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Your math might be a little off, dude…

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date November 18, 2022
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Tweet by @murvfx: “Elon Musk spent $44 Billion on Twitter. The World's population is 8 billion. He could have given each person $5 billion and still have money leftover. I feel like a cheque for $5 billion would be life changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on Twitter.” — Tap to view the original tweet. I screen-captured this because (1.) It’s so embarrassing — if it were me, I’d delete it, and (2.) there are better-than-even odds that Twitter might experience outages soon.

Twitter user @muravfx posted this:

Elon Musk spent $44 Billion on Twitter. The World’s population is 8 billion. He could have given each person $5 billion and still have money leftover. I feel like a cheque for $5 billion would be life changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on Twitter.

— creed mura (@muravfx) November 18, 2022

Your “math sense” should be tingling at this nonsense. Here is some literal “back of the napkin” math I did to see how much everyone on Earth would get you evenly split $44 billion among them:

5.5. As is $5.50 — five dollars and fifty cents. Not 5 billion.

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Hurricane tip: Don’t fill your generator with high-octane corn syrup!

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date September 27, 2022
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Okay: in the absence of ethanol-free gasoline, you can run a gasoline-powered generator with fuel that has up to 10% ethanol. But you will shorten your generator’s life, and as long as you live in Florida, you’ll need it again. Try to fill your generator with ethanol-free gasoline!

My recommendation: Try and find a gas station that sells ethanol-free gasoline. Wawa is a reliable source — use their store locator, select Advanced Search, and check the Ethanol Free checkbox and run the search!

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It’s “FURTIVELY fired,” not “Quiet fired”

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date September 8, 2022
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Screenshot of headline that reads “5 Signs You Are Being ‘Quiet Fired’ From Your Job” — Tap to read the original article.

The person who came up with the phrase “quiet quitting” took the effort to incorporate alliteration, which made the phrase catchy. You’d think the author of the article 5 Signs You Are Being “Quiet Fired” From Your Job (shown above) would have put in a few seconds to do the same for its employer counterpart, but instead, they took the lazy route and simply replaced “quitting” with “firing.”

In my opinion, “furtively fired” — and its noun form, “furtive firing” — sound much better, are grammatically correct, and employ an underused word.

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A lesson from pie on Pi Day

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date March 14, 2022
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Pumpkin pie with two slices taken from it: a proper slice (point at the center) and a “wrong” slice (taken from the middle).

Happy Pi Day!

Today is March 14th, which is referred to in the North American sector of the internet as “Pi Day”, since the date can be expressed as 3/14 in U.S. calendar notation. Since the Greek letter π is pronounced like “pie” in English, it’s become an informal tradition to celebrate the day by eating pie.

Note the terrible slices taken from the pies in this post’s photos. There’s a lesson in them, as shown below:

Pumpkin pie with a slice taken from its middle.

Here’s the text from the second photo:

This should be easy to understand how freedoms work

This person took his part, but it affected others negatively. He exercise his freedom, but with an injustice to others. Freedoms can’t be exercised as every individual wants without looking at injustices to others. Justice disappears when you harm others. An example of bad exercise of individual freedom.

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So true

One of my favorite examples of this phenomenon is this photo of Robert Redford and the real person he played in All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward: