Conspiracy theorists occupy a strange place in our culture, because that class is composed of both skeptics (who distrust mainstream narratives and construct the theories) and the credulous (who believe their theories). However, I’ve made an observation that links their mindsets together and hopefully somewhat explains their common mentality.
I’m definitely not the first person to comment about this, nor am I the most
qualified to explain this phenomenon, but it’s had a major impact on my life in
the last year or so, and I want to share my thoughts and experiences.
This past Tuesday, the 16th, most of the north part of my town lost power, some
for longer than others. My power outage lasted about 3 hours. However, instead
of sitting around bored during this extended outage, I decided to do something
productive.
I’ve been trying on-and-off since 2016 to get my late 90s laptop running FreeDOS connected to the Internet, and I’ve finally done it. In this article, I show off my setup and give the steps on how it’s done.
I recently encountered a scenario in a class I’m taking where there was a big
argument about what should be done with unfair questions on an exam. The
discussion appeared to be entirely centered on intuition and emotions, so I
decided to settle the matter with mathematics. I think this information could
be useful to teachers in a similar predicament.