☀ the sixth
[The video function opens to a sandwich. There is a little cat in a little suit stepping off the camera, warily investigating it, and two people half in the background of the odd angle, but for now let’s focus on the sandwich. It's disgusting. Is that cottage cheese and banana? On sourdough bread??]
No! Multiply the firtht termth firtht! That’th why it’th called “firtht”, they didn’t name it that for shitth and thmileth.
So why can’t I just solve the first set and then multiple it by the second?
Becauthe you can’t jutht add a whole number to a variable. That’th like, bathic mathematicth. And you can’t tholve for two binomialth that way.
[Even Jaspers isn’t interested in this half-eaten monstrosity. He bats at it with a grumpy flick of his tail. Seriously who is eating this thing?]
So...like this?
Yeah. Now tholve for the outthide numberth. … Show your work.
18+48x?
Yeth- wait, no. You’re getting ahead of yourthelf, you thkipped a bunch of thtepth. Tholve for the outer and inner number theparately, worry about adding them together later.
But they’re all inside.
What? Oh for fuckth thake- firtht! Outthide! Inthide! Latht! How many timeth do I have to reiterate thith! Can you underthtand the wordth I am thaying!?
Not particularly. I thought that was the purpose of us being here.
Don’t even thtart- pith off, cat.
[Sollux bats the cat away with one hand. Rose thwacks him on the shoulder. Hard.]
Ow!
That’s called displaced aggression. Try to refrain from taking it out on my cat.
No! Multiply the firtht termth firtht! That’th why it’th called “firtht”, they didn’t name it that for shitth and thmileth.
So why can’t I just solve the first set and then multiple it by the second?
Becauthe you can’t jutht add a whole number to a variable. That’th like, bathic mathematicth. And you can’t tholve for two binomialth that way.
[Even Jaspers isn’t interested in this half-eaten monstrosity. He bats at it with a grumpy flick of his tail. Seriously who is eating this thing?]
So...like this?
Yeah. Now tholve for the outthide numberth. … Show your work.
18+48x?
Yeth- wait, no. You’re getting ahead of yourthelf, you thkipped a bunch of thtepth. Tholve for the outer and inner number theparately, worry about adding them together later.
But they’re all inside.
What? Oh for fuckth thake- firtht! Outthide! Inthide! Latht! How many timeth do I have to reiterate thith! Can you underthtand the wordth I am thaying!?
Not particularly. I thought that was the purpose of us being here.
Don’t even thtart- pith off, cat.
[Sollux bats the cat away with one hand. Rose thwacks him on the shoulder. Hard.]
Ow!
That’s called displaced aggression. Try to refrain from taking it out on my cat.