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Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸

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Palestinian-American. Cat person. Mathematics professor. Leftist. Autistic but often told it’s not obvious. Nerd but not the consumerist kind. Arrogant but can back it up. Mathematic for the people.

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Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · Oct 20

I just got a lot of new mathematician followers, so in my attempt to pander, here’s my area of interest. For the past year, I’ve been translating, solving, and writing detailed solutions for Japanese college entrance exam problems. I even code randomly-generating variants for student practice.

A problem to find the radius of a tangent circle using properties of cosines.

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Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 9h

Martian Manhunter looks like I feel every time Snapper Carr opens his mouth.

From Justice League of America #6: “It’s a blast! Beam in on this, will you! Chin it up, Wonder Woman! Tell them all the score!”

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 9h

He didn’t even try using “Oswald Cobblepot?”

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 10h

Victor Paul was 39 when he did Robin’s stunts for this movie. I wonder how it felt to play a teenager with a side-part as a 39-year-old with a fivehead.

Batman (Hubie Kerns) and Robin (Victor Paul) on the Batboat.

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Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 10h

Dang, Hecate made it to the big screen.

From Batman (1966): "Sic 'em, Hecate. Scratch out their eyes"

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 10h

Much has been made of the shark bat-repellent, but what about the fact that Batman devised four separate bat-sprays?

Oceanic repellent bat sprays: barracuda; whale; manta-ray; shark.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 10h

The Batman ‘66 movie is rated PG-13 on Amazon because of smoking and “foul language.” Did Robin cross a line by saying a sardine was “holy?”

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Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 10h

I definitely think about taxes a lot less than billionaires think about taxes. Taxes annoy me once a year. Billionaires annoy me every time I use the Internet.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve kept my mouth shut while everyone loudly wondered who farted longer than Erica Kirk mourned her husband.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 12h

Just realized my age is the largest number they could imagine in Moses times, plus three.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 17h

I often wonder which public figures would have destroyed their own reputations and become insufferable, triumphalist hacks if they’d lived longer. I would speculate that about John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Sam Kinison, John Belushi, Amy Winehouse…

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Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 17h

The neighborhood feral cats still run from me. I feel like I could change their lives by introducing them to the concept of snuggling.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 18h

Wouldn’t anything be better to fly in for air traffic safety than an invisible plane? Like a hang glider? Or a visible plane?

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Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 18h

Superman: “Not to worry, Green Arrow. I’ll encase you in nice, safe lead. Also, here’s a pack of clean, healthy cigarettes.”

Superman in Justice League of America #4: “Since the rays can’t get through lead I’ll make a huge egg in which to carry you! The rays won’t touch you as I bring you out!”

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 19h

I love when comics use their own misunderstandings of science to explain away what superheroes do. “In the same way that bumps on your skull indicate submissiveness, Batman’s Batarangs ‘bump’ the Riddler’s skull into submission.”

The Flash runs across the water using the same principle as stone skipping (not how stone skipping works in real life) in Justice League of America #4.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 19h

This is also why I oppose letting Graham Platner off easy.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · Apr 17

On a tangent, this is also why I lost all respect for Lemmy when I found out he collected Nazi swag. He did it because he liked the look of it. I believe him but that’s still the whole fucking problem. To uncritically adopt their aesthetic is to do their propagandizing for them.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 19h

I’m told his name is Graham Platner. He sounds like an in-law country singer who is also a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 19h

That profile pic of his lowkey amuses me every time I see it. Does anyone actually think he could sit still and shut up long enough to have a U.S. flag painted on his face?

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 20h

In the manga, this goes on for at least three hits: Tiger Mask just juggles the Jungle King in the air by repeatedly aerially under-stepping on his balls.

Pretty much what I just said, from the original Tiger Mask manga.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 20h

Preemptively angry that Musk’s ridiculous idea of turning cars into remote AI processors will work because nobody stops and asks themselves, “Will this car stick me with Tesla’s astronomical electricity bill while at the same time causing my neighborhood to resort to rolling blackouts?”

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 21h

For a math app, they’re sure having trouble with percentages.

Ad for some app that advertises “93.4% calculus, 86.7% algebra, 68.9% geometry.”

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

I got into Bongo Comics’ Radioactive Man comics before I learned much about which covers and moments are considered iconic parts of comic book history. So for my whole adult life, I’ve been stumbling on old comics and filling in blanks.

The Scarlet Floozy has the Superior Squad on her toes in Radioactive Man #100.

Cover of Justice League of America #10, with the league on the fingers of Felix Faust.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

Just finished the course. I feel like I felt right after I finished the final exam of Japanese 303. I didn’t give a fuck how I did on that test. I was done.

Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

Going through a backend programming tutorial that has me dealing with Google AI packages in Python. This AI bubble is like a subcutaneous pimple: I wish it would just fucking pop.

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Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

What I’m hearing is that one of the two had a markedly cleaner anus.

Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 1d

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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Stabbins McGee, simple country mathematician 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while, someone tells me I’d have been a good dad, and I’m like, do you not remember that I’m an introvert, a germaphobe, a workaholic, a recluse, mentally ill, autistic, and an abuse survivor?

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