Oh my god I thought this was a fucking joke edit NOT LITERALLY WHAT HE FUCKING SAID
this mythical republican party vance keeps describing that cares about things like child care and health care is interesting to me as a lover of alternate history scifithis mythical republican party vance keeps describing that cares about things like child care and health care is interesting to me as a lover of alternate history scifi
I know and understand the importance of learning to do it by hand, but man, it was a frustrating experience for both of us and it was hard not to admit that the same computer he's entering his answers into has a *calculator* in it and that is 💯 how I would do this math if I needed it in real life.
The annoying thing about this story is that we were working on multiplying decimals, which isn't *hard*, exactly, but the Standard Algorithm (the way we were all taught in school) is fussy and has lots of steps, and it SUCKS and there's a reason we all use calculators to do this kind of math.