Comment on xkcd #3075: Anachronym Challenge

zabadoh@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• candler33w@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Congratulations you are one of the lucky Ten Thousand! xkcd.com/1053/

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  • bonn2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I guess count me in that 10,000 as well

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    • zabadoh@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Wow, so 20,000 people read this?

      Lemmy’s more popular than I thought.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah… that’s really not in the 1 in 10k catagory. Not even the 1 in 10 catagory.

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    • cactus_head@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      i pretty sure those numbers are in reverse, at least if i understand you correctly. Its 1 in 10(lots of ppl know) then 1 in 10(less ppl know) and so on.

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      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Nope. Not reversed. The guy I responded to thinks that almost everyone (9,999 out of 10,000) knows sidewalk chalk isn’t made out of chalk. I’m saying it’s not even as common as 9 out of 10 know that sidewalk chalk isn’t made out of chalk.

        In fact, I’d say the odds are more like 1 out of 2, at best. Possibly even that more people would give the wrong answer than the right one.

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  • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I would say it’s probably a lot less than ten thousand - I doubt this is something “everybody knows”

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• thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, it certainly isn’t made of sidewalk.

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  • zabadoh@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Unless your sidewalks are made of gypsum.

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    • thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If there are, they won’t be for very long.

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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No wonder it doesn’t taste good anymore.

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s not made of sidewalk anymore either

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