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  • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlCheckmate Valve
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    5 days ago

    Naw I didn’t mean that, but hell yeah let’s be here anyway. To me, technically the joke is that none of us probably bother to put in our real birth month and date when Steam asks us to verify our age before viewing the next game suggestion in our discovery queue or wherever; just spin that wheel for the year lol. But the wording you pointed out is the only tipoff that it’s what I’m talking about, over-explaining would have made it boring, and if I go too subtle, then nobody gets it. I was genuinely thanking ye for the noticing the deliberate wording and I hope you got a chuckle :D






  • And before someone gets up in arms about the research papers, the researchers don’t get paid by the journals for publishing with them. In fact, the researchers need to pay the journal to publish, and then the journal turns around and charges people to read it.

    What you’re describing here is called predatory publishing and is not the norm. It’s the “fake news” of scientific journals. I’m not “up in arms” about the original topic of making info available to the public whatsoever, just wanted to correct this part.

    https://beallslist.net/





  • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlProtect yourself friends.
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    1 month ago

    Literally the first thing I do on every new computer I’ve used in the last 20 years or so is change the setting to show all file extensions. It’s always been scummy of Microsoft to hide those details and can only be justified at all by the notion that they want to make people dependent on their icons…which is a decent business justification and a horrible moral justification.






  • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlgo get your eyes checked
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    3 months ago

    That’s really not true at all though. Look up “Food Pantries in my area” and see how many places offer food in your area. The blind man would qualify for lifetime disability checks. Food stamps are a thing, charities and churches do this kind of work as well. My city has an emergency rent program and there are, of course, homeless shelters and soup kitchens as well. It’s really that society’s mechanism for meeting the needs of the hungry are part voluntary (charity) and part automatic with entitlements (not a bad word!) and sometimes people fall through the cracks.

    This is why getting people connected to resources is such a big deal.





  • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml6÷2(1+2)
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    4 months ago

    That you’re still wrong? As I said, the true answer is that the problem is written poorly due to the obelus and thus is open to interpretation. You’re entitled to your own interpretation since it’s written poorly, I just find it pretty obviously less logical than multiplying using the distributive property first to resolve the term with the parentheses fully as you would in any advanced math.

    Also, distributive law and distributive property are the same thing per Khan academy “The distributive property is sometimes called the distributive law of multiplication and division.”

    Wait till you hear that “i before e except after c” wasn’t true either. It’s wild that you think 7th grade math overrules grad school math though lol.