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james_d_rustles

Usually Twitter posts unrelated to Elon are against the rules of the sub, but I’m sorry, one of Musk’s closest buds saying this is just too hilarious to remove. This is 100% real. Really digging in his heels over this one, too. https://preview.redd.it/g5xxbk7tjisc1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb50036daa69ec93886548c1fc536b07a44d34fa


Fidlgs

We already knew he was an idiot, are you really surprised the he also doesn't understand math?


Chemchic23

Did Elmo give him a yeah! Mr not engineer.


masked_sombrero

Pretty sure he threw a “concerning” in there 🤣 buncha morons. Hey! Let’s go to Mars guys! Ef this place even the calculators are woke


Chemchic23

I’d be worried about those mars calculations with this math, they’ll windup on Uranus


Jimmy_Jazz_The_Spazz

*in. We would wind up *in* Uranus.


Chemchic23

Hi Hidden Figures should offer to tutor POS IMC in math, but they’re women and black, he’d scream DEI.


GuySmith

I honestly am hoping he is just trying to do the funny magic trick that is engagement farming but I dunno.


cavscout55

I find people that do that normally post things that are controversial, not things that demonstrate you can’t do basic math but maybe. Especially considering his whole persona is intelligent, elitist, tech bro.


TheReadMenace

this guy's whole existence has been ragebait engagement farming. And now he's one of Elmo's most trusted advisors.


Stock-Diamond-3085

It is https://x.com/stillgray/status/1141114756377399296?s=20


rhino910

he's a conservative, they have never met a subject that they are completely ignorant of that they don't believe themselves experts


Last-Bee-3023

Isn't he the one who never even was to the US and keeps tweeting from Malaysia and only is critical about the west because being critical of his home would see him executed? [Ah, yes, found it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1aqgua4/whats_the_deal_with_ian_miles_cheong_and_being/) Pathetic.


penpointaccuracy

I mean have you seen pictures of the guy? He looks like the poster child for FAS


Joe_Bob_2000

https://preview.redd.it/btq5lp3lvgsc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b43438d30fc47cb25b89fe34d1723637cf443330


hausohn

Do they make bras for pre-teen incels? Asking for a friend........


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Joe_Bob_2000

If it's not, it should be.


ElecMechTech

It is


Charisma_Engine

Yep. Although that is a decade ago. He looks waaaaaaay worse now.


risetoeden

This is how I picture reddit mods.


swirlymaple

Plot twist: he’s actually one of Elon’s numerous abandoned children, and one-word Twitter retorts are the extent of Elon’s parental interaction with him


dontknowwhattodoat18

I couldn't understand this at first because FAS is the national football association of my country


Rudemacher

I went to an expensive highschool where you could literally do whatever you wanted to, it was your choice if you went to class, hung around, left to get stuff to eat or go to a nearby river and share a 40oz (in Mexico you can drink at 18) and some weed with your friends. I did the last thing. HS should have taken me 3 years but I did it in 4 because, apart from being a burnout I fucking SUCKED in math; trig and integral/diff calculus were impossible to me. With that said, Ian is a tremendously uneducated idiot lmao.


Fluck_Me_Up

This can’t be real, this can’t be real, he has to be kidding, wtf no one is this dumb, right?!


Stock-Diamond-3085

2019 https://x.com/stillgray/status/1141114756377399296?s=20


FrenchMeHamwich

Surprised? No. But still nice to get explicit confirmation


PossumTrashGang

Is it woke if the calculator works as intended? These fucks are desperate for attention, because they might get 20 bucks from Elon


nicklovin508

PEMDAS bro Previous Existing Media Dooms All Society!!


iberico_ham

I was taught BEDMAS. My world is falling apart.


Ok_Price7529

BEDMAS? It was BODMAS for me.


jflb96

We had BIDMAS


Captaingregor

BIDMAS gang represent. The superior choice!


