• treesquid@lemmy.world
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    Take a square. Lean it to the side. Rhombus. Take a diamond, let it fall on one of its sides. Rhombus. The world just keeps a-rhombusin, you just stopped a-noticin’

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    Imagine living as a farmer in medieval Europe near a small village and you make MOST of your shit yourself or with help from the local blacksmith. You’d use all kinds of things and ideas that we don’t use any more. You need to be creative to solve your daily problems and find ways to do stuff efficiently. Like imagine you’d need to dig out a bit of earth for an “almost square” and need to calculate the area and volume of earth you’ll have to move.

    I’m not sure what I’m trying to say, but I think modern education is wasted on the modern human.

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      We are not curious enough. Dopamine hit of figuring out a cool thing requires lots of time, meanwhle videogames and movies are guaranteed in short term.

      We are not to blame tho, time to spend bored is simply not something we have; every other moment of our life will be either at work, preparing to go work, or driving to work, afterall.

      I predict the farmer dug that square on snow instead of dirt. They certainly weren’t farming during mid-winter. Must be boring. I will still be labeling amazon boxes this december.

  • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    A rhombus, otherwise known as a diamond. Its one of the more popular shapes past star, triangle, circle, and square.

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      Does it still work on vertical rows and columns, or are they both diagonal now?