UmeU

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The fact that there isn't a revolution happening in the US right now is crazy in c/usa@lemmy.ml
[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have always said that so long as McDonalds has a hot burger for a few bucks on every street corner, there will not be a revolution in the US.

Rather than starving to death, we have an obesity epidemic along with an opiate epidemic, which prevents the revolution from getting up off the couch.

Not trying to claim a conspiracy here, just the way things are.

The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To quote something I made up and say all the time, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.”

I hate that that happens in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don’t believe that’s accurate.

There are only two things in the list, pig & whistle.

They want more space between pig and &.

They also want more space between & and whistle.

If we were listing three areas where they want additional space we would need at least one comma, and I would argue for the Oxford comma as well, however we are only listing two areas where we want more space and so no comma is needed.

Sure it’s nearly unreadable, but I think the punctuation is correct.

I hate that that happens in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They refer to the same and twice.

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Here's another one not as hard as the other one I posted (lemmy.world)
 

You have six buckets all lined up in a row.

The first three are filled with rocks and the second three are empty, so the starting pattern is ‘full full full empty empty empty’.

You are only allowed to touch/move one bucket and for the one bucket you touch, you are only allowed to touch it one time.

How do you make it so that the order of the buckets becomes ‘full empty full empty full empty’?

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Here is one of the few good and hard riddles I know (lemmy.world)
 

The year is 1985. You are on the ground floor of a four-story building. On the top floor there is a lightbulb. On the ground floor with you there are three light switches. All three switches are connected to electricity but only one of the switches controls the lightbulb on the top floor - the other two switches are not connected to anything.

You cannot go outside, there is no one helping you, and most importantly, you can only go up to the top floor one time to check.

How do you determine with absolute certainty which of the three switches controls the lightbulb?

If this post gets any traction I’ll post the answer.

The answer involves no wordplay, is not cheesy or impossible to figure out… just use logic and you should be able to come up with the correct answer.