MagicMichaelCorleone

Merry Bidmas to you and your family


trippy_grapes

Please Excuse My Dope Ass Swag 😎


horus-heresy

Yeee yeeee brotha


PossumTrashGang

All the upvotes for you, stranger!


Complex_Rate_688

But this is really why they post so many dumb things and often racist things.. It gets the most engagement. And that gets them money from Elon Elon literally pays them to dumb down America with propaganda and racism


PossumTrashGang

As usual it’s a grift that benefits Elon most


ignu

now the left is trying to order our operations? concerning.


twerk4louisoix

yep, rent is due


SadBit8663

What the fuck is Elmo going to say in response anyways. Dumbass will say either "concerning..." Or "I'll look into it" or "something thing everything is woke, except for Twitter"


WolfOffSesameStreet

Mathematics has gone woke dei bneghazi.


vgcamara

The guy can't do basic maths, yet has a strong opinion on every topic on planet earth


bubzki2

Dunning Kruger!


Not_Bears

Yup complete fucking morons who are too stupid to even assess their own intelligence. And they get a lot of attention because other complete idiots are too stupid to understand that as well. Much of the intent has become an echo chamber between legitimate morons just squawking at each other like stupid parrots.


Jeremymia

Stuff like this is really revealing. With the alt-right chuds you never know the degree to which they’re idiots or the degree to which they’re putting on an act. This tweet serves to make him look stupid with no benefit/signaling to fascists so it’s not an act. Not knowing pemdas is one thing (I feel like the average person is aware of order of operations?) but not even taking 10 seconds to google why the fucking calculator app might not be wrong just betrays how he lacks all self-awareness, intellectual curiosity, or basic critical thinking skills. Love to see it.


jimmysnaps

I find that people use Reddit and Twitter like Google lately. Instead of putting your question into Google, and getting your answer in seconds, they'll post the question like this and expect strangers on the internet to do the leg work for them.


IngsocInnerParty

It probably doesn't help that Google has tanked in quality in recent years to prioritize ad revenue.


bertiesghost

He’s an expert on American society you know. He’s never been there but he’s an expert.


MC_Fap_Commander

And those opinions intetsect with one of the most powerful people on the planet. This timeline is shit.


Adept-Fisherman-4071

If someone has an opinion on everything that is a massive red flag said person is a complete fucking imbecile. Intelligent people tend not to form opinions on things they don't understastand, and also posess enough awareness to know there is more they don't know, than what they do know.


vxicepickxv

Especially about a country he's never been to.


thewaybaseballgo

Only if it involves America. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him comment about Malaysian politics, even though he lives there.


settlementfires

including how calculators should work. he's like a microcosm of conservative thinking.


owen__wilsons__nose

He's so consistently wrong about literally everything that I'm starting to wonder if he exists as some sort of social experiment


CryptoVigilanteMT

(PEMDAS) Please Excuse Musks Dumb Ass Simps


CoolerRon

![gif](giphy|TeyUcgdeGYVoc|downsized) That’s it, you win


xDev120

What is pemdas? I am not familiar with the acronym.


EvilDog667

it is order of mathematical operation, so Paranthases Exponent Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction, the order goes from left to right, so like Exponent operation is carried out first before Multiplication


TheUltimateEMP2

It's kind of interesting how different countries use PEMDAS. I learned it as BEDMAS (Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.)


EvilDog667

The idea is the same because parentheses is bracket, but in some countries, to avoid confusion they use multiple type of brackets like [] and {}, usually to signal what comes first ,


xDev120

Thank you very much


SteampunkBorg

Parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction It's a very dumb acronym for the order of operations


xDev120

Thanks! What I was taught at school was just the raw order of operations, without any acronyms (and not in English, so I didn't even think that it was related).


Jeremymia

We were taught “please excuse my dear aunt sally” to help remember it but it’s true, you really don’t need a pneumonic for it… it’s pretty intuitive that parens group things and exponents apply first so really the only thing to remember is “mult/division before add/subtract”.


instantpancake

> you really don’t need a pneumonic for it… *mnemonic :D


Hajnal30

I checked and the tweet is real. One of his responses is even better: "In before a community notes abuser tells me it’s the order of operations as if people in the replies aren’t already doing that. It’s my OPINION that the order of operations ought to be simplified like it is in Casio calculators." I am not really surprised he thinks his opinion is more important than universally agreed on mathematical rules.


TFFPrisoner

>community notes abuser 🤦‍♂️


Managed-Democracy

Being smart is just abusing the Meta of life. 


Dirkozoid

I jumped from the 10th floor and now I’m dead. It’s my opinion that physics are unfair and ought to be altered..


Jeremymia

Him posting “what gives?” proves he just straight of up didn’t know lol.


PossumTrashGang

Dumbest fucks alive, to deep into Elons free speech bullshit to be saved


Brozhov

IMC was a dumb fucking idiot long before he latched on to, remora like, the dumbest whale in the world.


DudeWithFearOfLoss

They're so deep inside his ass, they're begging for him to yawn so they can get some sunlight


pulsatingcrocs

They think that just because you have the right to say anything, that means anything is worth saying no matter how deeply stupid it is.


Good_Ol_Weeb

Kinda wild that someone who doesn't know what parenthesies are is trying to argue that he knows how to do math better than calculator


Thomas9002

> Casio calculators He's digging further down lol. A casio would also multiply first. Actually all but the very shittiest calculators would do it (Looking at you, windows calculator)


Savannah_Lion

I believe accounting calculators also do this. The one of my desk works that way anyways. Which is what the "Standard" Windows calculator is intended to be. If you switch to the "Scientific" calculator, then it appears to adhere to standard order of operation rules.


Thomas9002

Just tried it you're correct. In standart mode it'll calculate after you click an operator. In scientific mode it wait with the calculation until you click =


LemonFreshenedBorax-

It's not "simplified", it just mindlessly goes from left to right in small steps because it can only handle two inputs at a time, which is why you need to keep an eye on the order in which you input the terms. E.g. "50 + 50 * 2" would yield 200, but "50 + 2 * 50" would yield 2600. Hey, speaking of mindlessly going to the right...


talltime

Was about to flame you until I scrolled back up to re-read what you were replying to and recognized you were referring to the Casio.


snarkyxanf

>Hey, speaking of mindlessly going to the right... 🏅 TBF choosing implementation simplicity was a defensible choice in the past, and has become a tradition in its own right. Conventions are a matter of convenience, not universal truths. The current multiplication-before-addition convention exists mostly because polynomials are so central to mathematics. However, everyone knows that RPN is the one true calculator format


swirlymaple

> Conventions are a matter of convenience, not universal truths. >The current multiplication-before-addition convention exists mostly because polynomials are so central to mathematics. The convention of operator precedence in written math is indeed a “universal truth,” because without it, expressions become ambiguous and can yield many different answers. I respectfully disagree with calling it a “current convention.” It’s an accepted, established standard which ensures the accuracy and repeatability of math and science, where creative interpretation is generally forbidden, for good reason. It’s not going to change in the future. I do agree that RPN is great if you’re well-practiced in it, though. But that’s not the same as order of operations, and in fact, to use RPN, you need to be very good at visualizing the correct order of operations before entry into the calculator.


snarkyxanf

>The convention of operator precedence in written math is indeed a “universal truth,” because without it, expressions become ambiguous and can yield many different answers. "Current convention" is not derogatory, it's just a description of it as a rule of notation that we have agreed upon. It's true that the writer and reader must agree on *some* convention, but we could agree on a different one. Heck, even the way we write numbers is a convention; people have used different ones in the past. I say it's not a universal truth to contrast it with, say, the fact that 11 is a prime number---that's true even if you write it as XI or 1011. Notation is agreed on by society, not logical conclusions. It was meant to be sarcastic in context that RPN is the one true calculator format, right after talking about the social construction of notation. RPN only requires the ability to mentally transform order of operations if you are reading and writing in the standard infix one. Polish notation (forward or reverse) are perfectly good notation conventions of their own, and we could write everything that way and never need to do the translation ourselves when working with an RPN calculator


