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  • I don’t admit this much, but before trump ran for president I kind of liked him. He was a “bumbling, blowhard, failed business hack” that seemed to be a little in on the joke, The Apprentice, his appearances in WWE, he seemed like he was playing a character and playing up to how people perceived him… Unfortunately, he is just that and has no self awareness or shame, worse for some reason that’s still really appealing to a basket of deplorable people…













  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzI dunno
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    4 months ago

    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.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzI dunno
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    4 months ago

    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.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzI dunno
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    4 months ago

    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.


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    4 months ago

    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…