randomaccount43543 OP ,

https://explainxkcd.com/2922

outer_spec ,
@outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

number 10 is Ringo

ivanafterall ,

Debatable.

outer_spec ,
@outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

idk man, seems pretty straightforward to me

Lennon "was the soul of the Beatles, Harrison was the spirit." Martin said. "Paul was the heart, and Ringo was the drummer." Ringo: he was the drummer

Carvex ,

"Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?"

"Ringo isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles"- The Beatles

techt ,

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/john-lennon-ringo-best-drummer/

joe_cool ,

If your fact checker is caught stealing by Buzzfeed: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/business/media/snopes-plagiarism-David-Mikkelson.html

And considered unreliable by among others Harvard: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/fact-checking-fact-checkers-a-data-driven-approach/

You might want to double check. I didn't. I just want to caution people about blindly trusting Snopes. So they might very well be right on this topic.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Relevant xkcd

DaMonsterKnees ,

Are you a dozen or so thoughts down? Yes? Do you deserve love for the perfect share? Very yes!

joe_cool ,

Brilliant, thanks.

AnalogyAddict ,

I mean... Snopes warns against blindly trusting Snopes. (After reading, make sure to click on "Additional Information" at the bottom.

uriel238 ,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I've heard from multiple sources (all dubious) that Ringo was the adhesive that held the band together during contentious times. Usually that role is appointed to the heart but in this case it was appointed to the Ringo. The drummer.

captainlezbian ,

Alternatively he was the adult in the room

Swedneck ,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

he was.. the skin?

ImplyingImplications ,

John? Is that you?

hsdkfr734r ,

5: originally? None. They say there were no stars or planets. Also time and space came to be afterwards.

Edit: I just read the explainxkcd, I get it now. :)

FiniteBanjo , (edited )
  1. Don Majkowski threw a game winning touchdown pass to Sterling Sharpe in 1989 but the points were taken away as an illegal forward pass penalty, until later they saw the replay footage and awarded the points post game.
kometes ,
@kometes@lemmy.world avatar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Replay_Game There were 37 seconds left when it was overturned--not post game.

FiniteBanjo ,

32 seconds, actually. They must have paused the game timer during the four minute deliberation, drat! If we could find a single example of results being overturned outside of a game then that would satisfy the question.

dumbass ,
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar
  1. Sydney.
zik ,

...is the second largest city in Australia. But also has an inflated sense of self-importance.

;)

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

It was also the capital before Canberra, so I guess it gets to be the other one after Canberra?

discount_door_garlic ,

Only Melbourne was previously the official capital of the federated colonies which became the Commonwealth of Australia. Sydney was, and still is, the capital of NSW - but was never the capital of the country.

Jimbo ,
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https://yiffit.net/pictrs/image/5daf39e4-b4fd-46dd-8492-0d2e7db29fdb.jpeg

threelonmusketeers ,

Leap day babies?

schnurrito ,

That is why the explanation continues: "(other than pedantic exceptions due to calendar issues or timezone alterations, or someone dying before their birthday, or being born on a leap day, none of which apply in this case)".

authorinthedark ,

are we sure that none apply in this case? which BTS members still have upcoming birthdays that they could die before

schnurrito ,

I just checked the Wikipedia articles and it seems that two of them have already had their birthday this year, five not.

Holyhandgrenade ,
@Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world avatar

A friend of mine has his birthday on feb 29th. He was turning 49 and me and my gf showed up to his party with balloons with the number 12 on them (since that's how many actual birthdays he'd had).

Redjard ,
  1. 2
    Inside and outside
RampantParanoia2365 ,

Was there like a second panel with a punchline for this one...?

HowManyNimons ,

Ten punchlines aren't enough for you?

j4yt33 ,

8 (about Goldbachs conjecture) is one that I don't quite get. Isn't the number 8 already proof that this isn't true (sum of 4+4)?

hushable ,

7+1

cori ,

1 is not a prime number. It would have to be 3+5

Ardyssian ,

Then wouldn't 4 fail the conjecture? 4 = 1+ 3 but 1 is not a prime.

Nevermind my sleepy self somehow thought 2 isn't a prime number :)

MarcomachtKuchen ,

8 is the sum of 5+3 both of which are primes. I think the Conjecture just states that there is a sum of two primes not every sum consists only of primes

j4yt33 ,

Ah gotcha! I thought it meant exclusively prime numbers

EmoDuck ,

1 isn't considered a prime number so three can't ve constructed from just primes

sudneo ,

It says even number though

sanguinepar , (edited )
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

4 then - if 1 isn't a prime, then 1+4 doesn't count.

EDIT - should have been 1+3, doh!

hstde ,

1+4 is 5 though.

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, typo. But I was wrong anyway! :-)

LemmynySnicket ,

1+4=5 not 4 and 4 isn't prime either, so idk what you meant. 4 is the sum of two primes 2+2, which I thought was what you were asking at first.

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

I screwed up twice here. Forgot 2 was a prime somehow.

1+4 was just a typo, meant 1+3.

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

2+2

sanguinepar ,
@sanguinepar@lemmy.world avatar

Jesus, I forgot 2 was a prime, what a dolt.

EmoDuck ,

Yes, but keep in mind:

I can't read

caseyweederman ,

Touché

uriel238 ,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I am disappointed in Lemmings' collective lack of Savvy regarding math trivia.

Next thing you'll be telling me you don't know how to prove there's an infinite number of prime twins.

uriel238 ,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Regarding 4. Do lawyer attacks count as shark attacks?

driving_crooner ,
@driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br avatar

*Angry Santos Dumont sounds*

Nomecks ,

8 is yes, but I don't have enough space to fit the proof in a post.

joe_cool ,

Easy, only relevant part: defined as being > 1

Mango ,

Today I triggered a guy who hates FTP and he gave me 4 whole nested comments ranting about how bad it is under the hood. Maybe you just don't wanna fit the proof.

tooLikeTheNope ,

from the explanation:

This is a famous, centuries-old open question in math known as Goldbach's conjecture. Mathematicians widely believe that it is true,it has held true for every number checked up to 4 ⋅ 1018, but since it's impossible to check every number, we can't assume it's universally true

Way more than enough to make any thing true on the interweb these days

Nomecks ,

Woosh

tooLikeTheNope , (edited )

Oh no dude, that wasn't referred to you at all, I got and enjoyed your lighthearted humour, the comment was a just general consideration on the rhetoric I too often encounter when diving into a heavily controversial threads on the interweb; e.g. usually a rando with 5 figures karma points will suddenly pop up out of nowhere bringing up bro'mbastically that in his own singular experience the argument was true/false, therefore whatever was the hypothesis, or the wall of text of fact-checked peer-reviewed argumentation presented, it surely must be simply correct/wrong...and everyone lived happily ever after in demagogyland.

feedum_sneedson ,

Then what happened?

xionzui ,

Huh, I figured neither movie was a Spielberg movie. Turns out both are

Syd ,

He really has a thing for including shark attacks in all his movies, if you pay attention there's tons of subtle shark stack references in all of his films.

Visstix ,

Yeah it was a fucking massacre in the opening scene of saving private ryan.

athos77 ,

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2922:_Pub_Trivia

ThoranTW ,

Regarding #9's alternative, "Not counting Canberra, what city was the most recently founded state capital of Australia?" is a bit of a bad question in and of itself, given that Canberra isn't a state capital, since the ACT isn't a state but rather a territory of Australia (alongside the Northern Territory).

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