Things That Explode

college teacher:

“Advanced” mathematicians who mock important low-level realizations with “duh, that’s obvious (and beneath me), boring” should know that this sucks all the fun out of learning math, especially for beginners or people who typically struggle. That’s the best part of the experience! It’s what draws people to math and you once got excited about that too! You’re used to it by now and maybe you think the coolness has worn off, but I assure you it hasn’t. Don’t pass that attitude on to people making discoveries. That can seriously hamper their desire to learn, so it’s a dick move. Instead of being a cranky elitist, how about we use someone else’s wonder and excitement to remind us just how cool the things we are doing can be, and appreciate it with them instead of putting out that flame! If you join them and go “hell yeah I forgot how exciting that was, here’s more stuff about that!” You can make the both of you more excited to do math, which is probably a net positive.

It’s not that you are gushing over “easy to understand things” it’s that you get excited about incredibly shallow relationships between functions and constants.   And it’s obvious that that’s what you’re doing. It’s the mathematical equivalent of thinking that these stickers are great because hey, it’s a surprising connection between Garfield and works of classical horror literature: https://store.freezetag.com/products/garfield-stickers-garfield-halloween-sticker-pack

But like…Garfield sucks, these stickers are kitschy garbage. And the stuff you are obsessed with is exactly that. And like, it’s absolutely okay to appreciate things almost exclusively on a shallow level, but it absolutely fucking isn’t if you are getting a degree in it. 

Beblog this. I wanna know how many of us there are.

Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride-to-be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.

“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone,” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling.”

Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.

The argument soon turned physical when the groom attacked him as he was attempting to leave, Albayrak says. The photographer ended up breaking the client’s nose in the fight, according to local reports.

Albayrak confirmed the reports in a Facebook post, which has been met with widespread approval, attracting thousands of Likes and hundreds of overwhelmingly positive comments.

“I wish this had never happened, but it did,” Albayrak writes. “And if you were to ask me if I’d do the same thing again, I’d say ‘yes.’ Child brides are [victims] of child abuse and no power on earth can make me photograph a child in a wedding gown.”

The legal minimum age for marriage in Turkey is 18-years-old for both sexes, and child marriage is punishable by imprisonment for men who marry underage girls. Despite being outlawed, however, child marriage is still prevalent in the country and remains a controversial political issue.

As the Department of Justice does not allow recording devices in immigration courts the film maker used actors to recreate the process as best she could.

William C Snoufer is a retired Judge who agreed to return to the seat to help make the film, he is not someone actually judging these children and I think it was really commendable of him to be a part of this project.