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

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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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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 48 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (4 children)

Next he'll be forcing us all to drink dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that's known to be fatal to humans under certain conditions!

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago

Sources claim an up to 100% mortality rate!

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Water? like from the toilet?!

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yuck! It has no electrolytes!

[–] Plurrbear@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

It’s what we and plants crave!

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

They literally use that shit to power steam engines! Now imagine what it does to your insides. Nasty, nasty stuff.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Water? Don't touch the stuff.. fish fuck in it

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Dont forget it is a key component in both hydrochloric acid and making nuclear power plants operate.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 minutes ago

And its much more dangerous to try to breathe than carbon monoxide.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry but as a technicality none of the power used in a steam engine is derived from the dihydrogen monoxide. The chemical compound is used as a medium to turn thermal energy into kinetic energy. The thermal energy, likewise, is usually obtained from another source such as chemical, nuclear, or photovoltaic.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Good luck running your steam engine without it!

Also:

tidal

Pretty sure there aren't moon-powered trains, bro, but nice try.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

A steam engine can also be used to generate power, as a stationary device, but in hindsight the tidal power probably never gets that hot. The engine for moving trains could also be powered by electricity from wind or tidal, though I don't think there are any practical examples.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

A friend of mine ingested a ton of it and died. They found him at the bottom of a lake

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Thry say even small amounts are fatal in certain circumstances.