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This package of bagels I bought expired on a date that doesn't exist. (i.imgur.com)

I originally posted this on the other site back when I took the picture, and it resulted in a lot of confused comments, especially from Americans, eventually getting removed by overzealous mods. Either way, I promise you that this date does not exist, and has never existed.

bstix,

Spoken and written don’t need to use the same format. Time also isn’t spoken using the written format hhmmss.

bstix,

I’m impressed that it only took a quarter of a dozen fortnights.

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I can see it working to filter out incompatible partners.

Attraction… maybe for someone looking for a certain kind of partner.

bstix,

That’s the ground. It’s probably not an issue.

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It had another run in the news following her death last summer.

There’s nothing wrong with people TIL today, because she was right then and still is.

bstix,

When my kid was a toddler we were standing in a street and she suddenly pointed at a group of people that looked like Pakistanis or Indians or thereabouts and asked loudly “Why do those people have dark skin?”

The entire street stopped and looked at us just waiting for my answer.

That wasn’t the time to go into long explanations about immigration, adoption, skin pigmentation or UV radiation.

I answered loud and clear “That’s because their parents had dark skin”.

Everyone shrugged and continued their business, but I’d like to think that my simple answer was a lesson for all the people who were ready to get offended from either a racist answer or from an overly political correct answer.

Some things don’t need to be difficult.

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Sort of. This plate sticks out because in order to create a shadow and light this way when facing down it would have to be angled in a way that doesn’t match with the others when also assuming that they’re all placed on the same surface. It only looks right with the others when seen as face up. The trick here is that we normally assume light to come from the top when given no other clues, but this assumption doesn’t match with our assumption of placement. The text also suggests the wrong way first.

If the picture had been presented upside down, it might have been difficult to even ee it any other way than the correct one.

bstix,

It all looked like pills to me until I read the text. Couldn’t even see plates for a while.

Anyway, I noticed that the top right rectangular one doesn’t match the perspective when seen as face down. All the other ones are round, so they don’t insinuate a perspective at all. That’s why that plate is the key.

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I liked the jackass skit better.

Edit: yeah okay if you haven’t seen it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=80HRJgGgGR8

bstix,

Home ownership is for people who DIY.

I’ve fixed enough things myself to realise that most things are broken because the previous owners also fixed it themselves.

bstix,

…and you know this because…?

bstix,

It’s scrambled eggs in a bag.

They’re used in hotel restaurants, canteens, cafeteries etc. for making a uniform product when serving many people in a buffet.

It’s alright, I guess. Eggs are great for this kind of product.

It would be nice to save the plastic bag and just make actual scrambled eggs, which is about as difficult as opening the bag anyway. However in kitchens like in hotels where the staff is new every month, it’s an easy way to keep that dish from fucking up.

I was once at a 4 star hotel where a chef would cook each dish of scrambled eggs individually for each guest from a selection of additional ingredients and spices. Sure it was a luxury experience, but I could as well have eaten the bagged eggs and added some stuff myself if I actually needed mushrooms and peppers etc.

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An unknown factor is if you even get to make a second try at getting 100% if you already passed with 50% on the first test. If it is possible to redo a passed test, I still find it unlikely that anyone would do so given that they know that they don’t know the answers.

Including the edit that you’re not told which one was right in the first attempt with a 50% score, it makes a lot more sense to accept the first 50% pass. Choosing different answers for the second try would only give the maximum score of 50% again, while choosing completely random answers again would only give the same chance as the first attempt, in which 0% is still more likely than 100%

Similarly, if you do get 100% on the first attempt, why’d you want to try again… a lot of the answers here calculate the overall statistics when using both attempts regardless.

bstix,

GPT-4 is a language model, and while it was an interesting take, it appears to be the wrong tool for the job.

The answer is wrong and without any documentation or proof showing the line of thought to determine the result it’s just a useless number.

Math is not really about the result. It is about understanding the process. Having an AI do that is completely against the purpose of asking this kind of questions in the first place. OP doesn’t need to know if the chance is 68% or 75%, but rather how to figure it out.

bstix,

You only accounted for the situations with one correct answer in the case where it is the first question.

bstix, (edited )

Historically, Santa was a devil figure in Finland.

The original character Nuttipukki was an evil spirit that would go from door to door demanding presents and leftovers from the yule feast.

It later turned into Joulupukki which gave gifts instead of taking them.

Eventually that turned into the classic Coca-Cola Santa, but you can still find goats as Christmas decoration in Finland and Sweden.

bstix,

Yeah I mean, it obviously depends on your age and world wide location. Contemporary 70 y/o in Europe have a decent understanding of math and logic. It’s a narrow cut off though. My grand parents on my father’s side never touched a computer while my grandparents on my mother’s side were shitposting on Facebook on their cellphones.

They were the example of the difference between understanding running a Fergus’s tractor and Wndows 95, despite having less than a decade in age difference

bstix,

I once had a teacher who told us to “Explain the curriculum to your grandmother. That’s when YOU get it.”

IMO ELI70 is somewhat better than ELI5 because it allows people to explain it without childish simplifications, but with the same challenge in comprehension.

bstix,

Gentleman tossing the salad before the serving the sausage.

bstix,

Yeah well that’s from where I learned English, so my vocabulary might be a little froody.

bstix, (edited )

I’d like to take moment to appreciate that Space Oddity was released 54 years ago and still hits my daily feed.

Bowie always presented himself as just some dude doing whatever he wanted to do, and while I never did much to seek him out, he still constantly pops up in my life in the most peculiar ways.

Hopefully future historians will be able to explain what he actually did, because I have no clue, but his influence obviously transcended the medium that he used for doing it.

bstix,

I either hate or love The Far Side. This one hits the spot.

I bought a really old house and some years later an old local guy came in (for completely different reasons), and asked “So you got rid of all the holes?”

And I go “What holes?”

“Yeah the owners some 30 years ago put holes in all the walls to run his train track all over the house.”

It explains a lot.

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I don’t. They were patched over by whoever lived here in the meantime.

But it explains why all my walls are patchwork of different materials.

Like I wanted to change the floor and was happily surprised by the old wooden floor, but then there was 2’x2’ part missing where the chimney which was removed in 1930 was… That’s the sort of house.

I’ve been around most of it, but it still surprises me.

bstix,

Yes it would. Had I known it was already prepared for it, I’d never have repaired the walls.

bstix,

Have same issue. It usually works to “open in external”

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