Guest Post by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
2 + 2 = imperialism
Making its rounds on Twitter is a Tweet stating: “Nope the idea of 2 + 2 equalling 4 is cultural, and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing.”
You might think this is a troll, intentionally causing controversy while remaining anonymous. No one could seriously believe this, right?
But this is an actual PhD student specializing in mathematics education. She is even listed on Rutgers’ PhD student directory.
In fact, she already has a Master’s Degree in architecture… but I’m not sure you would want to go into any buildings she has designed, just in case she thinks structural integrity is another imperialist lie.
This is how far the Bolshevik worldview has reached. You’d expect this from an underwater-basket-weaving major. After all, colleges are the bastion of the Marxists.
But this is math. And she is part of the next generation of instructors and educators.
Maybe it’s time to start rethinking the value of a degree.
Click here for the Twitter thread.
University hiring professors, but men need not apply
Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands figured out a great way to boost its numbers of female professors.
The university simply banned all men from applying for the jobs.
The university said that for an 18 month period, it will not accept applications from men seeking academic jobs.
It also offered women a €100,000 bonus which could be used towards their own research.
Over 50 people complained to the Dutch human rights council.
Shockingly, the council actually agreed that this was unacceptable sexism and ruled against the university.
But the council doesn’t actually have any judicial authority.
And the President of the university said, “Our commitment to this very important cause is unchanged.”
Click here to read the full story.
British man convicted for drinking carrot juice from a beer can
A British man was angry about open container laws in his town, so he filled a beer can with carrot juice, and walked around downtown.
As expected, he was cited by police, and given a ticket for drinking alcohol in public.
But challenging the ticket in court, the case was dismissed since he hadn’t actually been caught with alcohol in public.
You’d think it would end there. Man hassles town, town hassles man, and we’re done.
But the town decided this case was important enough to appeal the court’s decision.
After going back to court and arguing why drinking carrot juice out of a beer can should be enough for an open container ticket, the defiant man lost the case. He will be forced to pay the fine.
This was a two year legal battle at the taxpayers’ expense, for drinking carrot juice out of a beer can.
Clearly the man was just trying to troll the town government.
But who is more ridiculous– one guy with a bone to pick, or a town that spent two years prosecuting a man for drinking carrot juice, just to prove who’s really in charge?
Click here to read the full story.
Spain called. They want their statues back
The Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya has reached out to local, state, and federal authorities in the US.
She’s concerned about some statues of Spanish colonizers that have been targeted for toppling and vandalization by protesters.
For instance, the statue of a Spanish priest was torn down in Sacramento last Saturday. And we talked about the vandalism of the statue of Miguel Cervantes, the Spanish author of Don Quixote who was actually held as a slave himself.
González Laya said that if the US doesn’t want these statues, the least they could do is send them back to Spain.
Spain would even take Columbus statues, since even though he was Italian, his exploration was funded by Spain.
Click here to read the full story.
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OK – I have the advanced degrees in engineering / chem / physics / comp sci.
You can say 2 + 2 = 5 because 5 is just a symbol. We could interchange 4 for 5 – and could count: 1 2 3 5 4 6 7…
It really doesn’t matter about the symbol. However there is a consensus in the entire world of the symbols we use in mathematics. Five is the number of fingers on your hand, two hands, 10 digits – therefore we use the decimal system. This is called ‘base 10’.
Making 2 + 2 = 5 is just a redefinition. It doesn’t matter to a dumb nigger. He still has to memorize a symbol. You can’t legislate intelligence.
Maff be so hart fo me to lurn.
Maff be so rayssiss, muthafukka.
Oh Yeah? 10,9,8,7,6 (fingers on one hand) plus 5 (on the other) equals 11! The Emperor has no cloths!
Reality is a racist construct! The future is a place called nowhere (for all of us).
Sincerely,
Charles Fire(sign) Theatre
P.S. Enjoy your stay.
11 If you count your dick. Besides that, you can’t count zero. Zero was an invention – I think the Arabs invented the zero. After that, they had no relevant contribution to society.
My question to you: are you a nigger?
I thought you were a math whiz! What about the place marker of Zero and the topology of a place called nowhere? Do you even understand what you are talking about? There is an answer to my question, but you don’t know what it is, do you!
PS. It takes one to know one.
Supposedly, they stole it from Hindus.
HA!HA!HA!HA! HAH!
You pseudo-intellectual empty sail of a Dutchman! You do your countrymen a disservice! The Arabs may have reported it, but nobody INVENTED zero. It already existed. Like the stars and the mathematics they describe, there is an underlying relationship which can be codified and manipulated. Or are you still doing long division by Roman Numerals? You write like a math supremacist, strutting your hegemony on the TBP stage , with no reverence for arithmetic, let alone numerology or topology.
