I also challenged my professor and argued that there is a biological basis for race, and had the whole class gang up on my. I have audio if anyone is curious.

I think that qualifies for beast mode chief

My school let in so many chinese students that I don't even have to redpill, they're doing it for me

That being said, every campus is different. My school is right wing enough that their won't be too much backlash, and a large part of my social life is IE, so I don't care if students judge me for my beliefs. You might have good reasons to care, and you shoudn't put that at risk just to be a badass.

@Jacob - could you brief me, or give me a good, concise resource on your colonization point so I can use that argument and back it up?

No, you're absolutely right. You need to have a read on your audience

I can post the document if you would like @Aleis⊕ccidentalis

My campus is very left wing

That'd be great!

I largely built on Ryan Faulk's work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS7XUGh2meI

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/colonialism-did-not-make-africa-poor/

thanks so much. I go to an overwhelmingly Liberal university and I need more intellectual ammo for when I cause tension in the classroom

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/the-wealth-of-colonizers-or-lack-thereof/

@Aleis⊕ccidentalis Just be careful. I don't want to make it sound like everyone should do it just because I did it. My campus is largely apolitical, and fairly right wing. I don't know if I would have risked all this at a different school.

You've got a unique writing style, really cuts straight to the point. I wonder if those statistics (development, infant mortality, etc.) vary depending on the colonizing nation. For example, I wonder if British colonies, as a collective whole, fared better than Belgian or French ones

Yes, I believe they do, though I don't remember exactly

Absolutely...so far I've been great about masking myself until an appropriate time to strike. Especially if I can put it in a way that sounds appealing to Leftists

oh I do that, too, sometimes

it's good to find common ground with them

It can be a lot of fun to use their own values against them. I like to talk about how immigration harms the third world through brain drain.

I think creating waterproof arguments for our idea is pretty vital, although there's one possible confliction I've noticed within the argument. Overall, I think it's a good piece, I'm just playing devil's advocate here. It would make sense that a colonizing nation would hold onto colonies containing valuable natural resources for longer durations of time. It also makes sense that they would send some of their own natives to create a stable government, loyal to the home nation. These colonies would be held onto most fiercely, and might be the last do decolonize. Since they are so resource rich, they naturally have better GDP outcomes than sparse colonies that were abandoned earlier

I recently brought up how the demand for institutional diversity actually dilutes the identity of minority groups, and how it forces them to live amongst people they don't want to be around, rather than a homogeneous community of their own kind.

@Nicholas1166 - NY Ryan addresses that in his video. I don't remember the exact data, but, as an example, South Africa was pretty barren before it got settled, and it's way more advanced than other African countries.

With regards to that homework question, I'd simply point out that majority black districts have almost exclusively black representatives, so it's not surprising that, when most districts and states are majority white, they'll mostly have white representatives

okay am I just dumb or does anyone else find these instructions kind of confusing

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what does "write the summary of the method interface(signature)" mean?

and what is "the recursive definition or your recursive solution"?

@Jacob
so if your function is
```python
def fibonacci(n):
if n == 0 or n == 1:
return n
else:
return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)
```
Then 1. the function signature is `fibonacci(n)`. (In Java this probably looks more like `public int fibonacci(int n)`
2. the base case is
```python
if n==0 or n ==1:
return n
```
3. the recursive part is
```python
if not(n==0 or n==1):
return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)
```

@ThisIsChris Thanks a lot

okay this should be pretty easy

lmao IllegalArgumentException reminds me of that "illegal opinions" meme with Merkel

lol

@Jacob you're welcome

@ThisIsChris I'm doing chain rule in Calculus 1 and would like to know how to do the problem: cot^2(sinx)

@GDoctor
1. set `y = sin(x)`
2. the derivative of `cot^2(y)` is `-1/sin^2(y)`
3. so the derivative of `cot^2(sinx)` with respect to `x` is the derivative of `cot^2(y)`with respect to `x` which is `(-1/sin^2(y)) * (dy/dx)`
4. `dy/dx = cos(x)`
5. the derivative of `cot^2(sinx)` with respect to `x` is
`(-1/sin^2(y)) * (dy/dx)`
`(-1/sin^2(sin(x))) * (cos(x))`

@ThisIsChris Thank you so much.