Mog SpawnFact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?
thagoatMaybe they were exposed to too much dihydrogen monoxide?
eezeebeewhat next giving children dihydrogen monoxide?
Pumping the classrooms full of mostly nitrogen gas….
m-p{3}I’m stealing this.
hemmesThey can, they are, and it’s not the lowest they can go.
Here. Eat a tidepod. Maybe you’re just hungry.
Is the stupidity that people were eating tidepods… or that they were tricked into thinking eating tidepods was actually trend when it was just a few individuals?
CorkyskogIt was like two different things. Small children were accidentally eating laundry pods because they look like candy and the packaging was poorly designed. Teenagers creating memes because it was hilarious boomer media was falling for it.
SumocatFirst day on Earth, huh?
elbuchoOh yeah… I mentioned this one a few days ago, as my husband’s co-workers brought it up…
People can be that reactionary when they don’t know shit.
This article cites two X posts and makes vague assertions that “The claim caused a stir online, with some X users condemning Mamdani.” How much of a stir, how many users, and how many of them were criticizing Mamdani for the topic at hand is unclear.
I doubt many people were taken in (though I’m not surprised to see a west virginia lawmaker involved, state legislators are truly the dregs of our society), and I think Newsweek mostly made this up
there was someone on Grindr telling insinuating me that they had a price. I asked them to tell me in Arabic numerals. then they Google translated it to spelling it in Arabic.
American sorely needs to invest in education.
I had someone indignantly think I was making a racist joke when I said algebra came from the middle east.
I had a tricky time explaining that no, I’m not joking about the word sounding Arabic, it’s actually derived from Arabic and I was earnestly sharing a fact.
Their heart, if not their head, was in the right place at least.
No. But Americans can be.
What have they been using up to now?
Proper Roman numerals, like a true patrician.
LMAO!
Teachers need to make up a permission form to teach Arabic numbers. Then put those kids to learning Roman Numerals.
Give them a choice between Arabic and Chinese :D
Pasta Dentalfart check:
DeebsterThey’re called “Arabic numerals” because the system was transmitted to Europe through medieval Arabic scholars, but they are universal
Funny thing is the Indo-Arabic/Hindu-Arabic numerals aren’t the only ones used in Arabic-speaking countries. I’ve seen prices like ٣٥٠ (350) in places like Jordan and Egypt. Here’s a chart:
I would say the familiar 0-9 is understood globally, but I don’t know about those Alpha Centaurians.
Krafty KactusWtf is Tamil doing??
I assume those are probably the actual Arabic numerals (before they got the Indian numerals, hence why it doesn’t have a symbol for 0, which also came from India.)
they are fancy as fuck
TheTechnician27You cannot grasp the true form of Tamil 5’s attack.
These opinion pieces really need to focus on more important messages. They ought to literally read:
“If you understand 1, 2, and 3, you use Arabic numerals. Who told you New York’s mayor was introducing ‘Arabic numerals’? They did this to scare you. They are trying to manipulate you. They think you are stupid, and that they can control you. Block them.”
If I was the Newsweek editor who had to shepherd this article through publication, I’d probably be dead of alcohol poisoning.
HUR DUR LETS GIVE THE TROLL VICTIMS ATTENTION HUR DUR
SnausagesinaBlanketThis joke is already so old it had grandkids.
Awwww! There’s a whole new generation that thinks this is a clever joke, just like we thought, and our parents before us thought.
Fucking newsweek. Soends a half dozen paragraphs on the “controversy” of the joke before pointing out its a joke.
They coukd have easiky led eith “no stupid, this is stupid” and then pointed out who was stupid, but they led with “these conservstove posts have garnered millions of views. Lets about the people talking about this until you leave before we debunk this stupid bullshit.”