• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago
    • Be me.

    • Go to school

    • Everyone else in my class counting on fingers

    • Pull out Abacus

    • Crowd immediately forms

    • “Hey guys! He’s doing multi-variable calculus over here!!!”

    • Smile smugly. Don’t these kids know the abacus has been around for 3000 years?

    • Teacher tells me to stop cheating. Accuses me of black magic

    • Just laugh. Calculate pi to 100 places. People running out of the room screaming and crying.

    • Sent to principle’s office. Principle amazed by my technological expertise. Nominates me for Head Boy.

    • Ministry of Magic sends down delegation to investigate my new kind of wizardry

    • Correctly estimate the future national gross domestic product for the next two quarters

    • Voldemort appears and tries to steal my device

    • Perfectly calculate the circumference of his head. Voldemort banished to the shadow realm for 10,000 years.

    • Everyone cheers

    • Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walk the dinosaur

    True story