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Another post from betting market company Polymarket read: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." The post has almost 14 million views.

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[-] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago

LOL... as opposed to using Roman numerals? WTAF. I can't even comprehend the stupid.

[-] FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

How about good old American numerals, like the good Lord intended?

[-] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

You mean the good old freedom numerals?

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

They only call them that in the Gulf of America

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

No zero in roman numerals. All the computers would break.

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

Computers use binary, not roman numbers 🤓

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

No arabic #s no 0, no 0 no binary.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Where do they think numbers in English came from

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

where do they think?

They don't they're programmed by the idiots churning out the zero-IQ content they love

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And the Latin alphabet (plus a couple letters) too. Damn furriners. Bring back the Futhark!

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 240 points 1 week ago

Lmao, I love this kind of stuff. It makes dumb people so angry

[-] bvoigtlaender@feddit.org 131 points 1 week ago

I love that too, but I feel like we have to make them smart and not angry :(

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago
[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 62 points 1 week ago

But you can teach the ignorant.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago

Only if they’re willing to learn. 😢

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

We are fucked, aren't we 🤔

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[-] notabot@piefed.social 157 points 1 week ago

I just checked with my local school, and they're not just making them learn these arabic numbers, they're forcing them to learn AL GEBRA!!! Sounds like foreign nonsense to me, so I'm starting a petition to have the head fired, and possibly flogged.

You should check with your local schools too. Keep this policically correct woke DEI rubbish away from our kids!

[-] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 week ago

In universities for computer science they must learn the teachings of the muslim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi, that's disgusting.

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[-] blinfabian@feddit.nl 126 points 1 week ago

i heard he'll teach kids the "latin" alphabet instead of Amerian one😡

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 121 points 1 week ago

In Germany, we have a right-wing party en par with the US Republicans: The AfD. Just as Nazi, just as nuts.

Some time ago, someone riled them up with the "Did you know they teach Arabic numerals in school now?", and quite a few of them blew a lid...

[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago

Well, the dihydrogen monoxide that is in your Zuchini is literally an industrial solvent!

Have you seen what dihydrogen monoxide does to pure, strong iron?!? It corrodes iron unbelievably fast! And people just.....consume it in most of their "healthy" foods!

Wake up, sheeple! Stop drinking dihydrogen monoxide!

~/s - this message brought to you by Brawndo, the thirst mutilator~

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[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Next he'll be forcing us all to drink dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that's known to be fatal to humans under certain conditions!

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

They literally use that shit to power steam engines! Now imagine what it does to your insides. Nasty, nasty stuff.

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[-] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 76 points 1 week ago

So, there WAS an onion (or similar) article stating exactly this like the day after he won. So it looks like some of these idiots just ate the onion

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[-] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 1 week ago
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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 70 points 1 week ago

Next they are going to find out they are learning other Arabic topics like al-Gebra.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Or about Mr. Al Kwarizmi (Algorithm).

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[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago
[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 52 points 1 week ago

Every sixty seconds in Communist New York, a minute passes.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 week ago

Arabic Numerals have taken over the world! When will this madness stop? /s

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 49 points 1 week ago

Fun fact, what we call Arabic numerals are not the numerals used in Arabic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals

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[-] Aelis@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, ain't no way, how can this be NOT the onion ?! Come on ! 😂

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[-] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

The Onion really is competing with reality to come up with good headlines.

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

People making jokes about dihydrogen monoxide, and imma be honest, I feel like it should have been the gold standard internet stupidity filter that disqualifies your credentials in any form of discussion because of the insane amount of people that fell for it back when the internet was still new.

If you couldn't handle H2O, you can't be trusted to use the internet seriously lol.

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[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 33 points 1 week ago

Jesus Christ, people are fucking stupid.

[-] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 33 points 1 week ago

Again? They do this whenever a nonwhite person is voted into office.

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