The Off Topic Topic

[Savonarola]

Quizzes and more quizzes; I came across this on an online lecture today: what's your learning style (the VARK questionnaire).

Multimodal (VRK)
Your scores were:

Visual 7
Aural 1
Read/Write 7
Kinesthetic 9

People with your preference like:
different formats, graphs, diagrams, maps, interesting layouts, space, notes, handouts, print, text, practical exercises, experiences, examples, case studies, trial and error, things that are real, ...

The Aural Learning Style is obviously biased against engineers since it requires talking to other people. 



I learn best by building or doing things (the "Kinesthetic" on this test).  For that reason it's probably for the best that I majored in Electrical Engineering rather than, say, History.  In our society it's perfectly acceptable to learn about radio by building a radio.  It's much less acceptable to learn about Viking civilization by building a dragon boat and sacking Dublin.

[garbon]

No surprises

Multimodal (VARK)
Visual 11
Aural 5
Read/Write 15
Kinesthetic 8

People with your preference like:
different formats, graphs, diagrams, maps, interesting layouts, space, listening, discussing, talking, questioning, notes, handouts, print, text, practical exercises, experiences, examples, case studies, trial and error, things that are real

[Eddie Teach]

8-11-13-8

Couldn't decide on a bunch.

[DGuller]

I got bored five questions in, really couldn't be assed to finish it.  I wonder if that's suggestive of a certain learning style?

[Syt]

I had many instances of "I would want to do all of these."

Your scores were:

Visual 13
Aural 11
Read/Write 12
Kinesthetic 14

People with your preference like:
different formats, graphs, diagrams, maps, interesting layouts, space, listening, discussing, talking, questioning, notes, handouts, print, text, practical exercises, experiences, examples, case studies, trial and error, things that are real, ...

[Syt]

[Josquius]

The UK continues its efforts to dehumanise the unemployed in a it would be funny if it wasn't seriously horrible way.

https://bigissue.com/news/social-justice/what-kidnappers-do-dwp-forcing-universal-credit-claimants-to-pose-for-photo-with-daily-paper/

[Syt]

The UK continues its efforts to dehumanise the unemployed in a it would be funny if it wasn't seriously horrible way.

https://bigissue.com/news/social-justice/what-kidnappers-do-dwp-forcing-universal-credit-claimants-to-pose-for-photo-with-daily-paper/

The instructions, issued to a person making their first claim, read: "Further to today's phone call, I now require you to provide the following information. If you don't provide all of the information that we've requested your claim will be closed."

The directions asked the claimant, who remains anonymous, to upload a photo of their ID plus a separate picture of the ID held next to their face.

They then asked for "a photo of you stood outside the front door (open behind you) of the property you live at. Ask someone to take this from the street so whole property can be seen.

"A photo of you stood next to your street sign with you[r] right hand holding it. Ask someone to take this photo from a few metres away so that the background can be clearly seen.

"A photo of you holding your local newspaper for the area you live (not a national tabloid newspaper). This should be dated the same day you upload the photo."

The fuck?

[Sheilbh]

Awful. Just the horrible "shop-a-scrounger" mentality that is larded through our welfare system. There's no cruelty that's beyond the risk of someone, somewhere getting benefit money they're not entitled to

[Eddie Teach]

Hassle, even indignity I could see. But where's the cruelty?

[grumbler]

More volcanic news! In Japan a new islet has emerged in the Ogasawara island chain (1000 km south of the main islands, Iwo Jima is part of it), which is somehow common, but this time sunken WWII ships are emerging on it.

These are captured Japanese transports sunk by the US as a sort of poor man's Mulberry harbor during the invasion of Iwo Jima (Iwo Jima has no port).

[Savonarola]

Another question for the Spaniards; I saw this article in Atlas Obscura about huesos de santo and I was curious if they were popular throughout Spain or just in certain regions.

(In Palermo they celebrate Carnivale with marzipan pig heads (not life sized.))

[The Brain]

Another question for the Spaniards; I saw this article in Atlas Obscura about huesos de santo and I was curious if they were popular throughout Spain or just in certain regions.

(In Palermo they celebrate Carnivale with marzipan pig heads (not life sized.))

why not

[Barrister]

Awful. Just the horrible "shop-a-scrounger" mentality that is larded through our welfare system. There's no cruelty that's beyond the risk of someone, somewhere getting benefit money they're not entitled to

Welfare fraud is a very real thing.  I was just dealing with a file where the woman claimed welfare for her and her three children.

Problem was she doesn't have any children.

[The Brain]

Awful. Just the horrible "shop-a-scrounger" mentality that is larded through our welfare system. There's no cruelty that's beyond the risk of someone, somewhere getting benefit money they're not entitled to

Welfare fraud is a very real thing.  I was just dealing with a file where the woman claimed welfare for her and her three children.

Problem was she doesn't have any children.

Did the Crown do its duty?