AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES PROVE DEFINITIVELY THAT RIGHT WING BELIEFS ARE HEAVILY CORRELATED WITH LOW INTELLIGENCE:
Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact
Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
Study links low intelligence with right-wing beliefs
Right-wing ideology and numeracy: A perception of greater ability, but poorer performance
Conservatism and cognitive ability
Intelligent people are more likely to be left-wing, says science
People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views, study finds
(Taken from pinned comment here)
157 Comments
Agent641@lemmy.world · 162 pts · 1d
Mamdami is forcing children to participate in a heinous Islamic ritual called Al-gebra. It's like, demonic spells or something.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1d
And teaching them how to do Islamic ablutions, like using mouthwash and washing their hands. And showering! Heinous!
BambiDiego@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1d
He probably uses Islamic inventions like H'ard So'ap and Bi-nominal functions!! SINCE WHEN DO NUMBERS NEED TO HAVE SEXUAL PREFERENCES?!
They even drink the Muslim Beverage C'off We!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
nah, do the french ablutions
BIDETS FOR NEW YORK
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 1d
BIDET
BIDEN
YOU THINK THAT'S A COINCIDENCE?????
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
well now i don't
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
That's literal shariah you are preaching, you Afghan spy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_purity_in_Islam#Hygienical_jurisprudence
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Ritual cleanliness? A properly bathed tush is a thing of I don't know, have you tried going back to scraping it off with paper?
Now I feel like I gotta make a butt bath ritual
DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 1d
Ah, they'd just pronounce it wrong. Buh-DAY, they'd say. No, it's a nice idea but I don't think it'll flush.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
ALL THESE DRINKIN FOUNTAINS TOO LOW
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
Don't forget the practice of "Kâbit Al-isim."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_and_Islam#Historical_examples
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
Someone dumb enough to be concerned would definitely also think a basic equation looked like stygian summoners runes
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 1d
They're solving for X, which is slang for MDMA and also what porn is rated. Obviously they're indoctrinating kids into child rape cults.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1d
Wait, no, the child rape cult was Trump.
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1d
NO HE WAS UNDERCOVER TO EXPOSE THEM
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 1d
I do not want the mental imagery of trump under the covers
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1d
Just doing shifts undercover in between breaks for fucking his daughter
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1d
Don't laugh! As the Islamic Golden Age was pivoting towards religious extremism, algebra was labeled as sorcery and turned into a capital crime.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 156 pts · 2d
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 68 pts · 2d
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2d
I made it myself!
I could not believe that I was the first
Please use it to piss off conservatives
You have not only my blessing, but an enthusiastic endorsement
Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d
Inspired work of art, FistingEnthusiast 👏 May you have many more.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d
I create a lot of art
My porn channel recently hit two million happy little perverts, and I have something in the vicinity of forty million views of my work
But this is still one of my favourite pieces
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2d
Well, it's already on Facebook.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
I'm torn...
But I hope that conservatives will be upset, and on that I will rest happily
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d
They are.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
/me looks at username...
Goodeye8@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
I can't believe you'd promote your porn channel but then wouldn't add any links so I could make sure I'd avoid accidentally seeing that porn. What kind of a monster does that?
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
You can find my redgifs account on my profile easily enough
I don't ever want someone to be exposed to something they might not want to see, so I don't tend to put a link
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 12h
I don't think this kind of meme really does anything good.
I don't give fuck about Kirk and if you look, neither do conservatives including his ex wife.
What they managed to do is to weaponized his death toward their advantage, spreading pictures of him dying makes someone who didn't know what he was preaching, disgusted. I think this kind of memes help this.
I personally like the ones which says that it was congratulating him on not saying anything hateful for a year, but frankly I would just love of he would move into obscurity, which is what he deserves.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 2d
My only regret about his death is that he got to die doing what he loved: deflecting questions about gun violence with racist dog whistles so overused they've become bullhorns
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2d
Honestly it was so fuckin poetic I can't even be upset about it. Charlie wouldn't either, because white people shootings don't even count to him.
LostCarcosan@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 1d
Chirk would have been proud to be shot in the neck at a school by someone who disagreed with him. He literally gave his life arguing for that right
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 1d
Best use of nickelback possible?
kandoh@reddthat.com · 134 pts · 1d
After 2016 I spent a lot of time on reddit talking to Trump voters to understand why.
