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  • Smeagol666@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
    8·
    10 hours ago

    I worked with this dipshit pressman who was 10 or 15 years older than me. Our employer was feeling particularly generous and gave everyone a 2% raise. He bragged that his raise was 50 cents. Later on, I can’t remember what we were talking about, but I said: “$25 an hour isn’t bad, that’s what I made at my last job.” He goes: “how do you know I make $25 an hour?” I said: “Algebra”.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    English
    21·
    15 hours ago

    like others, i use algebra all the time. professionally and personally.

    i also feel like im in a minority a lot of times, in that, i can recognize the algebraic principles at work in a situation and how to most efficiently solve for the unknown with what tools are available… when others might just fudge something with a best guess that will probably come out OK with an acceptable amount of waste.

    it concerns me how the decay of this skill is normalized, even encouraged in “regular” jobs. for years, i worked with STEM PhDs that had, what i would call, shaky algebra skills and part of my job was to check their math/logic. now i work in a more normal/less academic space, and i am excited when i meet someone else who can figure out nerdy math shit, because i swear too many people are just bullshitting and acting like this middle school shit is inscrutable arcane wizardry.

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        English
        4·
        10 hours ago

        it depends on the phd. in my field we do a decent amount of math inside and outside of the academy, especially basic algebra. “lowly” field techs and analysts were doing stoichiometric type functions every day, unit conversions out the ass. their bosses, the phds running those groups should be able to do that, at least. and some just couldn’t.

        i found the lack of fundamental math skills to be embarassing at that level. after all, besides even The Work, these are the people filling budget reports, estimating material costs, and doing very basic payroll estimations. they held all the keys of a middle manager, institutionally, but had very limited accounting AND middle school math skills.

        despite living in a low cost of living area with a steady, phat salary many were in debt up to their eyeballs despite making 4-5x what their subordinates did, and it wasn’t like smart debt either. like credit cards and new cars.

  • Poophammer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    16 hours ago

    This kind of shit is exactly what you say for the society that you want to work in dangerous factories all day.

    “Actually Algebra is gay, getting your finger chopped off in a factory is actually cool and heckin’ based especially when it pays you 12 cents a day so your labor can compete with Bangladesh.”

  • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    31·
    18 hours ago

    I think my “favorite” example of someone using goy/goyim in this way was a guy who called the Biscoff cookies they serve on some flights “goyblocks” and implied that the decline in the quality of in-flight meals was a Jewish conspiracy.

    Every day I’m more inclined to think shit like this is a psyop to discredit anti-Zionism.

    • SerialExperimentsGay [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      15 hours ago

      I think my “favorite” example of someone using goy/goyim in this way was a guy who called the Biscoff cookies they serve on some flights “goyblocks” and implied that the decline in the quality of in-flight meals was a Jewish conspiracy.

      When you go far enough down the carnivore diet rabbithole, there’s an entire online community that thinks all highly processed food is part of a Jewish conspiracy to weaken white people and prepare them for extermination. Really bizarre shit coming from guys with names like Raw Egg Nationalist or Bronze Age Pervert. They use that exact kind of language.

      Every day I’m more inclined to think shit like this is a psyop to discredit anti-Zionism.

      Well, the original op in regard to this is clearly to pretend that antisemitism is a leftist phenomenon and to distort definitions of antisemitism so that calling a genocide a genocide suddenly counts as being antisemitic. I think nazis are also getting more mask-off about their antisemitism nowadays, but idk if that’s to further discredit anti-zionism, it seems more likely to me they do this becaue they know all the attention is elsewhere now or because they do what antisemites have always done, misdirect discontent about systemic issues (like bourgeois support for zionism) towards a dumbed-down and counter-revolutionary sentiment like antisemitism.

      Antisemitism had a purpose like this at least since the Ochrana stoked pogroms, and it became front and center with the Hitlerists. When you have a bunch of grievances that are all connected by capitalism, but can’t say that because it gives away that you are working for the capitalist classes, you need to make up a replacement for capitalism and that’s the ZOG. It’s less obvious in present-day fascisms because they make the antisemitism part optional so they can be more palatable to normies, but you can always slot it in once people are radicalized enough because they have placeholders like the cabal, globalist elites, gender ideology, reptiloids etc. that allow them to use structurally identical narratives without saying they mean the jews. It’s like having a toggle for antisemitism that you can use at any time.

      • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        18·
        17 hours ago

        Pirahã is already a language without numbers. There’s a word for one/few, a word for some, and a word for many. They have never needed to invent a counting system beyond that.

  • Kefla [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
    English
    40·
    22 hours ago

    I literally use algebra all the time and I’m not even a programmer. Programmers, who are numerous, are doing algebra all day for their job on which our entire society operates

    Does this guy just not know what algebra is

    • micnd90 [he/him,any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      59·
      21 hours ago

      This guy is chud.exe in a nutshell, it is absolutely hilarious

      p.s. sorry to tell you buddy, most people do algebra in high school, some started in middle and even elementary school, not in college

      • agentant [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        34·
        21 hours ago

        The word algebra comes from the Arabic term الجبر (al-jabr), which originally referred to the surgical treatment of bonesetting. In the 9th century, the term received a mathematical meaning when Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi employed it to name a method for transforming equations and used it in the title of his treatise al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah [The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing] which was translated into Latin as Liber Algebrae et Almucabola.

        Technically actually correct. Never tell these kinda people that we use Arabic numerals tho che-smile