DaveTLV @Surasanji@qoto.org

I should really stop watching these Flat Earth videos. Bad for the blood pressure, I think. Infuriating, each and every one of them. They're just illogical insanity.

I'm *not* a scientist. I don't have the education of a great many people. I'm still floored that this is a thing in 2018.

Flat Earthers make me question my sanity.

Are they a hallucination brought on by my bipolar disorder? Surely this isn't a real thing in the modern era, I say to myself, some kind of joke.

But no, it's a real thing and that makes me very, very sad.

I would like to remind you all of the wisest words spoken by Kevin McCallister in Home Alone:

"Is this toothbrush approved by the American Dental Association?"

Just what we need in these dark times.

So, I went to see the opera Werther today. Beautiful show, very well done.

But I forgot how exhausting being in a crowd of people is for me. I've been keeping my hermit ways for a couple of months now and damn that social anxiety is emotionally- and physically- exhausting. Coiled like a spring for two and a half hours is just tiring.

However, the friend I went with had never been to an opera before, so I got to share her first opera with her. That's special.

So, I tend to watch Youtube before I go to sleep and I often watch various videos on STEM topics. I also (As you can see) am a fan of gaming videos.

However, that's not the point here.

In what fucking world is 6/2(1+2) a VIRAL math problem? That's *simple fucking math*. Did no one learn the order of operations? Am I stupid here? We got the 1+2=3, 6/2=3, 3*3=9. Nine. The answer is Nine.

I had to watch it to make sure I wasn't stroking out. That there wasn't some deeper aspect to the question.

There is. Apparently the order of operations and current convention on math has changed since 1917. However, the crux of it seems that some people just don't understand how equations are formatted in modern mathematics.

I'd like to note, in advance, there is no bracket around the whole equation.

Vacation has been good, so far, although I did let my anxiety get the better of me and have been more or less hiding in my apartment the entire time.

Luckily, tomorrow, I have a thing I can't skip and I'm really looking forward to. So, I'll get out and see what Friday evening Tel Aviv has to offer me.

I've been looking into Nintendo Switch hacking, and I've decided I'll wait for the new hardware revision to come out in 2019 before I hack my current Switch. That way, I'll still have access to normal content if/when that other console gets banned. Luckily, I know my hardware is unpatched, since it's a first gen Japanese model imported by some crafty Israeli company.

*looks down at a piece of paper* Witches get stitches.

Oh.. sorry, that's SNITCHES get stitches. All witch-centric healthcare has been canceled.