I just created another account on piefed, because someone said it had repost deduplication. I still browse using both, but the other shows up a newb.

Maybe we could set up a battle royale; tell them the side that wins gets all of the other sides’ paramilitary equipment.

I’ll bite.

Rather than go and look it up, which would ironically probably be less effort than asking this question: what’s Beksińskian art?

Or maintain a repos. Which would force people to create an account on one of the free VCS servers, pay for an account on a non-free one, or run their own.

He also never, ever let anyone into the factory (until the events in the book), so public safety concerns weren’t an issue.

Now, the Oompa Loompas… they’re not naturally sterile, because they’re wearing clean suits later, but it could be that they are more buoyant so their safety if they fall in is less of an issue.

Wonka has magical technology. He’s probably perfectly sterilizing the chocolate later in the process.

Yes! Augustus fell in; he didn’t intentionally go swimming in it.

In a fight between NYC and LA cops, who would win?

If it doesn’t work, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

I’ll be back.

Esperanto is going to be in the lower left somewhere.

The issue with the graph isn’t the contents, it’s the axes. What’s “objectively easy” for Europeans is not necessarily objectively easy for Asians.

I was trying to figure out how you came up with this - even given that you’re reh learning math - and thought “oh, maybe their native language is read right to left, so 1 + 1 = 2, and 10 - 2 = 8.” But then doing that you’d also go “1 - 1 = 0, and 10 - 0 = 0,” so I honestly don’t know how you’re getting there.

And then I thought, “maybe they think subtraction comes first”, but then (10 - 1) + 1 is 10, and (10 - 1) - 1 is 8.

I can’t think of any consistent rules that would produce this. You’d have to do:

1. 10 - (1 + 1), and
2. (10 - 1) - 1

I’m really curious about your thought process.

Incidentally, my wife was home schooled except her mother didn’t participate, so she never learned anything beyond basic addition and subtraction, and the single digit multiplication table. When she finally went for her GED she was in her 20’s, and we spent many, many hours together tutoring.

So, you’re getting a lot of negative reactions, but don’t let it get you down. Keep up with it; it’s valuable to learn.

BTW, my wife eventually graduated Summa Cum Laude in both her Bachelor’s and her Master’s degrees - non-STEM, so algebra was all she needed, but she fought hard for that 4.0, and she got it.

Sanskrit is so interesting, and an unusual one! It reminds me that I haven’t seen anyone mention Latin yet, which is odd because it’s relatively more common and you’d expect some lawyers and doctors on Lemmy.

I use Esperanto as my utility counting language, and I usually count in dozenal (with help-words for 10 & 11). Any time I’m doing any activity requiring me to tally, it’s usually also mind-numbingly dull so adding mental gymnastics helps. Do you ever use Sanskrit this way? I think I would, if I knew any Sanskrit.