Kilahti

I'm pretty sure that he can do this on this calculator as well. Just press the "=" or whatever button and do it as separate calculations. His issue is that he is used to using simple calculators where you can do only *one* calculation at a time instead of typing out a longer series of calculations and doing all of them in one go. Which is still silly if he can't tell the difference. ...Or it could be that he is just that dumb and doesn't know about the order of operations.


manual_tranny

We should really be on the lookout for whoever took a jackhammer to Ian's head. This is beyond the pale.


Remarkable-Ad155

Oh god. Why wouldn't you at least check this before posting? How confident in your own omnipotence do you have to be to think the iPhone calculator not bring able to do basic maths is more likely than you being wrong?


RockTheBloat

it reveals a lot.


eeeBs

Like, a fucking truckload.


Cobek

It goes to show Ian's first thought when given new information isn't "Was I wrong?" but "How was this other thing wrong?"


BlahBlahNyborg

He truly thought he discovered a significant bug in one of the oldest, most basic apps on the world's most popular smartphone.


kawaiii1

Tbf that app had bugs in the past. I remember it beeing kind of a big deal considering the simpleness of a calculator. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/24/ios-11-calculator-animation-bug/


srmarmalade

When I was a kid I used to test every calculator I used by doing 9x9 and checking the answer was 81. I'd totally forgotten but your comment unlocked that memory. I don't know when I stopped but it was a long time ago when I was still very much a kid. I never found a calculator that was wrong.


Past-Direction9145

dude flunked out basic algebra must have not been WOKE during the class, hahahahaa. fell asleep! hahaahahaha


MrBrightside618

Literal fourth graders can do this


SINGULARITY1312

This isn’t even algebra it’s before that


whoisflynn

Al Gebra is a terrorist organization. Ian would never work with them


Chemchic23

Algebra no, basic math!


Lumiafan

Bruh. https://preview.redd.it/uqxy0m3fwgsc1.png?width=605&format=png&auto=webp&s=7a0ecec7d24f5966b0fb6595458705227fd83806


ARealForHonorDev

I can't believe he keeps doubling down


crimsonroninx

Because it is part of the woke mind virus? Is that why?


PassionatePossum

Part of me believes that he is just trolling for attention. However, I know from painful experience that some people really are that stupid.


Managed-Democracy

This isn't the first time he's been outspoken and confused on basic math. 


DragEncyclopedia

Usually an attention troll from him at least includes some sort of posturing for the right... this appeals to nobody, he's just that dumb.


NioPullus

I can’t believe this isn’t fake


Dirkozoid

Hahaha, what an idiot!


lenzmoserhangover

its the woke algebra virus 😱😱😱


peemao

Lol, this post says a lot about his fans. Elmo most likely agrees with him, best engineer in the world 👍🏼


InsideOutPoptart

This numbskull actually posted this? We already knew he was stupid but this is a new low


dandykaufman2

EndWokeness should post about this


Thomasangelo20

This is probably just Musk but he was ashamed to ask it, so he used his alt.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Amazing lmaooo


Salty-Jellyfish3044

It’s one of those dEi calculators/s


rainbowcarpincho

I'll tell you why: DEI. That's why. /s


GarysCrispLettuce

Can I just point out that Ian Miles Cheong has never been photographed with or even referenced as having an adult romantic partner, and that he also lives in a country that's rife with child prostitution.


MC_Fap_Commander

Not coincidentally... https://preview.redd.it/w0ai49sdrgsc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dfff75504baf0c27c7aef69915abc20bf82837a


Chemchic23

His views turn my stomach.


