Dyscalculia?

I had to look up the term. 

Dyscalculia means you have a lifelong neurodevelopmental learning disorder.  Roughly....one out of twenty have this problem.

Effect? It causes persistent difficulties in understanding numbers, quantities, and basic arithmetic. 

This is the kid who you tell some word-problem....indicating 16-percent being the end-result, telling you that that this represents 30 people....and the 'game' is to figure what you really started with.  The kid looks at you....thinking it's a rocket-science problem.  No matter what you do....he's lost.

As you expect...mental math is impossible....and there's constant anxiety in this one single class.

The guy/gal isn't stupid or low IQ....they just have math jumbled up in their head.

Invasion!!!!

 I sat yesterday and watched about ten minutes of a guy talking over the newest rumor/BS....that somewhere in the US government....a group is planning to stage a fake alien invasion.

I pondered over this for the past twelve hours.

First, within the state of Alabama....we are fully prepared (armed)....with enough ammo to hold off the fake aliens. 

Second, to reach a point of a quarter of society accepting this....you'd  have to have some 'event' where 50,000 Americans die, and I just don't see gov't idiots willing to go that far.

Third, if this amounts to just six football field-size alien craft....no one is going to  believe the event.  

Fourth, you likely get one single chance on this....if you ever try to stage a 2nd or 3rd fake invasion.....no one will fall for  it.

Finally, just a bet....the minute the fake invasion starts up....it's likely that the good-guy aliens will say  'what-the-hell' and blast the fake aliens.

Wild times.