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the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

Adams third child, Seth: What is that?

Seth:

BASE 8

useful? eh, maybe, if you're a computer scientist i guess. use yr thumb to mark finger -> between 2 fingers -> finger -> between 2 fingers, etc. like the trick for telling which months have 31 days vs 30.

if you keep track of the 8s with your other hand, this system allows you to count up to 64

BASE 10 (one-handed)

count 1-5 starting with yr index finger (adding thumb last, for 5). pic below is 2.

then repeat starting with just yr thumb (adding pinkie last, for 10). pic below is 7

if you keep track of the 10s place on yr other hand, this system allows you to count up to 100.

BASE 16

this one requires some real flexibility & individual control of fingers. starting with the pinkie, treat each finger as a digit in binary, as pictured below. up is 1, down is 0.

use the thumb to help hold down errant fingers. below is how to encode each number from 1-16 (0001-1000)

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oops i messed up above. 1000 is not 16, it's 8. this is up to 1111 (15), and 0/16 is an empty fist

texas tech's quartback, brendan sorsby, was investigated for sports gambling. i know sports betting is all the rage right now, but athletes themselves are not allowed to do it. it is Rule Number 1 and it is the highest priority rule for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), who governs all athletic programs at about 1,100 colleges in the US.

the invesitagetion of sorsby revealed that, not only did he place more than 9,000 sports bets when he himself was a collegiate athlete, but 40 of those bets were AGAINST HIS OWN TEAM when he was playing at indiana university. immediately, this threatens the integrity of the sport, and especially because indiana is the hottest team right now as the defending national champion.

the NCAA, which is largely a sham organization these days (they've truly lost their grasp and college athletics are the wild west now) actually enforced their Number 1 Rule and told sorsby his career is over, that he would never play college football again (and, subsequently, that he would never get drafted into the NFL because his college career was cut short).

well, because the NCAA is a husk of its former self, sorsby and texad tech immediately took this to court. MANY athletes have learned these past few seasons that if you can find a judge who's a fan of your team, you can get any NCAA ruling overturned. that's exactly what texas tech did. they filed a suit in Lubbock, where the university is located and where every judge is an alum of texas tech. so sorsby was granted an injunction and will now only be suspended for the first 2 games od the 2026 season (which are alwayd against no-name teams that will be destroyed regardless of who's suspended).

every other school in the country immediately went on the defensive because this is a very clear integretiy issue. so nebraska and georgia (sic em dawgs) released statements saying that all currently-scheduled competitions witb Texas Tech in ANY sport will be canceled and there will be no future schedulings. at least 3 of the major conferences (SEC, Big 10, Big 12) , who account for almost all division 1 sports teams in the country, are also in discussions about cancelling comtests. Texas Tech is part of the Big 12, and there is serious talk of all other teams in the conference shutting texas tech out.

now would probably be time where i say that texas tech is one of the wealthiest programs in college football becaise there is a single billionaire alumnus pouring money into the program with hopes of essentially buying a championship. so texas techs integrity has always been questionable. anyway, the university president put oit a statement that he doesnt care that sorseby violated regulation and that texas tech will sue any school that refuses to play them because it jeopardizes their championship prospects if they're umable to play any games.