let me put this in terms you can fucking understand. our toddler, Falco Mewtwo Martinez, “wavedashed” straight into a “stage hazard” because you weren’t fucking watching him.
I love this image so much yet I will never know the source. I think about this image every day, but I will never know who fatefuly decided to water their vaporeon. this image, it pains me.
Omg wait
I have absolutely no idea where I got this image but these have GOT to be related
Words were exchanged between friends – the house of human companionship was established in secret – eons passed – eons passed – eons passed – eons passed
tbh hatewatching is such an alien concept to me, i can barely be bothered to watch the things i do want to watch why would i bother looking at something i know i won’t like
why did germanic peoples like migrating so much back in the day I feel like the history of other parts of europe is like “and then this germanic ethnic group came over” every few hundred or thousand years
they were trying to get to ohio so they could create the Sbarro franchise to sell stale pizza and breadsticks in mall foodcourts, they don’t do it anymore because they made it to ohio and created the Sbarro franchise to sell stale pizza and breadsticks in mall foodcourts
In the remote Arctic almost 30 years ago, a group of Inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the Western Hemisphere’s first new number system in more than a century. The “Kaktovik numerals,” named after the Alaskan village where they were created, looked utterly different from decimal system numerals and functioned differently, too. But they were uniquely suited for quick, visual arithmetic using the traditional Inuit oral counting system, and they swiftly spread throughout the region. Now, with support from Silicon Valley, they will soon be available on smartphones and computers—creating a bridge for the Kaktovik numerals to cross into the digital realm.
Today’s numerical world is dominated by the Hindu-Arabic decimal system. This system, adopted by almost every society, is what many people think of as “numbers”—values expressed in a written form using the digits 0 through 9. But meaningful alternatives exist, and they are as varied as the cultures they belong to.
This is so cool. I’ve never seen a number system other than the standard 123′s and the Roman Numerals, and I love how logical this is! It works so well! I can only imagine how much easier it would be for kids to learn math when the answers are right there in front of you like that.
I hadn’t thought much about how a system that’s not base-10 would work, when it comes to comparing the big numbers, and it threw me that instead of the “10s, 100s, and 1000s” you get “20s, 400s, and 8000s.” So foreign. So cool.
I can tell that this will pop into my head every time I mention in a sci-fi that a fictional culture has a different number system. Now I want to research what else is out there that I’ve never heard about.
