Spoiler: they made a pact never to argue and took self-imposed time-outs when they lapsed. One broke his leg and they cared for him so well it healed perfectly. They planted a vegetable garden and kept their spirits up singing along to a guitar they fashioned from driftwood and a coconut shell.
(Article is weirdly focused on the white guy who rescued them, though.)
The thing is that Golding wouldn’t be surprised, because he didn’t intend Lord of the Flies to reflect upon human nature. He wrote it to reflect upon the nature of upper-class English schoolboys, specifically in response to a very saccharine story by another author where upper-class English schoolboys form a eutopia. He’d be mortified at the way schools teach it, and validated that the kids in this article did not, in fact, degenerate into evil little shits.
Seen a lot of hot takes on Twitter saying that the book is racist and that it’s a comment on colonialism or something, when like the above commenter says it was based on Golding’s own experience with how shitty public school-taught British schoolboys were/are.
If Lord of the Flies was summed up in a headline it would be “Commentary on Assholes mistaken for Commentary on Humanity”
I think that’s the fate of every such commentary, because it’s the nature of assholes to look at a commentary on the nature of assholes and go “Behold! The nature of man!”
passing off their asshole mannerisms as human nature absolves them of responsibility and we all know how much assholes dislike responsibility for their actions
Endgame not winning an oscar is funny bc disney camps so hard for that movie they spent on 200 millions on marketing alone and even rereleased it for a second time to make sure it bypass avatar at the box office yet people talk about this movie for like two weeks until it’s completely forgotten. It’s the biggest movies ever made with zero cultural impact. Even infinity war left some impact with the i don’t feel so good meme. Disney literally camps for rdj’s oscar only for the academy to be like lol no tks. Like oscar doesn’t necessarily judge a movie’s quality and nobody’s stopping u from enjoying things but it’s funny when the mouse is like this is better than black panther n will get many oscar then it got forgotten immediately by literally everyone until we brought it up yesterday to make fun of it.
Y'all please, learn your pemdas (or bodmas or whatever you learned it as)
It’s 16
*sigh*
Parentheses equation is 2+2, which is 4.
Now we multiply by 2 to get 4x2 which is 8
8 DIVIDED BY 8 is 1.
I have no fucking clue how you can get 16 out of this. I don’t think you’re bad at math, I think you just need glasses.
It’s 1.
It’s 16.
8 / 2 * (2+2) =
8/2 * (4) =
4*4 = 16
You do the parentheses, then you go left to right.
That isn’t how this works…..
PEMDAS
8/2*(2+2) (P = Parentheses)
8/2*(4) (M = Multiply)
8/8=1 (D = Division)
@kingoftartesoss
Use Mathpapa calculator if you still don’t believe me.
No, Riley.
M isn’t in the original problem but 8÷2 still needs a resolution. You have to solve 8÷2 as-is after (2+2) no matter what.
So you’re not following PEMDAS by factoring x4 into 8÷2.
It’s literally this simple.
I, uh, I think it’s 1, actually.
Plug it into a searchbar, or a scientific calculator that waits until the whole thing is input & that’s the answer.
1
No need.
Everyone on this post:
@nonanalogue can you solve this for us because I swear to goodness the answer is 1 but this post is making me doubt my brains
Happily!
So the problem is two-fold: first, order of operations as most people are taught it is a lie, and second, the original problem is written very ambiguously.
Let’s drill down into that first point.
PEMDAS! Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. Everyone’s taught to do operations in that order! Except that’s not really right. As a math teacher of mine put it, “it works for now, but you’ll find out I was lying in a few years.”
The problem is that multiplication and division are the same operation, and addition and subtraction are also the same operation. Division is really just multiplying by a fraction, and subtraction is just adding a negative. With that in mind, it doesn’t necessarily make sense to do some multiplication arbitrarily early in the problem before the rest! As a result, here’s the bottom line for that point:
Both 1 and 16 are right.
