Why do old people say that shit? They expect me to do math every time? Side note, I an American recently switched to using a 24 hour clock. It’s way better.
Ok smartass
Submitted 10 months ago by kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/33d46a46-978e-4fc0-9efe-b67a5b6c37bc.jpeg
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daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Still better than quarter of.
What time is a “Quarter of 10”?
I could see it as 10:15, 9:45, 9:15, or 2:30. It’s stupid, and anybody who uses it is wrong.
wieson@feddit.org 10 months ago
The tenth hour of the day goes from 9:00 to 10:00.
So quarter of ten is 9:15. I don’t know how one would explain the other possibilities, but this is the correct answer.
Imagine it as a glass of water that gets filled for each hour. Once it is full, the hour has been reached.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Except it’s not. The actual answer is 9:45. It’s a stupid way of describing time.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
A quarter of 10 would be 7:50.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would have intuitively said that it’s 2.5.
I’ll see myself out.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s a quarter off ten. An all too common mistake.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Ah, good ole decimal time.
konalt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To all the people saying it’s “AI slop”, it’s not. This image is on a blog from 2014.
…blogspot.com/…/what-is-meaning-of-alice-in-wonde…
At least run it through a reverse image search before making any accusations.
lime@feddit.nu 10 months ago
not the same image, but op’s image is an ai upscale of the one you linked. the tells are
- the background is red instead of white
- the pattern on the sleeves is similar, but different.
- the original is flipped horizontally, and the upscale doesn’t know that, so it tries to “fix” the numbers of the pocketwatch, turning the flipped “IX” into… “N”
Hoimo@ani.social 10 months ago
The reverse image search spotted it well, but it isn’t the same image. It’s very likely the source where the image generator got its ideas from though: lemmy.world/post/31578519/17746077
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They don’t look the same and it doesnt look like differences that can be explained by photoshop.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Wtf is 7:75? That would be 8:15. Quarter to eight is 7:45.
Or am I just super old and whooshing on the joke? Maybe it’s an AI equivalent of eight fingers or two left hands?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
You brought rationality to an irrational topic. How dare you
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yep, you wooshed the joke. The joke is that ¾=75%.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Well yes duh 75% is ¾ that much I got. So I guess the joke is AI wouldn’t, because it hasn’t learned to tell time, just as it’s not sure about fingers…
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The AI could at least draw the watch correcting to the “joke”
Spiral75@lemmy.world 10 months ago
7:15 is a quarter till half past 7:00.
Grostleton@lemm.ee 10 months ago
7:52 is half past a quarter to 8
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In Germany we say “dreiviertel acht” or “three quarter eight”. This will irrationally enrage people from Northern Germany.
Kickforce@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
In Dutch you get fun stuff like 16.35 being vijf over half vijf, being 5 past half five. I’m sure German is similar in that regard.
Dicska@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hungary has the same system. Or “half five” actually being 16:30. It’s been hella fun getting used to “half five” meaning 17:30. Constant confusion.
myrmidex@lemmy.nogods.be 10 months ago
Would ppl from Northern Germany say that was 6? That would be my way of calculating 3 quarter 8 :)
DmMacniel@feddit.org 10 months ago
Noooo only Berliners say it like that, and as a northern light it enrages me as I have to convert it to a more sensical time format.
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
It’s a thing in Bavaria as well. I’m trying to erase it from my vocabulary because I hate it too.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Last year, a middle aged gentleman stopped me on the street to ask me what time it was. I told him “half past one and ten minutes.” Just came naturally to me (I also wear an analog watch, so never really can tell the exact minute). I still remember the confused look on his face, and I imagine he’s been working really hard to convert it into minutes. That made me self-conscious about saying the time, and I noticed I never say time in the hours-minutes format. My kids will be the same, as long as they pick up this habit from me rather than videos and movies.