Overwhelmingly they believe things that aren't true. Basic misconceptions of the world cascading in on one another culminating into the stupidest vote of their life.
One guy thought Obama was a vain man because he named his healthcare plan Obamacare. When I told him the healthcare plan was called the Affordable Care Act, and that Republicans and the media called it Obamacare as a way to hurt it, his brain couldn't process it because why would the media parrot Republican talking points if they were all biased towards Democrats?
You can understand how this individual would make this mistake. He pays just enough attention to be misinformed. Three generations of right-wing propaganda, the world's most disciplined messaging machine repeating the same lies and half-truths have absolutely run roughshod over this type of person.
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1d
Why would they call themselves DemonRats if they weren’t actually demonic rats? Checkmate.
toxicbubble@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1d
meanwhile they voted for a man who puts his name on everything
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Yeah, because he tells them that they are righteous in their hatred of everything they fear
They'll forgive him anything, so long as they can hate freely and feel good about it
Almacca@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 1d
This is all according to plan. The owner class needs to keep the plebs stupid.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
see: charter schools strangling the public school budgets, so the chuds can turn around and say "look at how bad our schools are doing!", rinse & repeat
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 1d
*badly. ... but I guess bad grammar is the point.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Which is why the first thing they cut is public school funding
DoctorWhoDMC@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
There's a lot of "Heal the political divide" being said to mean "meet them halfway" when what it should mean is the ignorant and prejudiced learn and the media machine dismantled, like how "Heal the healthcare class divide" means "Help poor people see doctors affordably".
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
I ask them "why is trump calling for the deaths of politicians if you agree there's too much political violence and dissonance?" Well they didn't hear it on fox news that he called for their deaths so it's probably the woke media lying. They will ask for everything and give nothing.
And also they don't care that much so they won't look into it (look into it, i.e. click 1 link to his post calling for politicians to be killed). And even if he did do it he was probably joking. And even if he wasn't they found 1 insane person on YouTube who is calling for people's deaths too, which is the same as the president that they elected saying it to hundreds of millions of people I guess.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1d
Reddit post of a MAGA explaining they're all in on Trump, don't care, never will, stop trying to argue with them in their own words.
hayvan@piefed.world · 120 pts · 2d
One of my favourite conspiracies is that academic spaces are overwhelmingly left-leaning.
Obituarykidney@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 2d
There's a reason the right is constantly seeking to make schools worse and good education harder to access.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2d
It's actually something that has been done pretty much by anyone in power in the past who was trying to consolidate their position without actually giving the people what they want.
Hitler's regime started by rounding up scientists and scholars purely to make sure nobody got any ideas that were detrimental to his power.
It's just sad that the voters for (extremist) right people don't see that the endgame is just for a select group, not for all, and they see themselves as part of that select group whilst they're actually part of the other.
So MAGA folk think they're part of that elite group that will benefit from right wing dismantling of social programs and not part of poor immigrants whilst they're actually economically closer to those poor immigrants. Not just America, though, Germany is going in that direction as well right now and in Europe more and more of these voices are being heard.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2d
Yup, a CERTAIN JACKASS in Cambodia did the exact same. Killed people just because they wore glasses which was a sign of dangerous intellectualism.
Malica@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1d
The similarities between Pol Pot and Trump keep me up at night.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1d
Yet tankies will still glaze pol pot for some reason...
Malica@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
I don't know why I'm surprised
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 1d
Show your work.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 23h
That's such a stupid response. As if I'm going to dig through old comments looking for the places where it happened? This isn't a court of law, and it don't have to present evidence to you. Especially if you'd just going to sealion about it even if I do.
And for the interactions that happened in person? How do you want me to prove those to you? Do you suggest I should carry around a device always on record and keep a record of every conversation I've ever had?
Everyone who's interacted with a tankie knows glazing pol pot is exactly the kind of thing they do. Many have directly seen them do it. I don't need to link specific examples for you.
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 4 pts · 1d
Oh yeah, all that while he used glasses, had studies in both Cambodia and France, and overall was everything he hated.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1d
Not uncommon. Imagine an idealized nazi arian, now look up a color photo of Adolf Hitler, ideally with him standing next to other people (who aren't Mussolini, because that guy was even shorter).
Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org · 2 pts · 18h
Lmao, so true.
