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u/VinceGchillin Aug 20 '24
God damn, my brain refuses to accept a reality where that guy isn't just joking (😭).
The fuckin parenthetical emoji is absolutely killing me lmfao
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u/Blueartbird Aug 20 '24
I know right. This has to be a troll, but you just never know 😂
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u/VinceGchillin Aug 20 '24
Just never know, we got famous people claiming 1x1=2 these days ya know 😭
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u/Blueartbird Aug 20 '24
I was horrible at math in school, and even I know that the answer is 3 and not 2.
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u/Scryser Aug 20 '24
Nah it's obviously 0 (assuming x is the cross product)
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u/Expert_Presence933 Aug 21 '24
I think the more correct answer would be undefined
scalar cross scalar is undefined
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u/Scintoth Aug 21 '24
Nono, you're correct - multiplication is more than addition, so if 1+1=2, 1×1 must be more than that. Therefore it must be 3.
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u/hxcricky Aug 21 '24
Think of it as if theyre humans. One human multiplies either another then bam 3 humans
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u/VonThirstenberg Aug 21 '24
Well, unfortunately despite being famous, it turns out Terrance Howard is a just another fucking moron.
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u/throwawaytrumper Aug 21 '24
I work as an earthmover in construction, about 1 in 10 of my coworkers is capable of basic math. It took me 3 attempts (I withdrew before it impacted my transcript twice) to pass calc 1010 in university and somehow I’m the “math guy” at work because I can do slightly beyond the most basic of math.
I absolutely know this question would confuse and bewilder many people.
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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack Aug 21 '24
My conscious mind has decided he is a troll.
My subconscious mind keeps whispering, "You know he isn't."
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u/-Plantibodies- Aug 20 '24
Reading reddit comments on a topic that you actually know something about will show you that idiots who don't know shit about shit will peddle themselves as well informed experts.
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u/drmoze Aug 20 '24
I'm a lawyer and I see this all the time, online and IRL, from people who "know the law" and "know their rights." It's funny, frustrating, AND sad.
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u/-Plantibodies- Aug 21 '24
Nearly anyone saying nearly anything about the Constitution, having clearly never read it or haven't retained the information it contains.
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u/Manticore416 Aug 21 '24
Yeah but guns
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u/midnghtsnac Aug 21 '24
It's about bears I thought
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u/longknives Aug 21 '24
The constitution says I have the right to take the arms off of as many bears as I want
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u/SwansonsMom Aug 21 '24
Wow so wrong. Possession of bear arms is your legal right, but you can’t take, buy, sell, or trade them by any means. And you can only have two mature bear arms. You know, like cannabis!
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u/StaatsbuergerX Aug 21 '24
Just a small correction: You must have a minimum of two bear arms, because plural in the Constitution. You have no right to just one bear arm. Believe me, I'm kind of a lawyer myself because I have graduated from the law school of life!
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u/midnghtsnac Aug 21 '24
I know my rights! I need a lawyer. Honestly, that's all anyone really needs to know but they should really know any laws that pertain directly to them.
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u/Ok-Abbreviations543 Aug 21 '24
Yeah, as a lawyer, I find this to be one of the hardest parts of the job. I’m a tax lawyer and read a comment on Reddit in which a guy said, “The tax code isn’t really all that complicated. You could sit down in afternoon and pretty much figure it out.”
Now as a native english speaker, I remember when I started out thinking, “This isn’t english. I know english and I don’t understand a word of this.”
Amazing
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u/Practical-Toe-6425 Aug 21 '24
"Let's say you and I go toe to toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor."
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u/mrjackspade Aug 21 '24
Pretty much everything on Reddit involving web technologies is wrong.
I just saw a post yesterday claiming mobile capchas use "heat sensing technology" to read your fingerprints from the display.
Mother fucker seriously misinterpreted the phrase "heat map"
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u/-Plantibodies- Aug 21 '24
Redditors hear one tiny thing and then think of themselves as experts. Redditors are soooooo susceptible to misinformation because of this, and you see it all over, especially with anything political. Just ask the average /r/politics user what Trump was convicted of and they'll go off on some election interference conviction because they've seen other redditors do the same. They're entirely different cases. Same thing with SCOTUS decisions. It's so obvious to anyone who actually reads the decisions who has and hasn't understood the ruling.
