consumption in the US rose dramatically post-WWII.

And Helgo nailed it as far as the melamine poisoning and why that got into the milk. Basically, you can water the milk down then lace it with melamine to make it look like the real deal.
My guess on import reductions is partly increasing domestic production and partly the moderate weakening of the Chinese economy.


@derm: My condolences. Lost my mom about a year ago this time, although in my case it wasn't much of a loss. 

[Robot Parade Leader]

http://www.popsugar.com/moms/Little-Girl-Gets-Trouble-Writing-Cursive-38503998

Any teacher tries this with one of my relatives and they're going to get an earful....

Idiocracy was a movie and seemingly a documentary.

[Spehss _]

First calculus test tomorrow. I probably could've studied more. I do not feel terribly confident about this test.

Feels like I'm waiting for my execution, man.

[TheBiggerFish]

First calculus test tomorrow. I probably could've studied more. I do not feel terribly confident about this test.

Feels like I'm waiting for my execution, man.

GL on that.  Currently taking a Calc course myself.  It hasn't gotten out of review yet though, which is kind of odd.  Eh.

[Spehss _]

First calculus test tomorrow. I probably could've studied more. I do not feel terribly confident about this test.

Feels like I'm waiting for my execution, man.

GL on that.  Currently taking a Calc course myself.  It hasn't gotten out of review yet though, which is kind of odd.  Eh.

I'm probably assuming the worst. I've attended all classes and kept up with homework, so it's not like I was skipping class and slacking.

But at the same time I don't think I'll ace it. Which might as well be failing, as far as my perfectionism is concerned.

[penguinofhonor]

Cursive should be purged from our society. By force if necessary.

[Lord Shonus]

http://www.popsugar.com/moms/Little-Girl-Gets-Trouble-Writing-Cursive-38503998

Any teacher tries this with one of my relatives and they're going to get an earful....

Idiocracy was a movie and seemingly a documentary.

First, the name on that paper is nearly illegible -writing that a teacher can't read is useless, and a teacher has every right to set standard style requirements for work in their classroom.

Second, cursive is worthless.
Study after study has found that there is not any significant benefit to cursive writing - students that have learned only the manuscript (print) style outperform students who learned only cursive writing by roughly 30% in speed and around 95% in legibility. The only benefit cursive ever had was a relic of outmoded technology - old style pens had a tendency to drip if removed from the page and blot on contact, so cursive writing reduced the chances for that to happen mid-word. Nowadays, pens never drip (at least, not the sort that ordinary folks use in their day to day life), so this problem does not exist. There were benefits to cursive in transitioning to shorthand, but as shorthand is essentially a dead art those also no longer apply.

There is also no legal requirement -anywhere- for signatures to be in cursive.

Cursive should have died a long, long time ago - nobody benefits from knowing how to write it, and knowing how to read it is of limited value, as the historical documents written in cursive have mostly been transcribed (and often have a different style in the first place), so the only people who need it are folks that have to deal with the original copies of things.
 

[Worldmaster27]

I'm so sorry Derm, you have my well wishes and condolences.

I have tests and stuff everyday this week starting tomorrow.

I am not prepared for most.

[i2amroy]

Personally I like cursive for signatures because it lets each signature be more unique. Nobody else is going to write my signature quite the same why I do, where with print there is much less uniqueness.

Though in general writing the only cursive letter that I actually approve of is a modified lowercase 'k' (starting with a downstroke rather than a up->down), since, as a person who writes a lot of lowercase k's (I have to write two every time I write my name), I find them much faster and easier to write than the normal ones, since each of the three strokes flows one into another rather than requiring a lifting and moving of the pen between each stroke.