https://xkcd.com/2922

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Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland © The UK (d) Europe (or ‘the EU’) (e) Greater London

  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    8 is yes, but I don’t have enough space to fit the proof in a post.

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      7 months ago

      Today I triggered a guy who hates FTP and he gave me 4 whole nested comments ranting about how bad it is under the hood. Maybe you just don’t wanna fit the proof.

    • tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      from the explanation:

      This is a famous, centuries-old open question in math known as Goldbach’s conjecture. Mathematicians widely believe that it is true,it has held true for every number checked up to 4 ⋅ 1018, but since it’s impossible to check every number, we can’t assume it’s universally true

      Way more than enough to make any thing true on the interweb these days

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          7 months ago

          Oh no dude, that wasn’t referred to you at all, I got and enjoyed your lighthearted humour, the comment was a just general consideration on the rhetoric I too often encounter when diving into a heavily controversial threads on the interweb; e.g. usually a rando with 5 figures karma points will suddenly pop up out of nowhere bringing up bro’mbastically that in his own singular experience the argument was true/false, therefore whatever was the hypothesis, or the wall of text of fact-checked peer-reviewed argumentation presented, it surely must be simply correct/wrong…and everyone lived happily ever after in demagogyland.

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    7 months ago

    4 is a trick question. Both had zero shark attacks, the so-called “shark” in Jaws was in fact a symbol of predatory capitalism and its amoral violence against the proletariat

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        7 months ago

        That is why the explanation continues: “(other than pedantic exceptions due to calendar issues or timezone alterations, or someone dying before their birthday, or being born on a leap day, none of which apply in this case)”.

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        7 months ago

        A friend of mine has his birthday on feb 29th. He was turning 49 and me and my gf showed up to his party with balloons with the number 12 on them (since that’s how many actual birthdays he’d had).

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    7 months ago

    Number 7 is gonna be a real question one day. Wonder whether it’ll be pneumatic tubes or matter transporters that gets there first?

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Nah, small airplanes are relatively easy to build. Even if we eventually stop large-scale production there’ll always be the occasional hobbiest putting a one-seater together.

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        Who built the last CRT TV?

        Who built the last commercial sailing ship?

        Who built the last steam locomotive?

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          Who built the last steam locomotive?

          As long as there are old men there will always be steam trains. They always run on dedicated lines between the hours of 9:15 a.m. And 10:02 a.m. every 5th Thursday unless they cannot be bothered or it’s raining.

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            The point is so far above you, you didn’t even see it fly past

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      He really has a thing for including shark attacks in all his movies, if you pay attention there’s tons of subtle shark stack references in all of his films.

  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl
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    5: originally? None. They say there were no stars or planets. Also time and space came to be afterwards.

    Edit: I just read the explainxkcd, I get it now. :)

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      1. Don Majkowski threw a game winning touchdown pass to Sterling Sharpe in 1989 but the points were taken away as an illegal forward pass penalty, until later they saw the replay footage and awarded the points post game.
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      7 months ago

      …is the second largest city in Australia. But also has an inflated sense of self-importance.

      ;)

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        7 months ago

        It was also the capital before Canberra, so I guess it gets to be the other one after Canberra?

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          7 months ago

          Only Melbourne was previously the official capital of the federated colonies which became the Commonwealth of Australia. Sydney was, and still is, the capital of NSW - but was never the capital of the country.

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    7 months ago

    8 (about Goldbachs conjecture) is one that I don’t quite get. Isn’t the number 8 already proof that this isn’t true (sum of 4+4)?