I’d require something after algebra 2, but not necessarily calculus. Calc 1 should be an option, just not the only one. Other options could include Stats / Data Analysis, or a Discrete math with CS algorithmic applications.

When I include statistics here, I don’t mean the more common (and IMO useless) pre-calculus stats class where you get to calculate the standard deviation of 5 numbers and draw box plots. I’d rather a class inspired by How to Lie with Statistics. Techniques for collecting biased data, or selectively interpreting good data to reach a pre-determined conclusion. Immediate career implications for prospective journalists, politicians, marketers, etc. and also societally useful in a Defense Against the Dark Arts sort of way.

I’m not dexterous enough to do the 1024 thing. Usually I just point my index finger at the appropriate point on a meter stick. With cm precision, that’s 100 and if I do the same with my other hand, I can count 10000

Marketing a 512 GB device is maliciously and intentionally deceptive. If it were 500GB, the consumer has fair warning that the size is not a power of 2 and might suspect that the GBs aren’t binary either. There is no reason to make it 512GB except to imply the consumer is getting their full 2^39 bytes.

Do you mean overall, as a societal ill? or on a per mile basis?

If the answers are different, it’s only because even drunks know better than to go street racing.

Pronounce and pronunciation seem like they should have the same root, but one of them has an extra ‘o’ for some perfectly logical reason. I know the difference and don’t consistently misspell it, but if I edit a sentence to switch from one to the other without noticing that it’s a danger inflection …

Also maintain vs. maintenance for the same reason.

“Please don’t be offended if I get an erection during this scene.”

“Also, please don’t be offended if I don’t.”

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Or they did, and the lawyer says, “I won’t risk my license putting my name on that horseshit. If this is really how you want to proceed, you’ll have to do it yourself.”

Which translates to, “I consulted with an attorney who suggested I send you this demand letter.”

A woman from Kalamazoo

Whose limericks stopped at line two

A shining wit?

I’ve blocked a few repost bots, but I think only one human-controlled account.

One of the first big kids’ books I read on my own. I should re-read the series as an adult since I might have been almost too young for it the first time.

Search engine optimizer – The entire industry, intentionally and with malice aforethought, exists purely to make it more difficult for search engines to provide quality output to search users.