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There's that poem(?) about that

"""

"Get off this estate."

"What for?"

"Because it's mine."

"Where did you get it?"

"From my father."

"Where did he get it?"

"From his father."

"And where did he get it?"

"He fought for it."

"Well, I'll fight you for it."

"""

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9358361-get-off-this-estate-what-for-because-it-s-mine-where

Reminds me of how my (able bodied) mom would drive around looking for a closer parking spot for far longer than it would have taken to just walk from the first available one.

It's kind of baffling to me. All of my friends are to some degree engaged in politics. But there are probably whole chunks of society that just brain rot through the day looking at memes and don't really think about anything.

I think I kind of radicalized one of the guys I worked with just by talking to him about broad strokes of history and labor. If instead of me they had hired some bland "don't talk about anything" standard guy, he might not have learned much. Talking to people can help.

installed anyways and work fine - much ado about nothing lol

most conservative pushback goes like that. "This change is scary and bad!" -> change is good, actually. Often, the conservatives will then fight to defend against the thing they fought against before. It's just kneejerk emotions.

Naively, not natively. Someone who wasn't a good math student, or just doesn't remember, might read it left to right and come to the wrong conclusion. The rules for order-of-operations are, so far as I know, arbitrary, and different people coming at it without instruction (ie: naively) could arrive at different conclusions. Knowing that you're supposed to do division first isn't obvious.

You could read 25 - 5 ÷ 5 as "25 - 5 is 20. 20 divided by 5 is 4" or you could read it (correct, per the standard rules) as "25 minus.. hold on.. 5 divided by 5 is one. Now 25 subtract that from the 25 sitting over there, and get 24." This isn't the same kind of error as, like, "5 divided by 5 is 0"

I haven't thought through all the scenarios and edge cases, but generally spying on the public seems dicey and ripe for abuse. Especially if it's just like "the public, all the time, whenever we feel like it," instead of "ok we got a warrant signed by a judge to investigate Joe Bombguy".

25 - 5 ÷ 5 when read naively left to right looks like it would be "25 - 5 = 20. Then take that and divide by 5, for an answer of 4". It would be clearer to write it as (25 - 5) ÷ 5 or 25 - (5 ÷ 5) depending on what's intended.

You see those kind of "gotcha!" posts online sometimes, where someone posts a problem that tempts you into doing order of operations wrong.

Someone who sees how to do it correctly immediately and thinks everyone knows that is invited to view https://xkcd.com/2501/ as well.

Jokes and tricks that hinge on unclear communication (eg: not using parenthesis or other notation to make intent clear), and then are smug when people are tricked, remind me of the old xkcd https://xkcd.com/169/

I just saw some jokes about factorials so at least I got this one, heh.

This probably won't help with the first point but you can hit Ctrl+d I think, or click the star, and it'll just bookmark it with a default name (page title) and location, I think. I've definitely bookmarked things by accident somehow.

I don't believe I have ADHD so I can't really relate to it. My original post wasn't meant to be like a condemnation - weird isn't always bad. Just different.

It's mildly interesting that you wouldn't get anything done, but I feel like if I had to work like you I wouldn't get anything done. Trying to deal with all those tabs would be a big distraction to me. Funny how different folks can be.

It seems odd that if I'm suddenly twice as productive, I'm neither paid twice as much nor working half the hours. Ownership keeping all the profits doesn't seem fair or like a good idea for society as a whole.

I guess everyone needs a hobby but this one sounds less rewarding to me than others.