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d3nafelseed t1_jc72ts6 wrote

What a horseshit information supported by the worst possible database ever. How does the word "love" not make it into the list? Also songs with title containing "intro"/"outro"? Arent they a bit out of place? How do they make it in the top ranks too?

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Ath23 t1_jc724rb wrote

Intro to home, a time untitled to stay as an outro forever with the angel, lost and alone you hold on to rain as a goodbye to heaven, tonight, fire will be falling to shine in paradise.

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TechyDad t1_jc71gno wrote

Reply to comment by tessthismess in 2023 Digits of π [OC] by yaph

I can imagine a guy manually calculating pi in the past coming across that and thinking he's found Pi's repeating end.

"9. 9. 9? Another 9? And another 9?!!! That's it! Pi must just repeat all 9's after this. Yup. There's another 9. That's six 9's in a row. It's a repeating decimal after this for sure so the next digit will be an.. 8? An EIGHT?!!!"

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tessthismess t1_jc6x2gz wrote

I know in the grand scheme of digits of pi it's not that interesting. But that 999999 near the middle is very satisfying, especially since it stands out with this coloring.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_jc6ufka wrote

Depends on whether the differences are material to the conclusion. Drawing any inference from an analogy that cherry picks the similarities to infer a conclusion is a fallacy. I might entertain the analogy multilevel marketing is to pyramid scheme as social security is to ponzi scheme or Ponzi schemes are analogous to pyramid schemes because they are both fraudulent. But whether something is fraudulent hasn’t been proved, it’s a material difference that allows the analogy to be persuasively deceiving. I think you need to make the that argument forced participation or redistribution or insolvency is deceptive in order to support the analogy as a honest logical argument rather than a persuasion

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