Next thing you know, he’ll make al-gebra mandatory, together with those al-gorisms!!
I took the initiative in inventing the internet
At some point that joke has to be so old that everyone has heard it at least once… Right?
imma tell you a secret, i still have no idea what taylor swift’s music sounds like. justin bieber’s either, for that matter. it’s not that difficult to stay ignorant when you want to.
There was one song where they replaced her singing with a goat and it was 10/10 (not in a mean way, it was just perfect)
Same. But those things are things you learn in primary school
who is learning political jokes in primary school?
Not political jokes but that the numbers we use are arabic numbers and also how roman numbers worked and showing us why we adopted arabic numbers
(Coming from south germany)
Only a Sith would think this is a political joke…
if you don’t understand how op meme is political idk how to help you. maybe turn off the sci-fantasy slop and read a book.
I understand that we made that joke in elementary school you fucking mouth breather. Before we knew a lick about politics.
Really this speaks more to the paucity of relevant life experience you have (which clearly has engendered you with a healthy amount of ignorance) than what I should, or shouldn’t be doing with my time. In conclusion, you should probably get fucked.
this is so hilariously overreactive and out of touch on so many levels that i’m not even going to report it for breaking 1 and 2, this comment being public is punishment enough.
They’re learning what arabic numerals are for sure, unless they’re a hopeless dumb fuck.
Coming from a midwestern American educational system, we were never taught the origin of numbers. They just teach what the numbers are.
that’s what i’m saying, it’s an obscure “fun fact” kind of thing that’s not going to be on the test even if it comes up in class. i’d bet my last dollar most people in this comment section literally only know they’re “arabic” numerals because it became a convienient political gotcha during the post-9/11 uptick in islamophobia.
I don’t know if that’s a good bet to make, I think Lemmy trends more towards the educated types who would learn it as a piece of general trivia.
Me from south germany also learning roman numerals did do a test on roman numerals :) It is or atleast was part of the teaching plan for 2nd-3rd grade
let’s be real, nobody is ensuring kids know and retain that they’re called “arabic” numerals and most people don’t retain that information. it gets mentioned in passing once in math and once in history and nobody cares or mentions it until it’s time for a smug gotcha like this.
They’re called teachers, and being aware of basic knowledge isn’t “a smug gotcha,” it’s not being proud of your profound and willful ignorance.
I’m okay with cat shit being gotcha’d.
When most people’s attention span in below 30 seconds? No.
Yeah, who even posts this stuff?
Some yahoo
It’s not an IQ test. IQ tests are supposed to quantify your ability to reason in a space in which you have no context. You have to have the context that Arabic numerals are the most common numbers in order to not fall for this. This is a critical thinking test (critical thinking requires both logic and a world view founded in reality)
… yes, I am autistic, why do you ask?
It’s very well demonstrated that even child IQ tests are dependent on prior and culture specific knowledge. It’s a significant problem with them tbh.
Supposed to and what they actually do are two different things, yes? But I agree. IQ tests are basically worthless anyways.
It hardly even needs to be demonstrated, most WAIS variants are explicitly designed to contain tests for “general information acquired from culture” and knowledge of vocabulary.
And yet here we are
You must be fun at parties, because I love having conversations like these. I usually learn a lot and I get to share my own similar esoteric interests. Epistemology is probably my favorite, but I love how it ties into Psychology.
I don’t know if you intended your comment to be humorous, but I found it hilarious. The phrase “you must be fun at parties” instinctually caused me to be on edge, because it’s so often said in an assholish, sarcastic way (especially online), but I was delighted to see that the rest of your comment thoroughly subverted that through nerdy earnestness. The contrast and the surprise was quite funny to me.
Thanks for taking the time to interpret and appreciate it. I put more time into those kinds of comments, and I’m glad it was coherent enough for my intent to be inferred.
Yea that was great
I have also loved epistemology ever since it was a required course in my high school curriculum.
I’m envious of that. I don’t think it was ever more than touched on for me, well into an advanced degree. I only got into it by trying to define my own perspective on reality. I was looking for ontology, which led to metaphysics, but I kept getting distracted by all the things I couldn’t know.
it is, but the question is more like “someone has made a claim online that sounds scandalous! Do you a) immediately reply with your assumptions, or b) find sources and gather information about the claim before responding?”
And that Moo Slam al-jabr, also too!
Transcription
A post on Threads, consisting first of text, and then of a screenshot of two Tweets, each a reply to the one after it.
By “georgehtakei”:
This was an IQ test.
By “Catturd ™” @catturd2:
😂😂😂 we warned you.
By “Polymarket” @Polymarket:
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.
Slight correction (and perhaps unimportant)
Only George Takei’s post was on Threads. He’s sharing a screenshot of the other two, which are on Twitter. I don’t want to link to Threads, but here’s a screenshot in dark mode:
Oh thanks! I was wondering why the first one didn’t display a handle when the other two did.
Are you running a bot that does this? I was considering making one for instances to run, but was concerned that people might think “AI bad” about it.
Nope, just me, and just when I feel like it (often when I see a post I want to comment on anyway).
Ideally, OPs would do it on their own posts. Failing that, it’d be great if there were a bunch of people who could follow my lead and do it on a post or two per day. AI can be helpful, especially for OCR, but personally I wouldn’t trust it to point out salient parts of the image in a relatively easy-to-read format.
I wouldn’t have, but Qwen3 VL (fairly new open model) has been doing a fantastic job of both describing and OCR in my local AI setup thus far.
Thanks! That was really nice of you.
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Well, can’t argue with the truth in advertising vis-a-vis their username.
George Takei is paying for a checkmark over on that dumpster fire?
It looks like his post is on threads? Not that that’s really better, but it is a different kind of bad.
Amazing that they look so similar to the untrained eye.
That’s a good question. I wonder if they give them to celebrities to drive engagement and incentivize average users paying for them.
They definitely do, I distinctly remember Stephen King making a big scene because they kept on giving him a verification check he didn’t want
Takei is one of the GOATs but he should understand the bigoted nest of vipers over there more than most. Engagement only fans those flames, regardless of perspective.
Yeah. I wonder what would happen if half of all celebrities switched to Lemmy overnight?
fwiw Takei is also on Mastodon.
following takei sucks though, it’s very very seldom that he shares anything worth looking at
Cool! Does Mastodon interface with Lemmy at all?
Yes, but it’s…kind of awkward, at times.
I love Takeiposting.
i followed him for a few months and most of his posts were links zero-effort articles built out of twitter links on the same 3-4 sites he (presumably) owns, and painfully unfunny old people memes. i have a lot of respect for the man but jesus his social media sucks.
