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[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 199 points 2 days ago (4 children)
  1. Color TV implies "full color", black and white are only two colors of many.

  2. Towels collect skin cells and get wet when used, which can enable the growth of mold if not dried quickly enough.

  3. Depends on how many of the nurse's clients become the husband's clients.

I used the calculator to write "5318008" so it looks like it says "BOOBIES" upside-down.

Do I pass?

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No, you answered 1. It was not a question.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a discussion, did I not discuss?

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Read the overall instructions.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't see any instructions to not discuss statements.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They are pointing out that the instructions are "Answer all questions."

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Oh shit, it didn't say to continue breathing. Dies.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But it didn't say anything about not responding to things that are not questions. If it was phrased as "Answer only the questions", that might be something.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

So it's not wrong, just a doodle.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're supposed to gather 10 guys names Mark and talk about it with them.

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[–] YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You dropped your arm badge:

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. Not at all. She has an explicit financial conflict of interest.
[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

On the other hand, the nurse has potential for returning clientele. The husband does not. She can keep getting paid the longer her customers need her services over their lifespan, so it's more a question of short term profits over long term sustainability.

Oh who am I kidding? This is capitalism we're talking about, they'll always choose short term profits.

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[–] andybytes@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

isn't there a difference between pigment/light and how it is interperted?. Like isn't black the absent of color. White is all the bands of light at once while pigment black is all the colors at once but yet it is not the blackest of all blacks so they don't even make black that way.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, additive vs subtractive color. Our eyes see light but light is reflected by pigment.

Pigment determines which colors are subtracted from light, so combining all pigments gives you black (little to no light reflected) (edit: this is also somewhat of a simplification, it can be more complicated than that). But combining different colors of light gives you white, if nothing is being absorbed.

Now whether the absence of color still counts as a color in and of itself in either system, I would still argue yes. Color is just our perception of light frequencies or lack thereof, so it's all subjective anyways.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This reminds me of a worksheet in like 2nd grade, with a set of 20 instructions on it. The first one was "read everything before doing any other step," followed by increasingly obvious and silly actions, and the last one being "ignore 2-19 and wait quietly." Me and only 1 or 2 other kids actually followed the instructions correctly while everybody's else embarrassed themselves lol

[–] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Same. 3rd grade. On April 1st. The teacher had to step out of the classroom while most kids were struggling with it to stifle her laughter.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 87 points 2 days ago

β€œYou are free to use a calculator” adds the perfect amount of absurdity to an already ridiculous series of questions. Nicely done.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I would just quickly answer "your mom" to all of these and get to the cafeteria while lunch is still hot.

Bah! I'm so smart I don't need a calculator to answer those questions!

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
  1. black and white may be colors, but a tv is mono chrome because it is referring to information that is transferred. the flattening of the picture to only two colors, no matter what the chosen colors are is a loss of transferred data.
  2. no cleaning happens in isolation, and no cleaning is perfect, the towel absorbs not only remaining filth, but also the environment the towels is in, being consistently damp, in a facility where one does other activities. It will accumulate filth that prevent perpetual use of a towel.
  3. the nurse can be trusted up to and until a death. due to the available options of casket providers, the nurses main strategy assuming contradictory motivations, would be to assist the survivors in the choice of casket. anyone she would kill would only be taking money from the future,being net neutral. there will never be a shortage of a need of caskets, there need only be the approachable advertisement.
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Congratulations, you passed!

Your Zambian passport will be arriving by swallow in 20-200 business days!

[–] DontAskAboutUpdog@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is it going to be an african or an european?

I don't know

is cast into the gorge of eternal peril

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How do know so much about Zambian passports?

You gotta know these things when you are a king

African. It'd be silly if they imported swallows from Europe when they have perfectly fine ones at home in Zambia

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

In Zambia they only work 3 days a week so it could take longer than you think.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now, show the calculations

  1. "Color" means "multicolor" lol
  2. You're still wet, and the water on you is dirty.
  3. She'd be caught if committing frequent malpractice - especially if they are buried in husband's coffins - and there are enough people dying normally who can be recommended to not need to risk it. So yes.
[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

I have a bachelor's in physics, and I spent a year in Tanzania. A college student showed me their physics textbook that was straight text (no graphics at all) in what looked like a notebook, and I swear the whole thing sounded like this. I have no idea how they learn physics in Tanzania.

[–] Cellari@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The "you are free to use a calculator" is just perfect. Pure art.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The second question is silly: "what makes a towel dirt?" Worms, of course!

For the towel to become dirt, you need a nice composting environment and 2+ years. It'll go best if you turn it from time to time.

The final step is for the worms to eat the leftovers. Then the towel has officially become dirt that's indistinguishable from the other dirt that surrounds it πŸ‘

[–] Intrinsety@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh but what if the towel is polyester?

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] riskable@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It was so specific lol

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 10 points 2 days ago

1 Trick question, for a black and white color projecting televisions white is all colors and black is the absence of color but the naming convention is more about the range of possible colors than technical accuracy.

2 The particles and microbes in the air land on the towel and adding moisture promotes bacterial growth, so even if you exfoliate it will get dirty just by existing in a moist environment. Or you dodn't wash well enough.

3 Generally yes, because their care is going to be more scrutinized due to the perception of a conflict of interest.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

This reminds me of a worksheet in like 2nd grade, with a set of 20 instructions on it. The first one was "read everything before doing any other step," followed by increasingly obvious and silly actions, and the last one being "ignore 2-19 and wait quietly." Me and only 1 or 2 other kids actually followed the instructions correctly while everybody's else embarrassed themselves lol

[–] brie_cheese@piefed.ca 7 points 2 days ago
  1. neither black nor white are colours, they are shades.

  2. nothing, but the towel gets wet, and then dries, gets wet again, dries again, and after so many reptations it will smell weird. also, if your bath and toilet are in the same room, flushing the toilet sends particles into the air, which would be absorbed into the towel over time.

  3. it is entirely dependent on the nurse's track record. if she has a high number of patient fatalities, no; if not, yes.

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Things can be black and white, but if a thing is neither black nor white but it is black or white on television, than it is not colored.

Towel gets slightly dirtier after bath, because as soon as you live bath, you start to slowly get dirtier, and those few seconds between bath and towel is enough time to get enough dirty so the towel get dirty from you.

No, you should not trust nurse whose husband sells coffins, because in the world we live, almost every person on earth is poor, so its more economically effective for nurse to do hers job worse, so that her husband can get more money from more people buying coffins, because coffins are very expensive.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So many people think that it's some big gotcha that "black and white aren't colors" but that's not how language works. Color often refers to black or white. Try sticking to this gotcha at the paint store and see how much it's appreciated.

I'm so curious where this image came from. Is it a standardized test? What are they actually trying to test?

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And here I am, who used to know how to find the Lagrangian of an elipse.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago

I choose to turn the paper.

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