• burgersc12@mander.xyz
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    12 hours ago

    Does no one understand this is a joke, talking about parallel lines and mathematical proofs is pointless when its a fucking meme

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      4 hours ago

      It’s not pointless because you can laugh about a joke and then learn something about math.

      They don’t cancel each other out. They can be at the same place and still work on their own.

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      11 hours ago

      We do understand it’s a meme and a joke. Just not a very good one, because one can easily poke holes into it.

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        8 hours ago

        Just not a very good one, because one can easily poke holes into it.

        That’s not how jokes work.

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            No, it depends on if you have humor. Yes, humor is individual, I know. But people without tend to over analyze and try to pick the joke apart, often missing the point.

            A joke doesn’t have to pass every technicality. You thinking it’s bad if it doesn’t, only applies to your humor (or lack there of).

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              Ooh, watch out, the humor police is here! Everything the deem funny is humor and if you don’t find funny what they do you don’t even have humor! Wee-ooo wee-ooo!

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        11 hours ago

        Its supposed to be absurd, taking it seriously makes the already bad joke even worse

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          10 hours ago

          It’s not about taking it seriously. The meme wants to be a technically correct-meme, where a thing fulfills another things definition and thereby could be deemed the other thing - which creates the absurdity the meme lives off of. But in order for that kind of humour, there cannot be obvious holes in the logic of the joke and these obvious holes are very present in this meme.

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            54 minutes ago

            Any maths joke of this type will have obvious holes in it, that’s just how maths works

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            6 hours ago

            Well the text in the image of the “definition” of a square is clearly tailored to fit this joke, thats why the logic of what a square actually is doesn’t apply. Its like telling Diogenes that his chicken is not technically a human because it doesn’t have two hands and a nose.

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              Diogenes plucked that chicken to point out Platon’s definition of a human (being a bipedal, featherless animal) being flawed. This meme leaves out parts of the definition to enforce a joke. Two different situations.