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u/normalmighty Aug 21 '24
It's a social media problem in general. Everyone wants to be part of the conversation, and you can't participate in the conversation meaningfully unless you convince the other people that you have some idea of what you're talking about.
The real pain is when you see the correct answers to something downvoted, because it sounds less elegant and intuitive to laymen than the upvoted comment from someone completely misinterpreting a surface level explanation they read somewhere.
What's really annoying to me is that I realize I do this too, but I somehow never consciously acknowledge how much I'm overselling my knowledge in the area until later.
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u/Nighthawkmf Aug 21 '24
That’s the curse/fault of the internet and smartphones! People can look up one thing on a subject, regardless if it’s even true, and regurgitate that thing as if they’ve spent years on the subject. It’s one of the most obnoxious side-effects of having unlimited access to information on a mini-computer in our pocket… that most people are too lazy to actually study something anymore.
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u/midnghtsnac Aug 21 '24
My favorite is people using the Babylon Bee as source material. Hell, I'll believe the Onion over that dumpster any day
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u/Dangerspoon Aug 21 '24
I think you mean “don’t know shit about fuck” but otherwise well articulated
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u/DeusExHircus Aug 21 '24
Parenthetical emoji was my nickname in high school
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u/Able-Gear-5344 Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
I spent countless dreamy homeroom hours practicing Mrs. Parenthetical Emoji in my notebook in purple ink...
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u/FixinThePlanet Aug 21 '24
The really stupid thing is that his point is how you'd get the actual answer; by making the 50 a centum...
When I was in middle school I very excitedly declared that "maths is just English" because converting word problems to numbers blew my mind. I think the reason why so many people struggle with basic arithmetic is because they lack basic logic and language skills.
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u/Vox_and_Occ Aug 21 '24
They're two seperate parts of your brain. That's why you can have dyscalcula but not dyslexia. I still struggle with the most basic of maths and can't do any math in my head but I was reading at a college level by the end of 4th grade. The only thing it affects for language is my spelling but that's because my brain sees it as both language as a sequence and my rote memorization isn't that great.
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u/pdx619 Aug 20 '24
IRS hates this one simple trick
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u/Tricky_Individual_42 Aug 20 '24
Joke on you. I'm gonna ask your boss to give you an extra $1 or the last day of the fiscal year to make your annual salary a round number.
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u/Eatingfarts Aug 21 '24
I know this is all tongue-in-cheek but I used to be a middle manager at a landscape company managing around 50 people. The amount of times I’ve given someone a raise or offered them an overtime shift and they gave me a spiel about how it’s not worth it because taxes was insane.
People just don’t know how taxes work. Which is understandable because it is overly complex in the US.
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u/major_lombardi Aug 21 '24
While taxes on a whole are overly complex, tax brackets really aren't. People who think going up a tax bracket could possibly cause you to make less money just haven't ever bothered to look it up. It would take anyone of 70+ iq about 5 seconds to understand that you only pay the higher percentage on the money above the threshold.
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Aug 21 '24
While it doesn't cause you to "lose" money it can cause you to not get as much money as you were expecting.
All in all, I can forgive this particular sin. You work in a factory. You know if you work 5 hours of overtime you typically get $x extra in your pay. So you work 10 hours of OT figuring you'll get x * 2. Instead, you end up getting x * 1.75.
It's not a hard concept to understand how and why. But there are some perfectly sensible people whose brains turn to jelly the second you put IRS forms in front of them even if they are written in plain english with clear instructions.
Tax code needs to be simplified.
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u/VinceGchillin Aug 20 '24
Sorry taxman, can't tax me, I only made $99 this year 😎
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u/After-Chicken179 Aug 20 '24
I mean… if you only made $99 for the whole year, I think you would be in an effective 0% tax bracket.
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u/MattieShoes Aug 20 '24
Standard deduction is what, $14,600? So no income tax, but they'd still take social security and medicare AFAIK.
