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
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    2 months ago

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

    • Mango@lemmy.world
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      2 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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      2 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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          2 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.