Melkath

Do you know what a business is?

Gut shot, I’d say it reads as mooch behavior.

When I was a sophomore in high school, my friends liked to hang out in a place called Coffee Talk.

It was this home that was never demolished in an area that long before was redistricted as industrial.

I’d go along. I had no money.

It was a cool cozy place to be and I enjoyed chilling there with the company of my friends.

They had a little money.

None of us were inclined to caffeine (the thrust of the revenue of a business called Coffee Talk).

Regularly, the crew would file in and would buy a 5 dollar red bull each that usually wasn’t even opened, and then chill for HOURS.

I went through similar conversations. Most stressing “I feel the need to buy an extra drink to make up for you being here, and I don’t particularly like paying your way.”

Coffee Talk wasn’t a youth center. It wasn’t a YMCA. It was a crew of about 7 working hard to host a cozy chill spot funded by coffee sales with an open mic stage to resist this landmark being demolished and turned into annex parking for one of the neighboring office buildings.

My ass dirtied the seats. I disheveled the board game room many times.

I hadn’t yet learned to have the situational awareness to see the difference between hanging at home, or at school, or at Coffee Talk.

A big part of me getting my first job was so I could pick up an “antique” from Coffee Talk for 5 to 12 bucks since I had no desire to purchase a coffee from Coffee Talk, but i wanted to be at Coffee Talk with my friends, and it was a business, not a community center funded as charity by a mysterious benefactor.

So… you can be a mooch, but your group doesn’t want to be told to fuck off because they are taking more than they are giving, so you risk getting dropped off the invites.

Hawaii did it first with the Toas-tite.

I’m sure there is lineage of this uncrustable type of sandwich that predates the Toas-tite.

Doesn’t mean I don’t want to eat it.

Please.

Share your interesting assertions.

Mine on Kbin as of late are “The Democrat party is MUCH further right than it was when I was a Democrat. The Republican party is just straight up jerking off and fucking all of humanity as hard as possible by default. The 2 party system has failed. A Left leaning liberal has noone to vote for in 2023 America. Closest is Bernie, but he kissed the ring and lost for it.”

What is your interesting assertion that sees the forest for the trees?

Yes… that is how civil wars occur… Fed vs alternative government…

gentle fist bump

I am sure at least a few times over 12 years of education I was told they are Arabic numerals.

One of those times was probably minutes after my history teacher said “go to Mexico and look at the street signs, same numbers. Go to China and look at the street signs, different letters same numbers. Go to Sweden. You have no idea what the words are but you know the numbers. Go to Japan. You are lost, nothing is familiar, you don’t understand any of the words, written or spoken. You thought you knew how to kind of quietly read the nonverbal language and not be a jerk, but you will always be the jerk in Japan… bit you understand the numbers…”

I was just a typical American, selectively listened, got my diploma anyway though.

Good thread. Giving me shit to contemplate and shit.

When it’s politics and I’m confident in my position, I can be a raging asshole while asserting my position.

When it is something I am straight up cut and dry wrong about and its an opportunity to learn, I try to learn.

Middle-old American here.

I was taught “numbers” and Roman Numerals.

Post high school (largely because I work with data for a living) I have been exposed to the concept that there are a wide variety of numeral systems out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numeral_systems

When responding to the prompt, I was thinking something to the effect of the first table on that wiki page and went “nah, Americans struggle hard enough with basic English Numerals, adding other numeral systems would be a complete nightmare.” Not because I’m racist, because I’m simple dumb.

Little did I know my American public education in the 90s/00s ass I was stepping into a “dangers of dihydrogen monoxide” trap.

Great example of “don’t attribute to malice what can be attributed to simple ignorance.”

That might be the narrative its going for, but I don’t think its a good example.

Pointing out that people are dumb (like me) and that they dont know that English speaking countries use Non-Eastern Arabic Numerals, that might be something.

Calling that racism is just lazy and misleading.

Yes, and as I just learned EASTERN Arabic numerals are a horse of a completely different color.

Its a good trick question.

English speakers are going to look for “English/British/UK” for the name of the characters they use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals

They are going to think that when you say Arabic, it means this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals

I’m learning on this thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals

I misinterpreted my quick Google and thought Eastern Arabic Numerals were Arabic Numerals.

Then I googled “British Numerals” to find the proper name and Google told me the proper name was English Numerals.

Thanks for the clarification. It looks like my google glance was too sloppy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals

My glance lead me to believe these are Arabic numerals but they are EASTERN Arabic Numerals.

Ya, I don’t understand the point here.

Is the context asking if jr high/high school language classes for languages that use Arabic Numerals should be banned?

Or is the context asking if grade school students should be taught all the different numerals of the world?

Or is the context asking if just English/Roman/Arabic numerals should be taught?

etc.

All of these questions have different answers…

Reminds me of Democrat primary debate where right before (or after… was a while ago, dont remember which) TARP was released to pump hundreds of billions of dollars straight into CEO’s pockets because it was going to “trickle down” and fix the economy (the actual issue was the sub prime mortgage trade in wall street), Hilary was quoted as saying “I was the Senator for New York when all that went down, and I personally went to Wall Street and told them ‘Hey! Stop it!’” They, in fact, did not stop it.

Also, dont forget, they have been caught a few times now rounding up civilians, shaming/torturing them as terrorists, claiming they are terrorists, then it turns out they were just normal civilians rounded up like cattle.

So far as I can tell… you rite.

But if they did that, how would Biden subsidize the military industrial complex by giving billions and billions of dollars to Israel so they can buy American weapons and ammunition to continue the same oppressive slaughter of Palestine?

The guns and ammunition need to be spent on someone, might as well be spent on the brown people half the world away, like every American “war” after the Civil one.

And just to note, this abject dependence on the military industrial complex to enrich the 1% has not caused a consistent and constant slide to the right of the entire US Federal government. All 2 sides.

And we couldn’t have done this for Ukraine at the same level because if we did, we wouldn’t be within sucking distance of Putin’s tiny shriveled peen.

/s

Remember, Infosys doesn’t do anything in the hours they bill for.

They just bill hours. That is their business commodity. Poor Indians sitting in meetings, accomplishing nothing, and billing for the hours spent in the meetings.

So you agree.

Masks and social distancing saves lives from not only covid, but from a series of other similar pathogens.

The concealment of covid data that began about a year ago to hide the truth.