• Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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    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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    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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        He probably uses Islamic inventions like H’ard So’ap and Bi-nominal functions!! SINCE WHEN DO NUMBERS NEED TO HAVE SEXUAL PREFERENCES?!

        They even drink the Muslim Beverage C’off We!

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      Someone dumb enough to be concerned would definitely also think a basic equation looked like stygian summoners runes

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

    Thank you for your attention to this matter

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    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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            We’ve said it 20 in Aztec Numerals times, our family will use a proper Aztec numbers just like our forefathers

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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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              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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              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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    I would say it wouldn’t hurt but it’s like tossing a hot dog down a hallway; kids will just be more confused and retention will likely be zero; as in how many people are still able to even read cursive writing? Let’s see how this pans out, I guess?

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    AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:

    AKA dumb and ignorant people believe more lies. Trump loves the uneducated.

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    In all seriousness thank God for the Arabic number system. It would be a nightmare to use Roman numerals for math

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    Ive always wanted to share these on facebook as a way to call people stupid.

    But then I realized they wouldn’t understand it at all.

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      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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        I discovered when changing my standby background on my iPhone, and have been using them ever since.