Theory: authoritarian ppl are like that because they have really big complexes.
frunch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
They don't want competition, and they especially don't want people that are immune to bullshit.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1d
Even worse, they seem to be succeeding.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1d
One of mine is that the truth (in a news/reporting/journalism respect) tends to always lean left.
LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub · 95 pts · 2d
Years ago a German satire show interviewed random people on the street. They asked them what they think about the fact that "children are now forced to learn arabic numbers in German Schools". The interviewers flawlessly baited a bunch of idiots into exposing their mindless xenophobia on TV
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 74 pts · 2d
I refuse arabic numbers. What the fuck is 2? 7? 9??? These are all made up concepts invented to corrupt the mind of people.
Look at how elegant these look instead: 10, 111, 1001.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 2d
I dont care if i have to say it X times, roman numerals are superior
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1d
If I've said it once I've said it 𒁹𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋 times, the babylonians got it right
froh42@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Base 12 ftw.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
It's base 60 actually. With up to 5 𒌋 meaning 10 followed by up to 9 𒁹 meaning one. I actually should have put a space between the 60s place and the 1s place and formatted it as: 𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒌋
It's a lot easier to read in clay because you bunch the characters up within their place, and if it were used in modern day it would likely be autocorrected to make it easier
merc@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Base 60 does make dividing evenly into 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, etc. really easy.
If I were raised in China or something and used to memorizing / recognizing dozens or hundreds of symbols, then having individual symbols for the numbers 0 to 59 might be nice. But, as someone who only learned a 26 letter alphabet and 10 digits I like base 10 because it's quick to parse a number.
How did the Babylonians write 61? 6 𒁹 symbols, a space then a single 𒁹 ? Was it easy to tell the difference between say 21 and 3?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
61 would be 𒁹 𒁹. Essentially the same way we write 11. It can be compared to 𒁹𒁹 meaning 2, which would appear bunched up as opposed to separated. Plenty of room for very large errors and I suspect if it'd stuck around you'd probably see something like a distinct 1, 9, 10, and 50 tallies to indicate "hey this is where this place begins" as well as a zero. For 21 it would be 𒌋𒌋𒁹, and for 3 it's 𒁹𒁹𒁹.
Cuneiform is a writing system highly constrained by its medium. It's just pressing triangular reeds into clay. Any shape you can't get out of that isn't in the writing system. Using conjoined tallies makes sense for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_cuneiform_numerals
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 21h
It seems to me that with a reed you could also underline something or draw a slash between items, so you could do 𒁹 / 𒁹 for 61 vs 𒁹 𒁹 for 2.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
yeah, seeing the symbols spread out across multiple characters makes it hard to tell whether that's 100 or something else (considering i learned counting in cuneiform just this moment)
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Yeah, but you have to give it credit, it's really easy to pick up as far as number systems go. Definitely less useful for math and science than modern European-Arabic numerals, but much better for logistics and administration than say roman numerals
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1d
Base-12 is absolutely gorgeous for geometry. A metric system on base-12? <chef's kiss>
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1d
Duodecimal is my favorite.
GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Dodecic system
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
I've said it at least ν times, the Greeks had the weirdest system.
GarboDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
We’ve said it
times, our family will use a proper Aztec numbers just like our forefathers
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
IV/V Romans agree...
elephantium@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Perfect V/VII
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Yes but how is it with rice?
elephantium@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Only if it's garnished with silphium.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 1d
They are letters tho.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
I is a finger. V is the line down your thumb and up the fingers (a whole hand). X is both your hands crossed… that’s one theory as to why they used “letters” for numbers.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
Why use many digits when few digits do trick?
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
This is the way. Embrace binary numbers. Reject everything that is nonbinary.
tektite@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1d
Nah, we're keeping the NBs.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1d
they have played us for absolute fools
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 13h
those are still arabic numerals youre just writing binary with them
express binary as ^-. ^^^, ^--^ or smth
Gnugit@aussie.zone · 56 pts · 2d
Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?
limer@lemmy.ml · 54 pts · 2d
Excuse me.. all the links above use Arabic numbers: they are unreliable.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
Damn "woke ass" numbers
brambc@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 2d
I bet he’s not even talking about the real classical symbols but the new woke version!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
MolochHorridus@piefed.social · 19 pts · 2d
Woke, if not even DEI!
synapse1278@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
I was honestly surprised when I visited Egypt for the first time and discovered they have different symbols for numbers in Arabic. Also, they look kind of the same as the one used with Latin alphabet, but there are some tricks like ٥ is 5 and ٦ is 6, so yeah ... you have to learned them, you can't just guess.
brambc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I discovered when changing my standby background on my iPhone, and have been using them ever since.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2d
AKA dumb and ignorant people believe more lies. Trump loves the uneducated.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d
Smart people don't like me.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
The Republican strategy for decades was to target fifth-grade intelligence. Trump's political innovation was to target third-grade intelligence.
