You can’t take three from two,
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the tens place.
Now that’s really four tens,
So you make it three tens,
Regroup, and you change a ten to ten ones,
And you add them to the two and get twelve,
And you take away three, that’s nine.
Is that clear?

Tom Lehrer, “New Math”

So do I! When I saw that 9 stealing a 1 and becoming a 10, I thought “Wait… These are electrons. This is chemistry. That 9 is a halogen!”

Jesse, we need to cook!

JD Vance, is that you?

• “Gentlemen, your verdict” by Michael Bruce - trolley problem on a submarine (attention: weird vertical formatting)
• “Just Lather, That’s All” by Hernando Téllez" - a barber during a civil war

The second one actually gave me half of a mental breakdown, but not because it was too violent for me.
One analysis that I read made the exact opposite conclusion that I made, and it showed me this: in the subject of English, two diametrically opposed points can both be equally correct! Nothing is fixed! Reality is mutable!

Also The Lottery, The Veldt, Harrison Bergeron (which others have already mentioned)

Could have just said man instead of ma’am. They sound almost the same.

And your first pet’s name, and your social security number

!usernamechecksout@lemmy.ca

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That explains… some

Wait, they’re closed-sourcing Ubuntu? Doesn’t the GPL say that any fork or derivative of any GPL’d product has to have the GPL? It’s supposed to propagate.

Even though you understood it as “influence the dice without external phenomena”, and it may be stated elsewhere in the worksheet, the question doesn’t explicitly state “no external phenomena”. Just weight the dice.

Is this satire?

Ye gods, I hope this is satire.