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The Third-of-a-Pound Burger flop

"Ah, fractions. Who needs 'em? Not burger devotees. According to Canadian news outlet CBC, the famous McDonald's Quarter Pounder burger once had a larger cousin, the Third-of-a-Pound Burger...."

That's why it's a bad idea to argue online.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/
#math #fractions #doTheMath #EllieKPosts

Ejagfest 2024 - I was there! And it was great! Good vibes only, so many nice people. Was amazing to meet Carl Forhan from Songbird in person, got to shake hands with Ian McCranor who played Angus in Kasumi Ninja, had a look at the final version of Jumping at Shadows, played Tempest 2000 on an old Jag kiosk unit ... so much nerdy fun in one day. Wow. Cheers everyone, have a splendid weekend as well! 🎉🍻

#atari #atarijaguar #retrogaming #gaming #convention #dothemath #gamingevent

@dougiec3 ………
call me sceptical but Harris is female, she is not white and is running for office in a country called the USA. #dothemath. #provemewrongplease. #fingerscrossed

@dougiec3 ………
call me sceptical but Harris is female, she is not white and is running for office in a country called the USA. #dothemath. #provemewrongplease. #fingerscrossed

@dougiec3 ………
call me sceptical but Harris is female, she is not white and is running for office in a country called the USA. #dothemath. #provemewrongplease. #fingerscrossed

A Random Fix to Polarization

Fixing polarization, therefore, must involve fixing the nomination process. To do this, we need to allow centrist voices to speak. That only happens if we bring down the artificial partition dividing the primary process, cleaving centrists into two non-interacting camps.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/11/a-random-fix-to-polarization/

Tom Murphy is playing on ideas I'd first encountered in this classic and excellent 2014 Aeon essay, "If you can’t choose wisely, choose randomly", addressing sortition and its uses, by Michael Schulson:

https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-randomly

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34682741

#TomMurphy #DoTheMath #Sortition #Politics #Elections #ElectoralProcess

#OnThisDay in 1892 #JRRTolkien was born. He died in 1973 at the age of 81, leaving many #ConspiracyTheorists to conclude that he was “murdered” by the COVID vaccine. They’ll be presenting proof of this “very soon”.

Also #OnThisDay in 1967 #JackRuby died of cancer, which some #ConspiracyTheorists say is #Illuminati-speak for #COVID vaccine murder juice.

It’s also why #Obama proposed #GunControl #OTD in 2014. #DoTheMath

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#OnThisDay in 1892 #JRRTolkien was born. He died in 1973 at the age of 81, leaving many #ConspiracyTheorists to conclude that he was “murdered” by the COVID vaccine. They’ll be presenting proof of this “very soon”.

Also #OnThisDay in 1967 #JackRuby died of cancer, which some #ConspiracyTheorists say is #Illuminati-speak for #COVID vaccine murder juice.

It’s also why #Obama proposed #GunControl #OTD in 2014. #DoTheMath

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