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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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[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

LOL... as opposed to using Roman numerals? WTAF. I can't even comprehend the stupid.

[–] FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How about good old American numerals, like the good Lord intended?

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You mean the good old freedom numerals?

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 22 hours ago

They only call them that in the Gulf of America

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The monster! My kids will learn Roman numerals and Greek math that stops at 10000! Like nature intended!

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Next thing you know, they'll be teaching our kids algebra and algorithms.

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah but at least it won't affect my Al-cohol

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Zero”? The fuck kind of sorcery is this? If a number can’t be counted, it has no place in my concept of math!

- Ancient Romans

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OK kids, pop quiz, grab your chisels and work out the square root of XXV!

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

You get IX/X, I took a mark off because you didn't show your work.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I knew this was going to happen as soon as i saw the meme.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Where do they think numbers in English came from

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

where do they think?

They don't they're programmed by the idiots churning out the zero-IQ content they love

[–] kulhakki@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

And Al-Gebra too! The horror!

[–] TranaCosmica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Conservatives are fools lol

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

This is an insult to fools

[–] LitTheFox0@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] mlg@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 2 days ago (9 children)
[–] Zink@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 79 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Next he'll be forcing us all to drink dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that's known to be fatal to humans under certain conditions!

[–] argarath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

In 1862 dihydrogen monoxide leaked into a well, and every single person who consumed it has perished!!! 100% fatality rate in just this incident!!!!

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (7 children)

They literally use that shit to power steam engines! Now imagine what it does to your insides. Nasty, nasty stuff.

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[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

Sources claim an up to 100% mortality rate!

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A friend of mine ingested a ton of it and died. They found him at the bottom of a lake

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 124 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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...

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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~

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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 52 points 2 days ago

Every sixty seconds in Communist New York, a minute passes.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 241 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Lmao, I love this kind of stuff. It makes dumb people so angry

[–] bvoigtlaender@feddit.org 132 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I love that too, but I feel like we have to make them smart and not angry :(

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[–] blinfabian@feddit.nl 128 points 2 days ago (17 children)

i heard he'll teach kids the "latin" alphabet instead of Amerian one😡

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 163 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I just checked with my local school, and they're not just making them learn these arabic numbers, they're forcing them to learn AL GEBRA!!! Sounds like foreign nonsense to me, so I'm starting a petition to have the head fired, and possibly flogged.

You should check with your local schools too. Keep this policically correct woke DEI rubbish away from our kids!

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 71 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Next they are going to find out they are learning other Arabic topics like al-Gebra.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Arabic Numerals have taken over the world! When will this madness stop? /s

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 77 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So, there WAS an onion (or similar) article stating exactly this like the day after he won. So it looks like some of these idiots just ate the onion

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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (6 children)
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[–] Aelis@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No, ain't no way, how can this be NOT the onion ?! Come on ! 😂

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