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Ok, so Two-Tone-Beard-Man is Marx, Slightly-Darker-Beard-Man is Engels, but who are Long-Beard-Man and Auntie-Glasses-Lady? I ask because Long-Beard-Man appears to be the winner of the heated exchange at the end...

You are being liberated. Please do not resist.

"could help solve" was the quote.

Physics is like that joke about halving the distance to a woman at a bar*. I don't expect it will ever be entirely solved, but whatever stands as the "for all practical purposes" of the era might. I'm taking "help solve" as just another halving of the distance in this analogy.

* A mathematician and an engineer are sitting at a table drinking when a very beautiful woman walks in and sits down at the bar.

The mathematician sighs. "I'd like to talk to her, but first I have to cover half the distance between where we are and where she is, then half of the distance that remains, then half of that distance, and so on. The series is infinite. There'll always be some finite distance between us."

The engineer gets up and starts walking. "Ah, well, I figure I can get close enough for all practical purposes."

There was something wrong here, but the... right kind of wrong.

Looking back, those times were an incredible desert of of titillation compared to the desserts of today.

No, never did find it... But I'm pretty sure now that pen really was his. It was just a mildly unlikely coincidence that he had one just like mine.

I felt at the time that I'd been conned out of some things in the past, and that had me set a bit too hard on "not being fooled again", so I overdid it.

One particular case I remember is exchanging toy cars with someone, and them claiming later that day that they lost the car i just gave them. So I spent a good few minutes looking for it with them. I even insisted "no, let's look again" when they suggested we give up. I felt bad that they'd lost out on our exchange, so I gave them back the car they'd given me, just to ease their misfortune. Only to hear the next day how they'd been bragging about fooling me. Gah.

I had a similar thing with a pen, the very same year I think... I had a mildly special pen which one day I lost. Went looking for it and found it sitting on a (slightly older) classmate's desk, so i grabbed it and said "hey, that's mine". He tried to pretend that no, it was his, and he sounded very convincing about it, and even got the teacher involved. They both looked at me with infuriatingly condescending expressions as I explained how it was mine.

The teacher suggested "just let him have it" to the classmate, who conceded.

I went back to my desk fuming and scratched my initials into it before returning to show them, "look, see, it was mine! The classmate immediately pointed out "you scratched those in just now" and I think I mumbled something incoherent before going back to my desk, to the teacher's mortification with the whole situation.

It had already begun dawning on me at this point that the classmate was right... That wasn't my pen. It was his and just looked like mine. But it was too late at this point and I didn't know how to handle it other than to keep quiet and try to forget about it.

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I will be messaging you in 7 days on 2025-04-07 10:06:96 UTC to remind you that there is no RemindMe! bot on lemmy.

Hey, your reply earlier was pretty sassy and funny too. I upvoted!

I'm assuming you're a mod or admin here? I'm surprised you took my explanation as lecturing... I was merely explaining in what way that title is wrong when you mocked my comment. No offense meant.

Stand up straight when I'm talking to you!

I never knew you were a person who wielded a lot of power here. I'm glad you mentioned that, as anyone with confidence in themselves should.

If I catch you missing another capital letter or punctuation mark, you're off to the principal, you hear me?

Please accept my apologies and hope that we can overlook this momentary lapse on my part. Please, no ban?

AI sales startup Never claims customers it doesn’t have for software that doesn’t work

See how that risks getting really confusing without commas or quotes?

They're called appositive commas and they surround "not essential" add-on information. The name of the startup here is not truly essential, it's added just for color (pretty sure nobody'd think, "oh, a typo" if they wrote "12x").

No, that title is orthographically wrong, besides using some very non-standard phrasing: the name of the startup, 11x, should have been between commas.