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In the Mega Man X series, Reploids become mavericks because of the Maverick (Sigma) Virus

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Hardcore Trump supporters, in spite of their whole "hey lets own the snowflake SJW libs" nonsense, are the real snowflakes, and Trump is the biggest snowflake of all

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I seem to recall that even amongst manga artists, Oda is known for being a crazy workaholic. Apparently he sleeps like 3 hours a night

Also the thing with Oda is for the first like, 4 years of One Piece's existence, he worked without taking a single break. Dude's nuts

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The TC's post has essentially highlighted the problem - we've gotten to the point in our culture where being a "religious Christian" is essentially dependent on how vociferous you advocate for Republican policies, including things such as free market economics and military intervention in foreign countries, neither of which has anything to do with the Christian religion whatsoever, and if anything, are rather antithetical to what the religion actually teaches.

But back in the 70's and 80's, a significant portion of Southern Evangelicals threw their hats in with the Republican Party. Or rather, the Republican Party went out of its way to court southern evangelicals by adopting socially conservative and anti-communist stances. Folks like Billy Graham (he admitted as much in his later years) found themselves drawn to the Republican Party due to its strong anti-communist and anti-Soviet stance. This resulted in an uneasy marriage between the GOP and Evangelical Christianity - in the Election of 1980, for example, the GOP supported the lifelong-irreligious Ronald Reagan from hippie California over Jimmy Carter, who was, you know, an actual Southern Evangelical. This basically brought Republican policies and ideology into Church, and since the church was the center of American life back in the 70's and 80's South, being a 'Godly' individual basically meant supporting Reagan, fighting for lower taxes, and strong advocacy of military intervention.

In the years since, a couple of things have happened that have served to energize the ultra-conservative wing of the Republican party:

1. Churches are less influential than they have been before; church attendance is dwindling, but nonetheless the politics that the church brought into everyday southern/rural life have stayed, so you now have people who are irreligious who nonetheless still steeped deeply in to conservative identity politics, except they identify even stronger with the political aspect now that religion is out of the picture - this is basically what the "alt-right" is - they're people who have essentially dropped the Christian religion but they've retained the desire for belonging and the persecution complex, and thus they cling even stronger to conservative politics and become even more extreme. Some prominent Evangelical denominational leaders and pastors spoke out strongly against Trump back in 2016, but their congregations didn't really listen to them.
2. Some churches have tried to combat this lack of influence by trying to capitalize on people's fear and doubling down on their political stances. Politics gets people riled up *much* better than religion does. Trump draws crowds far better than pastors do, so they're basically trying to leech off him.

Combine these things, and, well, you have an even stronger attachment between Southern Evangelical Christianity and the Republican Party than there was in the 80s. Not a good sign. The thing is, the folks I know who are the most pro-Trump and pro-Republican are not usually the ones who are most well-studied of the Bible or the ones most active in church life - it's always the "Christian identity" and "Christian values" types, and those folks, from my experience, generally have a very poor understanding of the Bible to begin with, so I'm not particularly shocked that they'd be attracted to a charlatan like Trump.

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Karate itself is cultural appropriation, having been a Ryukyu Islands ripoff of Kung Fu, which was later appropriated by the Japanese when the Japanese annexed the Ryukyu Islands

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I agree that "toxic masculinity" is a problem, but the thing is, it is a problem that is also perpetrated by women and how they view men. Try going on a date and telling a girl you're unemployed and see how far that gets you. While men reinforce these norms as well, I'd say that it hurts guys most when they hear it from women.

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Perascamin posted...

No? That works out to 1.

Only if you follow the rules of mathematics incorrectly and assume that / means "group everything after this symbol", which it does not and never has. Try typing it into some online calculator and see what you get

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Perascamin posted...

If it was written as (82) (2+2), it would be 16, but it's not. Therefore, the expression is understood to be 8/2(2+2)

Which is still 16

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thrashmetal14 posted...

According to my college level algebra class, it would be 1. Don't know (or care) how common core is teaching these days.

Ask for a refund.

Ryan__Leaf posted...

16

PEMDAS has a stipulation to it: Multiplication and division are on the same level, whichever comes first left-to-right. This goes for addition and subtraction as well.

The reality is that division is inverse multiplication, and so this idea that multiplication and division are different operations is, in itself, much of a misconception, because the reality is that division IS multiplication, so doing multiplication *before* division doesn't really make sense. Of course, you have to actually know math to do it, which is a problem.

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Stephen Miller, who has been responsible for the worst decisions of the administration

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Hexenherz posted...

Citizens are making bad choices because the politicians... you know, politicized it and encouraged the citizens to make stupid choices.

That's a part of it, but let's be real, these idiots would be making bad choices regardless. The people who print out fake cards claiming medical exceptions to mask wearing are not the type of people who would suddenly act normally and compassionately if their politicians said "wear masks." I do think that they've been empowered by the crazies in office, but even if their politicians were giving good advice, they'd then just claim that these politicians were part of the "deep state" and go even further off the deep end.

