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Does no one understand this is a joke, talking about parallel lines and mathematical proofs is pointless when its a fucking meme
Or the fun part.
Its wrong though so the joke falls flat
Didn't realize jokes have to be literally correct
Just the good ones.
We do understand it's a meme and a joke. Just not a very good one, because one can easily poke holes into it.
That's not how jokes work.
Depends on the joke.
No, it depends on if you have humor (humor is individual, I know). People without tend to over analyze and try to pick the joke apart, often missing the point.
Just because you think a joke is bad, doesn't mean it has to pass every technicality.
Its supposed to be absurd, taking it seriously makes the already bad joke even worse
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.
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.
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.
These are parallel too. They just look that way because they are project on to the euclidean plain.