Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.
Found in acid rain and cancer cells.
It’s found everywhere. They’ve detected DHMO even in the deepest parts of the ocean, and it’s been estimated that every single human being alive has at least some of it in their bloodstream. We’re fucked.
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The most dangerous substance in our modern world
Literally everyone who consumed it ends up dying.
It turns out it is toxic to humans in large doses, but despite that it is still widely used by industry because it is such a cheap, abundant and potent solvent.
You think dihydrogen monoxide is bad HOH is right there beside it. On average globally around 1000 people a day die as a direct result of HOH exposure. It’s estimated to be a contributing factor in around 7% of all deaths. HOH is also impossible to get away from, it’s used to make tires, soap, explosives, I couldn’t possibly name everything it’s in. It’s even worse for kids, HOH kills more children than adults per capita. Regulators aren’t even talking about it, because it’s so ubiquitous it would crush our economy removing it entirely. So we just accept that it kills 320,000 people a year.
I hear that every single person who drowned with the Titanic was later found to have elevated concentrations of dihydrogen monoxide in their bodies. Coincidence? I think not.
Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.
You can’t give dihydrogen monoxide to children. Fish fuck in it when there are large quantities of it.
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The science teacher knew what you were up to. They just want to watch the world burn.
Everyone should be aware of the dangers of DHMO! Millions of people die every year from it!
Educate yourself at http://www.DHMO.org
Finally some serious information about this widespread danger! Thank You!
That’s a chemical!
I heard that same chemical is in the COVID vaccine. And it just so happens to be in the school lunches? Not in my back yard!
LVII percent of people are morons.
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XIV% of people just wanted to see the results.
Or fiftyseven percent
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but why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm
The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire
Metres*
Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter)
Metre is a unit of measurement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre
Meter is seemingly the american spelling, it’s also spelled meter in many european countries e.g. germany, netherlands
Metr in Czech.
We just have to be special. :-D
Nah, it’s like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It’s метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.
But well he translated the rest of his post into English
Why would we use the American spelling if they don’t like the unit
Pretty sure king crimson are English, still pretty accurate tho
Hm see, we don’t have aspic, and I don’t know what a lark is. But I definitely use bananas for scale
I especially love it when they use the weight of an airplane as a comparison. “It’s as heavy as a Boeing 747”. Even if someone had an intuition about the weight of something that large, they would probably be wrong because aircraft are relatively light for their size, it helps when you need to fly. Everything in a plane is made to be as light as possible, so nothing on board of it would weigh as much as the non-aircraft equivalent you’d be familiar with.
Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️
Well you heard them. American numbers only from now on.
Get learning, kids.
Those are Mayan numerals for those curious
Now I ain’t sayin that’s a good system but I ain’t sayin it’s a bad system.
Straightforward enough. Dots and tics in fives. And a weird croissant for some reason.
That’s clearly a doughnought
What’s 20? 100? 1000?
How dare you! Circles!? They must be stars!!
It’s America, we count shit in stars and stripes.
What about other things besides shit?
Eagles per gun
If it’s big, I’ve seen them use refrigerators, washing machines and football fields as units of measure.
Anything to avoid the metric system.
“Wait, it’s all shit?”
“Always has been”
Time is measured in eagle caws (eagle shrieks?).
The sound many attach to eagles because of Hollywood is by the way not from an eagle, but from a red-tailed hawk. Video here.
Can’t speak for americans but in the UK it is customary to measure things in number of bananas and count things in tins of baked beans. Dont get me started on fractions.
Dont get me started on fractions.
13/16" is the dumbest fraction I have to use on a regular basis. I’d love to hear a good fraction rant!
Silly Brits. Bananas are only for scale!
…ucked.
🤣🤣
You’re joking, but give it a few months to a year.
This will be a republican talking point for doing away with public schools.
Do you want to tell them, or should i?
Idk, I have no idea how to read the results I’m American.
Back to Greek then. 😅
Is that like Roman numerals?
It is similar in that they use characters from their alphabet as numerals but not exactly the same way as the Romans. Greek numerals are decimal, based on powers of 10, just like Roman and Arabic. The units from 1 to 9 are assigned to the first nine letters of the old Ionic alphabet from alpha to theta. Instead of reusing these numbers to form multiples of the higher powers of ten, however, each multiple of ten from 10 to 90 was assigned its own separate letter from the next nine letters of the Ionic alphabet from iota to koppa. Each multiple of one hundred from 100 to 900 was then assigned its own separate letter as well, from rho to sampi.