The problem here is we have a country where, sadly, people really just don't care that much about other people. I should hope that we've put the whole "Christian nation" narrative to rest by this point - if we were truly a Christian nation, then the act of making an incredibly small sacrifice (wearing masks) would be a no-brainer to help the people around us, and yet here we are.

Since the start of the pandemic I've been predicting that the southern states are not going to take this seriously until their precious college football is canceled, which it almost certainly will be because schools do not want to pay for the healthcare bills of student-athletes who get COVID-19.

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Turbam posted...

8 2(2+2)=?
82(2+2)-?=0
82(4)-?=0
2(4)-?=-8
8-?=-8
-?=-1

In your third line, you subtracted 8 from both ides of the equation. Not how math works since that 8 is dividing the 2

As an example:

102 = 5
However, you cannot subtract 10 from both sides to claim that
2 = -5

Since that's after all, obviously not true

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iFuzedDaHostage posted...

The calculator determines that because it was determined to do it as

BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT WAS WRITTEN AS. The calculator is programmed to follow the order of operations. If you want a different result, write a different expression.

Mathematics has rules and conventions that you have to abide by. If the person wants it to be interpreted differently, then the person has to write the expression differently.

Like, if I tell you that the food is really delicious, then I'm conveying a meaning. If my actual intent is to convey that the food is so disgusting that I want to cry, then I cannot use the word "delicious".

iFuzedDaHostage posted...

The correct answer is whoever wrote the question needs to explain what he means and rewrite the fucking question.

No. The correct answer is 16, and those who cannot recognize that need to ask their elementary schools for a refund.

iFuzedDaHostage posted...

What is

8
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2(2+2)

?????

That's not relevant because that's not what the written expression indicates.

If you write the expression 8 + 4 * 2, the answer is 16. If you had written (8+4) * 2, the answer would be 24, but that's not what you wrote, so you can't say, "Well maybe he meant to write...", because the fact is, that's not what was written. You need to evaluate the problem on the page. Not your fantasy interpretation of what the problem is.

Sariana21 posted...

I KNOW what the rule is, and what the correct answer is. I also know it is not as clear and straightforward as some of you are saying.

The thing is, it *is* clear. It is only unclear if you are insistent on using that stupid acronym PEMDAS, which is a very misleading acronym that doesn't actually convey the order of operations accurately. For example, there is no hard and fast rule saying that you have to perform the operations inside the parentheses first...and in this case, there's no hard and fast rule saying you even have to evaluate the operations inside the parentheses at all! This is only misleading if you have a flawed understanding of mathematics.

Sariana21 posted...

Autistic people, for example, tend to be rule followers, but many of them also are very, very logical. This kind of crap would drive some of them nuts. And anyone else who just sees things differently. And possibly a student from another country (Im still not sure about how international PEMDAS is).

Students with autism likely would not find this to be a problem, because they are generally very rigid in what they do, and thus would not be thrown off by something clearly intended to mislead people who misuse acronyms like "PEMDAS". Students from other countries? Other countries do a much better job of actually teaching mathematics for understanding, whereas we here still use stupid acronyms like "PEMDAS" and think that constitutes mathematical understanding. I've met MATH TEACHERS who claim that "multiplication comes before division".

Sariana21 posted...

As for the -2^2 question, the ambiguity there results from the fact that we use the same symbol for both minus and negative even though they are not the same thing.

There is no ambiguity there. The exponent comes before the negation. Therefore, the answer is -4. If you wish to square -2, then you must write it as (-2)^2. Even if it were a "minus" sign, you're still "minusing" 2^2, and thus the answer would still be -4.

Mathematics has a precise order in which things have to occur for this very reason. "Well, it could be..."

No it can't. It can only be what's written on the page. If you're interpreting it a different way, that's because you're reading a problem that's not there. You're answering your own made-up imaginary question, not the question that's on the page.

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iFuzedDaHostage posted...

It can be interpreted as both.

No it can't. Type it into any calculator the way it is written and the answer is 16. If the intention was to write the entirety of the 2(2+2) under the fraction bar in your example, a second set of parentheses would have had to be used for it to be mathematically correct. It is possible to write a mathematical expression that doesn't mean what you actually "want" it to mean.

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polopili posted...

Pemdas is an American thing. Most math teachers would never write an equation like this and if they did, 1 would he the answer. Solving parentheses first involves solving whats in front of it too. Otherwise, put a * symbol to make it obvious.

No it doesn't. That's just some rule you imagined in your head.

The answer is 16, and there's no ambiguity to it. Those who selected 1 as the answer are simply not familiar with math.

Sadly, I have met other fellow math teachers who think "multiplication comes before division" because they're stupid and married to this stupid idea of a misleading acronym rather than actually learning mathematics

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92.9%

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I have a higher net worth, but that's because I live at home and haven't taken a vacation in a decade

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MFBKBass5 posted...

Have you noticed any change or shift in the Asian culture since all the protests against racism have popped up? I guess Asian hasnt had as many mass race protests like the rest of the world has...

Eh, it's hard to say since I haven't seen large groups of people for some time.

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I'm Asian-American. Racism is part of the deal - most strongly against other Asian groups

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