The metric system should be redone in base 12, and RPN should be the norm for teaching arithmetic.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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Base 16 is superior and once you learn binary math, easier to divide and multiply.
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There's no such thing as unskilled labor. Labor is labor, specially if someone else has to do it even if you don't want to.
"Andor" is the best Star Wars series.
Death is fine and jail is mental torture. People with downs syndrome and similar are forced to live a tortured existence by people who think they're good for subjective them to that.
The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie since the OT. Then they "course corrected" after listening too closely to online discourse, and ended up really ruining the franchise.
God forbid a Star Wars movie be interesting or play with fan expectation. Trying to please the Star Wars fandom is like a battered woman trying to make sure that dinner is ready and hot when he gets home.
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Along those lines, "smartphones" should NOT autocorrect me by default. My phone is the most arrogant asshole on the planet that it thinks it knows what I meant to say more than I do, that and any word that is also a brand automatically gets capitalized...
No phone I'm not talking about Tide pods, I'm talking about the damn ocean...
You joke but I have autocorrect, auto-capitalization turned off on my phone because it's so annoying for reasons similar to what you wrote.
Hawaiian pizza is good.
Not that it's the best pizza, or even my favorite. It's just a fine option.
That whole "pineapple on pizza" meme is incredibly lame
Andor was a garbage show, and The Batman (Robert Pattison) was a garbage film. Both are lauded and deserve less than none of the praise they get
Time doesn't slow down when you approach the speed of light and the theory we're using to describe much of the universe is based on a bad premise, that the speed of light is constant.
I don't care that I'm not as smart as einstein or that a lot of complex theories i also don't fully understand are validated by special and general relativity. I, an everyman, know better.
I'm right
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Console gaming has its benefits over PC gaming and often times is better.
Fair, for the price you have gotten decent value over the years. You're right in that your opinion might not be popular here, considering all the replies you got.
I'm through with vendor lock-in so console gaming isn't for me, but there are indeed some upsides.
Not "often" but yes
I mean, if console is jailbroken then yes, it has most of the benefits, but if not then most of the world can buy only few games in month at most, and some can't buy at all, gamepass is a lifesaver in that sense, you can buy it for 50$ per year if you buy from resellers
They definitely both have pros and cons. After sitting in front of a computer all day for work, sometimes I just wanna sit on the couch and play some Spiderman without having to deal with connecting my gaming desktop to the big screen.
This is only maybe true for convenience, maybe, but as far as cost, experience and quality, nope.
Those math questions that rely on purposeful ambiguity in order to drive engagement are annoying as fuck. It's like "congratulations, you just proved that in math (and questions in general) if you're not clear with what you're asking, people will get different answers". What fantastic value! What a novel hypothesis! Now fucking knock it off. I'm tired of literally everyone screaming about how their way is right when it doesn't fucking matter, the question was asked in a bullshit way in order to piss everyone off.
Bonus, PEMDAS, BEMDAS, PE-MD-AS. It's a goddamn terrible mnemonic that twists itself in knots to make the acronym work, rather than to make the order of operations clear. Screaming it doesn't make your shit any clearer anyways.
Join me in RPN land, where we sit by looking smug while people thought different systems of infix notation debate the right answer.
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If they weren't ambiguous, then you wouldn't see them getting popular. The difference of opinion drives engagement which means it's more likely to show in your feed because that's how most social media algorithms work.
Things that everyone agrees on don't get engagement, so they don't bubble up to the top.
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Cars > public transportation. I forget things & often have to turn back, and I like the freedom to change my mind at any point, stop where I want, and go wherever I want. I also hate being forced into shared public spaces. I also hate the idea of trusting the government to make any of it in any way near efficient. Fuck public transportation.
Vegans oppose animal cruelty.
Vegetarians don't, as the production of eggs, milk, etc is cruel.
Looks left at 90% of the human population causing untold suffering without giving 2 shits.
Looks right at the 5% that are actually bothering to do something.
"Yes, let's shit on them"
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