The House needs to introduce a bill to abolish those numerals with possibly terrorist origins and go back to… um… whatever we used before. Whatever that was…
The upside is no more zeros. (The Arabs invented them, right?) No more budget balancing, no more worries about deficit spending, no more zeros-- win-win!
“I’ve milked a few cows, spent most of my time walking behind lines of cows, so if you want some ideas on repro and the women’s health thing, I have some definite opinions.”
But wouldn’t the squeezing out of white liquid from a phallus-shaped fleshy thing might possibly pertain more to men’s than womens’ health? I’m sure he took that into consideration.
Earlier this week, a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission mused that gas stoves could potentially be banned in the future if they couldn’t be made safer through regulation.
The right has morphed this into “JOE BIDEN IS COMING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR STOVE”.
Of course they’ve all forgotten their collective outrage at the “news” that Biden was going to ban beef. Heck, that happened way back in 2021–what self-respecting conservative could be expected to remember back that far???
The petition was filed by Ryan Heath, who founded The Gavel Project, a nonprofit organization that describes its work as "peacefully fighting for civil liberties on behalf of victims suffering from the abuses of woke ideologues."
Nope, a 7th century mathematician in India came up with the idea of zero being both a value and a placeholder. India is also responsible for the symbols we use to represent numbers now. The Western world calls them Arabic because the Arab world was where the Western world first learned about them.