Here’s how Bernie can still win

had a dream that there was this new tiktok trend called "scrubbing" where people would take images of fictional characters and put them in images of bathtubs and drag around transparent pngs of soap and brushes with their tiktok art tablets and like liquify tool their hair down to mimic giving them a shower. and people would get into flamewars in the comments of every single video over the types of soap they picked and if the images had decently removed backgrounds and if they got soap in their eyes. and it got onto the news because it turned out everyone doing the trend was doing it compulsively like they physically couldn't stop and each video was a solid few minutes long because they were just collectively obsessively recording themselves fake-showering these fictional characters and arguing about it online

for the record I have never used tiktok and like explicitly in the dream I learned about it secondhand from a discord server so there's that also which is funny I think

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Closest match: Mya arenaria isolate MELC-2E11 chromosome 1 Common name: Soft-Shell Clam

sorry im late, i started thinking about history and the bittersweet beauty of the fact that people from thousands of years ago are so similar to people today and i had to lie down on the floor for a while

ngae u zalen, ubitash u namsaghabshe lu muda sharta lugin ineesh sesha ngeshtug ngaren, kikala dannash henuden

me paenitet tarditatis, historiam cogitare coepi et subamaram pulchritudinem rei quod abhinc milia annorum homines hominibus tam similes fuerunt hodiernis ac paulisper decumbere humi mihi necesse fuit

I don’t know how many of you listened to the new doctor who short story from big finish (war stories, the Paul spragg 2024 winner) but I was driving while listening to it and there’s a part where bill potts sees the 9th doctor and says he looks like a lesbian she had a crush on, and I laughed so hard I almost crashed.

been mainlining mythbusters episodes while i work on art stuff and this bit where they attempt to test sneakily entering a building through the air ducts caught me deliriously off guard

[Video Transcript:

[FUNKY MUSIC]

Narrator: Now remember, the aim is to make a silent entry into the secret facility.

Adam, off-screen: Jamie, are you ready?

Jamie, off-screen: Yeah, I’m ready.

Adam: Start the timer, Grant.

Grant: Timer starting in three, two, one.

Adam: Go, Jamie!

[UNIMAGINABLY LOUD BANG]

[EVERYONE LAUGHING]

Adam: Why, Thor, the god of Thunder, is trying to enter my building!

[SECOND LOUD BANG]

[ADAM CACKLING]

Tory: Somebody needs to check that air conditioner.

Transcript ends.]

i will not lie, friends in my phone, i have been imagining affection from time to time

Nero wanting to be an actor, Commodus wanting to be a gladiator, Musk wanting to be a poster - many such cases

Aelius ut gladiātor erat, sīcut Nero cantor

Hīc agit heu nōbīs twitter ineptus Elōn

Nero wanting to be an actor, Commodus wanting to be a gladiator, Musk wanting to be a poster - many such cases

The answer is 1, why is everyone a delinquent?

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

It's 16

*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.

It’s 1.

It’s 16.

8 / 2 * (2+2) = 

8/2 * (4) = 

4*4 = 16

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

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.

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.

I, uh, I think it’s 1, actually.

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

No need.

Everyone on this post:

@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

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!

meanwhile on Twitter

you could make the argument that it’s foolish that everyone in the world should know what the Odyssey is but if you’re from a western country that literally has Greek history stolen away in your museum then well, really a child left behind.

“The world doesn’t revolve around America” the illiad was actually a pseudo historical/mythological text about the first game of baseball

Its a metaphor for the drive through

I dunno what you guys are talking about, seems pretty American to me.

only 8 dollars and 12 cents huh? What the fuck was Odysseus problem then

there was road work

gimmie something to translate into Latin

I need enrichment in my enclosure

@moony108

iam dudum, in galaxia longe ultimo….

BELLA STELLARIA

Pars IV: NOVA SPES

bellum civile nunc geritur.

Rebelles rates, ex quibusdam latebris adortae, primam victoriam a malo Imperio Galactico tulerunt.

in proelio, exploratores Rebelles designationes surripuerunt arcanas summi telorum Imperii, STELLAE MORTIS, muniti in vacuo praesidii cuius potentia satis est ut planetam totam deleat.

ministris Imperii sinistris sequentibus, Principissa Leia domum festinat rate sua, custos designationum surreptarum quae suos servent restituantque libertatem galaxiae….