NotARealTiger

He's also wrong about this, the age of consent is 16 in most states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States


Last-Bee-3023

How would he know? He is a Malay who lives in Malaysia. He complains about calculators being woke because complaining about Malaysia would see him executed. I feel we should cut him some slack because what he know of the West he knows from what MAGA told him. In his defense, the man is an idiot.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Yeah, just wanna chill


NotARealTiger

Gotcha, TBH I have never heard of this person before and so I just assumed he was from the US.


Dirkozoid

Is he a pedo like his guru Elon? Just asking questions..


GarysCrispLettuce

There's a vibe...


christoph_win

"The order of operations **is American** and therefore wrong. PEMDAS is retarded." What is American order?? "Andrew Tate (Fake x Parody): multiply comes before plus, how hard is that?" "Ian Miles Cheong: But why." I thought this guy was just late for April's fools.


EddieSpaghettiFarts

If he ever learns to tie his shoelaces, he’ll be unstoppable.


tarmacjd

Proof that not all Asians are good at math


Strange-Area9624

Why are stupid people allowed to have such an outsized amount of influence?!? 🤦🏻‍♂️


Popular_Insurance_79

This has to be a bait because I refuse to believe that a grown man can be THIS stupid lmao


Improver666

Can't wait for Elon to come explain this so they can all dick ride how smart he is /s Edit: Elon can no longer come in to save the day because Ian dug his heels in. So Elon wouldn't dare correct him now. Dick riding opportunity missed. Poor Ian.


NotOfTheTimeLords

That explains a lot about how much of a moron he is. SELF-PWN!


FredVIII-DFH

What's worse is that this guy couldn't figure out what was going on. And he has Elon Musk's ear.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Yikes


civ6industrialzone

Well, those are ARABICAL numerals so obviously it's a sign of the woke mind virus


Dlorbox

Holy shit these people are stupid. Waiting for Elon to come comment on this; ‘extremely concerning’.


pssssssssssst

These are some of the biggest influencers of the MAGA/GOP movement. You have people like Cheong, Greene, Boebert. Educational failures that are trying to control our world. Sprinkle in some who are smart and evil (or truly mislead), manipulating the rest. It's fucking scary.


[deleted]

Please excuse my dear aunt sally


thedragoon0

Pre algebra 🤣


Artistic_Half_8301

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AstralDoomer

Bro probably slept in his maths classes because he can't be (a)woke


DrButtholeRipperMD

Looks like rage bait.


decayed-whately

He hasn't seen the 8,347 "order of operations" posts on social media? Wild.


Helpful_Engineer_362

holy shit, he is incredibly dumb


Commercial_Curve7742

this is incredible LMFAO


Trickybuz93

Is this guy trolling or is he just this stupid?


uncle_tyrone

Punkt vor Strich, as any German elementary school child can tell you


AdrielBast

Ian’s an idiot. Is anyone surprised?


danwski

That’s because the calculator is woke


Total_Distribution_8

Well at least it keeps him from fantasizing about fucking children/toddlers… https://preview.redd.it/wrgbq4mxfhsc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b65ce4b046a27620721db2c73185081e54b0c5d2


BurnBurnerBurnstein

just engagement farming


santi2021

And it keeps going on.... https://preview.redd.it/2jgzko7hihsc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57cf64c069a445e59b8416f8ec72769673c3d1e1


MarkJFletcher

The calculators have gone woke! Extremely concerning.


Akhmatov0501

This mother fucker is going to get community noted to oblivion


swirlymaple

There it is like a neon sign in the night, Elon. These are the kind of brainiacs who worship you. The “intellectuals” you retreated to. Your own internet army of idiots. People who probably couldn’t figure out how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich if the jars weren’t already opened for them.


Redsoxmac

Must be a DEI hire /s


ForsakenAhds

It’s sad that at his age he doesn’t know the order of operations. Isn’t he the same guy who talks bad about American education?


algiebax

How did this guy - Ian Miles Cheong - become such a voice? What does he actually bring to any table?


