Maybe the “rhetorical question” article link would article would be a better reply. I bet you weren’t expecting an analysis of why the half-price button idea was a nonstarter.

“If A then B” means if A is true, then B is guaranteed to be true. Note that if B is true and A is false, “if A then B” is still true.

“B only if A” means the only way for B to be true is for A to be true. It’s weird, but it has the inverse truth table as “(not A) and B”.

Ask for help here if you need to. Don’t stress about finding the right place. Find a comfortable place.

Edit: sorry. I didn’t see the word “professional” in your post at first. Others have given you better advice. Crisis doesn’t always mean self-harm. There are places to talk about bills, marriage, depression, loneliness, etc.

How can we help?

Now I’m picturing an SNL-type sketch where the judge is the “this isn’t how any of this works” geico lady, and the jury insists that jail is best.

Of course Trump’s lawyers would try to help, but make it worse. And the plaintiff’s lawyers are just eating popcorn.

I mean, they can say it. It would be pretty funny.

Did all the Americans here have their beans and corn for breakfast, as is tradition?

Yeah, come to think of it, “moving the decimal” is wrong too. There must be a term for moving the decimal in the “one minus x” complement.

It’s very difficult to quote Douglas Adams without sounding like you’re pandering to nerd culture. I don’t think AI could pull it off.

I don’t know what to think of someone who could blast off accusations like this, either.

Edit: Oh. The accusation is even dumber. It’s just the header OP wrote. That was just direct to the point writing. AI or no, who cares about two tiny paragraphs.

Edit: Filled in the words my brain thought were there for everybody.

The proportion is about 0.998, and the parent post had it at 0.9998. You move the decimal point by adding 9s. There was one too many. It was off by a decimal place.

Whether you would call that “off by decimal place” or not, it is certainly larger than being off by “a tenth of a percent”. That would mean the error bars of number 0.9998 ± 10% [edit: oops, did i miss a decimal place there. i’ll leave it] would just close the gap.

I like the proportion of the smear, aka, the whole point of your post. I never heard it in those terms. It reminds me of the one where if the earth were a basketball, the moon would be a tennis ball about 9 feet away. I’ll calc out the percent errors if anyone cares.

So any sex position where the balls are higher than the penis could be called “kangy style”?

This goes by the pleasant sounding scientific name of “traumatic insemination”.

The sun is about 1000 times the mass of Jupiter. You’re off a decimal place.

Edit: That in and of itself is a quotable fact. The real number rounds to 1053. So it’s about 5% off. It’s a meaningless coincidence.

Better ones include that our moon can produce both total and annular eclipses, and (geometrically) all the other planets fit between the earth and moon, but not by much.

The Level 157 kill screen. Level 29 was called a kill screen because it’s nearly unplayable. But around 2019, it was becoming routine for matches to be decided in post-29 play. The level 29 killscreen was jokingly dubbed the thrillscreen. (don’t worry. the name didn’t last.)

NES Tetris is pretty nuts. Here is the 100 lines speedrun record for anyone who may care.

I have a Brother laser printer. (I love it, but that’s not important here.)

The firmware doesn’t support duplexing A5 paper. I’m wondering if this is a good place to dip my toe into the world of open source driver development.

Ok. Fair point. I guess I should say, they addressed their cringe. But I still thought it seemed like they were feigning concerned but actually doubling down.

Not the pirates of pissants? Have they try singing to distract them?

I love response to the backlash. It’s basically “Sorry our video was cringy and tonedeaf. We have removed the cringe.”

Well, they didn’t allow cameras. But an attendee leaked this drawing.

Let’s enjoy this period of lemmy’s growth where we don’t need Poe’s Law. It might not last.

It’s 8000 Ls in Roman numerals.