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.
is it same lie was made on Kamala Harris during the 2024 election? now on Zohran Mamdani?
And Al-Gebra too! The horror!
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.
One of my favourite episodes of Veep had this very thing
That season just encapsulates all this shit doesn’t it
What until they hear about his birth certificate.
The Onion really is competing with reality to come up with good headlines.
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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.
Yeah but at least it won’t affect my Al-cohol
Al-Gebra
And Al-Khawarizmi.
“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.
My god, the red conservatives and the blue conservatives are so incredibly hysterical.
Naw, my 6th grade was on the ground floor and so is my house. I read at the same level.
Touché
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.
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.
What do you mean
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.
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.
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.
Highly educated USian here.
I would cry tears of joy if I woke up and found that President Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was having his inauguration parade exactly as shown in the image.
To make it interesting, ignore the figurehead and any global elite child sex slave trafficking ring they may or may not have been a part of. Consider the background characters instead.
In this image you have Luke Wilson playing a character who is known to be the smartest person on the planet, and who saves lives with their knowledge by teaching the people how to do things like water their crops, AND who got dragged into the position rather than being a cutthroat ambitious asdhole.
In a similar image of the real world you might have somebody like Stephen fucking Miller.
Again? They do this whenever a nonwhite person is voted into office.
I knew this was going to happen as soon as i saw the meme.
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~
And stop plants from drinking it too!
Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.
My son just told me there is a complete wiki about DHMO. Something I’ll investigate later…
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…Oxygen? Oh, you mean rocket fuel?
zuchini is green squash now
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.
As a funny math boy, believe me, I know. :p
I like base 8 or 16, anything that’s a power of 2
Jesus Christ, people are fucking stupid.
If you want to really scare JD Vance, the more proper term is probably Hindu-Arabic numerals.
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.
