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cc @cyndisision I feel like this is way up your alley

Today I discovered that Justice has done a remix of Electric Feel (MGMT) that fucking rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enrrbWOAFR4 [5:27]

Thanks, KEXP :)

The quiz at the end covered the most basic of atomic theory, not even the intro stuff about electric hazards, DC circuits and Ohm's Law etc that we'd covered in class. It was pitiful.

So we got through the class material early, so to pad out the time (it's supposed to be 8h of instruction) the instructor put on an episode of Modern Marvels from 2006 about magnets. It didn't amount to shit.

As is, I feel like my time was disrespected. If I had paid more than a trivial amount for the class, I'd be actively pissed.

<instructor pulls out a sketchy-ass demo transformer made from two spools of wire and some ferrous conduit>

Classmate, with just the smallest hint of irony in his voice: "what's the UL listing on that?"

Okay, that got a pretty good laugh from me.

Okay, in followup slides he made clear that electrons flow from negative to positive. Cool.

22 electricians in this class and as far as I can tell I'm the only woman.

(to be clear, this post is not a complaint about this class.)

Apparently I lowkey go "lol you think matter is real" when discussions of atomic theory come up.

Things aren't made out of smaller things. "Matter" is a convenient approximation.

(It's a useful model but it's a map, not a territory.)

This Union hall has photos of members marching at May Day events and protesting WTO 1999 which is kinda cool, though.

Tbh I kinda suspected the class would be like this, based on the general caliber of "trades knowledge" I've seen from journeymen when theory discussion comes up.

And like yeah this is actually perfectly fine stuff to think is true when you're wiring stuff.

It's just... wrong.

I should have placed a bet on whether the teacher would say "electrons flow from positive to negative".

Yeah though my HS physics class was a whole lot more accurate than this, and my HS physics teacher was okay but not great.

Re: the pictured sides: I was really tempted to ask "so why is copper more conductive than potassium?", but that would have been kinda mean and entirely unproductive.

The instructor doesn't seem to know much physics beyond the level of what's on the slides and is clearly bullshitting when asked questions about why stuff is the way it is. A student will ask "is that because of <other concept>" and he'll nod and say yes even when they're not actually very related.

Knowing the material better than the instructor is really uncomfortable :/

By which I mean, about every other statement isn't actually true.

This "Electrical theory 1" class instruction is very much in the "only kinda sorta accurate" category.

I got linked this by @sev today: a starter list of questions to ask potential tabletop players, to see if you're on the same page about what the game actually *is*.

https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/the-same-page-tool/