Melkath

20% of my day, intentionally breathe strongly and manually. 80% of the day, try not to breathe manually.

Okay Mr cool guy.

Congrats on never losing the game.

It’s an honor to have met a Chosen.

(Smosh reference… in case you don’t get it.)

You are now manual breathing.

You’re welcome.

Some of us have a little voice that never stops saying that and you need to work on that.

You let your passive breathing be passive breathing and you actively breathe when you need to actively breathe.

I’ve found my breathing in general has improved since I started trying to institute a 20:80 rule.

Federverse is different from kbin’s inception is different from reddit or its inception.

I like Kbin, and it’s all because of Ernest’s efforts.

Not sure if anyone else pointed it out to you, but op posted a thing, then edited the post to capitalize on an exploit.

Software is actually pretty intensely hard to create.

Ernest has done his best at creating a federverse instance for all us Kbin users, but also, none of us were here 3 years ago.

I also don’t see Ernest becomming a Spez In 7 years, so I applaud the effort and the platform, and if we get more robust nsfw thumbnail handling, cool, but I also love the ability to edit my posts to fix my typos and whatnot, trolls thumbnails titties and all sometimes.

You know “they” is one dude, right?

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7 year cool down, and unless you are Trump and can afford extremely expensive legal representation, your odds of actually getting a full discharge of debt go down.

Double reply (oof on me).

You can dart around and say more shit.

Can you answer me? Oh wise dumbass?

What trees do you see that I mis-took for forests?

Or was that flipped?

Feels like it was flipped.

Please.

Share your interesting assertions.

Mine on Kbin as of late are “The Democrat party is MUCH further right than it was when I was a Democrat. The Republican party is just straight up jerking off and fucking all of humanity as hard as possible by default. The 2 party system has failed. A Left leaning liberal has noone to vote for in 2023 America. Closest is Bernie, but he kissed the ring and lost for it.”

What is your interesting assertion that sees the forest for the trees?

Yes… that is how civil wars occur… Fed vs alternative government…

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I am sure at least a few times over 12 years of education I was told they are Arabic numerals.

One of those times was probably minutes after my history teacher said “go to Mexico and look at the street signs, same numbers. Go to China and look at the street signs, different letters same numbers. Go to Sweden. You have no idea what the words are but you know the numbers. Go to Japan. You are lost, nothing is familiar, you don’t understand any of the words, written or spoken. You thought you knew how to kind of quietly read the nonverbal language and not be a jerk, but you will always be the jerk in Japan… bit you understand the numbers…”

I was just a typical American, selectively listened, got my diploma anyway though.

Good thread. Giving me shit to contemplate and shit.

When it’s politics and I’m confident in my position, I can be a raging asshole while asserting my position.

When it is something I am straight up cut and dry wrong about and its an opportunity to learn, I try to learn.

Middle-old American here.

I was taught “numbers” and Roman Numerals.

Post high school (largely because I work with data for a living) I have been exposed to the concept that there are a wide variety of numeral systems out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems

When responding to the prompt, I was thinking something to the effect of the first table on that wiki page and went “nah, Americans struggle hard enough with basic English Numerals, adding other numeral systems would be a complete nightmare.” Not because I’m racist, because I’m simple dumb.

Little did I know my American public education in the 90s/00s ass I was stepping into a “dangers of dihydrogen monoxide” trap.

Great example of “don’t attribute to malice what can be attributed to simple ignorance.”

That might be the narrative its going for, but I don’t think its a good example.

Pointing out that people are dumb (like me) and that they dont know that English speaking countries use Non-Eastern Arabic Numerals, that might be something.

Calling that racism is just lazy and misleading.

Yes, and as I just learned EASTERN Arabic numerals are a horse of a completely different color.

Its a good trick question.

English speakers are going to look for “English/British/UK” for the name of the characters they use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals

They are going to think that when you say Arabic, it means this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals

I’m learning on this thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals

I misinterpreted my quick Google and thought Eastern Arabic Numerals were Arabic Numerals.

Then I googled “British Numerals” to find the proper name and Google told me the proper name was English Numerals.

Thanks for the clarification. It looks like my google glance was too sloppy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals

My glance lead me to believe these are Arabic numerals but they are EASTERN Arabic Numerals.

Ya, I don’t understand the point here.

Is the context asking if jr high/high school language classes for languages that use Arabic Numerals should be banned?

Or is the context asking if grade school students should be taught all the different numerals of the world?

Or is the context asking if just English/Roman/Arabic numerals should be taught?

etc.

All of these questions have different answers…