And the Latin alphabet (plus a couple letters) too. Damn furriners. Bring back the Futhark!
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I was always taught that these were called "Hindu-Arabic numerals"
LOL... as opposed to using Roman numerals? WTAF. I can't even comprehend the stupid.
How about good old American numerals, like the good Lord intended?
You know:
- I
- II
- III
- IIII
- IIIII
- IIIIII
- ...
You mean the good old freedom numerals?
They only call them that in the Gulf of America
The monster! My kids will learn Roman numerals and Greek math that stops at 10000! Like nature intended!
Next thing you know, they'll be teaching our kids algebra and algorithms.
Al-Gebra
And Al-Khawarizmi.
Yeah but at least it won't affect my Al-cohol
“Zero”? The fuck kind of sorcery is this? If a number can’t be counted, it has no place in my concept of math!
OK kids, pop quiz, grab your chisels and work out the square root of XXV!
V
You get IX/X, I took a mark off because you didn't show your work.
And Al-Gebra too! The horror!
Conservatives are fools lol
This is an insult to fools
Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Where do they think numbers in English came from
I knew this was going to happen as soon as i saw the meme.

Highly educated USian here.
I would cry tears of joy if I woke up and found that President Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was having his inauguration parade exactly as shown in the image.
To make it interesting, ignore the figurehead and any global elite child sex slave trafficking ring they may or may not have been a part of. Consider the background characters instead.
In this image you have Luke Wilson playing a character who is known to be the smartest person on the planet, and who saves lives with their knowledge by teaching the people how to do things like water their crops, AND who got dragged into the position rather than being a cutthroat ambitious asdhole.
In a similar image of the real world you might have somebody like Stephen fucking Miller.
People making jokes about dihydrogen monoxide, and imma be honest, I feel like it should have been the gold standard internet stupidity filter that disqualifies your credentials in any form of discussion because of the insane amount of people that fell for it back when the internet was still new.
If you couldn't handle H2O, you can't be trusted to use the internet seriously lol.
Next he'll be forcing us all to drink dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that's known to be fatal to humans under certain conditions!
In 1862 dihydrogen monoxide leaked into a well, and every single person who consumed it has perished!!! 100% fatality rate in just this incident!!!!
They literally use that shit to power steam engines! Now imagine what it does to your insides. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Every single person in my family tree, born prior to 1920, have two things in common... They are ALL dead and they ALL drank dihydrogen monoxide regularly!
This has got to stop!
A friend of mine ingested a ton of it and died. They found him at the bottom of a lake
In Germany, we have a right-wing party en par with the US Republicans: The AfD. Just as Nazi, just as nuts.
Some time ago, someone riled them up with the "Did you know they teach Arabic numerals in school now?", and quite a few of them blew a lid...
Well, the dihydrogen monoxide that is in your Zuchini is literally an industrial solvent!
Have you seen what dihydrogen monoxide does to pure, strong iron?!? It corrodes iron unbelievably fast! And people just.....consume it in most of their "healthy" foods!
Wake up, sheeple! Stop drinking dihydrogen monoxide!
~/s - this message brought to you by Brawndo, the thirst mutilator~
You know what's funny, the dihydrogen-monoxide bit works in part because when you tell someone "ha ha, you're anti water" they should get embarrassed. Like, it's impossible for them to continue arguing, you know?
But if anyone is going to take hidden-agenda numerals at face value and still insist that we use a new, much stupider number system to get away from centuries of Arabic influence, it would definitely be nazis, lol.
Lmao, I love this kind of stuff. It makes dumb people so angry
I love that too, but I feel like we have to make them smart and not angry :(
Every sixty seconds in Communist New York, a minute passes.
i heard he'll teach kids the "latin" alphabet instead of Amerian one😡
I just checked with my local school, and they're not just making them learn these arabic numbers, they're forcing them to learn AL GEBRA!!! Sounds like foreign nonsense to me, so I'm starting a petition to have the head fired, and possibly flogged.
You should check with your local schools too. Keep this policically correct woke DEI rubbish away from our kids!
Arabic Numerals have taken over the world! When will this madness stop? /s
Next they are going to find out they are learning other Arabic topics like al-Gebra.
So, there WAS an onion (or similar) article stating exactly this like the day after he won. So it looks like some of these idiots just ate the onion