Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis

i am trash; pos excuse for a human bean idk prolly really sapphic

[targetedknowledge]

[dantexxorihara]

[depsidase]

[solidsnake]

[indiecup--fordeactivation-deact]

The answer is 1, why is everyone a delinquent?

[pernoninnoobz]

Y'all please, learn your pemdas (or bodmas or whatever you learned it as)

It's 16

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

*sigh*

Parentheses equation is 2+2, which is 4.

Now we multiply by 2 to get 4x2 which is 8

8 DIVIDED BY 8 is 1.

I have no fucking clue how you can get 16 out of this. I don’t think you’re bad at math, I think you just need glasses.

[vaporwavevocap]

It’s 1.

[kingoftartesoss]

It’s 16.

8 / 2 * (2+2) = 

8/2 * (4) = 

4*4 = 16

You do the parentheses, then you go left to right.

[vaporwavevocap]

That isn’t how this works.....

PEMDAS

8/2*(2+2) (P = Parentheses)

8/2*(4) (M = Multiply)

8/8=1 (D = Division)

@kingoftartesoss​

Use Mathpapa calculator if you still don’t believe me.

[jooshthepunished-deactivated202]

No, Riley.

M isn't in the original problem but 8÷2 still needs a resolution. You have to solve 8÷2 as-is after (2+2) no matter what.

So you're not following PEMDAS by factoring x4 into 8÷2.

It's literally this simple.

[vivairi-deactivated20190813]

I, uh, I think it’s 1, actually.

[robert-the-redhead-lover-deacti]

Plug it into a searchbar, or a scientific calculator that waits until the whole thing is input & that's the answer.

[dangerbooze]

1

[robert-the-redhead-lover-deacti]

No need.

[dangerbooze]

Everyone on this post:

[babycharmander]

@nonanalogue can you solve this for us because I swear to goodness the answer is 1 but this post is making me doubt my brains

[theinsidiousdice]

Happily!

So the problem is two-fold: first, order of operations as most people are taught it is a lie, and second, the original problem is written very ambiguously.

Let’s drill down into that first point.

PEMDAS! Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. Everyone’s taught to do operations in that order! Except that’s not really right. As a math teacher of mine put it, “it works for now, but you’ll find out I was lying in a few years.”

The problem is that multiplication and division are the same operation, and addition and subtraction are also the same operation. Division is really just multiplying by a fraction, and subtraction is just adding a negative. With that in mind, it doesn’t necessarily make sense to do some multiplication arbitrarily early in the problem before the rest! As a result, here’s the bottom line for that point:

Both 1 and 16 are right.

How can that be?

Well, that brings me to the second point: the expression is written very ambiguously, so as to maximize confusion! It’s also why I don’t like using the division symbol when a fraction will do just nicely.

Observe two other ways we could write this expression:

The first one resolves to 8/8, which is 1. The second resolves to 4(4), which is 16. Both are right, only because the original expression is vague.

The sad thing is that everyone hates fractions, when actually they make life so much nicer!

[d-joana-a-shippadora]

[cruelcomfort-deactivated2024120]

Just like when Vander shoved off. Except this time you aren't here to put it all back together, because... someone put all those holes in you.

[sucks-t0-suck]

never have i ever wanted to get bent so hard lol

[winslowat3am]

🦇 Starry Night x Halloween by Aja Trier 🦇

[agentjazzy]

reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

  Maybe you’re young, and you think this doesn’t affect you. But, it will affect your parents, or your grandparents.   And, remember, if Republicans kill these programs, the dollars you pay in – that are/have been withheld from your paycheck – you will never get back.

[choke-on-glitter]

Social security does affect young Americans! You never know when a disability or life altering illness may come along, hence why its social insurance. If your parents or your spouse dies, you can receive survivors benefits.

These are your earned benefits. Those who make over $147k dont have to pay ss tax after that, not to mention capital gains arent taxed. The ss trust fund has trillions of dollars in it deadass

A lot of the time youll hear the program is going bankrupt- thats a lie! the program is paid for and deficit neutral. There is a projected shortfall where about 78% of benefits would be paid out in 2034/2035. The actuary has projected that making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share in taxes would create enough revenue to continue the program through the rest of the century

Dont let republicans sunset social security, you pay for it, youve earned it. Without it, millions of seniors widows children and people w disabilities will be vulnerable to poverty! This program has never missed a payment (even through war, recessions, pandemics, assassinations, etc)

[legsdemandias]

Friendly reminder that the reason you feel so much better is because of your meds, don’t stop taking them unless you talk to your doctor first, you really do need them, I promise. 

[legsdemandias]

Around June I stopped taking my eye medication because I hadn’t had a problem with my eyes in months. I got really lazy about doing it; then I stopped them altogether.

Turns out, the reason I stopped having problems with my eyes was because I was religiously taking my medication. Whodathunk. Now I have to work to get back to the place I was before I decided I was “better” (I wasn’t!).

If you thought this post was just about anti-depressants or lithium, it could be! For me, this post is about eyedrops, for you it might be about antibiotics, or it might be about zoloft. Whatever it is, please consider talking to your doctor before making a sudden shift to stop taking it. It’s not bad to be on medication. It’s not bad to need it. 

[doomhamster]

…and on a related note, do not let anyone tell you that because you start feeling worse if you don’t take your medication, that means you’re “addicted”. That is not how addiction works.

