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Another post from betting market company Polymarket read: “BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.” The post has almost 14 million views.
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Lmao, I love this kind of stuff. It makes dumb people so angry
Angering dumb people makes them vote. And they vote real dumb
They were angry before this and they’ll have been angry if this was never mentioned.
For those willing to learn, there’s an opportunity for a teachable moment
And it makes dumb people so visible.
In Germany, we have a right-wing party en par with the US Republicans: The AfD. Just as Nazi, just as nuts.
Some time ago, someone riled them up with the “Did you know they teach Arabic numerals in school now?”, and quite a few of them blew a lid…
Well, the dihydrogen monoxide that is in your Zuchini is literally an industrial solvent!
Have you seen what dihydrogen monoxide does to pure, strong iron?!? It corrodes iron unbelievably fast! And people just…consume it in most of their “healthy” foods!
Wake up, sheeple! Stop drinking dihydrogen monoxide!
~/s - this message brought to you by Brawndo, the thirst mutilator~
FWIW this is by far less dangerous and aggressive than oxygen, which caused the first global mass extinction when it started to amass in earth’s atmosphere (and plays a major role in the corrosion of iron you mentioned).
And yet people tell you to breathe in and out…And stop plants from drinking it too!
Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.
zuchini is green squash now
My son just told me there is a complete wiki about DHMO. Something I’ll investigate later…
You know what’s funny, the dihydrogen-monoxide bit works in part because when you tell someone “ha ha, you’re anti water” they should get embarrassed. Like, it’s impossible for them to continue arguing, you know?
But if anyone is going to take hidden-agenda numerals at face value and still insist that we use a new, much stupider number system to get away from centuries of Arabic influence, it would definitely be nazis, lol.
Hear me out, maybe base 10 isn’t the best counting system. Base 6 or 12 could be pretty nice. Not worth Nazis being in charge, but could be a nice change of pace.
I like base 8 or 16, anything that’s a power of 2
As a funny math boy, believe me, I know. :p
Next he’ll be forcing us all to drink dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that’s known to be fatal to humans under certain conditions!
They literally use that shit to power steam engines! Now imagine what it does to your insides. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Dont forget it is a key component in both hydrochloric acid and making nuclear power plants operate.
And its much more dangerous to try to breathe than carbon monoxide.
Water? Don’t touch the stuff… fish fuck in it
I’m sorry but as a technicality none of the power used in a steam engine is derived from the dihydrogen monoxide. The chemical compound is used as a medium to turn thermal energy into kinetic energy. The thermal energy, likewise, is usually obtained from another source such as chemical, nuclear, or photovoltaic.
Good luck running your steam engine without it!
Also:
tidal
Pretty sure there aren’t moon-powered trains, bro, but nice try.
A steam engine can also be used to generate power, or to operate mechanical indistrial equipment like rock crushers or pumps, as a stationary device, but in hindsight the tidal power probably never gets that hot. The engine for moving trains could also be powered by electricity from wind or tidal, though I don’t think there are any practical examples.
A friend of mine ingested a ton of it and died. They found him at the bottom of a lake
Thry say even small amounts are fatal in certain circumstances.
Sources claim an up to 100% mortality rate!
In 1862 dihydrogen monoxide leaked into a well, and every single person who consumed it has perished!!! 100% fatality rate in just this incident!!!
Every single person in my family tree, born prior to 1920, have two things in common… They are ALL dead and they ALL drank dihydrogen monoxide regularly!
This has got to stop!
You think that’s bad, here’s something to consider… The vast majority of them died within 24 hours of ingesting dihydrogen monoxide!
Every single person who has ever ingested it has died or will die
That wasn’t a study AFAIK it was the official report from the U.S. Department Of Education. -The department run by the spouse of a professional wrestling magnate.
So, what were you reading in the sixth grade? My memory isn’t that good, but I think I was past reading Captain underpants, maybe I was up to reading Percy Jackson (sorry got a bad case of CRS). I definitely gave Harry Potter a pass through, didn’t like the main character.
Anyway, I feel like in 6th grade I was good at reading the text of a book, but not much beyond that. Symbols, themes, subtext — those are hard for a 6th grader.
6th grade is reading for plot. It’s able to read the story and understand that the hobbits brought the ring to Mordor, and Aragorn fought in Gondor.
Anything about symbols, themed, subtext, unreliable narrators all comes later.
You hit the nail on the head. Literacy is about more than just sounding out words - understanding the intended message is equally important.
I wish I could be surprised, but I’ve been on internet forums long enough that it’s undeniable. It’s like understanding subtext (and even overt context) is a lost art. Making a short post and expecting readers to correctly “connect the dots” practically invites commenters to misinterpret things. So the choice is either “over-explain and risk making a super long post,” or “come back again and again when someone inevitably argues something you didn’t intend.” It’s so frustrating.
On the other hand sometimes I get people telling me to re read their arguments because I don’t understand them. Like maybe they just suck at presenting their argument? Maybe they could re-state it so it was easier to understand? Maybe I do get it and their argument sucks? No clearly what they wrote is gold and you would understand if your reading comprehension was better.
What do you mean
Next they are going to find out they are learning other Arabic topics like al-Gebra.
Or about Mr. Al Kwarizmi (Algorithm).
How about Brahmagupta’s quadratic equation
tbf, they should teach about him. one of the most influential mathematicians in history and most people have never heard if him.
Wait til they learn about al-cohol. They even sneak it into ‘Murican beers now!
TL;DR - People are stupid
She must be an ICE supervisor by now
Isn’t that Linda McMahon, the head of the Department of Education?
Oh…I didn’t know that’s the point we were at in all this…
It’s worse than that. We’ve passed that point already.
and blow Bubbas?
No, ain’t no way, how can this be NOT the onion ?! Come on ! 😂
Newsweek
Arabic Numerals have taken over the world! When will this madness stop? /s
People making jokes about dihydrogen monoxide, and imma be honest, I feel like it should have been the gold standard internet stupidity filter that disqualifies your credentials in any form of discussion because of the insane amount of people that fell for it back when the internet was still new.
If you couldn’t handle H2O, you can’t be trusted to use the internet seriously lol.
I had a high school teacher my freshman year play the “dihydrogen monoxide” joke on our class. this was before i had any chemistry knowledge so i sadly fell for it. -It was still funny.
Fun fact, what we call Arabic numerals are not the numerals used in Arabic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
The ones we use are the Western Arabic numerals
The Onion really is competing with reality to come up with good headlines.
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And Al-Gebra too! The horror!
Conservatives are fools lol
This is an insult to fools
If you want to really scare JD Vance, the more proper term is probably Hindu-Arabic numerals.
The monster! My kids will learn Roman numerals and Greek math that stops at 10000! Like nature intended!
Next thing you know, they’ll be teaching our kids algebra and algorithms.
Al-Gebra
Yeah but at least it won’t affect my Al-cohol
“Zero”? The fuck kind of sorcery is this? If a number can’t be counted, it has no place in my concept of math!
OK kids, pop quiz, grab your chisels and work out the square root of XXV!
V
You get IX/X, I took a mark off because you didn’t show your work.
