• @[email protected]
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    2510 hours ago

    There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who saw this as a binary joke and those who didn’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      69 hours ago

      There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don’t, those who think it’s a ternary joke and those who understand that it works with any base.

    • Ephera
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      39 hours ago

      Is the actual joke that autocorrect inserted factually correct information?

        • Ephera
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          29 hours ago

          Sure, but I doubt that’s the joke the comic was going for…

          • @Dasus
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            39 hours ago

            Its pretty clear they were?

            • Ephera
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              39 hours ago

              That seems like far too nerdy of a joke for Cyanide & Happiness, and I don’t see why autocorrect would be blamed then…

              • @Dasus
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                “Far too nerdy”?

                They’re millenials my age who have been actively making web content since 2005. They definitely know that 10 is binary for 2.

                I don’t see why autocorrect would be blamed then…

                Because it’s correcting something?

                Using binary in normally discussion would be weird. So autocorrect corrects it. The other implication is that somehow the autocorrect knows that the dude has a micropenis.

                I’m not gonna argue over it, its just how I read it.

                • Ephera
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                  145 minutes ago

                  Hey man, this isn’t Reddit, we’re allowed to have different opinions without needing to enter into gladitorial combat.

                  I’m certainly open to it being a binary joke, that’s how I read it at first, too. I really had to think how else it could be meant.

                  I can believe that the Cyanide & Happiness authors would have heard of binary before, I just doubt they would expect the same from their audience. Like, the comic frequently makes penis jokes, it’s decidedly not sophisticated.

                  As for autocorrect knowing he has a micropenis, well, it is a fictional world, that could be the punchline here.
                  At the very least, if someone doesn’t know binary, that’s how they would probably read it and get a chuckle out of it, so I guess like someone else replied to me, maybe it’s both jokes.

    • @dohpaz42
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      110 hours ago

      I came to make a similar comment. In this respect, we are 10 peas in a pod.

  • southsamurai
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    49 hours ago

    I have a big cock.

    He runs around the back yard crowing all damn day