[legsdemandias]

Okay everyone reblog this version

[teaboot]

Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills

[teaboot]

Again: But you aren’t the *real* you when you’re on your pills

Me: I’m the alive version of me

[teaboot]

An actual doctor, once: “Relying On A Chemical Crutch For A Hormonal Imbalance Denies The Fortitude Of The Human Soul”

Me: Cool so like I’m agnostic

[inner-muse]

They: “But you might be on pills the rest of your life!”

Me: “So?”

[illnessisnteasy]

Good! That means that I have a “rest of” my life to continue living!

Thanks to the pills.

[erinptah-admin]

Meanwhile, no person ever: “You should think about giving up your insulin/antiretrovirals/beta blockers/anti-rejection drugs/prosthetic legs/daily multivitamin, because using those your whole life is bad for some reason”

[teaboot]

Oh no, they do that too.

[living-deciduously]

I have a kidney transplant. A woman once told me she didn’t believe in organ transplants and that people should just die when they’re meant to. 

[teaboot]

Sounds like a great set-up for a murder

[teaboot]

People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky

[gehayi]

Speaking of the luck of the non-disabled…I once terrorized a Karen who was using me to teach her entitled kid that disabled people are Other and should not be treated with respect. I told her (truthfully) that until I was twenty-eight, I wasn’t visibly disabled. Then a defective chromosome that I hadn’t known about kicked in. So my luck ran out. But until then, I had been normal–just…like…her. 

The sheer terror on her face as the concept of “You mean I’ve just been lucky so far?” seeped into her brain was a thing of beauty.

[missjudge-me]

People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky

[thegaymertrainer]

[jelibaen]

We have underestimated the comedic genius of the elderly when presented with technology

[spritespi]

“aren’t you tired of being nice” no!!!! i’m tired of everyone else being mean!!!!!!!!

[dragonladdie]

Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for... what, a week?

They've counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care

[dragonladdie]

It should NOT fall on Indigenous people's shoulders to keep this known still. We’ve been doing that for generations at this point and NO ONE wants to listen to us.

We’re tired, mourning and constantly reopening our trauma and pain to keep people caring about us. It’s terrible.

[foxgirltail]

I should start by noting that I am white, and not Canadian, and that if op wants me to remove this comment for any reason, please let me know.

This is a map of all the residential schools in Canada:

[link to the article it’s attached to, it’s interactable there, so you can get a better look around]

Each dot on this map represents a residential school. Blue dots mean the school is considered completely searched. Yellow dots mean they are either in the process of being searched or there are plans to be searched. Red dots indicate that no search has happened and that no search is currently planned

There were more than 130 residential schools in Canada. This map suggests that only six have been fully searched, and a little more than a dozen partially searched (I counted 15 yellow dots). That leaves at least 109 schools completely untouched.

Let that sink in; if 6,000-7,000 unmarked, indigenous children’s graves were found by searching less than a fifth of all the schools, how many are still undiscovered.

Wikipedia estimates that the body count could be over 50,000, and honestly, that could be a low estimate

[chillgamesh-the-swing]

Residential schools were also common in the US. Although the programs were generally called “Indian boarding schools,” they had the same violently abusive christian framework, many many children died or disappeared in them, and those who survived were left with generations of trauma.

There were at least 367 in 29 US states, and while they were operated with state and federal funds from the 1820s to the 1960s, the total number of children who were taken has never been fully accounted for. In 1925 over 80% of school-age Native children in the US were enrolled in a residential school, about 61 thousand (stats via National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition).

A few of them are starting to be searched for children’s graves as well. 182 were discovered on the former site of the Albuquerque Indian School.

[knifefightscene]

The way that picking ur major at 17 is so stupid i have been five different people since then :/

[harriyanna-deactivated20221223]

we learned about sundown towns today!!! proof that racism never went away and that people are just more quiet about it. 

[iveofficiallygonemad]

[Image description:

A psa post about Sundown towns was made by Instagram user nicoleeeojj.

The text of the PSA Reads: For your safety, you should know what a sundown town is.

Sundown towns are places where people of color (and sometimes the lgbtq+ community) are excluded by the citizens from being within the distance of that area.

They are called sundown towns because minorities have to be out by sundown or they will be hurt or likely never be seen again. It is best not to go to a sundown town at all if you are a minority.

Sundown towns were developed after slavery was abolished; as a way for white people to push the false narrative that they are above people of color. The creation of sundown towns is one of the factors that led to Jim Crow laws being enforced.

[A black and white photo of a sign in all capitals reads: we want white tenants in our white community.]

[The next image has two black and white photos. The one on the left says “Colored Waiting Room” while the one on the right reads “We serve Whites only. No Spanish or Mexicans”]

The text below these photos reads: Jim crow laws were laws that made racial segregation legal. These laws were passed in the south but that does not mean the north was any better; they has numerous sundown towns and continued to discriminate against people of color.

The number of sundown towns has decreased since the Civil Rights era. Many people have no idea that the city they are in right now could have been a sundown town in the past. You think sundown towns don’t exist anymore? Think again, they still do.

James W Loewen, the author of “lies my teacher told me,” released a book in 2005 called “sundown towns: a hidden dimension of american racism”. The book is about the numerous sundown towns across America. His book proved that racism in America is still just as horrible as it was in the past, people are just more undercover about it.

[There is a photo of the author James Loewen. He appears to be a white man with a grey beard wear a plaid button down and brown coat. To the right of him is a photo of a cover of his book Sundown Towns.]

The psa continues: Road travel is a bigger thing now because of the pandemic, and I just want to make sure the lgbtq community and people of color stay safe while doing it. Please don’t stop in a sundown town at all if you can avoid it.

Go to https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/ to fund out which sundowb yowbds you may be driving through if you are taking a trip any time soon.

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