TheKingBee @ TheKingBee @lemmy.world

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People are stupid, any system that fails to take that into account and mitigate it is doomed to frustration and failure...

writing it this way does not somehow enable it to make “more” sense than the first way

it does because people read (and therefore do math) left to right. it makes more sense because it accounts for the fact that most people know how to read, but don't know the operational order of math equations.

We're just going in circles, so let's just agree to disagree.

Those sentence are also perfectly understandable, once you've understood the order of the words, but they're written in such away that you have to think about it.

If there are multiple ways to do things and one is more accessible to most people with less effort that isn't the objectively right way but it is better.

It's obviously not just myself as posting out of order math problems are a constant source of online engagement.

Do you remember how this reply thread started? I literally fixed the equation so that it would be less confusing to people, I couldn't do that if I didn't know what order it was meant to go in...

I'm just not assuming that people are stupid because they got tripped up by something designed to trip them up.

It's writing like this with math, you can find the sentence structure, but it makes it a puzzle people will mess up unnecessarily

Because this it's trivial to write it in a way that won't cause this confusion and yet every 3 months or so someone posts another one of these gotcha no context given equations and we as the internet have this same discussion again and again. It's bait...

it's mean in that they intentionally wrote it to trip people up so we'd have this very conversion...

This was literally written for twitter content...

The operational order is fucked, the way I rewrote is more readable, even if you remember the order. The only reason you'd write the equation like that is to be mean, there's no reason to write it like that unless you're trying to trip people up.

No, it's written poorly to drive engagement. People read left to right and try to do math that way too, but if you want to be mean to people who don't remember things they learned in elementary school then never applied in real life you write it like OP.

(8-5)5+2

Far easier for most people, but then you don't get the arguments...

IDK if you surround yourself with nazis, use your wealth and influence to further their power, and then do a fucking nazi salute I'm not sure what to call you but a nazi.

Maybe not an "ideological" nazi, but he's definitely in the party...

I think takes like this are funny because it's like you don't even realize that it will never happen, not even because of corporations trying to drain any property of every iota of value (which they definitely are), but because we as a species love retelling the same stories.

I guarantee you there is someone sitting at their keyboard right now remaking Gilgamesh.

Tron and Legacy both made double their budget, tron made 50 million on a 17 million budget and Legacy made 400 on a 170 million budget.

I would only consider a movie a bomb if it fails to make it's money back...

Something like Speed Racer (2008), which is an awesome movie, but only made 93 million on a 120 million budget.

I agree with a lot of what you're saying, re social constructs having some basis in reality, but the problem I have is the sort of appearance based aspect of it, most of the toughest most manly looking men I know are actually socially anxious teddy bears and the most "strength, willingness to physically protect others, usually valuing rationality over emotionality" people I know are 5'4 women.

Like the archetypes make sense, but the social construct is pointlessly gendered...

If you're down for a bigfoot movie, I'd recommend Sasquatch Sunset, it was very odd, but very good.

I read the headline earlier, with no picture, and thought yeah he always looks like a bloated orange monster that tracks.

Actually seeing the pictures all I can think of is the training I did on FAST, literally the F is for face drooping, that old mother fucker is having a god damned stroke...

I agree with you in premise, there is a general trend to over lore in modern sci-fi. Things can't just be, they need some specific explanation.

This though, I didn't hate. It's always bothered me that aliens in sci-fi are just humans with shit on their face, their cultures are just aspects of our culture turned to the extreme, and every species' technology is around the same level.

Having a progenitor species that seeded the galaxy and that's why every intelligent species is basically the same is fine, basic but you know at least it makes sense and doesn't need to come up again.

Why are they the same, because a wizard did it essentially.

turtles all the way down...

I'm an idiot and it scares me the number of times i've been the "smartest person in the room"...

I mean it does suck, but it sucks less than anything else we have.

It deters me lol

Exactly. The problem isn't the visa, it's the having a group of people you can just pay less and control more...

i disagree with this being too harsh, but do agree with the second point about wishing to see this type of punishment extended to the industrial villains, who will never see it, deserving this type of punishment.