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And then his old girlfriend from the small town shows up and causes problems and damn, still writing Superman.

Hallmark Christmas movie but the salt-of-the-earth small-town guy moves to the big city and falls in love with the cynical career woman and they stay in the city and work side by side to make the world a better wait that’s Superman, once again I have just written Superman

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"Math Problems" like this one are very much like the sort of sentences people point to in order to demonstrate the necessity of the Oxford Comma. They are deliberately ambiguous and have insufficient punctuation/notation to clarify the ambiguity.

And as with those Oxford Comma problems, if you understand how things work it's not all that ambiguous. 16 is the best answer available with the notation given, just as almost no one really thinks JFK and Stalin were strippers. But there's always going to be people who follow a rule too strictly, or misremember it just enough (like thinking all multiplication happens first, then all division) that they are convinced that it MUST be 1, or that JFK was a stripper.

Write better sentences or better equations and you reduce the ambiguity. In the OP case, someone has already gone to the hassle of formatting the uses of horizontal lines instead of the stupid ÷ symbol. (Side note: the use of ÷ almost always means they are trying to be ambiguous, because it doesn't play by the clearer rules of "thing over other thing" at all.) In the case of the dead leaders, "We invited JFK and Stalin, and also hired strippers." Because even with an Oxford Comma, the original sentence indicates equal treatment for JFK, Stalin, and the strippers, which seems unlikely as well.

People WORK to create ambiguity in clickbait math posts. They're farming engagement.

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This is also known as the DIT (Damn It, Todd) method, as it was first discovered in CRPGs and then generalized. Researchers are still working on an implementation for card games, but they (well, their postdocs) keep getting nasty paper cuts.

If you unadvance the plot to before the even game started... uh... w-what happens then?

Well, some games already take strictly non-chronological time into account! If you're playing Blades in the Dark then it's technically possible for anyone to narrate at some point a flashback to events before the campaign began. So in that case you simply keep on playing. But in less advanced games without such mechanics it causes an underflow error and you win the game and can never play it again.

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In the real squid games, you're the game ball. And the after-game snack.

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

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Well, that's with ads. If you edit out the ads there's not 7000 hours.

google ai is living in a paradise where there's 7000 hours of deep space 9

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Professional Matchmakers DNI

ok this dni has me sobbing

proshippers are the ONLY thing on the list

this person doesn’t know what they are

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Even that holds them to a higher standard than the Presidency.

If a felon is president, every felon needs to be able to vote immediately from this moment forward

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Yes, but the game believes in conservation of booty shorts, so once Miss Hext stopped wearing them, someone had to pick up the duty.

Although I'm sure some people wanted Thancred to be the one.

Always wanted to see Alisaie in RDM set. :)

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A doodle of a doodlebug.

try it i fucking dare you

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I didn't realize Oolon Colluphid was on Tumblr....

a woman being feminine is right-wing coded which is masculine coded. a woman being masculine is left-wing coded which is feminine coded. this disproves the existence of women

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YAOI is for the NEET.

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This reader added important context: Bishop Strickland is a MAGAt and repeatedly called Pope Francis illegitimate and was heading for an anti-Pope situation. Also a COVID anti-vaxxer, pushed for a return to the Mass in Latin and otherwise rolling back decades of slow reforms in the Catholic Church.

im fucking sobbing why did they kill him twice in a row in the community notes

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The opposite of a stage mother.

I didn't expect that at all 😺🤣

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Felt like some breakfast.

x

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Scrappy is Scooby's therapy dog, and is even worse at his job.

POV you are a guy in a monster suit and you are about to be meddled with so hard

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See also Empty Graves by @unpretty.

Starting to think a cooler headcanon for Clark’s upbringing might just be that the entire town of Smallville collectively decided to just go with it and accept that Martha and John's kid has superpowers, but we don't talk about it.

Someone's tractor gets stuck and nothing can get it out? "Be a dear and run down to the Kents, would you? Ask for Clark?"

"Why Clark, we need a machine--"

"Run along now."

Or if he kicks too hard and the football vanishes into the upper stratosphere, no it didn't, we all collectively saw it land over there *vague hand movements*

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I was assigned "dvandom" (at magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu, not that this server even exists anymore) as my email address in 1992 when I started grad school. By the time I figured out how to change my displayed name on Usenet, I was becoming known as Dvandom in various communities, so I leaned into it.

I’m curious, given the length of time I’ve had my own online moniker:

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