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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • To me that’s always been the point of the show.

    Take some real world thing and push it to the point of being dystopian.

    In the “Facebook likes” one, you can make a connection to social credit systems IRL.

    The explanation is applying a “slippery slope” fallacy for pretty much every single concept.






  • It’s because in any higher level math these rules aren’t needed. Everyone just uses brackets(and mathematical notation) to clearly define an order of operations. There’s no confusion as you’ll never see something potentially ambiguous like “x * y / z / a” .

    And even if you did, the division operators would likely be horizontal lines to make it clear what is being divided.