TheKingBee

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[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

People are stupid, any system that fails to take that into account and mitigate it is doomed to frustration and failure...

writing it this way does not somehow enable it to make “more” sense than the first way

it does because people read (and therefore do math) left to right. it makes more sense because it accounts for the fact that most people know how to read, but don't know the operational order of math equations.

We're just going in circles, so let's just agree to disagree.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Those sentence are also perfectly understandable, once you've understood the order of the words, but they're written in such away that you have to think about it.

If there are multiple ways to do things and one is more accessible to most people with less effort that isn't the objectively right way but it is better.

It's obviously not just myself as posting out of order math problems are a constant source of online engagement.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Do you remember how this reply thread started? I literally fixed the equation so that it would be less confusing to people, I couldn't do that if I didn't know what order it was meant to go in...

I'm just not assuming that people are stupid because they got tripped up by something designed to trip them up.

It's writing like this with math, you can find the sentence structure, but it makes it a puzzle people will mess up unnecessarily It's writing like this with math.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Because this it's trivial to write it in a way that won't cause this confusion and yet every 3 months or so someone posts another one of these gotcha no context given equations and we as the internet have this same discussion again and again. It's bait...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (14 children)

it's mean in that they intentionally wrote it to trip people up so we'd have this very conversion...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (16 children)

This was literally written for twitter content...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (19 children)

The operational order is fucked, the way I rewrote is more readable, even if you remember the order. The only reason you'd write the equation like that is to be mean, there's no reason to write it like that unless you're trying to trip people up.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It is different, but it's still incredibly cheap to make, $4 a vial, so it costing in the hundreds is just antihuman...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree with a lot of what you're saying, re social constructs having some basis in reality, but the problem I have is the sort of appearance based aspect of it, most of the toughest most manly looking men I know are actually socially anxious teddy bears and the most "strength, willingness to physically protect others, usually valuing rationality over emotionality" people I know are 5'4 women.

Like the archetypes make sense, but the social construct is pointlessly gendered...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 69 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I read the headline earlier, with no picture, and thought yeah he always looks like a bloated orange monster that tracks.

Actually seeing the pictures all I can think of is the training I did on FAST, literally the F is for face drooping, that old mother fucker is having a god damned stroke...

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I agree with you in premise, there is a general trend to over lore in modern sci-fi. Things can't just be, they need some specific explanation.

This though, I didn't hate. It's always bothered me that aliens in sci-fi are just humans with shit on their face, their cultures are just aspects of our culture turned to the extreme, and every species' technology is around the same level.

Having a progenitor species that seeded the galaxy and that's why every intelligent species is basically the same is fine, basic but you know at least it makes sense and doesn't need to come up again.

Why are they the same, because a wizard did it essentially.

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