Yes I AM a nigger! Although ostensibly white, my DNA shows 3% contribution from SE Africa and I bear the distinction proudly. It’s called HETEROGENEITY in animal husbandry and HYBRID VIGOR in botany. How about you? Is your pedigree as lily-white as those of other pure bread lines, like Pit Bull, German Shepard, Irish Setter or You Name It? That’s called INBREEDING and is enough to give the arrogance of the white race a bad name! Or haven’t you been paying attention to the dissolution of the Children of the Enlightenment? If you care to educate yourself, first try not to hit every body over the head with your big brain; then read this:
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
And don’t provoke me with your ignorant racism, otherwise I might have to switch allegiances and cheer on my (distant) relatives who are out for justice!
Charles Fire(sign) Theatre, III
Theatre impresario, Self-made Man, Indian Fighter
“Is your pedigree as lily-white as those of other pure bread lines, like Pit Bull, German Shepard,…”
-Chuck Fire
Well Chuck, Mr. CHEKA doesn’t know anything about your vigor, vitality or verve, but from your writing I must conclude that you certainly are a more arrogant and ignorant “nigger” than you give yourself credit for being. Also; use a dictionary, please. The one sentence fragment quoted is quite literally like something one might see from a Baltimorgue hi skool valedictorian.
– pure “bred” lines.
– German “shepherd”.
Proper English, grammar, and spelling is almost as hard as maff.
Are you by any chance from Baltimorgue or Camden?
Dea’ Massa CHEKA,
Is yu da po lese or is yo jus up on yo hyne leg?
I haven’t been on this site for about 5 or more years, and each time I’ve tried to make a contribution. How about you? Are you like Dutchman and all the other trolls that inhabit the comments section, not into collaboration, just triumphalism by making others wrong? Be a contributor or be gone! My spelling is from the heart; yours is from the school room and it’s subtracting from the common weal.
Chuck Fire
Pedant Fighter
PS. Y’u a racist fault-finder, Honky
Even your aunt Shirley Q. Liquor knows you be one ignunt nigga.
Not rayssiss, CHuck; just discriminating.
Dear Mr. Decider,
Oh, sorry, I granted you a common courtesy that comes second nature up here, in Canada (eh!): civility. Did I spell it well enough so that you can understand me? If not, I’m not surprised; your allusion to discrimination as being equivalent to bigotry does not impress me. You see, I live in Western Canada, above where Western Americans live, and we not only respect, but love each other! I live on a fresh water lake and can’t remember the last time I saw a Negro but that doesn’t matter: we live in harmony here and the only discrimination required of me is to apportion my precious time away from the Care of the Land to try and educate losers like you.
I’ve come across this before on TBP: ignorant, self-absorbed, accusatory friggin’ know-it-alls who use their anonymity to judge me and put me in my place. But I am in a place of peace, harmony and collaboration. Blacks are not threatening to burn my country down, like they are yours. Do you really think you can ignite a race war and win it through big talk from your little root cellar? We have a saying up here, in Canada: ” when you point the finger of blame, there are three fingers pointing back at you”. You’ve made your bed Karen, now lie about it!
Charles Percival Fire(sign) Theatre
PS. Remember the original conundrum I posed? Respond only if you can answer it. Otherwise, you know where to go.
What makes a statement like this even more ironic is that most fundamental mathematical concepts were developed by Indians between the 8th and 10th centuries. Our system of 10 digits (Arabs borrowed them from the Indians and Europe borrowed them from the Arabs, thus the misnomer “Arabic numerals”), placeholder zero values, the decimal fraction, concept of infinity etc are all first attributed to Indians.
Western Civilization – i.e., the Greeks – developed Geometry and via Alexander’s conquests exported the base 10 number system to large parts of the world, which up to then had used a hexadecimal number system based on 5, 12, and 60 and is why we still refer to a dozen of something.
You must speak in Ebonics for them to understand
Auntie just loves the “New Maff” – – Evil Fucker approved.
Time to Purge the Leftist before they do any more damage.
It was only a matter of time. Black people overall do not do well in math classes or math dependent majors. The obvious answer is to declare math racist and eradicate math from schools.
Eradicate the Math? Math is not the problem anywhere in America; eradicate the actual problem!
Breaking News!!
Bank of America is now so woke they are running a special. For every black person that deposits $2 their account will reflect $5.
When CNN interviewed their Sr. VP and asked where they will get the money they said “every white person is racist, will always be racist no matter what, so every $5 dollars a white has they will reduce it to $2. The difference shall go to blacks.”
Then a black giy walking by said “that ain’t enough”. And when thenSr VP of Bank of America asked the man what would be he said, “all white people should die or kill themselves”. Then he was asked if that were enough and he said no. What else? “ They need to suffer a lot before they die. They cannot die to fast “.
Will that be enough? No
What else. When we blacks fail we will still blame all the dead whites. Will that be enough? No. It will never be enough…..
Get it through your thick assed skulls. It will never be enough.
This phd student must be from the Miles Mathis school of arithmetic, as he believes Pi = 4.
……..and the 2 + 2 mathematician was,you guessed it,FEMALE.