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[–] 163 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Mamdami is forcing children to participate in a heinous Islamic ritual called Al-gebra. It's like, demonic spells or something.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    And teaching them how to do Islamic ablutions, like using mouthwash and washing their hands. And showering! Heinous!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    nah, do the french ablutions

    BIDETS FOR NEW YORK

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    They're solving for X, which is slang for MDMA and also what porn is rated. Obviously they're indoctrinating kids into child rape cults.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Wait, no, the child rape cult was Trump.

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  • [–] 130 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

    After 2016 I spent a lot of time on reddit talking to Trump voters to understand why.

    Overwhelmingly they believe things that aren't true. Basic misconceptions of the world cascading in on one another culminating into the stupidest vote of their life.

    One guy thought Obama was a vain man because he named his healthcare plan Obamacare. When I told him the healthcare plan was called the Affordable Care Act, and that Republicans and the media called it Obamacare as a way to hurt it, his brain couldn't process it because why would the media parrot Republican talking points if they were all biased towards Democrats?

    You can understand how this individual would make this mistake. He pays just enough attention to be misinformed. Three generations of right-wing propaganda, the world's most disciplined messaging machine repeating the same lies and half-truths have absolutely run roughshod over this type of person.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    This is all according to plan. The owner class needs to keep the plebs stupid.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    There's a lot of "Heal the political divide" being said to mean "meet them halfway" when what it should mean is the ignorant and prejudiced learn and the media machine dismantled, like how "Heal the healthcare class divide" means "Help poor people see doctors affordably".

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    I ask them "why is trump calling for the deaths of politicians if you agree there's too much political violence and dissonance?" Well they didn't hear it on fox news that he called for their deaths so it's probably the woke media lying. They will ask for everything and give nothing.

    And also they don't care that much so they won't look into it (look into it, i.e. click 1 link to his post calling for politicians to be killed). And even if he did do it he was probably joking. And even if he wasn't they found 1 insane person on YouTube who is calling for people's deaths too, which is the same as the president that they elected saying it to hundreds of millions of people I guess.

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  • [–] 117 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    One of my favourite conspiracies is that academic spaces are overwhelmingly left-leaning.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 month ago* (10 children)

    There's a reason the right is constantly seeking to make schools worse and good education harder to access.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    It's actually something that has been done pretty much by anyone in power in the past who was trying to consolidate their position without actually giving the people what they want.

    Hitler's regime started by rounding up scientists and scholars purely to make sure nobody got any ideas that were detrimental to his power.

    It's just sad that the voters for (extremist) right people don't see that the endgame is just for a select group, not for all, and they see themselves as part of that select group whilst they're actually part of the other.

    So MAGA folk think they're part of that elite group that will benefit from right wing dismantling of social programs and not part of poor immigrants whilst they're actually economically closer to those poor immigrants. Not just America, though, Germany is going in that direction as well right now and in Europe more and more of these voices are being heard.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Yup, a CERTAIN JACKASS in Cambodia did the exact same. Killed people just because they wore glasses which was a sign of dangerous intellectualism.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Yet tankies will still glaze pol pot for some reason...

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    That's such a stupid response. As if I'm going to dig through old comments looking for the places where it happened? This isn't a court of law, and it don't have to present evidence to you. Especially if you'd just going to sealion about it even if I do.

    And for the interactions that happened in person? How do you want me to prove those to you? Do you suggest I should carry around a device always on record and keep a record of every conversation I've ever had?

    Everyone who's interacted with a tankie knows glazing pol pot is exactly the kind of thing they do. Many have directly seen them do it. I don't need to link specific examples for you.

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  • [–] 89 points 1 month ago*

    Years ago a German satire show interviewed random people on the street. They asked them what they think about the fact that "children are now forced to learn arabic numbers in German Schools". The interviewers flawlessly baited a bunch of idiots into exposing their mindless xenophobia on TV

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  • [–] 75 points 1 month ago* (27 children)

    I refuse arabic numbers. What the fuck is 2? 7? 9??? These are all made up concepts invented to corrupt the mind of people.