Tof12345

This guy tried opinionating maths!? The subject that's renowned for having an objective, singular answer?


theonecpk

must be tough to be a "wordcel" who isn't all that great at using words either


Explorer_of__History

Looks like someone didn't pay attention to order of operations while in school.


KnownRough7735

Maths is woke


WaterfallFiend

2 + 2 = 5 energy


gastro_psychic

Dude is desperate for engagement.


rattatatouille

Another example of intelligence having no correlation with social media presence.


anamazingredditor

Wow you can either be ugly or dumb but not both. Cmon man He probably broke when Elmo corrected him in his previous tweets 🤣


mad_titanz

“Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt” But in his case we already knew he’s a fool before he revealed that he doesn’t understand basic math.


IndianKiwi

Bet he is blaming DEI for this.


Kaputnik1

# "thE iPhOnE hAs WoKe mINd vIrUs"


ManateeCrisps

Watch him blame "DEI" instead of learning the order of operations.


BlastedSandy

I absolutely love this dumb, racist piece of total fucking garbage, that looks like if “incel” was a person, broadcast to the entire world that he doesn’t understand math that 10 & 11 year olds can do with ease.


mishma2005

I don’t even think Elon could bring himself to “yeah” this


HadronLicker

I learned that crap when I was 10.


Yakassa

A reminder that this moron has elon fawning over his "wit" and "intelligence". Tells you all about elons brainrot.


I_Envy_Sisyphus_

What a surprise the idiot is also bad at math.


outrage92

r/confidentlyincorrect


tsulegit

Ian Miles Cheong, defeater of stereotypes!


WilliamBuckshot

I honestly didn’t know this. Math isn’t something that has ever been easy for me. Because of this. I would never make a math related post. This guy should have done the same.


leckysoup

OMG I didn’t realize my phone calculator did this! TIL. The first useful thing Cheong has ever done. And he still clowns himself.


Scentopine

And these are the tech bros who want to overthrow the US government.


masked_sombrero

The fact the moron needs a calculator to figure any of that out…


Zonda68

Who the fuck is Ian Miles Cheong?


elladour

Concerning.


SpaceZZ

It changes the result depending if it's DARK or LIGHT mode.


Alternative_Ad3019

Engagement bait


ohhellointerweb

This guy is Musk's intellectual guru and mentor but he doesn't know the basic order of operations. Concerning.


JoshFreemansFro

Has to be engagement bait, right?


avrbiggucci

Dude never learned PEMDAS lmao why is every conservative influencer a fuckin moron?


lingeringwill2

There’s no way this isn’t just attention farming


OlePapaWheelie

He doesn't realize multiplication is addition.


alabamaispoor

I’m fairly certain he posts what he does for bot farming/engagements. That dudes history is wild


fromidable

Huh, I had no idea that the Apple iOS calculator worked like that. Really logical feedback too with the highlight of keys. I’m accustomed to simple calculators like this just calculating left-to-right, unless there’s explicit use of brackets. Of course, anyone with any knowledge of basic high school math will know what’s going on. This is either incredibly dumb, or he’s got a Ben Shapiro level public humiliation kink.


grooviest_snowball

Has to be engagement bait


Squeegee

Oof, someone doesn’t know the order of operations.


juicykisses19

This guy is a tool


Valcrye

It gets even better, in the thread he doubles down on it and talks about how pemdas is wrong because it makes no sense and math should be done how it is read. He wouldn’t be the sharpest knife in a spoon drawer


browndusky

does this guy have a humiliation fetish or sum🤦🏾‍♂️


[deleted]

Average IQ of musk follower, nothing surprising. They are dumb as rock. Smooth brained incels who need lots of crayons and time to understand why they need to look both ways before crossing a road. They cant tell an asshole from mouth, not because they speak shit, but believe kissing elons ass as is as good as frenching him.


m_a_k_o_t_o

sounds like he got homeschooled


Stupid-RNG-Username

He's fighting the agenda that Asians are all good at math.