Klear@piefed.world · 33 pts · 2d
I thought she was talking about Polymarket posting this as a serious matter. Then I noticed who she is...
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 28 pts · 2d
Oh no. Instead of writing out the numbers like one, two, three they will have to write them out like 1, 2, 3. The horror! 😱
Stolas@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 2d
I need a hug. We live in such a depressing world sometimes.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
🫂
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 1d
I saw this joke at least XV times already...
echodot@feddit.uk · 20 pts · 1d
I know right wingers in general are thick, but Americans really do seem to take it to a new level the dull witted.
I'm sure that IC% of them wouldn't even recognise the joke.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
I have to spend a lot of time in 'Murica, unfortunately
It's amazing how stupidity isn't just accepted, it's celebrated
I know so many extremely intelligent yanks, but the average punter on the street is as thick as pigshit
The worst thing is that this isn't their fault
It began in the eighties, and has been done deliberately
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 18h
It began a lot further back than that. Mel Brooks was making fun of this stuff in the 60s.
Spezi@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1d
Trust me, the german right wingers are just as dumb and they are not even creativ. They just carbon copy the republicans.
goodboyjojo@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1d
In all seriousness thank God for the Arabic number system. It would be a nightmare to use Roman numerals for math
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
And a second shoutout to the Hindu invention of the concept of 0.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1d
Base-10 is objectively terrible, though. Too many fundamental principles of geometry rely on 1:3 and 1:6 ratios that can't be properly depicted in Base-10.
If there were a god, they would have given us 6 digits on each hand, inspiring us to develop a base-12 number system.
jambudz@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
All number systems are base 10. It’s just that we define the 1 in 10 as meaning x x x x x x x x x x quantity. Binary is base 10 with 10 equating to 2 in the decimal base.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 1d
ERIKA has been celebrating everyday how rich she is becoming. she went through several personas, looking like kennith copeland, a demon, her eyes souless like a dolls eyes, going a WWE celebratory style funeral, and her sonya blade skin.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 18h
One could say her personas are.. legion.
I'm not religious, but these weird nazi demon people do give me pause.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 8h
did you see her dressup like OG sonya blade from mortal combat.
someone@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 1d
Is she being ironic or really didn't actually know? It's hard to know if attention-economy people do gimmicky things for attention or really are that... uh... unaware of things?
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 1d
Laura Loomer is a reactionary asshole with early winter ground level intelligence. She doesn't know and would argue you're lying to not look stupid.
phtheven@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Can you explain what you mean about winter ground level intelligence?
Edit: you don't have to explain why Laura is a moron, to be clear. She's doing a fine job of that herself. I'm just curious about that phrase, I've never heard it before.
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space · 11 pts · 1d
my guess is it’s a step below calling someone “room temperature” in reference to their perceived IQ
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 14h
Pretty much.
dreamy@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1d
She really didn't know. A few minutes after she made this comment she deleted it and posted another comment that made it look like she knew what was going on all along.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Oh, I hadn't heard of her, when I first read this I read it as her being sane and Polymarket being the one misunderstanding what Arabic numerals are
So the "dear god" would be directed at Polymarket and not Mamdani
Idk if i'm explaining this well
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 7h
Polymarket is a betting website, clearly someone made a bet that Zoran Mamdani would mandate teaching arabic numerals knowing that idiots would bet against it.
bequirtle@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2d
well... it is real...
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 2d
Jesus. What an idiot.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
Ive always wanted to share these on facebook as a way to call people stupid.
But then I realized they wouldn't understand it at all.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 17h
Unfortunately, trying to set up this particular "rage bait" is also ignorant and uneducated. The numbers we use are derived from Arabic numerals. But modern Arabic numerals does not look like the ones we use in the Latin Alphabet. They can also change a bit depending on which arabic country you're in.
If you're an average "westerner" you probably don't know what modern arabic numerals look like. And learning them would be required to know which symbol means what.
