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Is it? There seems to be widespread agreement on that point, here on Lemmy, that expecting the worst of everyone is critical to motivate the Americans to go out and vote.

It’s a strong enough consensus, reinforced with absolute certainty over and over in our political communities, that I’ve been forced to ponder it myself many times. Because I also have an instinct that it’s quite possible to demotivate and even deactivate would-be voters by making them feel that theirs is a lone flame in the wind, or that the insurmountable forces of evil will make their efforts inconsequential.

As a counter example, here in New York, that wasn’t what brought people out to knock on doors and vote for the new progressive mayor. People participated because they had hope for change, or maybe just to be a part of a something new. They weren’t voting against Cuomo as much as they were voting for Mamdani, if that makes sense.

Are we confident that our all-in commitment to motivating people through fear of their neighbors’ inaction is a winning strategy?

The funnier interpretation IMO is that they’re all trying to be either wagons or minivans while maintaining plausible deniability.

No it’s an SUV! Right right…

There are a few countries that use 999 in addition, or for specific services like ambulance. (Ireland, Poland, Guernsey, and a few others IIRC.) 112 is just one of the more common.

In Celsius? You’re cooked!

Edit: 112 is a common emergency services # in the EU, akin to 911, for any Americans wondering

Dear colleague,

By qualification I meant explanation. My doctorate is irrelevant to the truth.

Since you asked, my larger point was about the unhelpful nature of this content, which makes students of math feel inordinately inferior or superior hinged entirely on a single point of familiarity. I don’t handle early math education, but many of my students arrive with baggage from it that hinders their progress, leading me to suspect that early math education sometimes discourages students unnecessarily. In particular, these gotcha-style math memes IMO deepen students’ belief that they’re just bad at math. Hence my dislike of them.

Re: Dave Peterson, I’ll need to read more about this debate regarding the history of notation and I’ll search for the “proven rules” you mentioned (proofs mean something very specific to me and I can’t yet imagine what that looks like WRT order of operations).

If what riled you up was my use of the word “conventions” I can use another, but note that conventions aren’t necessarily “optional” when being understood is essential. Where one places a comma in writing can radically change the meaning of a sentence, for example. My greater point however has nothing to do with that. Here I am only concerned about the next generation of maths student and how viral content like this can discourage them unnecessarily.

Dear Mr Rules,

I’m not sure what motivates you to so generously offer your various dyadic tokens of knowledge on this subject without qualification while ignoring my larger point, but will assume in good faith that your thirst for knowledge rivals that of your devotion to The Rules.

First, a question: what are conventions if not agreed upon rules? Second, here is a history of how we actually came to agree upon the aforementioned rules which you may find interesting:

https://www.themathdoctors.org/order-of-operations-historical-caveats/

Happy ruling to you.

To anyone reading, “destroyed permanently” refers to the murders and suicides, not the survivors. That is never the language we use for survivors, no matter how atrocious the particulars, because it reinforces the same purity culture that purveys (1) a great deal of the associated suffering, trauma, and stigma, and (2) the obsession with defilement that many rapists share.

Tell me about this Trump class! Is it couth? Is it debonair? I must know more.

In that case my guess is wrong, or at least off, because that sounds like an orphaned component, or perhaps a logic misfire corrupting the state with the effect of partially activating a notification tray or something of the sort.

In the worst case, it could be a viewport dim calculation bug that has nothing to do with Voyager. IME those can persist for a long time, forcing developers to work around it.

If the behavior can be reproduced in a browser, you could use the built in devtools to narrow it down quickly.

I suspect it’s the container for the comment textarea getting left behind after submission, where the vertical misalignment is the top+bottom padding of the container, because Android uses a different rendering engine for PWAs which follows slightly different rules in its box model, especially WRT flexbox.

I hadn’t seen this proposal yet, but this type of reform strategy is usually my favorite.

It not only acknowledges what we have now is broken, it actually uses that very brokenness to break free so that we can finally fix it.

It also is one of the only ways to maintain provenance. Yes, we could just discard the old government and start over, and that may become necessary, but clever workarounds can enact reform without the years of upheaval and instability.

Fuck em up Z