At some point that joke has to be so old that everyone has heard it at least once… Right?
When most people’s attention span in below 30 seconds? No.
Yeah, who even posts this stuff?
Some yahoo
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Same. But those things are things you learn in primary school
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Not political jokes but that the numbers we use are arabic numbers and also how roman numbers worked and showing us why we adopted arabic numbers
(Coming from south germany)
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Wrong 😁
It’s not an IQ test. IQ tests are supposed to quantify your ability to reason in a space in which you have no context. You have to have the context that Arabic numerals are the most common numbers in order to not fall for this. This is a critical thinking test (critical thinking requires both logic and a world view founded in reality)
… yes, I am autistic, why do you ask?
You must be fun at parties, because I love having conversations like these. I usually learn a lot and I get to share my own similar esoteric interests. Epistemology is probably my favorite, but I love how it ties into Psychology.
I don’t know if you intended your comment to be humorous, but I found it hilarious. The phrase “you must be fun at parties” instinctually caused me to be on edge, because it’s so often said in an assholish, sarcastic way (especially online), but I was delighted to see that the rest of your comment thoroughly subverted that through nerdy earnestness. The contrast and the surprise was quite funny to me.
Thanks for taking the time to interpret and appreciate it. I put more time into those kinds of comments, and I’m glad it was coherent enough for my intent to be inferred.
Yea that was great
I have also loved epistemology ever since it was a required course in my high school curriculum.
I’m envious of that. I don’t think it was ever more than touched on for me, well into an advanced degree. I only got into it by trying to define my own perspective on reality. I was looking for ontology, which led to metaphysics, but I kept getting distracted by all the things I couldn’t know.
it is, but the question is more like “someone has made a claim online that sounds scandalous! Do you a) immediately reply with your assumptions, or b) find sources and gather information about the claim before responding?”
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Well, can’t argue with the truth in advertising vis-a-vis their username.
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A post on Threads, consisting first of text, and then of a screenshot of two Tweets, each a reply to the one after it.
By “georgehtakei”:
This was an IQ test.
By “Catturd ™” @catturd2:
😂😂😂 we warned you.
By “Polymarket” @Polymarket:
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals.
Slight correction (and perhaps unimportant)
Only George Takei’s post was on Threads. He’s sharing a screenshot of the other two, which are on Twitter. I don’t want to link to Threads, but here’s a screenshot in dark mode:
Oh thanks! I was wondering why the first one didn’t display a handle when the other two did.
Are you running a bot that does this? I was considering making one for instances to run, but was concerned that people might think “AI bad” about it.
Nope, just me, and just when I feel like it (often when I see a post I want to comment on anyway).
Ideally, OPs would do it on their own posts. Failing that, it’d be great if there were a bunch of people who could follow my lead and do it on a post or two per day. AI can be helpful, especially for OCR, but personally I wouldn’t trust it to point out salient parts of the image in a relatively easy-to-read format.
I wouldn’t have, but Qwen3 VL (fairly new open model) has been doing a fantastic job of both describing and OCR in my local AI setup thus far.
Thanks! That was really nice of you.
Next thing you know, he’ll make al-gebra mandatory, together with those al-gorisms!!
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George Takei is paying for a checkmark over on that dumpster fire?
It looks like his post is on threads? Not that that’s really better, but it is a different kind of bad.
Amazing that they look so similar to the untrained eye.
That’s a good question. I wonder if they give them to celebrities to drive engagement and incentivize average users paying for them.
They definitely do, I distinctly remember Stephen King making a big scene because they kept on giving him a verification check he didn’t want
Takei is one of the GOATs but he should understand the bigoted nest of vipers over there more than most. Engagement only fans those flames, regardless of perspective.
Yeah. I wonder what would happen if half of all celebrities switched to Lemmy overnight?
fwiw Takei is also on Mastodon.
Cool! Does Mastodon interface with Lemmy at all?
Yes, but it’s…kind of awkward, at times.
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And that Moo Slam al-jabr, also too!
I love Takeiposting.
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