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  • As in you have them roll to see if the goons actually do discuss their plan for the 1000th time or not, or just to see what the juicy gossip is?

  • When half your users are bots anyway, might as well have half your moderators be bots too

  • Wish it was Gonald, but today's definitely a Miguel day

  • Going after the copyright holder for infringing on your work, which by merely existing commercially infringes on their copyright, is one hell of a way to get sued out the arse...

    Having said that, it is a crime that LOTR still hasn't entered the public domain yet.

  • On the bright side, if our politicians are ever forced to concede and rejoin the EU, they won't have their grandfather privileges anymore, and will actually have to participate fairly like everyone else

  • I do hope it's a "when", cause it should be alarmingly clear to everyone who isn't a rich arsehole that being in the EU was to our collective benefit...

    Having said that, if it took crippling our economy for people to learn that lesson, then we're fucked on everything else steadily coming our way (i.e. climate change)

  • God do I wish the UK was still part of the EU - cause then we'd be governed by at least some people with an actual backbone to speak of, rather than the corrupt Tories that racist dickheads keep voting in over and over

  • I suspect the author meant Gen X, but was too busy laughing at their own joke to bother checking which generation is which

  • Genuinely how is this not considered illegal in the US?
    If you tried this in most parts of Europe you'd be charged for committing bribery

  • The fucked up part is that barely a decade after his death - thanks to the efforts of Louis Pasteur - Semmelweis's work went from so controversial they condemned him to his death, to becoming the basis for the field of aseptics

  • Honestly, that's better than the literally 0 seconds the original author gave them

  • Truly the dichotomy of man

  • Pretty much. While it's worth knowing that not everyone agrees on how implicit multiplication is prioritised, anywhere that everyone agreeing on the answer actually mattered, you wouldn't write an equation as ambiguous as this one in the first place

  • The meme refers to the problem of handling implicit multiplication by juxtaposition.
    Depending on what field you're in, implicit multiplication takes priority over explicit multiplication/division (known as strong juxtaposition) rather than what you and a lot of people would assume (known as weak juxtaposition).

    With weak juxtaposition you end up 9 just as you did, but with strong juxtaposition you end up with 1 instead.

    For most people and most scenarios this doesn't matter, as you'd never encounter such ambiguous equations outside of viral puzzles like this, but it is worth knowing that not all fields agree on how implicit multiplication is handled.

  • So you were taught strong juxtaposition then, where the implicit multiplication takes priority?

  • I'll just say it again, you're the one saying this problem is completely unambiguous, with your only explanation as to why being that real people communicate as though that solves every edge case imaginable.

    I'm just saying, if you really believe that to be the case, Good luck.

  • We only get to elect our local member of Parliament, who represents a party. They elect the actual prime-minister, and when one is kicked out before election time, they get to pick another one.

    That's how we've had so many without having multiple elections, cause we didn't pick them.

    Also, for some reason loads of young people just don't vote, meaning the old fogies who do vote the Tories in over and over, who (in theory) benefit them but fuck everybody else...

    In actuality they fuck everybody except the rich, but as long as they say and do some racist/xenophobic things now and again, the old fogies run to the polls to vote them in over and over.

  • I wish I could write better...

    Bad handwriting literally runs in my family, and as hard as I've tried I've never been able to improve it. I've resorted to writing in block, and even then it still looks scruffy.

    Yet some of my colleagues have wonderful handwriting, and it makes me wonder why I couldn't have been born with better hands.

    I'm going to start trying to learn how to draw in the New Year, so I hope that helps in some way.

  • That's rich considering what sparked this conversation was you refusing to answer a simple question.

    Good luck to you too - with reading comprehension like your's, you might just need it.