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[–] 154 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Just wait until they find out public schools are giving their children dihydrogen monoxide without asking for parental approval.

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Found in acid rain and cancer cells.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The most dangerous substance in our modern world

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Literally everyone who consumed it ends up dying.

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    [–] 100 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    LVII percent of people are morons.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    but why? you'll still measure things in football fields, elephants or "large boulders" so it won't affect you much

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    A base-12 metric system would be absolutely gorgeous. Geometry and trigonometry would be greatly simplified with a duodecimal unit circle. Our 360-degree circle is a truly ugly hack to make geometry play nice with a decimal number system.

    Our base-10 number system would be as ugly to a duodecimal society as a base-7 system would be to us.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Well you heard them. American numbers only from now on.

    Get learning, kids.

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    It's America, we count shit in stars and stripes.

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    [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gotcha questions like this (eg "should we ban dihydromonoxide") are supposed to show us not to jump to conclusions, but I'm guessing the people voting no on this one aren't taking much away from it

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (7 children)
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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you want to tell them, or should i?

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    You're joking, but give it a few months to a year.

    This will be a republican talking point for doing away with public schools.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    To be fair the system is hindu arabic.

    Closer to hindu १२३ than arabic ١٢٣

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    We, a Christian nation, should instead teach Church Numerals like GOD INTENDED! (/s)

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    …ucking stupid

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    In fairness the question is open to interpretation. They don't specify if they mean western or eastern Arabic numerals.

    As schools in the west already teach western, the people responding could justifiably deduce that the question is referring to eastern.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Imperial mesure and Roman numerals fits good in this dystopic redneck country

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Someone should tell them...

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Fucking idiots...

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Roman numerals only!

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Apparently they call it "Hindu-Arabic" numbers now. Not sure if that makes it more or less frightening

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago
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    Well there's always Roman to fall back to

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