You’re being weirdly aggressive, but okay.

Most people know the symbols for addition subtraction multiplication and division. Far fewer people know the established order of operations. That’s what powers those “only 3% of people solve this problem correctly!” math memes.

But okay. Communicate badly (ie: by failing to acknowledge your audience’s context) and be smug if you want.

Naively, not natively. Someone who wasn’t a good math student, or just doesn’t remember, might read it left to right and come to the wrong conclusion. The rules for order-of-operations are, so far as I know, arbitrary, and different people coming at it without instruction (ie: naively) could arrive at different conclusions. Knowing that you’re supposed to do division first isn’t obvious.

You could read 25 - 5 ÷ 5 as “25 - 5 is 20. 20 divided by 5 is 4” or you could read it (correct, per the standard rules) as “25 minus… hold on… 5 divided by 5 is one. Now 25 subtract that from the 25 sitting over there, and get 24.” This isn’t the same kind of error as, like, “5 divided by 5 is 0”

Right. The robbery example is close to mind because someone broke into my house once, and they stole my partner at the time’s work laptop. We needed the police report to give to their workplace (I guess so they’d believe us it was stolen, or so their insurance would believe us). It was a bad situation, but it could’ve been worse if the police were like “Sorry, you’re not a subscriber”.

They did eventually catch the guy, but we didn’t get our stuff back. I don’t think they made any effort to return it. I think we both agree that the current system is really bad.

Simpsons meme where homer’s like “The worst day of your life so far”

At least right now if someone breaks into my house, I don’t have to pay the police to come make a report or whatever.

But to your point, the current state of things is also really bad, yes.

I haven’t thought through all the scenarios and edge cases, but generally spying on the public seems dicey and ripe for abuse. Especially if it’s just like “the public, all the time, whenever we feel like it,” instead of “ok we got a warrant signed by a judge to investigate Joe Bombguy”.

25 - 5 ÷ 5 when read naively left to right looks like it would be “25 - 5 = 20. Then take that and divide by 5, for an answer of 4”. It would be clearer to write it as (25 - 5) ÷ 5 or 25 - (5 ÷ 5) depending on what’s intended.

You see those kind of “gotcha!” posts online sometimes, where someone posts a problem that tempts you into doing order of operations wrong.

Someone who sees how to do it correctly immediately and thinks everyone knows that is invited to view https://xkcd.com/2501/ as well.

I don’t want the power vacuum left by removing policing to be filled by private enterprise. Amazon run police would be worse, probably.

“Included now in amazon prime: Same day detective work when you’re robbed! Non-prime users pay $88, and the detective will arrive within 14 days.”

I think I remember a sketch about this from ages ago with stephen fry in it.

Jokes and tricks that hinge on unclear communication (eg: not using parenthesis or other notation to make intent clear), and then are smug when people are tricked, remind me of the old xkcd https://xkcd.com/169/

I just saw some jokes about factorials so at least I got this one, heh.

This probably won’t help with the first point but you can hit Ctrl+d I think, or click the star, and it’ll just bookmark it with a default name (page title) and location, I think. I’ve definitely bookmarked things by accident somehow.

I don’t believe I have ADHD so I can’t really relate to it. My original post wasn’t meant to be like a condemnation - weird isn’t always bad. Just different.

It’s mildly interesting that you wouldn’t get anything done, but I feel like if I had to work like you I wouldn’t get anything done. Trying to deal with all those tabs would be a big distraction to me. Funny how different folks can be.

It seems odd that if I’m suddenly twice as productive, I’m neither paid twice as much nor working half the hours. Ownership keeping all the profits doesn’t seem fair or like a good idea for society as a whole.

I guess everyone needs a hobby but this one sounds less rewarding to me than others.

There was a news article a while ago about maga hats saying their church was repeating “liberal talking points”, when the pastor was simply quoting Jesus.

https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

Most of the maga hats don’t care. They found their tribe and that’s all that matters to them now.

Facts and quotes don’t change people’s minds. In-group belonging does. So long as they see you as an enemy, they won’t listen to anything you say. We’re all vulnerable to that, but maga hats seem especially vulnerable.

That always reminds me of the “missing missing reasons” post. It’s about estranged parents specifically, but I think the behavior shows up elsewhere. People’s ego is too fragile to let them remember or admit some details, and their emotions are creating their whole reality.

https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html

Usually the browser history, or I remember enough to find it again.

Admittedly, a couple times I haven’t been able to find a particular meme or whatever, but it’s never been important stuff.

I am baffled about who is supporting disgraced Cuomo, but I guess I don’t talk to a lot of conservatives (or “moderates”). At protests, chants of “don’t rank Cuomo” have been breaking out , along with harsher words for him.

I would be surprised if it was as good and big as bg3. I doubt they’ll give it to a small studio with a lot of heart, so it probably won’t be good.

Though I don’t know, maybe if they gave it to whatever’s left of obsidian it wouldn’t be the worst?

I don’t think the current government is capable or interested in making sound decisions. I don’t think the public is capable of electing a better government. For profit orgs don’t have the public’s best interest as a priority. So this is bad

Well, every republican idea is a bad one so that follows.

Other people’s computer usage is weird to me.

I just bookmark stuff if I think I’ll need it later, and I usually don’t even do that. Otherwise, every browser window is closed at the end of the session.

I feel like shithead musk always says like “working on it” but i would be surprised if he ever does any meaningful work.

He’s just such a disgrace. Like a fractal shit. No matter what part of him and his life you look at, no matter how zoomed in or out, it’s just shit. Fuck that guy.