How can that be?
Well, that brings me to the second point: the expression is written very ambiguously, so as to maximize confusion! It’s also why I don’t like using the division symbol when a fraction will do just nicely.
Observe two other ways we could write this expression:
The first one resolves to 8/8, which is 1. The second resolves to 4(4), which is 16. Both are right, only because the original expression is vague.
The sad thing is that everyone hates fractions, when actually they make life so much nicer!
Just in case you thought math didn’t have the same problems with ambiguity that language does XD
which I think is why you’ll almost NEVER see the division symbol in math once you start hitting like Algebra and shit.
Someday I really want someone to make a series about a team of magical girls, expect they’re all adults now and thought their days of saving the world with the power of friendship and glitter was behind them. But now some new evil has emerged, and they’re all suddenly finding their powers coming back after being dormant for years, and after a couple days of desperately hoping a new team of fifteen year olds would appear to take care of this, they eventually realize that it’s all up to them.
So that means digging through old boxes of keepsakes to figure out where they stuck their Rainbow Twinkle Wand after they finished saving the world the first time around, and hoping the outfit still fits (it’s a magical transformation, so yes, it adapts to their adult bodies and fits perfectly, even though it’s a lot more frills and sparkles than they’ve worn in a very long time.) Also gotta get used to yelling their attack names, because the magic doesn’t work otherwise. One lady shouts ‘Strawberry Lipbalm Ray!’ and blasts a monster into oblivion, and then stares off into the middle distance because she’s 30 years old and has a mortgage.
A follow up idea that, for a time, this totally works. Its awkward and feels silly but at least it works. But then the bbg ramps up their efforts and stronger villains start springing up, maybe even a previously defeated villain that wasnt particularly hard before, but they get wrecked. And they realize that while the magical girl thing worked in the past with “strawberry lipbalm ray” they arent teens anymore and they stuff they used to love (but maybe obscure of society to fit in) dont work as well anymore and they have to balance the fact that, yea they are like 30 somethin and adults and the things they *used* to be into dont work, the stuff they are into now totally does. And suddenly strawberry lipbalm ray is turned into strawberry shortcake baking bonanza and its like 10x stronger than it ever was because theyve learned to accept being an adult doesnt mean giving up the sillier things you love, but also, sometimes those sillier things u love change into new things
one of them is a mom and has the side plait. The others immediately notice and demand they change hair. the magical mom refuses because she likes the style. Finally before the big battle her hair tie breaks and during the final battle, she almost dies but doesnt. her friends claim she would have if she kept the side plait
The Australian Ballet is doing Alice in Wonderland again and on one hand I’ve seen it before, and on the other, their Queen of Hearts has my favourite costume in anything every
It’s just this and her court pushes her around the stage on wheels and every act it gets taller until she towers over everyone
Also in act 3 (I think) it swings open at the front and her husband is sitting inside reading a newspaper
I saw this again on Tuesday so here are some things I’d forgotten about:
This is the only Alice adaptation I’ve ever seen that doesn’t cut the caucus race
The mad hatter wears taps throughout and it’s so jarring and surprising it’s perfect
The executioner shadows almost everyone who dances with the Queen
Lewis Carroll is a character in the ballet and becomes the white rabbit who leads Alice into wonderland which is bad and wrong because Carroll is the dodo but does work very well
They started dropping rose petals from the ceiling onto the audience when Alice looked through the door to the garden and it was utterly magic
The Cheshire Cat is made of about 10 different puppets that dance around the stage
Which reminds me Alice is styled after Alice Liddell rather than the John Tenniel illustrations
I don’t think the king of hearts actually dances he just wanders around looking confused
here’s a video
more. (btw this is a parody/reference to the very famous “rose adagio” from sleeping beauty)
the Caterpillar is pretty neat too
(all of these videos are from the Royal Ballet’s productions in 2014 and 2017)
