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Kids, never doubt yourself. You can achieve anything, including getting math educators to double, triple, and quadruple down on 2+2=5 so they won't have to admit their political and epistemological views are literally Orwellian. pic.twitter.com/KBDlMbc8N2— James Lindsay, literally fluent in Wokeness (@ConceptualJames) July 30, 2020
  • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    The point is there are cases where it makes sense to say that 2+2=5, which Chuds have interpreted as some sort of SJW feelings-based math

    • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think I am the official first dunkposter to get dunked on, and I accept this title :sankara-salute:

      ngl, I thought top guy was the good guy cuz they said Orwellian; hard to know what's try anymore, when apparently even 2+2 can 5?? I really gotta brush up on my maths! Hahaha

        • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Just wait until they actually read him! Hahaha that.. is absurd hahaha

          • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            If you want a situation where 2+2=5 that has a practical application, the easiest is one I'm going to steal from Carr: Imagine numbers from 0 to 1 refer to the time over the course of a 24 hour day; 0 is midnight, 0.25 is 6 am, 0.5 is noon, and 1 is midnight again but the next day.

            If all you care about is what time it is and not what day, because idk you need to catch a train that runs every day at the same time or something, then 0=1 because they're both midnight, in fact all whole numbers are equal.

            So 2 + 2 = 5 = 6 = 7 but none of them are equal to 0.6.

            • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Holy shit.

              Numbers are really, really cool.

              Haha, fr, thanks for this. This was really interesting to think about! It's interesting, because it feels like a novel use for numbers, but it's also basically just how we count days on a mundane basis! Huh!