Post a quote, that could have just been text but instead for some stupid reason is an image, entertain me!

Wow, you aren't kidding

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kaostheory wrote:
Thirteenth wrote:
RolandofGilead wrote:
farley3k wrote:

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Ya know, now that I think about it. That could be considered correct.

Yeah... Yeah I can see it.

It depends on the surface the ball is on. It could do any of the above. It could even roll away from you and then come zigzagging back (I'm picturing something reminiscent of marble madness)

You only pretended to push the ball, you never actually pushed the ball. It stayed exactly where it was while you were pretending you pushed it.

Stengah wrote:

You only pretended to push the ball, you never actually pushed the ball. It stayed exactly where it was while you were pretending you pushed it.

or hey, you just learned you're a jedi! congrats!

The implication that there could be a correct answer to what happens in one's imagination however is frighteningly Totalitarian.

tanstaafl wrote:

Wow, you aren't kidding

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Brilliant.

Stengah wrote:
kaostheory wrote:
Thirteenth wrote:
RolandofGilead wrote:
farley3k wrote:

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Ya know, now that I think about it. That could be considered correct.

Yeah... Yeah I can see it.

It depends on the surface the ball is on. It could do any of the above. It could even roll away from you and then come zigzagging back (I'm picturing something reminiscent of marble madness)

You only pretended to push the ball, you never actually pushed the ball. It stayed exactly where it was while you were pretending you pushed it.

Or maybe the ball pretends to be pushed away. It's hard to know for sure until we try.

I pretended to push the ball and it told me it had enough of being pushed around and was going to begin an uprising.
Mind you then it just started spinning in place.

Stengah wrote:
kaostheory wrote:
Thirteenth wrote:
RolandofGilead wrote:
farley3k wrote:

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Ya know, now that I think about it. That could be considered correct.

Yeah... Yeah I can see it.

It depends on the surface the ball is on. It could do any of the above. It could even roll away from you and then come zigzagging back (I'm picturing something reminiscent of marble madness)

You only pretended to push the ball, you never actually pushed the ball. It stayed exactly where it was while you were pretending you pushed it.

I pretend to push the ball, the ball rolls away from me as it is on a decline, it then bounces off a wall and begins rolling back toward me down a zigzagging decline. There is not enough information to know what the ball does whether I push on it or not. Even if actually pushing on a ball, the ball may be too heavy for me to move it (push on the earth... Did it move? Yes, but your push didn't appreciably change the predicted movement)

From doing a little research, it look like the question is trying to fulfill a particular Grade Level Expectation learning objective. https://www.louisianabelieves.com/do... https://www.perma-bound.com/state-st...

PS-E-B3: describing an object’s motion by tracing and measuring its position over time
25. Observe and analyze motion and position of objects over time (e.g., shadows, apparent path of the Sun across the sky)
GLE 17: Trace the motion of an object, such as a ball or toy car, as it rolls (PS-E-B3).

Which is fine, as far as learning objectives go; seems like the problem is that the question was badly worded.

"Pretend" is doing a lot of work here. It was possibly chosen as a grade-appropriate way to describe the operation being requested. I've found similar questions use the phrasing "what do you expect to happen" which seems like a more precise way to put it.

I suspect that there's a vocabulary adjustment that the question was filtered through or someone was trying to put their own original spin on the question to avoid copyright issues and failed badly. (Which I've seen often in sub-par curriculums that are, for example, trying to give the definition of a word without copying the exact dictionary definition. They end up abusing a lot of near-synonyms in ways that would make Orwell cringe.)

Aetius wrote:
groan wrote:

I was just about to edit your post to FTFY and add spaces because it looked like you had not added the double spaces but in pressing "Quote" I see you actually did!  It appears the forum strips out the extra space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not the forum, it's HTML - it collapses white space by default, no matter what it is or how much of it there is, and this includes tabs, etc.

It's why   was created!
     

         

 

   

Gremlin wrote:

From doing a little research, it look like the question is trying to fulfill a particular Grade Level Expectation learning objective. https://www.louisianabelieves.com/do... https://www.perma-bound.com/state-st...

PS-E-B3: describing an object’s motion by tracing and measuring its position over time
25. Observe and analyze motion and position of objects over time (e.g., shadows, apparent path of the Sun across the sky)
GLE 17: Trace the motion of an object, such as a ball or toy car, as it rolls (PS-E-B3).

Which is fine, as far as learning objectives go; seems like the problem is that the question was badly worded.

"Pretend" is doing a lot of work here. It was possibly chosen as a grade-appropriate way to describe the operation being requested. I've found similar questions use the phrasing "what do you expect to happen" which seems like a more precise way to put it.

I suspect that there's a vocabulary adjustment that the question was filtered through or someone was trying to put their own original spin on the question to avoid copyright issues and failed badly. (Which I've seen often in sub-par curriculums that are, for example, trying to give the definition of a word without copying the exact dictionary definition. They end up abusing a lot of near-synonyms in ways that would make Orwell cringe.)

Wow, I never expected to be this disturbed to see bureaucracy applied to education in this way.

Clearly the correct answer would be "What ball?"

My internal geometry is the intersection of a non-euclidean 11.73 dimensional space and some incomprehensible horror which I suppose you are referring to as "the ball", what happens when YOU push it?!

see also- questions and an educational system biased against people with aphantasia

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only 7 days? psht
I've yet to meet any parents who help Santa deliver a note along the lines of "no toys this year, you were quite a little sh*t back on February 3rd"

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tanstaafl wrote:

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The funny thing is, even though WH40k ships travel through hell, they still call it "The Warp."

Stengah wrote:
tanstaafl wrote:

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I especially like my tattooed tree corpses bound in the skin of dead cattle when I display them.

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I'm pretty sure I remember something about them having both Human and Horse stomachs to feed, with separate diets for each. I want to say it was in one of the Narnia books; I have memories of them eating human food and also grazing on grass.

So I think the answer to the question is probably "both."

Vargen wrote:

I'm pretty sure I remember something about them having both Human and Horse stomachs to feed, with separate diets for each. I want to say it was in one of the Narnia books; I have memories of them eating human food and also grazing on grass.

So I think the answer to the question is probably "both."

This actually sounds like a Piers Anthony novel.

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I need an outtake version of this.

Vargen wrote:

I'm pretty sure I remember something about them having both Human and Horse stomachs to feed, with separate diets for each. I want to say it was in one of the Narnia books; I have memories of them eating human food and also grazing on grass.

So I think the answer to the question is probably "both."

But only one mouth? How does this digestive tract work?

The same way human digestive systems do? You chew your food up, and when you swallow, you decide which stomach it goes into.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

The same way human digestive systems do? You chew your food up, and when you swallow, you decide which stomach it goes into.

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Clock confirmed as secret centaur.

Demosthenes wrote:

Clock confirmed as secret centaur.

Centaurs aren't real. Do you understand that?