Not really, they’re based on gematria like Hebrew numerals. α = 1, β = 2, γ = 3 and so on
my hebrew is a little rusty
Roman got it from the Greek too before adapting it, iirc.
Romans got like 80% of everything they stood for from the Greeks.
A joke goes: The Greek invented sex. The Romans later improved upon the idea by introducing women to it.
Hehe, yeah, even their God’s were recycled Greek ones.
Gotcha questions like this (eg “should we ban dihydromonoxide”) are supposed to show us not to jump to conclusions, but I’m guessing the people voting no on this one aren’t taking much away from it
I think the point is less the conclusions of the poll itself, but moreso the ignorance of the average person about what the Arabic numerals are.
We, a Christian nation, should instead teach Church Numerals like GOD INTENDED! (/s)
To be fair the system is hindu arabic.
Closer to hindu १२३ than arabic ١٢٣
How did they get mixed? I see 1 in arabic and 2 and 3 in Hindu. Is there a good place to start reading or watching about this in your opinion? If not, I’m just gonna YouTube the history of numbers and see where I land
IIRC Hindus invented this number system (with glyphs for 0-9), and then the Arabs starting using it. Eventually the west started using them and credited the Arabs.
As for how they are written, everyone used the same shapes, and then they probably just ended up changing over time (“Hmm…how do I write that number again? Oh whatever I’ll just make it up”)
Feel free to do your own research though.
IIRC Hindus didn’t have a “proper” 0, and Arabs did, which I guess is the reason why they got the credit
Zero was (in its modern form) invented in India. It’s pretty fundamental to the concept of Hindu-Arabic numerals too: it’s how we represent numbers such as 10, 100, and so on.
I am speechless. My guy. Aryabhatta.
Yeah after some quick googling it looks like I’m wrong. I’m quite sure that’s what I was taught in school though, so blame my teacher !
Basically I was taught that Hindus invented the 0 for base-10 numerals, but didn’t actually use it for maths (e.g 0*x = 0), whereas Arab mathematicians did.
I’d go on a youtube journey. I’m sure you’ll find some cool linguistics videos about it
1 and 9 are the only ones that seem more arabic than hindu. Hindu gets १ and ९. Everything else is pretty close to source.
TIL
Im guessing the “No” makes a bell curve of those who know and those that dont
In fairness the question is open to interpretation. They don’t specify if they mean western or eastern Arabic numerals.
As schools in the west already teach western, the people responding could justifiably deduce that the question is referring to eastern.
But the Eastern Arabic numbers are the same as the western ones except that the Arabs call them Indian numbers
“What kind of swallow, African or European?”
…ucking stupid
Ah yes, 2,313 people, otherwise known as a representative sample 350 million.
Edit: I’m not respond to the morons who think someone’s FB status poll is representative of America.
You mean, MMCCCXIII people.
You know there will be plenty of Americans who think their numbers are American and not Arabic.
I’ve heard “speak American” coming out of one’s mouth once.
Hey now. Every village has its idiots. We just happen to have a lot of them.
Because freedom!
MURICAAAA!
I don’t believe this is a representative sample, but not because of the sample size. Stay in your lane, high school level science education.
High school statistics covers sampling just fine. Some people weren’t paying attention.
🙄
This fucking comment on every single poll result. Consider learning even the tiniest bit about how statistical sampling works.
It appears to be an online poll which wouldn’t have proper sampling
That’s a vastly better critique than just whining about the sample size.
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I don’t think a more representative sample would improve the ratio, tbh
I agree this isn’t representative. But i would argue there was no need for a poll to determine what percentage of americans would have said no.
It would likely be fifty-seven percent. Or LVII per centum
I’ve been seeing this one for years, are we even sure it was ever a real thing and not just a meme about the “dihydrogen monoxide” science word scary type reactionary movement?
It most definitely is. The fact isAmerica is either smart enough to run the largest empire ever, or the world is dumb enough to let them do it. Personally, I’d like to think the rest of the world is also smart.
