Firagon
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CyberEggThat’s socialist propaganda! You see, you cut both apples in half with one cut, everyone gets half an apple and the remaining half is given to someone who struggles affording life.
(/s)
Gradually_AdjustingAh damn it’s one of those single-use knives.
DestideCross contamination there’s a girl there you’ll get girl germs
Not if they get me germs first
Thank you for your service and sacrifice, brave little Hitachi wand.
That’s why you get the knife subscription plan.
Yeah fuck buying things for life - I am now buying things for death
hungryphrogDon’t give them any more ideas.
SemperverusOnly if you didn’t bring extra knife ammo
It’s one of those shivs from the last of us
slice the center child across the neck to prevent them from eating any, making there be one whole apple for each of the remaining children.
Non-murder solution:
Place and hold the apples precisely on top of one another. (Make sure your fingers are not in the way.) From one side of the apple tower, go horizontally exactly two thirds of the way to the other side. At that position, cut vertically through both apples from top to bottom. You now have two pieces that are two thirds of an apple each, and two pieces that are one third each. The kid you like best will receive the end slices without the apple core in it.
More realistically, disregard the stupid premise and make as many cuts as you need.
u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Take both apples and attach them to a drill. Position the knife on apples so that it starts slicing a long slice as they rotate and run the drill. You’ll end up with a long piece of 2 apples and 2 cores. Keep the long peels, give each core to each one of those peasants.
Stacking apples seems unpractical. Why not simply align them horizontally, and shift one two thirds away from the axis, then cut? Admittedly, this isn’t a very practical either, nor is it a practical problem anyway. But I still think it would be easier than keeping two apples stacked while cutting through them.
The knife looks long enough you could probably cut 1/3 of each apple while they are placed side by side, which might be easier and safer to cut than stacking the apples.
That seems more possible than turning the knife 90 degrees mid-cut
ryannathansYall just cut straight down with your knives? You dont angle the blade and slide it ?
If the knife is long enough, you could simply line the apples up and do that.
Apple’s aren’t square so it’s not so easy to figure out where to cut that will give you a 1/3 - 2/3 split.
I guess the answer they are going for is slice the apples straight through, horizontally, 1/3 the way up from the bottom, so you have 2/3, 1/3, 2/3, and 1/3 apple portions. Then you give 1 person the 2 1/3 portions, and the other 2 get one of the 2/3 portions each.
But we all know the actually answer people are thinking of
You can cut them just like they are on the table - lop off the outer 1/3 of both the two as they sit. Two people each get 2/3 of an apple including the core, and one person gets two 1/3 apple slices.
But yes, it wants you to suggest killing one of the kids for sure. :)
But that wouldn’t be one stroke would it? Unless I’m imagining it wrong.
Please forgive my crude approximation of an overhead view of the apples and knife.😁
You have a lovely pair of… apples
Although I now see it too, I assure you with absolute sincerity that I really was trying to create an overhead view of two apples being sliced with one stroke.
Of course you were 😉
LOL I know further assurances will just look even worse so I’ll stop here. 😂
What I find particoularly annoying and interesting, is that most of those “silly/dumb” social network questions are engineered with at least 2, sometimes more layers, for the purpose of getting a reaction not really from the “dumb people” but also, possibly mostly, from the smartass that can’t help point out something they think they noticed, incongruity and the likes, unaware that those are there on purpose to bait them in.
This case is a lot more blatant, possibly fake, but the “controversial” interpretation of stabbing one of the children is not an afterthoughts of the sick mind of us memers terminally online, it’s probably the core reason the thing has been shared and worded that way.
I just hope my own reaction has not been 100% predicted.
With no snark intended I’m pretty sure thatsthejoke.jpg.
no. the meme was created to make you think of stabbing people, with engagement bait paired in. op adds the awkward puppet meme, as if it’s a novel idea, but thatsthejoke.xls
the above commenter is pointing out how this kind of engagement just falls for the engagement bait, and describes the type of person who would do so
Ah fair!
Oh god, you reminded me of those “memes” that are just someone one Twitter getting simple math wrong. Reddit was full of that crap and it seems it hasn’t quite reached Lemmy yet, but it might.
AllNewTypeFaceIs 6% a cited estimate of the number of psychopaths in a population?
Only 6% solved the puzzle in the very obvious correct way.
Its the other 94% of people that are subconsciously fully distracted by the opportunity to do violence to see the clear solution that you should be worried about.
Yeah that’s what I was gonna say. I think 90% of people could solve this just fine but only 6% are solving it without thinking of stabbing a person to solve a non issue of non-existent scarcity.
I’m leaving room for 10% to starve to death or cut themselves with the knife by accident.
GladaedThis is impossible as the apples aren’t homogeneous. Otherwise: have one person slide each apple across the knife until they feel their side is fair. The slice and pick. This does not work here as there are more than two people.
I mean, while we’re being pedantic, you can never cut exactly 2/3 an apple for everyone, down to the atoms. Even with homogeneous apples.
JackbyDevAh, but it does work for three if you allow up to five cuts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridge–Conway_procedure
We explicitly don’t.
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Luigi says: Just imagine one of the others is a Healthcare insurance CEO, you know what to do.
southsamuraiBold of you to assume I’m not going to go Voorhees on both of them, have an apple as desert and save the second apple for later.
Obviously, I’m not going to eat the other two people. Without cooking them. And with the apple cores, I can make a lovely sauce to go with
I’d rather eat an orange. Apple skin gets stuck in my teeth.
AvicennaI will be the cpt obv
1/3 1/3 <=======]==o 2/3 2/3
idunnololzOk but like how do you know it’s 1/3 of the apple without any other tools.
Let’s not go too deep on this alright
Right… right… but en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy-free_cake-cutting
I did not expect to see this today
To put that in perspective, for 2 people that would be ~4.3 billion
alright we better get started then
It’s just the upper bound. I have no idea what the process is lol.
well you can’t rule out the worst possible case, so lets get rolling
tetris11if the cake is a 1-dimensional interval …
Consider a spherical cow…
Cut first, choose last. It’s as fair as you can get when eyeballing it
Only works with two people. For three you use Selfridge-Conway procedure which uses up to five cuts.
it is a magical long sword of apple slicing (+5 against apples, +1 otherwise)