How to explain to Americans: If You remove 3 bullets out of an Gen 4 Glock 26 9mm 12-Round magazine, that’s 1/4. If you remove 4 bullets, that’s 1/3. The police can shoot one more unarmed black man with 1/3 of the magazine than 1/4.
No, the poor Americans will be confused by the inversion.
First removing 1/3 (4 rounds) from a 12 round magazine leaving 2/3 (8 rounds) left … then switching to talking about how a 1/3 full magazine with its 4 rounds has more rounds left than the 1/4 mag with 3 rounds.
They won’t be able to catch on, and are likely to respond with something along the lines of “But the one you took 1/3 out of has just 8 rounds left, and the 1/4 one has 9 rounds left, which is more. The 1/4 one is more.”
Since you didn’t get it, you can cut a cake visually and have it make sense where you can’t with burgers.
Cut a cake into 4 pieces, another cake into 3 pieces, the cake with 4 pieces, each piece is a 1/4 piece, the other cake for 3 and 1/3, which is bigger?
Yeah, when I talk as I normally do to people they don’t understand me so I need to get on their level most of the time and that pisses me off because it really doesn’t take much effort to have a decent vocabulary and a basic understanding of how the world works so I end up being bitter, misanthropic and sarcastic nearly all of the time.
80% of my life I feel like wherever I go I’m talking to stubborn, self-important children who think anything they don’t understand cannot exist.
And it’s been that way for more than 4 decades now, so yeah, I talk down to people a lot because most of the time that’s all you understand.
You have to respect that people are smart in different ways. The human mind has to spend its time doing something.
Likely the people you meet have completely tangential interests to yours and so you don’t notice their intelligence, but there will always be a topic that someone else is expert in to which you are a novice in.
The key is to bridge those small interest overlaps by finding a common vocabulary that you can use as a basis for examples. If you truly understand a topic, you should be able to create digestible examples for it.
Refusing to compromise on this is more a sign of immaturity and insecurity, than a consolidation of your intellect.
You have to respect that people are smart in different ways.
Yes, Drumpf is an idiot for everything except manipulating people. Should I ‘respect’ his ability to literally get away consequence free with *Gestures wildly at EVERYTHING*
so you don’t notice their intelligence,
No, most people are idiots through and through, some people have self-improving interests and hobbies that gives them greater breadth of though, but I’d argue that’s less than 20% of the population.
Most people have a calcified worldview built from things their families and friends tell them with very little self-examination that they are STUBBORNLY resistant to shedding, and will ghost family instead of addressing their internal conflicts.
Look I get you have a positive view of humanity and at one point so did I but I cannot stress to you the importance of the fact that 60-70% of the population are basically just children that refuse to leave the Concrete Operational mode.
I hear where you’re coming from, and though the voting habits of my peers does cause me a lot of passive grief – I noticed that actively, the people that one would pigeonhole as “fascist” in the binary political groups we now seem to operate under, are just as there for me in times of need and have many overlapping interests as my more progressive peers.
Ultimately what I’m saying I think is, there will always be monstrous outliers who will enact harm on society and empower the worst aspects in everyone by example alone, but I think there will always be many more generally decent people who look after one another and keep this (*gestures wildly at everything*) going, despite these few bad actors.
As for accountability, I wholeheartedly agree that these bad actors should face their just dues, but I’m not going to set myself up for failure by staking my entire world outlook on it when those at the top barely get a tap on the wrist. The world is unjust, but it’s also full of many wonderful people.
How to explain to Americans: If You remove 3 bullets out of an Gen 4 Glock 26 9mm 12-Round magazine, that’s 1/4. If you remove 4 bullets, that’s 1/3. The police can shoot one more unarmed black man with 1/3 of the magazine than 1/4.
That… Is a very morbid, yet perfect example.
No, the poor Americans will be confused by the inversion.
First removing 1/3 (4 rounds) from a 12 round magazine leaving 2/3 (8 rounds) left … then switching to talking about how a 1/3 full magazine with its 4 rounds has more rounds left than the 1/4 mag with 3 rounds.
