Another post from betting market company Polymarket read: “BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.” The post has almost 14 million views.

  • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    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.

    • greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      Hear me out, maybe base 10 isn’t the best counting system. Base 6 or 12 could be pretty nice. Not worth Nazis being in charge, but could be a nice change of pace.