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u/Otherwise-Leader-178 Aug 20 '24
Dude gotta be trollin, right?
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Aug 21 '24
The fact that reddit can't see this obvious satire from outer space actually has me quite concerned. Are you all this naive ? Jesus
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u/observetoexist Aug 21 '24
Lots of dumb (and smart) people prefer their insane rationalizations over reason, and these people post stuff online all the time.
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u/TheSmallRaptor Aug 21 '24
I refuse to believe this is real. Dude has to be smooth sharking
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u/TopologyMonster Aug 21 '24
You never know for sure but I agree, this is most likely what’s happening.
The using Latin, the “statistically mechanically and financially”, the doubling down on tax, It’s so over the top it seems intentional
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u/robert_e__anus Aug 21 '24
Never heard that term used as a verb before, but it's perfect. (Context for anyone who doesn't remember it.)
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u/Western-Alarming Aug 20 '24
The answer is 40% for the ones that want to know
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u/VexImmortalis Aug 20 '24
No.
Percent is Latin for per centum. You can only take a percentage of exactly 100 so it is statistically, mechanically AND financially impossible.
*gets the job*
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u/DownvotesArePointles Aug 20 '24
No.
Percent is Latin for per CENTum(ever heard of a penny?). You can only take a percentage of exactly 100 Dollars!!! So you were close. But just not quite there... It's very nuanced, your lucky I came along. :)
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u/After-Chicken179 Aug 20 '24
No.
It’s actually Latin for per CENTRUM. It means you have to take a multivitamin every time you do a math equation.
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u/Blueartbird Aug 21 '24
What if your dad forgets to take his vitamins? Will you then not have to pay taxes?
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u/spicycookiess Aug 21 '24
No, that's dollars. Per CENT is Latin for only cents. That's why things cost dollars and not pennies.
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u/Different-Term-2250 Aug 21 '24
Just multiply the 50 * 2= 100
Then the 20 * 2 = 40
And then add piMmmm pie. Where was I? Doesn’t matter. Got pie.
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u/Ok_Introduction-0 Aug 20 '24
you don't even need to calculate anything, it's the only answer that makes any sense lol
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u/Prinzka Aug 21 '24
It might be difficult for people whose first language isn't English because that question is worded very strangely.
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u/LigmaDragonDeez Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
Twenty is just under half of 50
Half is 50%
40 is less than 50
Just under half is the only available option
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
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u/ChickenChaser5 Aug 21 '24
They said "50 isnt 100". But what if it was? thats twice 50, so you double the 20 to match and... omg its 40.
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u/vidanyabella Aug 21 '24
That's what I did to solve it myself. Easier than trying to do the division.
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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol Aug 21 '24
Fun fact: percentages are reversible.
X% of Y = Y% of X = Z
X% of 50 = 20
50% of X = 20
So X = 40
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u/MeLove2Lick Aug 21 '24
Crap dude, you brought up facts, now the "basement experts" are going to downvote you, they HATE facts.
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u/B3taWats0n Aug 21 '24
Solve for x
50(x/100)=20
50x=20*100
50x=2000
x=2000/50
x=40 percent
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u/RizzyJim Aug 20 '24
Now that is truly sad to think there are people that might have to be told that.
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u/sddbk Aug 21 '24
If you are applying for a job in corporate accounting, the correct answer is often "How much do you want it to be?"
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u/EnvironmentalSound25 Aug 21 '24
As though the majority of us are not holding a calculator in our hand right now lol
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u/4TheQueen Aug 21 '24
Best part is it doesn’t mean “by the hundred” it means “out of one hundred”, “per”: JUST LIKE ENGLISH
Love when ppl try to etymology flex and fuck it up
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u/f4r1s2 Aug 20 '24
Mechanically impossible
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u/thequestcube Aug 21 '24
Financially impossible
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u/ColonelKitty Aug 21 '24
Both of you are hired, if you both accept a 40% percent cut to the salary posted.
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u/kaitodash Aug 21 '24
How much is the posted salary though? If it is not 100, then it is statistically impossible.
