Tutoring job offer:

$15/hour for calculus.

Student says it is their second time taking class and that they struggle to retain information.

$15/hour

Less than minimum salary. Want to take the class a third time???

“This type of #RaciallyBased #suspicion not only affects the #victims but also causes profound #discomfort and #anxiety to #Australians of #Chinese and other #Asian heritage,” it said, adding that the “#unfair , #unreasonable and #unacceptable ” #accusations went against #HumanRights and made members of the community feel “#unsafe and #uneasy ”

https://amp.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3213950/asian-australians-fear-red-alert-warmongering-will-fuel-rise-racist-hate

#Clarke's three laws

• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced #technology is indistinguishable from #magic.

Isaac #Asimov 1959
"It is only afterward that a #new #idea seems #reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems #unreasonable" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

Picture : Arthur C. #Clarke 1965, on one of the sets of 2001: A #SpaceOdyssey https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_C._Clarke_1965.jpg

Years ago, I was looking for a word/concept that summed up everything, but really everything. Practically my personal word of the decade.
It is not "42" but: "ABSURD".

no matter what news, local or geo-political I hear & read this year.... "ABSURD" still applies in full!

#ABSURD
#absurd, #antinomic, #irrational, #crazy, #confused, #illogical, #nonsensical, #unreasonable