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Shakira law is imminent!
Rule 1: The hips do not lie
Ooh, baby, when you talk like that…
Long story, made short .
Americans have forgotten to take out a patent on numbers, so we have been using Arabic numbers for many centuries.
Are MAGA alright with the Latin alphabet?
You mean, like, Mexican?
You mean, like Mexican?
are you playing the game or are you getting played?
We’re a good Christian nation! Our children should only be learning Church numerals!
True disciplines only use Cistercian numerals!
a single glyph able to indicate any integer from 1 to 9,999
Impressive.
^ This thread right here, officer.
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…go on
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This thread right here, officer
because they said cis?
This joke is boring, unbelievable that so many morons still don’t realize this. This is a joke for 11 year olds
And yet, this was literally on my phone’s newsfeed because people are that stupid.
Change your newsfeed
I saw the article on Lemmy
That’s why the joke is fun. It’s at the expense of ignorant Islamaphobes.
You mean MAGA supporters and Americans in particular ?
Exactly why MAGA still gets upset by it, they aren’t smart enough and never matured past 11.
Oh no! You’re already using those anti-american squiggles!
sorry do you mean II or XI year olds?
yes
Half the country can barely read better than a 12 year old so it makes sense they wouldn’t catch on.
I, for one, don’t get it.
I, for one
No no, that’s a Roman numeral
Please tell us what you don’t understand so that we can provide the answer in a better context. Please do not use AI yourself because the answer is not technically sufficiently well-founded adapted to eridite persons
If I use I for one I wouldn’t get it.
I went throught the US School system in 2 blue cities and the term “Arabic Numerals” were never once uttered in any of my classes.
My dad always told me these are called Arabic Numerals… and he did not go through the US Education system (went to school in a different country)… so… take that how you will…
Did you ever learn Roman numerals? I think that’s probably when I was taught that “regular” numbers are called Arabic numerals.
That, or I just learned it through messing with my computer’s character sets or whatever.
Well, the neonazi party in Germany fell for it a few years back.
Which branch or group ?
I think it was an AfD state or municipal group making an official question to the responsible governmental body.
Yeah and we are going to be using Latin alphabet derivatives.
Why can’t we all just learn American instead? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
What is american ? Never seen one
Oh, they’re pretty big. Usually 500lbs and using hoverrounds at age 23.
Excuse me? We’re Americans not British. We don’t use lbs. We aim for the perfect weight of one 7.3L Godzilla
They’re teaching Non-Binary stuff to our kids! What has this world come to? Oh mah lawd!
0000/1010 do not recommend
1001/1011 Never Forget
Newsweek has contacted representatives of Mamdani for comment via email outside of regular working hours.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-mamdani-arabic-numerals-new-york-schools-11079540
That article is serious. Well I guess it makes sense - since the whole joke here is practically based on the fact that many people are too dumb to understand it. But they actually contacted Mamdani to make sure! Doubly hilarious.
In our CCXLIX years as a country we never stooped this low
Bring back Roman Numerals.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it happened. They already say no to metric, then why use logic with number and just go for 1000+(1000-100) +50+10+10+10+5+1 to write the year 1986, but instead of Arabic numbers they use letters so it’s MCMLXXXVI. I mean, it’s not as bad as Danish but it’s somewhat as overly complicated as French.
they didnt before?..
The joke is that to be offended by that statement you have to be both racist and an idiot, which is a criteria that many Americans can satisfy in spades
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As John Stewart Mill.said, all stupid peole are conservative but not all.conservatives are.stupid.
There are both kindhearted morons and intelligent, wealthy sociopaths.
Next your gonna tell me he’ll make junior high students learn the teachings of Al-Jabr. Unbelievable!
This is C% bullshit!
Haters will say this is fake
The feral hogs are getting restless
