A label used during the coronavirus pandemic to warn anyone in public squares or in social circles that the marked empty space or seat cannot be occupied to minimize the odds of them being infected.
A geeky Covidiot argued with the police that he occupied the space marked with X, because he’d figured out that the distance between him and the next person was more than six feet away, so he’s in no way breaking any social distancing rules, or endangering other people’s lives.
by MathPlus December 28, 2020
When tax fugitives and corrupt entrepreneurs in Singapore want to ostentatiously donate millions to Trump’s post-election fund to help him fight against “fraudulent ballots”—which prevented him from being re-elected in the 2020 presidential election—in the hope that come 2024, when he ran again and won bigly, he would grant them tax concessions as a quid pro quo.
Ironically, most members of Singapore 4 Trump are filthy rich permanent citizens and naturalized citizens from mainland China and India, and millionaires and billionaires who had fled the US and the EU to settle in tax-heaven Singapore, who bet that having Trump as the re-elected president in 2024 or 2028 would be an auspicious year for their businesses.
by MathPlus December 11, 2020
Not just Donald Trump, but practically everyone who has ever achieved some degree of worldly success, is a charlatan—people improvise as they go along, hoping that luck and success would conspire to be on their side until they become somebody blessed with many friends (and fiends and foes).
The biographies of many successful people reveal that when faced with hit-and-hope situations, they can’t help but to bluff or fake their way through until they make it—an oft-unspoken common denominator among many rich and famous people is that everyone is a fake at some point, when they’re still a nobody.
by MathPlus September 05, 2018
A mélange of bigotry, corruptibility, conspiracy, criminality, cruelty, dishonesty, idolatry, illegality, immorality, infidelity, insecurity, jealousy, religiosity, and treachery that characterize a white racist and supremacist.
Anyone flirting with trumpability isn’t too far from white terrorism, if they don’t get what they want by ethical or legal means.
by MathPlus January 28, 2021
When the brain function of patients with severe Covid-19 could be impaired, as the virus could invade the frontal lobe through nerves in the nose.
Those suffering from Covid-🧠 are likely to have movement disorders like tremor or seizures, which can cause problems with planning and social behavior.
by MathPlus March 16, 2021
Unrealistic or nonsensical word or story problems, routine and nonroutine, that may or not be solvable—however, most of them serve to humorize, parodize, or satirize mathematics.
One question from “The Bigly Book of Fake Math Problems” is the following: “At a Trump rally, if 10 coronaviruses infect 10 diehard supporters in 10 minutes, how many of these foreign viruses will be needed to infect 100 supporters in 50 minutes?”
by MathPlus November 24, 2020
When someone’s worth as a person in society is often defined by their grade in school math, which means that the odds of their securing a promising career or future look bleak if they were not born with the “mathematical gene” or didn’t have a silver-spoon upbringing.
Guesstimate how many millions of otherwise intelligent people worldwide have their dreams dashed every year, because the course they plan to study in college requires them to have a passing grade in math or statistics or calculus—in other words, what percentage of the world’s population has been unfairly or unjustifiably been masked by math?
by MathPlus July 27, 2021