• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    You can stop humoring this broken robot. Especially when the context is ‘yeah I already said this textbook is wrong, but I am better than you because you need to read this textbook.’

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      They seem to believe that and on the 8th day God made the one true objective order of operations that all humans use and agree on.

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        Except for that time the definition of division changed 130 years ago. Which is not a rule! It’s notation, or syntax, or possibly sometimes a rule. Whichever one lets them sneer hardest.

        I tried explaining RPN to them a year ago. They still insist there’s parentheses in it. Today they called it an “app.”

        Dogmatic patience vampire is still trying to bait me into further wasted effort.

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            Oh of course. The sky isn’t blue unless that’s written in a maths textbook.

            And if you look up and see stars, it’s still blue, because it’s written in a maths textbook! Are you saying a teacher could be wrong?!, smug emoji, crying emoji, roll-eyes emoji?