When ministers reluctantly have to kiss their voters’ asses or pretend to listen to them to get re-elected, while reminding them that if they tick the wrong party, their constituency or surrounding won’t get upgraded, or would be given the least priority.
Singapore election is generally a low-key affair, because most Opposition members of choice can’t run—they’re disqualified because of some fine, were previously jailed for illegal public gatherings, or are now bankrupt due to lawsuits filed by some ministers.
by MathPlus January 04, 2019
Wrapping an empty box to be given as a Christmas gift, because it is not illegal to offer such a fake present to someone else other than your family members, relatives, or close friends.
To get even with his key staff who are deserting him and are serving their last few weeks or months at the White House, Donald wants to trumpgifting them, as an outward sign of his displeasure and frustration towards them.
by MathPlus December 24, 2018
The Commander in Chief and the Commander in Cheat; the Anointed One by God the Father and the QAnon-ed one by alt-right voters; the Alpha and the Omega, and the rejected and the ejected; and the others-centered and the me-centered.
by MathPlus April 07, 2021
A slogan you wear on a jacket or T-shirt to tell the world how you feel about school math: it is as boring as dull wood, or as useless as stale food.
Prof. Smith likes to get attention from passers-by, so he carries a tote bag with the words “With Math You Can Do Everything!” stamped on it, while wearing a T-shirt with the message “I Really Don’t Care About Math. Do U?”
by MathPlus June 25, 2018
Word problems with a political or social agenda, which often reveals racial, religious, or societal divisions, or which exposes discrimination or prejudice against those from a different country, continent, caste, tribe, gender, lifestyle, race, religion, or belief.
Two political math classics in the recreational math literature, which condones bigotry and racism are:
1. A Turkish bath has 30 visitors in a day. The fee for Jews is 3 dirhams, for Christians 2 dirhams, and for Muslims 1/2 dirham. Thirty dirhams were earned by the bath. How many Christians, Jews, and Muslims attended?
2. A sinking ship must cast off passengers to survive. There are 15 Christians and 15 Turks aboard. The captain, himself a Christian, arranges the passengers in a circle where every ninth person will be thrown overboard. How should he make the arrangement so that the Christians survive?
1. A Turkish bath has 30 visitors in a day. The fee for Jews is 3 dirhams, for Christians 2 dirhams, and for Muslims 1/2 dirham. Thirty dirhams were earned by the bath. How many Christians, Jews, and Muslims attended?
2. A sinking ship must cast off passengers to survive. There are 15 Christians and 15 Turks aboard. The captain, himself a Christian, arranges the passengers in a circle where every ninth person will be thrown overboard. How should he make the arrangement so that the Christians survive?
by MathPlus November 23, 2020
Read as “Covid-gamma.” Also known as the P.1 or “Gamma” variant. Like the Alpha and Beta variants, the Gamma variant (or the “Bolsonaro virus,” as the Opposition in Brazil call it with reference to their President’s inept handling of the coronavirus crisis), which was first detected in January 2021 and tested in travelers entering Japan, is believed to be more transmissible than Covid-19.
Because Covid-𝛾 shares some mutations with Covid-β (the South African variant), the gamma variant’s effects on immunity and vaccine effectiveness remains a worry for health officials, as confirmed by some collected samples.
by MathPlus November 30, 2021
The advice preached by some fringe American pastors to their congregations with regard to mask wearing and vaccination, who claim that Covid-19 is a “fake pandemic” and that they themselves would not take a vaccine—and that Donald J. Trump won the 2020 presidential election by a landslide, who would be re-elected as the President of the United States, be it in 2020, 2024, 2028, or even later (after serving his reduced jail sentence, commuted by the President of the day).
A conservative pastor from Tennessee, who is probably scientifically challenged, told his faithful uncritical church members: “Don’t trust the fake media, but use your Bible and your brain to decide whether you want to wear a mask or get vaccinated.”
by MathPlus December 11, 2020