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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 70 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I know they meant "worst" in the sense of "bad at math," but now I'm imagining the world's worst mathematician trying to figure out how to use math to commit ethic cleansing or poison water supplies or make pugs' noses even more fucked up or something.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

ethic cleansing

Tbh that doesn't sound too bad? Like maybe take a nice shower but with cruelty free/plant-based soap that wasn't animal tested (and obviously there's no drought concern in this scenario).

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Ethic cleansing is when I throw a short fuse grenade into an ethics debate.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That would be 'ethical cleansing'. Ethic cleansing would be to cleanse ethic, meaning you are getting rid of the ethic. That is basically just erasing one's morals. I think that's already being taken care of.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

No, you're just washing off the shitty, grimy ethics that accumulated on the good core ethics.

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

The humble military industrial complex:

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 57 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

~~Eastern~~ Most Europeans who use , as a decimal point will only receive fifteen euros.

[–] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're counting Germany as eastern Europe?

[–] wieson@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] donuts@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

And Denmark

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 9 points 3 months ago

The only Europeans that use the . as a decimal separator are the British and present and former colonies.

All continental Europe except Gibraltar use the ,, and consequently so do most of Africa and South America.

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I get using a comma as a radix, sure. It makes grammatical sense, like saying "two, and three tenths", just a little pause between concepts.

But how does it make any sense anywhere to use a full-stop for grouping digits?! "1.000.000.000.000" looks ludicrous, not to mention we can't even agree on whether thats a billion or a million!

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

It doesn't make grammatical sense, but in a typesetting and writing sense it checks out – comma is the larger of the two symbols

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Nah it's most more of the world than just Americans this time

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Most of these hypotheticals are pretty lame. Like... Why would I care if another person got the same amount as me? I would only care if everyone got the same amount because that would cause massive inflation and now my million dollars is worthless.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even if everyone got the same amount, I would just press the button every week - and now I've YOLO implemented a form of Universal Basic Income.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd invent a machine that hits the button 1000 times a second and after a bunch of hours I'd buy Tesla, Amazon, Google and Apple and so on and turn them into companies profitable for humanity.

But first I'd buy some ice-cream.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

What options could I place before I press the button?

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 3 months ago

I would only care if everyone got the same amount because that would cause massive inflation and now my million dollars is worthless.

Everyone's money won't mean much. Welcome to being poor, billionaries.

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Damn, I'm bad at maths, but am no mathematician...

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I'll have what she's having

[–] EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That took me too long to get, I guess I'm the one on the right.

[–] Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it at all. What does that make me?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

The creator of the meme is the world's worst mathematician.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago

The question isn't if I'd press the button, but how many times can I press it before it breaks.