They won’t be able to catch on, and are likely to respond with something along the lines of “But the one you took 1/3 out of has just 8 rounds left, and the 1/4 one has 9 rounds left, which is more. The 1/4 one is more.”
Never used an imperial socket set, and it shows.
The cake analogy is better and still appeals to Americans because it is cake.
Yeah but they already failed with the burger analogy. And it’s a burger.
Since you didn’t get it, you can cut a cake visually and have it make sense where you can’t with burgers.
Cut a cake into 4 pieces, another cake into 3 pieces, the cake with 4 pieces, each piece is a 1/4 piece, the other cake for 3 and 1/3, which is bigger?
It’s easy so I’m confused why you didn’t get it.
You have a real talent for talking down to people
Yeah, when I talk as I normally do to people they don’t understand me so I need to get on their level most of the time and that pisses me off because it really doesn’t take much effort to have a decent vocabulary and a basic understanding of how the world works so I end up being bitter, misanthropic and sarcastic nearly all of the time.
80% of my life I feel like wherever I go I’m talking to stubborn, self-important children who think anything they don’t understand cannot exist.
And it’s been that way for more than 4 decades now, so yeah, I talk down to people a lot because most of the time that’s all you understand.
You have to respect that people are smart in different ways. The human mind has to spend its time doing something.
Likely the people you meet have completely tangential interests to yours and so you don’t notice their intelligence, but there will always be a topic that someone else is expert in to which you are a novice in.
The key is to bridge those small interest overlaps by finding a common vocabulary that you can use as a basis for examples. If you truly understand a topic, you should be able to create digestible examples for it.
Refusing to compromise on this is more a sign of immaturity and insecurity, than a consolidation of your intellect.
Yes, Drumpf is an idiot for everything except manipulating people. Should I ‘respect’ his ability to literally get away consequence free with *Gestures wildly at EVERYTHING*
No, most people are idiots through and through, some people have self-improving interests and hobbies that gives them greater breadth of though, but I’d argue that’s less than 20% of the population.
Most people have a calcified worldview built from things their families and friends tell them with very little self-examination that they are STUBBORNLY resistant to shedding, and will ghost family instead of addressing their internal conflicts.
Look I get you have a positive view of humanity and at one point so did I but I cannot stress to you the importance of the fact that 60-70% of the population are basically just children that refuse to leave the Concrete Operational mode.
I hear where you’re coming from, and though the voting habits of my peers does cause me a lot of passive grief – I noticed that actively, the people that one would pigeonhole as “fascist” in the binary political groups we now seem to operate under, are just as there for me in times of need and have many overlapping interests as my more progressive peers.
Ultimately what I’m saying I think is, there will always be monstrous outliers who will enact harm on society and empower the worst aspects in everyone by example alone, but I think there will always be many more generally decent people who look after one another and keep this (*gestures wildly at everything*) going, despite these few bad actors.
As for accountability, I wholeheartedly agree that these bad actors should face their just dues, but I’m not going to set myself up for failure by staking my entire world outlook on it when those at the top barely get a tap on the wrist. The world is unjust, but it’s also full of many wonderful people.
Believe it or not I don’t need the concept of fractions explaining to me by a self-important arse.
Statistically, most Americans do.
To be fair everybody likes cake. Even if pie is better.
Good pie is better than the best cake, but mediocre pies are worse than mediocre cake. A conundrum.
No it’s not, it’s just the cake quality distribution is small and lies within the large pie quality distribution
I kind of love you now for putting this chart together
Heh, time well spent ;-)
The cake is a lie.
No, they can’t. They need 3-4 full magazines to hit once.
How do you take a round… out? Is this like where I shoot in the air for holidays or gender reveal parties?
No, that’s dangerous. You shoot toward the poor end of town, not just anywhere.
Dude WTF?!
Sometimes (unfairly) other white people are poor!