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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I love the stock market. Line goes up and food becomes impossible to afford! Line goes down and we all lose our jobs! I love this fucking dumbshit criminal ponzi scheme of a system! /s

Gamestonk go BRRRRRRRR, NFTs are the future! /s

/s/s/s/s/s/s/s

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those /s’s cancel out making this a legitimate claim.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it have to be an even number for them to all cancel out?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

One after the first sentence, one after the second sentence, and then a stack of seven at the end. Totaling nine.

Even if you separate them out ignoring the first two as being separate instances of sarcasm, the last section is still an uneven number.

EDIT: People please don't downvote this person over misreading the number of /s in my post. Not justified. They made a simple mistake. You could just simply not upvote if that's how you feel.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

ah, I failed to see the /s on the first sentence. My bad.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldnt they cancel out anyway?

Each sentance has 1 /s, canceling them, and then the 7 /s cancel the first /s'

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, realistically in math, when you stack a bunch of the same things together, they add together they don't cancel out.

That's what happens when you add a positive and a negative.

That would be if they were alternating tags for "sarcasm" and "not sarcasm" and there were just as many "sarcasm" tags as "not sarcasm" tags.

But I mean this is all just semantics because last I checked we're not actually dealing with math here. Just like the Stock Market.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Okay this whole thread needs to be saved to /c/bestoflemmy

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Little green pieces of paper will literally lead to the end of this stupid ape species.

Could have had moon bases and starships but stock line go up so fuck off future I get money today!