    Look at how elegant these look instead: 10, 111, 1001.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    If I've said it once I've said it 𒁹𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋 times, the babylonians got it right

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (11 children)
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    It's base 60 actually. With up to 5 𒌋 meaning 10 followed by up to 9 𒁹 meaning one. I actually should have put a space between the 60s place and the 1s place and formatted it as: 𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋

    It's a lot easier to read in clay because you bunch the characters up within their place, and if it were used in modern day it would likely be autocorrected to make it easier

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    yeah, seeing the symbols spread out across multiple characters makes it hard to tell whether that's 100 or something else (considering i learned counting in cuneiform just this moment)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, but you have to give it credit, it's really easy to pick up as far as number systems go. Definitely less useful for math and science than modern European-Arabic numerals, but much better for logistics and administration than say roman numerals

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Base 60 does make dividing evenly into 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, etc. really easy.

    If I were raised in China or something and used to memorizing / recognizing dozens or hundreds of symbols, then having individual symbols for the numbers 0 to 59 might be nice. But, as someone who only learned a 26 letter alphabet and 10 digits I like base 10 because it's quick to parse a number.

    How did the Babylonians write 61? 6 𒁹 symbols, a space then a single 𒁹 ? Was it easy to tell the difference between say 21 and 3?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    61 would be 𒁹 𒁹. Essentially the same way we write 11. It can be compared to 𒁹𒁹 meaning 2, which would appear bunched up as opposed to separated. Plenty of room for very large errors and I suspect if it'd stuck around you'd probably see something like a distinct 1, 9, 10, and 50 tallies to indicate "hey this is where this place begins" as well as a zero. For 21 it would be 𒌋𒌋𒁹, and for 3 it's 𒁹𒁹𒁹.

    Cuneiform is a writing system highly constrained by its medium. It's just pressing triangular reeds into clay. Any shape you can't get out of that isn't in the writing system. Using conjoined tallies makes sense for it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_cuneiform_numerals

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    It seems to me that with a reed you could also underline something or draw a slash between items, so you could do 𒁹 / 𒁹 for 61 vs 𒁹 𒁹 for 2.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    If anything I would use the slash for zero. Maybe a dot in the middle for place differentiation, though that could make a slash irrelevant.

    Ultimately Babylon was really really good at logistics and administration, and they did a great job with stuff like tracking the sky. But it was a very early civilization. It's easy for us to give notes 4000 years later, but our modern mathematical notation is a product of international collaboration over a millennium by different civilizations that all produced great mathematicians. When we compare them to their contemporaries we can see that they were surprisingly forward thinking, being the only ones using place value in their geographical and temporal region.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    I made it myself!

    I could not believe that I was the first

    Please use it to piss off conservatives

    You have not only my blessing, but an enthusiastic endorsement

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Inspired work of art, FistingEnthusiast 👏 May you have many more.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I create a lot of art

    My porn channel recently hit two million happy little perverts, and I have something in the vicinity of forty million views of my work

    But this is still one of my favourite pieces

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Well, it's already on Facebook.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'm torn...

    But I hope that conservatives will be upset, and on that I will rest happily

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I can't believe you'd promote your porn channel but then wouldn't add any links so I could make sure I'd avoid accidentally seeing that porn. What kind of a monster does that?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I don't think this kind of meme really does anything good.

    I don't give fuck about Kirk and if you look, neither do conservatives including his ex wife.

    What they managed to do is to weaponized his death toward their advantage, spreading pictures of him dying makes someone who didn't know what he was preaching, disgusted. I think this kind of memes help this.

    I personally like the ones which says that it was congratulating him on not saying anything hateful for a year, but frankly I would just love of he would move into obscurity, which is what he deserves.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 month ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Honestly it was so fuckin poetic I can't even be upset about it. Charlie wouldn't either, because white people shootings don't even count to him.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Excuse me.. all the links above use Arabic numbers: they are unreliable.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter

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  • [–] 53 points 1 month ago

    Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    I bet he’s not even talking about the real classical symbols but the new woke version!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I was honestly surprised when I visited Egypt for the first time and discovered they have different symbols for numbers in Arabic. Also, they look kind of the same as the one used with Latin alphabet, but there are some tricks like ٥ is 5 and ٦ is 6, so yeah ... you have to learned them, you can't just guess.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago

    I thought she was talking about Polymarket posting this as a serious matter. Then I noticed who she is...

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago

    Oh no. Instead of writing out the numbers like one, two, three they will have to write them out like 1, 2, 3. The horror! 😱

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I need a hug. We live in such a depressing world sometimes.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    I saw this joke at least XV times already...

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