Eric plagiarized “🇨🇳: (🦇 🦠 🧪 🧫 🔬) ➡️ 🌍: (😷x + 💀y)” from Urban Dictionary and SMSed it to his father, who had nicknamed the coronavirus “China virus,” “Chinese virus,” or “kung flu” in racially charged tweets.
by MathPlus September 15, 2020
When liberal publishers in some Western countries decide to green-light math titles by LGBT+ authors in spite of the high risk of offending or alienating conservative potential customers—when they argue that sexual orientation and math publication needn’t be mutually exclusive.
Radical Islamist groups from rogue nations like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Iran have warned foreign publishers that their publications would be removed from bookstores if they’re caught shipping rainbow math titles to both Mohammedans and “infidels.”
by MathPlus October 10, 2021
When people wander why every now and then you can’t help yourself but to randomly start behaving like an irrational or even delusional person, although they are curiously or mysteriously mesmerized by your transcendental beauty or brilliant brain.
e: “Are you a pi-kind of person? Or more of a phi-kind of personality?”
i: “Dear, my ancestors came from the Land of the Imaginary, so we’re anything but real!”
i: “Dear, my ancestors came from the Land of the Imaginary, so we’re anything but real!”
by MathPlus December 06, 2021
When desperately needed foreign workers trained to slaughter and process turkeys reared for Christmas are not allowed in the country unless they serve their 14-day quarantine on arrival, whose absence would affect producers with low supply and consumers with high price.
Thanks to Covid-🦃, a lucky percentage of the nine million turkeys in the UK would have their lives spared during this 2020 Christmas period.
by MathPlus October 22, 2020
When a country’s “zero Covid” policy leads to more restrictions and bans on both locals and aliens, often creating irrational fear and panic buying among them due to a shortage of fresh produce in wet markets and of basic essentials in supermarkets, including the closure of religious sites and hair salons nationwide.
by MathPlus February 09, 2022
When the US is toying with the idea of imposing exorbitant tariffs on foreign publishers, which would make it hard for them to ship their wallet-friendly, brain-unfriendly math titles to American homeschoolers, students, and teachers.
A number of hardcore Trumpublicans want their senators to push for an “America First” math bill to protect local authors from being outwitted by their foreign counterparts, whose titles cost a fraction of most dear inch-deep-mile-wide US math textbooks.
by MathPlus July 11, 2021
The number of avoidable corona infections and deaths, and the number of jobs lost, businesses destroyed, and futures compromised or shattered due to the ineptitude of Donald J. Trump, whose selfish actions and inactions make him the worst US president or head of state in modern history.
Trump toll shows that good governance, not developed public infrastructure, is the variable that determines the success or failure for a country in containing the coronavirus crisis.
by MathPlus February 17, 2021