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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 118 points 11 months ago (11 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...

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  • [–] 65 points 11 months 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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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months 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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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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