Sorry for Twitter confusion… it’s still a bit bizarre to me how it operates and I need to learn more about it. Here is the conversation I relayed:
People started replying, including somebody named Propane Jane who talks about TX politics from a person of color’s POV and has a fan base of 36k. Once she retweeted me, that’s when things blew up and conversation started.
I do use various little shortcuts when doing math in my head, but for this, I mentally did it the way I’d do it on paper. In my head I visualized myself carrying the 4 and going “6 times 1, plus 4…” Dunno why.
But, for some reason, about half the time I’m doing math, I think 6x7=43 instead of 42. I have no idea why. Ever since I was a kid, I have to stop and think for a second if it’s 42 or 43. I always have to re-convince myself that it has to be an even number, or that I know 6x6=36, and 6 more is 42. But come up to me on the street and ask, “Quick, what’s 6x7?!”, and I’m likely as not to get it wrong. In most respects, I’m a reasonably sharp guy. Got through grad school and everything. Got a whole room full of people calling me “professor” these days. But… 6x7. Gah!!
I didn’t bother watching the clip, because Donald Trump takes up too much space in my brain as it is. If he did argue over what 6x7 is, I’d have to have some sympathy for him.
If robots could vote, Trump would be doing much better in the polls: New report shows a third of pro-Trump tweets are generated by bots
You are now officially My Favorite Canadian Evah.
Who or what is Bri?
Perhaps Mr. Trump has a learning disability he doesn’t want to talk about, so he compensates pre-emptively by telling everyone how great he is at stuff, hoping they won’t ask too many questions. And that’s why he hates debates: they’re ALL ABOUT tough questions.
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“Bri” is his girlfriend/wife, short for Brianna. Can be pronounced “Bree”, but usually pronounced “Bry”. In short, she told him there would be hell to pay if he voted for Trump and his luvst of Bri trumps his love of the GOP.
I just have it engraved on one of my synapses that 17 X 3 = 51. So I double that to get 102.
I use translinear mathematics in my head, converting units via the configurative matrix (as designed by Wolff based upon the theoretical work of Reinmann), then eliminate the infinities via the process of renormalization. I got 102.00000001, which is close enough.
This was how I was taught.
(Seriously, I do 620 - 63)
I would do it this way: 617 = 2317 = 343 = 102
As an extremely minor-league real estate investor, I would say that your observation goes double or triple for a purported real estate titan. Owning a few rental properties has sharpened my mental arithmetic skills. I am constantly multiplying and dividing in my head. I guess he has people who do that.
Kellyanne Conway is using the “She should be winning by a million-thousand points so it doesn’t count” defense:
I knew knuckleheads saying the same stuff during the Democratic primary and during the 2012 election (“Obama should be up by 15pts so he’s in real big trouble to only lead by 5!”). Takes a special kind of delusion, although I doubt Conway actually believes her own nonsense.
You know what this thread is reminding me of? When I was in high school we had a D&D group. The nerdiest guy in the group tried to impress the lone female member by saying “let me add that up for you. I can do math in my head.” It was a running inside joke with us for years.
Mother Jones has an interesting column about trump, Donald Trump Is Completely Obsessed With Revenge and says that tonight’s debate could be all about payback.
Who knows? North Korea seems sane compared to him.
What Trump is demonstrating in this campaign, among other things, is that he chooses really incompetent people to work for him, and is generally totally incompetent at managing a large organization. Just an awful, awful general election campaign.
Posted again because it’s just so good - Conway on her day off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjbc15X1zSM
Ah, thanks.
Same for me. I just can’t, for the life of me, figure out why.
Were you ever in a darts league?
Why would you cast such an asparagus against someone you barely know?
Nope. I’m no longer…trusted…with such implements. :eek:
But he says they’re the best, and that is what is important.
The fact that everything he has ever said is a lie. 
Did I know you in high school?