If someone sends me a one word reply of “yes” to “what is the purpose of this meeting and is my presence beneficial” then it wouldn’t matter what I asked lol.

lol

But just to reiterate the point I was making earlier, the idea is to avoid someone responding to “what is the purpose of this meeting and is my presence beneficial” with something along the lines of “the purpose is to discuss X, Y, and Z. Yes your input would be a big help thanks.”

Curious on your thoughts on the suggestion I made and whether it improves communication or not?

If you ask the person who invited you to a meeting “is my presence beneficial” they’re going to answer “yes”. That’s why they invited you.

The purpose is to figure out whether your presence is actually needed, not whether they think it is.

I do like a lot of your ideas though, I might suggest:

“What is this meeting about? I’m trying to figure out if my presence would be beneficial.”

That way you are the determinant of whether your presence is necessary, and the other person has to articulate what the actual benefit would be as opposed to just saying “yes”.

There is a problem with a lot of the people that practice polygamy in an unethical way

That is what the person you responded to said. There is a problem with the cultural of polygamy here because it’s done in an unethical way.

but not polygamy itself.

That is also what the person you replied to said. They clarified specifically that if both genders are free to practice polygamy in the same way there’s no issue.

Frogger 2: Swampy’s Revenge was genuinely great though

“Uh a 151.197 grammer with cheese.”

Quar ter poun der. Perfect size. Good marketing.

“A ThIRd PoUnDeR pLeASe”. Too much to chew. Bad marketing.

That’s an interesting thought, but I believe it to simply be a coincidence.

The base 12 counting being based on counting the division of your fingers is historically verified, but if the division aspect was so compelling to them you’d expect it to carry forward into their writing system.

By the time you get cuneiform math though, they actually go back to base 10.

https://images.app.goo.gl/9GR6VEiT7GHYF3KaA

As you can see base 12 is not in the written system, or for written mathematics. It just was convenient for counting on their hands.

They used mixes of base 10/base 12 and base 60.

Base 10 would be used go determine the symbols for a specific “digit” in base 60.

So similar to how our 13 is 1 ten and 3 ones, their 13 was the symbol for 10 then 3 symbols for 1. 13 = 𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹 But 73 would be written 𒁹 𒌋𒁹𒁹𒁹

Which would be interpreted as 1 sixty and 13 ones, or 60 + 13

Don’t listen to OP’s bullshit.

They work for big clock. They’re trying to convince you 12 hour clock is useless so they can sell you double the clock.

When it comes to computing, technically everything is a binary choice.

I can’t even imagine translating something like “chat, am I cooked?” to my grandma.

“Hey folks, am I in trouble?”

As someone brand new to Lemmy I’m now learning a lot of horrible new info on myself based on arbitrarily signing up for a random instance.

I didn’t realize I was supposed to psychically know about lemmy lore before ever using it.