That alien doesn’t even have a numeral for 4, so it wouldn’t have a word for it either. If it speaks English, uses base 4, and uses the same words we do for numbers, it would sound like this when counting rocks: “One, two, three, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, twenty…”. But when it says “twelve”, it means the same thing as when we say “six”.
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The joke: In any base X, the Xth number is always the first number to require a second digit. Base 4 goes 1,2,3,10,11,12,13,20,21,etc. Base 7 goes 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,etc.
A little lower, Li, but close enough!
I don’t purr when my cat wakes me up. He should take a hint.
Oh like that circle hasn’t heard that one a million times 🙄
Really Bad Serial Killer is in the top right
The theme being you have 1 option and it’s a bad one.
This. You don’t play Scrabble without an agreed upon dictionary for challenges. Comic premise rejected!
Good analogy, as long as that candy jar is the only food available.
You have to be patient and let it soak in the milk for a couple minutes. When the outside is soft and there is still a little crunch in the center, it’s ready.
Minecraft’s coordinate system is terrible. Y is vertical, X runs west to east (fine), and Z runs north to south!
It’s sad that, even at the good churches, God still refuses up to 3 miracles just to make sure they remember who’s boss.
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I wasn’t making an argument for any particular economic system. Just pointing out the absurdity of the idea that food is “free” or doesn’t require work to produce.
I’m for an equitable distribution of resources and drudgery. Unfortunately, drudgery is an unavoidable aspect of civilization, but I think we can all agree that civilization is (or should be) a net positive. We just need to spread it out evenly.
I guess we could go back to a hunter gatherer lifestyle tomorrow. There would certainly be a lot of complaining, not the least of which would be about the food options. Long pig would be on the table for the first year or so





This was found by paramedics at the scene of a collision