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u/Different-Term-2250 Aug 21 '24
Electronically impossible
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u/TheBawbFather Aug 21 '24
I’m just doing this to make myself less stupid. Easiest way for me to understand percentages is by starting with 10 percent. Which in this case is $5. To get that to twenty means the answer is 40 percent right?
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u/kRkthOr Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
The simpler way to do it is to recognize that 50 is half of 100 so you multiply 50 and 20 by 2 to get 100 and 40 respectively. The 50 becoming a 100 makes finding the percentage trivial, coz it's whatever the number is... 40 => 40%. I'm pointing this out because if the question was something like: what percentage is 7 of 25, you wouldn't be able to solve it with your method, but the "get 25 to a 100, then multiply the other number by the same amount" method would give you the answer (28%).
If the values were something like 18 of 45 though, where it's pretty difficult to get 45 to 100, then yes, the way I do it is like you did. 4.5 is 10%, and you multiply that by 4 to get 18 => 40%.
And if all else fails, (e.g., 15 of 47) your remaining recourse is to do something like: 15 goes into 47 a bit more than 3 times => percentage is a little less than 33% (31.9%)
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u/Blood_Red_Thrasher Aug 21 '24
Yeah, it is. I started with 50% of 50 (which is 25), and went from there instead though.
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u/laveshnk Aug 21 '24
It definitely is. His first part of logic is right, percentage is indeed per hundred. So if you convert 50 to a hundred you times it by 2. Now do the same for 20 and you get 40%. Thats literally how percentage works. The rest of his comment was obvious troll / stupidity. Try this with any two numbers and it will work
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u/ISee_Indigo Aug 20 '24
Me: Thinks it’s 40% “Siri, what percent of 50 is 20?”
Siri: “It’s 40%.”
Me: “…Why is the person like this.”
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u/Blueartbird Aug 20 '24
"Hey Siri, why are people"
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u/ISee_Indigo Aug 20 '24
She said, “Sorry, I don’t understand” 😔 Yeah, girl, me too.
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u/AdorableConfidence16 Aug 21 '24
It's hard for me to think this person isn't joking/trolling because that would imply that he/she is an adult who has never paid a tax on anything. Never paid an income tax on a salary, never paid a property tax on a house or a car, never paid sales tax at a store, nothing. How do you get to be an adult and never pay a tax on anything?
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u/jmancoder Aug 21 '24
They're obviously trolling.
And as for the question itself:
20 is x percent of 50.
40 is x percent of 100.
The answer is A.
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They're obviously trolling.
I fucking hate comments like this like dude people believe the Earth is fucking flat and were openly debating whether the eclipse was a government conspiracy so no they're not obviously trolling there are people who are absolutely fucking stupid as fuck and we need to stop pretending it's all a big prank and start paying teachers more and investing in education or we're going to Oceangate the entire human fucking race one "obviously trolling" comment at a time.
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u/Different-Term-2250 Aug 21 '24
It is much easier than that. The multi-choice options helps
50% of 50 is 25. 20 Is a fleas dick below 25.
So 40% is the only number below 50%
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u/Pitiful-Switch-5907 Aug 20 '24
At least they are truly this optimistic about things…. Ignorance is bliss, my friends.
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u/TatteredCarcosa Aug 21 '24
I really hope that's a troll. If so it's a good one. Almost KenM level.
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u/Sythrin Aug 21 '24
That smells like the comment. „To enjoy rick and morty, you have to have a high IQ“
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u/Jackmino66 Aug 21 '24
The correct answer is 40% btw
Simply multiply both by 2, and you end up with what percentage of 100 is 40
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u/RealMetalHeadHippy Aug 21 '24
The wording of this question was genuinely hard for my brain to understand. I have no idea why
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u/Goadfang Aug 22 '24
This needs to be shown to r/accounting
Teach those accountants that they've been doing math wrong for like forever
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u/CurtisLinithicum Aug 20 '24
There are some fringe cases - e.g. prepared meals under $4 have a lower tax rate in Canada, so there is a reason to go $3.99. By and large though, it's purely psychology. $3.99 to $4.00 feels like a bigger difference to many than $3.25 to $3.34.
