The other one has chocolate syrup.

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Well this would have been fun if the stupid title hadn’t spoiled the whole thing.

never use my main for anything

Are you sure it’s your main?

The problem there is that you have to know exactly what you’ve done to mess it up in order to fix the bug, and when I fuck up my system, I usually have no idea what I did.

It’s good to see a post from this community again - it was one of my favorites on the other website, and I’d love to see it really succeed here.

Dunno why Pythagoras would be mad, since the Pythagorean theorem was known for at least a thousand years before his time.

“Mead/honey” followed basically the exact same path, except for the final borrowing of the Japanese word back into English.

Proto-Indo-European *med^hu > English “mead”
Proto-Indo-European *med^hu > Tocharian B (not A) “mit” > Old Chinese “mit” > Japanese “hachi-mitsu” (bee-honey)

This is why we should start moving the main communities like memes and world news off instances like lemmy.ml

/c/badlinguistics

To prove your claim that “billionaires are just regular idiots who won the birth lottery”, you would have to go billionaire by billionaire and show that all of them conform to these assertions. I’ve given a decent number of examples for whom this would be quite difficult.

You have failed to do so, and instead have not only misconstrued two examples out of hundreds as representative samples, but have the audacity to claim that I’m the one who doesn’t understand statistics.

I’ve pointed this out to you multiple times, and you’ve dodged the point so many times that at this point it’s clear that you have no intention of participating in this conversation in good faith.

Yet again, Bill Gates is almost completely irrelevant to this conversation. He’s just one billionaire among hundreds, and was one of the examples I happened to jump to first. In hindsight, I likely should have avoided an individual that would trigger you so much.

You’ve claimed that billionaires are just regular idiots who won the birth lottery. I’ve demonstrated that you haven’t show that this is the case. Not even close.

To do so would require showing that each billionaire a) is an idiot, and b) has won the genetic lottery. You’ve ignored all of the other billionaires I’ve brought into the discussion, likely intentionally because they don’t conform to your requirements.

That already makes me skeptical of your intellectual honesty, but I’ll reserve judgment until I see your reply (or lack thereof) to this comment.

I did. I even watched the non sequitur Youtube video.

You’ve still failed to show that:

a) all billionaires are “regular idiots”

and

b) that all billionaires have necessarily “won the birth lottery” (in addition to not having defined the term in a way that would exclude the vast majority of the developed world, in which case the claim is near-vacuous)

All you’ve managed to show is that zip codes are correlated with financial success in general (nothing about billionaires here), and that luck plays a huge factor in success as well, which may explain why an idiot like Musk can become a billionaire, but doesn’t prove that all billionaires are “regular idiots who won the birth lottery”.

If you truly believe that, then what are your thoughts on, for example, Oprah, J.K. Rowling, Do Won Chang, Leonardo del Vecchio, Kenny Troutt, Francois Pinault, etc.?

I mean, that’s a hilariously depressing anecdote, but your title is demonstrably inaccurate. Just to take one prominent example, let’s look at Jeff Bezos: he was born to teenage parents who struggled financially. His mom worked while she put herself through night school. Also, (and this is kinda beside my point but still,) Jeff graduated summa cum laude from Princeton.

And even if we take someone who came from money like Bill Gates, whose family was probably worth $4-5 million, it still doesn’t make sense to say that he’s a billionaire “because he won the birth lottery”. (Again, he’s also far from an idiot, but that’s not the main point here.) How many other thousands of people are born into families worth a few million dollars, and how many of them become billionaires?

Also, what’s your cutoff for “winning the birth lottery”? Hell, I’m a regular idiot who also won the birth lottery compared to 95% of the world, yet I’m still not a billionaire.

Yes, Musk is a moron, but statements like “billionaires are just regular idiots who won the birth lottery” are, in a large percentage of cases, factually untrue.

Is this Blahaj.zone admin “child abuse material” or actual child abuse material?

Fun fact: while a much more often occurrence than once in a lifetime, “Thursday the 20th” is tied with “Saturday the 20th” as the least-likely combination of days of the week with the 20th day of the month, even though you’d think the chances would be exactly 1/7.

Here’s the math about the Gregorian calendar that explains why. (Even though the post is about Friday the 13th, it straightforwardly can be applied to any other day/date combination as well.)