⅐ = 0.1̅4̅2̅8̅5̅7̅

The above is 42857 * 7, but you also get interesting numbers for other subsets:

     7 * 7 =     49
    57 * 7 =    399
   857 * 7 =   5999
  2857 * 7 =  19999
 42857 * 7 = 299999
142857 * 7 = 999999

Related to cyclic numbers:

142857 * 1 = 142857
142857 * 2 = 285714
142857 * 3 = 428571
142857 * 4 = 571428
142857 * 5 = 714285
142857 * 6 = 857142
142857 * 7 = 999999

Think it’s actually this kid:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liō

Reminds me of superdickery.com, which looks to be gone now. Fortunately, the wayback machine has a copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060116031910/http://www.superdickery.com/dick/1.html

Lots of examples of Superman just being a dick to people for no seemingly good reason

You’ll like this poem:

https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

The start of it:

Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)

Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

If you’re interested in seeing more Peanuts, join us at [email protected]. I’m currently posting all ~50 years (!) of daily strips starting from the beginning, but general posts about Peanuts are welcome too

What do you disagree with the article on?

The answer will shock approximately nobody on Lemmy, but it’s a good, careful look at what history can show us, from a pedantic historian.

They weren’t going to vote for Harris anyways. If she magically brought peace to the middle east tomorrow, they’d find some other reason to not vote for her.

Which ends up leading up to Last Thursdayism. Weird to believe in a deity that just enjoys fucking with you, but to each their own.

Totally. My comment was just a note that if you screw up like the alt text is humorously referring to, that’s a good tool for fixing it.

FYI if you get mojibake like in the alt text, this is a great tool for automatically fixing it:

https://github.com/rspeer/python-ftfy

You might be interested in the community I cross-posted it to then, if you’re not already in it: [email protected]

Yeah, not really defending the meme. I just lazily cross-posted it from [email protected], but the discussion here has been great

Thanks!

That’s a whole 'nother rabbit hole, that eventually leads to this:

I had a “Creationism vs evolution” class because I did one semester at a religious college before realizing I wasn’t religious. It was about what’d you’d expect, and no, the credit didn’t transfer to a real college

So the meme is incomplete, but the general point still stands from what I can tell, right? Stars take orders of magnitude longer than 4k years to create lead as well, and there is no way of lead being created that could happen in 4k years, unless you start getting into “God made the universe look old” territory?

Fortunately when they go find some page in AiG, you can just go point at the corresponding entry here: https://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html

Do you have some more reading about this? The wikipedia article doesn’t really touch on it.

You’re in good company. Steam even managed to do it for a whole bunch of people:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671