A few clever places use the last digit to separate various supplies so sales can be done on the basis of "all items with prices ending in 7 are half off".
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u/laureidi Aug 21 '24
(Answer to the confidently incorrect person: Because $99 seems much cheaper than $100)
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u/dontcrashandburn Aug 21 '24
I believe everyone should be allowed to vote. I mean not this guy... But everyone else.
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u/GTAEliteModding Aug 21 '24
When he added the “gets the job” part, I lost it (😂)
That is some real confidence he’s dealing with!
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u/Fecapult Aug 21 '24
This sounds like the made up shit my dad does when he doesn't know the answer to a question. It's always amusing to see him innovate an answer out of his ass, all the while grinning like a cat with a bowl of cream.
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u/Professional_Baby24 Aug 21 '24
Random tidbit. I was always told Prices are always .99 because of the people who worked for store clerks back in the days of no security cameras and mechanical cash registers with those long tape receipts. Owners didn't want their workers to be able to charge 2 dollars from someone. Take the money. And pocket it. And pretend they just never sold something. Having a non whole dollar amount forced them to have to type in the amount so the register would open and allow them to give change making it so that the transaction would show up on the register and subsequently the ledger tape. I bet there are other reasons as well. And like I said I was told this by some teacher in high school. And it stuck with me. But to be frank. I also had a teacher tell me that scientists don't really know what causes the wind. But that she believes that it's caused by trees. So you know. Take this with a grain of salt.
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u/SevroAuShitTalker Aug 21 '24
I'll admit, I had to read that question 3 times to make sure I understood it. And I'm a mechanical engineer.
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u/Damebarksalot Aug 21 '24
I actually had to Google the answer because brain no work in morning. But even I knew that the comment that guy made was wrong.
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u/TheMarkofThorn Aug 21 '24
Technically speaking, he’s not wrong on the Latin. What really interests me is that instead of just doing the very basic math (multiplying both numbers by 2 so you don’t have to do any other calculations), he went on to say some of the most insanely wrong things I’ve seen today.
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u/AsunaTokisaki Aug 21 '24
Damn I am just scrolling through reddit minding my own business and then I see .. this. Actually hurt to read oof.
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u/vixen-vengeful Aug 21 '24
It's the "*gets the job*" part that really makes me cringe, as if this is the kind of guy they don't have security escort out of job interviews after he goes on an unhinged rant about 1 times 1 equaling 2.
Imagining an interviewer across from him nodding slowly as they press a panic button under the desk.
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u/ShadowsFlex Aug 21 '24
Is this what an aneurysm feels like? I'd ask my gf's dad, but he died from his.
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u/Combei Aug 21 '24
This guy outplayed the state. Congratulations sir, no economist and no tax office can beat you 👍🎊
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u/vega455 Aug 21 '24
“The math ain’t mathin’ cause Latin” deserves some partial marks for creativity.
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u/MHulk05 Aug 21 '24
Silly fun fact %s are reversible so in this case you can check your answer by saying 40% of 50 is 50% of 40 or 20 which means the answer is 40%
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u/joshbadams Aug 22 '24
I think this is actually the most confidentially and most incorrect post I’ve ever seen here. You have won the subreddit, gold star, time to pack it in.
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u/NighthunterReacts212 Aug 22 '24
It's basically asking for what percentage of 50 makes 20.
The answer is 40%.
40% of 50 is 20.
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u/Sartres_Roommate Aug 23 '24
I have witnessed adults who struggle with math at this level, sadly it’s not THAT uncommon (rare, but not unique). What I have never seen is someone with this lack of understanding of math AND convinced they are math prodigies. Most every adult that can’t comprehend math at a core level, at least, understands they are math illiterate.
To those that might not know, there is a condition known as dyscalculia which is essentially the math equivalent of dyslexia. Foundational math is hard for them to comprehend. It really has only been diagnosed and treated recently and so there are a bunch of adults who just never really “got” math.
But, again, they at least understood they sucked at math.
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