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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I had an argument with someone online recently where I advocated for removal of national boarders and they came back with, “what about bad people” to which I responded, who are the bad people? And if I consider you a bad person would you be alright being kicked out of your country and not allowed to return. We spoke for about 3 hours and my whole argument was that if he considered rapists (they said rapists and murderers were bad people) fit to be prevented from entering his country would they willingly leave if their wife accused them of rape.

    They just couldn’t allow themselves to follow through with the thought, it simply stopped with, “I’m a good person” and even when asked if they received consent before sexual acts they said,“no, but I’m not a rapist, I’m a good person”

    They love laws like this, because in their minds, they could 100% NEVER be applied to them.




  • Assuming you put the money in a basic ass savings account at bank of America (average us savings account gives .46%apy) thar is a gain of 4.6 MILLION a year. So you would need to out spend that just to start losing money. High interest accounts can be up around ten times that at 5% so 50 million a year would need to be spent to lose money.

    Stock market averages 10% yearly returns not including dividends. So a cool 100 million a year in play money.

    Brought to you by math gang that knows how insane being a billionaire is.



  • That is a very “one size fits all” opinion. I am very gifted in math at a baseline but failed to fully master the fundamentals. And have no ability to memorize a formula I would look up every time in the real world. I only ever cheated by adding the formulas to a program in my graphing calculator.

    However, even with these flaws, I graduated high school, having not taken trig, only geometry and algebra. I tested past all pre trig classes by figuring out what sin cos and all are vaguely from context clues.

    I then failed hard as you can imagine, and though I fully understood the concepts, I would make small errors in computations. I wouldn’t write out everything I did step by step because I was so used to doing things in my head before the teacher was done with the question.

    Everyone is different. Signed someone who probably would have made some breakthrough in math with proper mentorship with zero interest in learning math.

    I was also never ever taken aside by a teacher who showed any interest at all in my math abilities. Still bitter about it.





  • Didros@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    1 month ago

    Considering the iceshelf is losing hundreds of billions of tones into the ocean every year I imagine the amount of rootbeer needed to flood England would make the whole world taste like rootbeer. Also possibly make mold the dominant life form on Earth for a long time.