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Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Another post from betting market company Polymarket read: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." The post has almost 14 million views.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 89 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

In Germany, we have a right-wing party en par with the US Republicans: The AfD. Just as Nazi, just as nuts.

Some time ago, someone riled them up with the "Did you know they teach Arabic numerals in school now?", and quite a few of them blew a lid...

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 51 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Well, the dihydrogen monoxide that is in your Zuchini is literally an industrial solvent!

Have you seen what dihydrogen monoxide does to pure, strong iron?!? It corrodes iron unbelievably fast! And people just.....consume it in most of their "healthy" foods!

Wake up, sheeple! Stop drinking dihydrogen monoxide!

~/s - this message brought to you by Brawndo, the thirst mutilator~

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

FWIW this is by far less dangerous and aggressive than oxygen, which caused the first global mass extinction when it started to amass in earth's atmosphere (and plays a major role in the corrosion of iron you mentioned).
And yet people tell you to breathe in and out...

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 8 hours ago

Oxygen? Oh, you mean rocket fuel?

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 hours ago

Dihydrogen Monoxide FAQ

[–] axus@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

zuchini is green squash now

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

My son just told me there is a complete wiki about DHMO. Something I'll investigate later...

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

And stop plants from drinking it too!

Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.