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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Honestly, the rabid part of the fuck cars crowd are letting perfect become the enemy of good enough for now. The sort of thing they want could never stand a chance of happening. Not anytime soon, not under this breed of capitalism where corporations have a say in the government.

    EVs are good enough to slow down emissions to the point where maybe our descendants will have enough time to shift public opinion and get rid of cars entirely. Until then, cars are going to stick around, best thing to do is compromise for now, and use the time bought to have a chance of getting everything you want later.





  • Actively wrong.

    PE(MD)(AS).

    Parenthesis comes first, do everything in each of them as though they were a whole equation to themselves.

    8/2(2+2) = 8/2(4)

    Then you do your exponents. The equation doesn’t have any, so we can go ahead and skip those.

    Multiplication and division are the same operation, just flipped around, so you go left to right and do those as you come across them. A number next to a parenthesis means multiplication, so to simplify:

    8/2(4) = 8/2x4

    8/2x4 = 4x4

    4x4 = 16

    Addition and subtraction don’t have any weird effects on the outcomes of each other, so you go left to right and do them as they come up. This equation has no more addition or subtraction to do, so we can consider what we have left our answer.

    Therefore: 8/2(2+2)=16

    This is straight from the textbook. You are wrong, and so are your purpose-built calculators.

    EDIT: Replaced * with x to avoid italicising.