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[Arx]

Ayup. I used to get strange looks for casually drifting away from the people I was talking to when someone arrived (having just written the test we were about to write) and started talking about the questions. There is a reason (aside from being an introvert) that I eventually dropped out of the school social scene entirely.

Obama.

Clearly.

I don't think Sirus has any children, so no.

Well maybe he just doesn't know he had any children; I bet there is a pretty big market for trucker-goddess-president sperm.

Demigods with political prospects, sort of thing. And an inherent understanding of how to drive a truck.

[penguinofhonor]

Nobody older will tell you this, but they were all dicks in high school too.

[Descan]

Eeeeeyup. Society isn't getting worse, people just don't talk about (or forget) about how crappy it was before, so you see all the shit today and hear about how great it was before... Meanwhile, 50 years ago it was just as shit in mostly the same ways, at least in terms of how people behaved in those ways, and they were just as nostalgic for their past.

Obviously things were different, such as the Cold War, and things that are more long-haul deals, like the bureaucratization of post-secondary education and various political shenanigans like the rise of the Religious Right in the U.S. are different, but day-to-day life is mostly the same, just with fancier toys and more Information Revolution technologies and habits. I.E. want to know something, just Google it.

[Putnam]

((1/2*(1+sqrt(5)))^n-(2/(1+sqrt(5)))^n*cos(pi*n))/math.sqrt(5)

That equation there, if n is an integer, will give you the nth fibonacci number.

cos(pi*n). Pi never fails to show up where you least expect it :I

[Yoink]

Re: High school; well, with today's technology everybody's stupidity is plastered all over the internet for all to see, so it's a bit more prominent. Also, popular music is getting worse all the time. So yeah, I'd say it's worse nowadays.

[Tiruin]

Nobody older will tell you this, but they were all dicks in high school too.

Really? Doesn't seem that bad-my mom and dad said there were many shenanigans back in their day, also taught me the notes on smoking and public 'settling of qualms' (ie open fistfights which stop when blood is shed or one backs out; like the duels of old?) and lectured me on 'this is not a good thing to do and instead do "x/y/z" or other alternatives...'

So I don't do that and stuffs are happy.

WTF: So it has been spoken ever since history that the lack of understanding in people--as people have potential and intelligence, is dangerous.
...
Why in the world do we have such boundaries as racism or other such dividing crap like that when they don't even make sense in the first place?!

[scrdest]

Nobody older will tell you this, but they were all dicks in high school too.

Really? Doesn't seem that bad-my mom and dad said there were many shenanigans back in their day, also taught me the notes on smoking and public 'settling of qualms' (ie open fistfights which stop when blood is shed or one backs out; like the duels of old?) and lectured me on 'this is not a good thing to do and instead do "x/y/z" or other alternatives...'

So I don't do that and stuffs are happy.

WTF: So it has been spoken ever since history that the lack of understanding in people--as people have potential and intelligence, is dangerous.
...
Why in the world do we have such boundaries as racism or other such dividing crap like that when they don't even make sense in the first place?!

Psychology combined with various sociopolitical stuffs that cement it.

[MagmaMcFry]

cos(pi*n). Pi never fails to show up where you least expect it :I

Erm, cos(pi*n) is just (-1)^n.

Also the formula is easier to memorize as (p^n-(-p)^-n)/sqrt(5), where p is the golden ratio.

[NobodyPro]

[ETHIC:MOVIE:MISGUIDED]

For reals, 300 was a bit odd.  See why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQY6Si8Kq8

That's beyond nit-picking.

[Frumple]

Nobody older will tell you this, but they were all dicks in high school too.

Really? Doesn't seem that bad-my mom and dad said there were many shenanigans back in their day, also taught me the notes on smoking and public 'settling of qualms' (ie open fistfights which stop when blood is shed or one backs out; like the duels of old?) and lectured me on 'this is not a good thing to do and instead do "x/y/z" or other alternatives...'

So I don't do that and stuffs are happy.

Mm... the thing to take away from that, though, in the context of this discussion, is that stuff was happening back in their day enough that they had notes to teach you. It really is more or less how PoH and co. has stated. There is the occasional one (like your parents) that will actually fess up about what they got up to, but there's definitely a lot that don't. I've personally seen more of the latter than the former, for what little that's worth.

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Older (mostly older, anyway) folks have been decrying moral decay basically since the earliest of written history. If I'm not misremembering, there was even crap like that involved with some of the verbal traditions that go back even further. And yet the next generation comes along and gets by well enough that they live to start doing the same thing. I'd say it makes one think, but there's really not terribly much to think about. The nostalgia filter is strong with most humans, heh.

[The Darkling Wolf]

[ETHIC:MOVIE:MISGUIDED]

For reals, 300 was a bit odd.  See why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQY6Si8Kq8

That's beyond nit-picking.

Welcome to CinemaSins

[Sirus]

[ETHIC:MOVIE:MISGUIDED]

For reals, 300 was a bit odd.  See why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQY6Si8Kq8

That's beyond nit-picking.

Welcome to CinemaSins

Oh. THOSE guys. They make Bible!God seem like the paragon of "let-it-go-ness".

[Xantalos]

[ETHIC:MOVIE:MISGUIDED]

For reals, 300 was a bit odd.  See why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQY6Si8Kq8

That's beyond nit-picking.

Welcome to CinemaSins

Oh those guys.
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[Descan]

[ETHIC:MOVIE:MISGUIDED]

For reals, 300 was a bit odd.  See why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQY6Si8Kq8

That's beyond nit-picking.

Welcome to CinemaSins

Oh. THOSE guys. They make Bible!God seem like the paragon of "let-it-go-ness".

That's why it's called CinemaSins!

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Oh man when you guys started talking about how kids these days are so bad and never listen to their elders and are dishonest and lazy, I was SO BADLY HOPING the conversation hadn't drifted too far away that I couldn't legitimately post ... what turns out to be an XKCD comic that doesn't exist. The closest thing is this but I swear there was one with quotes about how children are so disrespectful from dudes in 400 BC or something.

Halp?