thebartermyth [he/him]
I often learn by teaching so I’ll find other people who want to learn it and explain the things I’m learning to them. Or if it’s something really boring I’ll explain it to someone who’s willing to listen to it. I’ll also explain and narrate in my head imagining an old roommate or something. People I’ve given this strategy to IRL say they pretend they’re streaming, but I don’t do that because I don’t really watch streamers very much. The trick to it is to relate it to things you know, but not turn it into explaining capitalism because the test probably doesn’t have questions about labor valorization etc etc.
I think someone on hexbear at one point posted a ‘focus hack’ video that suggested putting on headphones with no music playing as though you’ve listened to music which ended, but you were focused so you didn’t notice. I don’t do this, but it makes sense to me. The video had a bunch of stuff like that, I think one was a plugin that removes recommendations from youtube so the website is just a search bar and it tricks people into realizing that they’re watching for convenience rather than looking for stuff and information.
For, like, exam trick questions, they usually fall into two categories:
- Specific methodology trick: you basically cannot do these by hand in enough time if you don’t know the trick.
Multiply 503 by 497.
Factor out a 3 and make it (500+3)*(500-3). Then it’s (250,000 - 9). (Doing this longhand would take forever even if you could obviously do it.)
- Specific knowledge trick: you basically cannot do these efficiently without just knowing from some other source.
The cube root of 64 is 4, because 4x4x4 is 64. What is the cube root of 1,728?
1,728 is a cubic foot so the answer is 12. (You’d have to test factors or do cube root division which is hard and takes a long time.)
Either way, look at old exam questions and example questions and figure out what the these tricks are for the test you’re taking.
Also, good luck. You probably know and remember much more than you think.
Mr. President, sir, let me first say thank you for your commitment to the American people… Your administration has not yet released a statement regarding the new Esperanza Spalding album, Milton + esperanza, should such a statement be expected in the coming weeks? Taxpayers were concerned to find tracks from the album absent from Former President Obama’s 2024 summer playlist.
TANKIE!
Their corrupt state handouts
Our public-private partnerships
basically the military took fewer pictures and worse pictures.
So, scientists have observed Earth’s nightlights for more than four decades, first with astronaut photography and military satellites. Since the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force has operated the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), a series of 18 polar-orbiting satellites that observe clouds and other weather variables in key wavelengths of infrared and visible light. Starting in 1972, the DMSP satellites included the Operational Linescan System (OLS), which gives weather forecasters some ability to see in the dark.
While DMSP has been a source of nighttime images for decades, until fairly recently the data were classified, which meant that only a few civilian scientists could conveniently gain access to study the data. The atmospheric science community was eager to have a more accessible night-vision tool to better understand weather and climate patterns and phenomena. Finally, in 2011, a new source of unclassified satellite images of Earth at night became available—one that improved upon the capabilities of OLS. The new low-light sensor was called the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), and was launched in October 2011 onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite—a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Defense
– Earth at Night
Roll ball for fun
Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis
In Defense of Looting - Vicky Osterweil
World Systems Analysis: An Introduction - Immanuel Wallerstein
Maybe the play Hadestown? Prometheus stealing fire from the gods probably works. Most of Aesops fables are vaguely left-ish and can definitely be spun as so. The bible-related commie phrase is usually the pre-king-james lord’s prayer: “Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who are indebted to us.” There’s a theory about the axial age being a response to coinage. I wouldn’t say it’s airtight, but it’s a fun thing to believe lol. Honestly, I find myths more interesting without recontexualizing them because a lot of polytheistic stuff has regional and cultural aspects to it that doesn’t really get translated to "god of fire, goddess of death, etc.
