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xkcd falls for "just one more lane" (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by Owl@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

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[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

Falling for it or making light of it? seems like the latter to me but I’m a dumbass so

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

What you're missing is that I'm just posting things with whatever headline will make people laugh.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

O I C

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Did you have to space it out in capital letters because if you'd written it "oic" people might interpret it as a French person saying "wack"

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

I just spaced it out to space it out, I really didn’t give it any thought before hand.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

{oic|wack}

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

This is a subway line metaphor

[-] dat_math@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's okay. The Real numbers are dense (within the real numbers), so no matter how many branches we make, we'll always have just as many real numbers jammed arbitrarily close together on all branches!

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

But what if we add one branch for each subset of the set of all real numbers.

[-] dat_math@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

oops! all branches!

Why can't I hold all these continuua?!

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Just ¶ more lane bro

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Pilcrow?

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Is that what it's called. Cool name! Better than 'one'

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

~~We are cooking with manifolds~~

EDIT: wait, no, WTH am I saying? At the forking point, that thing is not locally homeomorphic to R^n for any natural n.
Time to commit eepy.

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

yes this arrangement of words seems like it would make sense to someone, i agree

[-] gchromodynamics@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

It is if you delete the forking point no? So just make it fork at Chaitin's constant or some other real number no one will notice missing.

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

It is if you delete the forking point no?

If.

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Should have put the branch on the left as 1 is the most commonly used number smh

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

a square and a triangle ?

booooo

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

gamers up in arms

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Pi-furcation. kelly

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

You could have fit all those numbers between 3 and 4 with similar effects

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Imagine being a sci fi author and saying my aliens do this and then having your fans just defend it and try to justify how it actually makes sense in reality for some reason.