That being said. Teaching children that different children across the world have different symbols for things is still a good thing to teach them. While also teaching them there are other systems than our base 10 system. Such as the Duodecimal system.
Admetus@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 2d
So all elementary school students to learn basic math.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
Maybe that's not so bad for Americans, they'll finally stop producing people who can't follow simple economic rules.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2d
Everyday, Veep becomes more accurate.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 1d
The Arab Numerals joke is old. I heard this over two decades ago in the wake of 9/11 and I'm sure it's not the first iteration.
It's funny because the anti muslims are ignorant of the contributions muslims made to society and language, and are unaware those are the numerals we use.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
It's funny because we keep pointing it out, and every fucking individual conservative shitslinger has had this lesson multiple times, and it never seems to stick.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 1d
I know, it's getting dumber too. A lot dumber.
Many of their influencers, it's not that they don't know, they don't care. They are playing the sheep, and they've been taught from their influencers and leaders how to do it, and truth plays little to no part in any of it.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1d
I think you meant to say IX/XI.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1d
Yeah, it's old, and yet it still works on those idiots.
Same goes for the old dihydrogen monoxide one.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 1d
The dihydrogen monoxide one was traditionally, in my experience, a conservative joke to make fun of the do gooders that wanted to not have toxic chemicals in the air, water, food, etc.
Going way way back to the 90s and before.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 13h
Just an FYI, it originated in India. It's called Arabic because it was introduced to Europe via the Arabs, however, both of the numeral system that are widely used in the Arab world came from India.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 8h
If these people are so dumb and easily manipulated, why dont you misinformation them to do the right thing?
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 18h
My only gripe is that we can't determine whether it's Arabic numerals or Hindu numerals. It's more correct to say Arabic-Hindu numerals.
Tiral@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Is kill for a legitimate 3rd option.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6h
This is always how it starts, then these terrorist camps will teach children how to READ. Can you imagine a society full of these people? The end is nigh, please save us president Trump.
Arctic_monkey@leminal.space · 0 pts · 1d
How did you reach the conclusion that they're "heavily correlated"? From the studies you posted, I'm seeing effect sizes of r ≈ 0.2, which is usually considered a weak correlation. A change in one variable explains only about 4% of variance in the other.
An effect of this magnitude is, I suspect, consistent with left wing beliefs/ideology being transmitted at universities, whose population has already passed a selection filter on intelligence.
dreamy@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1d
As in between peers, or do you genuinely think that universities teach socialism as an economic model that should be followed or something?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
i mean i went to a conservative college for undergrad. the idiots (not all of the students, just there were some real idiots. you've met me) at that college (compared to the peers i met at the other universities i attended) basically put the idea in my head "if that's this side, i want nothing to do with it. at least the idiots on the other side aren't as idiotic or hateful"
i didn't ever run into the idiots at the other universities (which i guess means i must've been it), so it was fun.
myyass@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 1d
I would say it wouldn't hurt but it's like tossing a hot dog down a hallway; kids will just be more confused and retention will likely be zero; as in how many people are still able to even read cursive writing? Let's see how this pans out, I guess?
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 1d
but you know what Arabic numerals are, right?
Here is 1 of them :D
myyass@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 1d
I thought it was referring to the old style ones? I mean I'm not against people learning those, just heh good luck remembering them if you don't use them everyday. Kinda how I had I can only understand the french in clair obscur expedition 33 but oh boy don't ask me to write anything in french now lol
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
The “old style” was Indian Numerals. We have always used and been taught the original style of Arabic Numerals in the modern world.
myyass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I see, thanks for clearing that up. Media really works hard to confuse you now. I thought there was no difference and then the Indian numerals came up and I honestly didn't know what was the actual was going on at that point.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
dont you mean roman numerals? so confused
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Feel free to check the link I provided.
Mahmoud_2000@lemmy.ml · -16 pts · 1d
i'm not a leftist nor rightist, but i know the difference between a man and a woman, this is science too.
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
Mahmoud_2000@lemmy.ml · -5 pts · 20h
wrong assumption
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 20h
Nazi then ?
davel@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 20h
Say you don’t understand the science without saying you don’t understand the science. You don’t have even a cursory, Wikipedia-level understanding. You have a 19^th^-century understanding, but science has since developed better understandings of sex and gender.