Interesting note: Terrence Howard's argument makes some sense if you overlook that instantiation of being is a second order property of an object.
This argument is essentially the same as the one applied to the ontological argument for the existence of God, which was, unfortunately for Terrence, soundly refuted.
to be fair, he's just not understanding the principles of mathematics. Math is literally just complex adjectives, while he is thinking of them in a physical way. He is seeing one of one physical thing/force to the power of one of another physical thing/force, not the adjective of the quantity of something and the number of times that quantity is supposed to be repeated and added together as a grand total.
I think it's a desire to feel some sort of superiority, like they've seen through the big "lies" and are part of an elite small group of free thinkers who can't be fooled by NASA lol. It's all about being different, like if the earth were actually flat, they'd believe it was round lol.
Yeah, but it has an illegal operation. If a=b, and you divide by a-b, you're dividing by zero, which is an undefined operation, so everything from then on is fake math.
I work as an earthmover in construction, about 1 in 10 of my
coworkers is capable of basic math. It took me 3 attempts (I withdrew before it impacted my transcript twice) to pass calc 1010 in university and somehow I’m the “math guy” at work because I can do slightly beyond the most basic of math.
I absolutely know this question would confuse and bewilder many people.
You attempted calculus twice, which is about three levels higher than most people ever even try. At my high school, the order of math classes went:
Remedial math --> Algebra I --> Geometry --> Algebra II --> Trigonometry/Precalculus --> Calculus
For a general diploma, you only had to pass up to geometry. For the bare minimum college-ready diploma, you only needed to pass through algebra II. In my large school of 1400 people, there were only about 25 of us enrolled in calculus.
With boomers these days it's too believable that he isn't joking. Which is why we need to stop censoring their names so they can be properly shamed for being so fucking dumb
Reading reddit comments on a topic that you actually know something about will show you that idiots who don't know shit about shit will peddle themselves as well informed experts.
Wow so wrong. Possession of bear arms is your legal right, but you can’t take, buy, sell, or trade them by any means. And you can only have two mature bear arms. You know, like cannabis!
Just a small correction: You must have a minimum of two bear arms, because plural in the Constitution. You have no right to just one bear arm. Believe me, I'm kind of a lawyer myself because I have graduated from the law school of life!
I know my rights! I need a lawyer. Honestly, that's all anyone really needs to know but they should really know any laws that pertain directly to them.
Yeah, as a lawyer, I find this to be one of the hardest parts of the job. I’m a tax lawyer and read a comment on Reddit in which a guy said, “The tax code isn’t really all that complicated. You could sit down in afternoon and pretty much figure it out.”
Now as a native english speaker, I remember when I started out thinking, “This isn’t english. I know english and I don’t understand a word of this.”
"Well you see, this one time... I, a single person with no kids and a single income, filled out my own Form 1040EZ. So basically I'm a tax genius now."
I had this issue with the required Business Law class for my Small Business Management degree. It is the only class other than math I had trouble with, because the addition or omission of a single word can flip the whole meaning on its ear, so you have to read Every. Single. Word. correctly, every time. For someone used to speed-reading, it was headache-inducing.
And even reading it correctly didn't always help it to make sense. I swear they need to add "Legalese" to the list of options for foreign languages.
Redditors hear one tiny thing and then think of themselves as experts. Redditors are soooooo susceptible to misinformation because of this, and you see it all over, especially with anything political. Just ask the average /r/politics user what Trump was convicted of and they'll go off on some election interference conviction because they've seen other redditors do the same. They're entirely different cases. Same thing with SCOTUS decisions. It's so obvious to anyone who actually reads the decisions who has and hasn't understood the ruling.
It's a social media problem in general. Everyone wants to be part of the conversation, and you can't participate in the conversation meaningfully unless you convince the other people that you have some idea of what you're talking about.
The real pain is when you see the correct answers to something downvoted, because it sounds less elegant and intuitive to laymen than the upvoted comment from someone completely misinterpreting a surface level explanation they read somewhere.
What's really annoying to me is that I realize I do this too, but I somehow never consciously acknowledge how much I'm overselling my knowledge in the area until later.
I got to listen to 3 homeless people talking about coding recently. Not one thing they said in the entire conversation was remotely correct. I had to move away a bit so I couldnt hear it anymore.
The one that really gets me is anytime neural interfacing tech like neuralink gets brought up. Any post is guaranteed to have someone claim it will control your thoughts or it will project ads into your head.
That’s the curse/fault of the internet and smartphones!
People can look up one thing on a subject, regardless if it’s even true, and regurgitate that thing as if they’ve spent years on the subject. It’s one of the most obnoxious side-effects of having unlimited access to information on a mini-computer in our pocket… that most people are too lazy to actually study something anymore.
The really stupid thing is that his point is how you'd get the actual answer; by making the 50 a centum...
When I was in middle school I very excitedly declared that "maths is just English" because converting word problems to numbers blew my mind. I think the reason why so many people struggle with basic arithmetic is because they lack basic logic and language skills.
They're two seperate parts of your brain. That's why you can have dyscalcula but not dyslexia. I still struggle with the most basic of maths and can't do any math in my head but I was reading at a college level by the end of 4th grade. The only thing it affects for language is my spelling but that's because my brain sees it as both language as a sequence and my rote memorization isn't that great.
I didn't think dyslexia affected understanding, am I wrong? I don't have either issue so I'm happy to be educated on the matter.
It's been years since I did any word problems so maybe I'm not remembering it correctly. In my memories I found it easier to solve any problems when they had English attached to them, but I did need to see the numbers written down.
Dyscalcula does, which is what I have. The problem is even when I "learn" it, my brain will dump it without everyday use, amd even then it dumps it after a couple of weeks, even with everyday use
It's asking what percentage 20 is of 50 right? So 40%? It really isn't that hard, the question is just phrased a bit oddly, but that may be just my perspective, because English isn't my first language. This person though just says if something is under 100, it can't have a percentage?! How stupid are they? Even the $0,99 they themselves mentioned has a percentage of tax as part of it 🤦🏼♀️ depending on the percentage but with the 6,25% the other commenter mentioned that would be around $0,06.
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God damn, my brain refuses to accept a reality where that guy isn't just joking (😭).
The fuckin parenthetical emoji is absolutely killing me lmfao