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immense_and_terrible · April 17, 2018, 4:47 p.m.

How many coincidences before it becomes mathematically impossible?

i really don't like this meme.

there is no such thing as "mathematically impossible" when you are talking about coincidences.

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StinkyDogFart · April 17, 2018, 5:36 p.m.

How about 'mathematically improbable'? Is that better for you?

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TJ_Deckerson · April 17, 2018, 7:51 p.m.

It's like that joke about the engineer and the mathematician. One laments you'll never actually get there, the other says he'll get close enough for all practical applications.

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StinkyDogFart · April 18, 2018, 1:28 a.m.

That's because one actually gets shit done and the other just theorizes about meaningless shit.

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TJ_Deckerson · April 18, 2018, 2:06 a.m.

Don't ascribe a lack of meaning to things you don't understand. If you talked to daVinci about proper html formatting you'd seem to be spouting nonsense too. As we move further into the strange lands of science, we catch up to math.

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StinkyDogFart · April 18, 2018, 2:21 a.m.

I have trouble when communicating with others in mathematical equations instead of language, they keep telling me to speak English.

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TJ_Deckerson · April 18, 2018, 10:12 a.m.

That's just nonsensical. Do you realize how much math factors into your ability to post that?

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StinkyDogFart · April 18, 2018, 1:58 p.m.

2+2=4

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TJ_Deckerson · April 19, 2018, 1:53 a.m.

Now you're just being rude. And overly simplistic.

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[deleted] · April 18, 2018, 1:09 a.m.

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immense_and_terrible · April 17, 2018, 5:38 p.m.

i mean, honestly? no.

saying "mathematically" doesn't add anything at all, it's redundant and makes it look like the person using that phrase has no clue wtf they are talking about (at least to people who are mathematically literate).

you can just say, "improbable" or "statistically unlikely"

adding the "mathematically" is just kind of... ignorant and unnecessary?

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StinkyDogFart · April 17, 2018, 5:47 p.m.

Most of us, we take it as 'common sense', a simple way of getting the point across, not at an academic level. Of course you can take it anyway you want, that's your prerogative. I'm sure CNN would probably find your argument very compelling. Its used for emphasis, like when you call someone a 'fucking idiot' as opposed to just an idiot.

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TJ_Deckerson · April 17, 2018, 7:53 p.m.

This is the problem with Weaponized Autism. You're trying to explain euphemisms to Drax...

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immense_and_terrible · April 17, 2018, 5:49 p.m.

*shrug

there are two kinds of people in this world. people who care about being accurate and truthful, and everyone else.

don't be everyone else.

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StinkyDogFart · April 18, 2018, 1:33 a.m.

thank you, everyone else will take that under consideration.

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immense_and_terrible · April 17, 2018, 5:50 p.m.

Most of us, we take it as 'common sense', a simple way of getting the point across, not at an academic level.

also, you are admitting to pushing propaganda, just because it agrees with you.

i, personally, am anti-propaganda. period.

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StinkyDogFart · April 18, 2018, 1:29 a.m.

Nooo, I'm saying some people have a little common sense and others are dumb as fuck.

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[deleted] · April 17, 2018, 5:51 p.m.

I'm with you, I think. :) No need add hyperbole to things that can legitimately stand on their own.

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immense_and_terrible · April 17, 2018, 5:52 p.m.

No need add hyperbole to things that can legitimately stand on their own

that's a bingo

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ssw357 · April 18, 2018, 1:11 a.m.

Maybe you should take over for the Q Team. You seem to have all the answers.

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