Piotr Gaczkowski
Fesshole 🧻I've started asking people the thought experiment "are there more doors or wheels on planet earth?". I don't really care about their answer, but the speed at which they ask ChatGPT allows me to assess how much I care about their thoughts and opinions on other matters.
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Toast, Anonymous Fedi Fungus@ShiitakeToast @fesshole personally i think yes
DMTom@saxnot @ShiitakeToast @fesshole as eyes are considered “doors to one’s soul” - I still vote wheels, as there seems to be lots of soulless motherf@&!s around;)
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Michael Busch@ShiitakeToast @saxnot @fesshole
Do bacterial and archaeal flagellar motors count as wheels?
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Joshua Barretto
Damon L. Wakes@fesshole Does a ball bearing count as a wheel?
@DamonWakes @fesshole personally i would say yeah
an actual bus@renardboy @saxnot @fesshole I'm thinking one per ball. The question is probably whether a wheel needs to be fixed to something else or whether rollers etc. count as well.
@DamonWakes @saxnot @fesshole that is indeed the question.
And then, do double wheels like those on the back of trucks count as two wheels
Tanya@renardboy @DamonWakes @saxnot @fesshole but what about wheels with ball bearings in them? Surely that’s wheel inception?
@solderandchaos @DamonWakes @saxnot @fesshole pretty sure those actually multiply for the total count
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Fritz Adalis
Dávid Bárdos@DamonWakes @fesshole Depends. In front of a tiny cave, it might count as a door. 😃
Michael WestergaardCars have 4(ish) doors and 4(ish) wheels so they don't matter. Bikes have 2(ish) wheels and no doors. Houses have ~10 doors and no wheels. Nothing else has wheels or doors. There are likely not 5 times as many bikes as houses in the world. Ergo, doors.
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Anton Piatek
Datenegassie@sldrant They also manufacture doors! But yeah probably not nearly as many as wheels.
@Datenegassie they do, but I don't think they're the largest manufacturer of them. Wheels on the other hand is apparently true and a fun pub quiz question. Also thinking about the mou tain of lego we have in the house, wheels outnumber doors by a huge margin
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Colm Ó Donnchadha
NormanDunbar@ColmDonoghue @Anke @michael @fesshole And lots of wheels inside the gearbox and diff and a fly wheel in the engine ...
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Annelies@NormanDunbar @Anke @michael @fesshole I assumed they were talking about exercise wheels 🤣
Edit: like this
Edit: like this
SupermoosieMost office chairs have double wheels. One each side with the support in the middle.
So 2*5 = 10 wheels.
Then there are all sorts of wheel like things in industrial processes.
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Daniël Franke 
@lunarloony @michael @fesshole
So... this depends on what we define as wheel, as many things inside a normal household contain wheels for mechanical purposes. Doors, otoh, are not used for half as many things. So if we go by that logic, I would say that there are many more wheels on earth than doors.
I thought the point was to weed out the people who offload their thinking to an unethical misinformation machine. :P
Pseudo Nym@ainmosni @lunarloony @michael @fesshole
It is, but this is fedi. Let them have fun debating the nominal question.
This is the way.
My first thought personally was if gears count as wheels
Opus Fluke@pseudonym @ainmosni @lunarloony @michael @fesshole Conversely do access panels and flaps count as doors? Are windows classed as doors? Hatches? Cat flaps?
@Opus_Fluke @ainmosni @lunarloony @michael @fesshole
Same discussion my wife and I just had.
Daburu Dar@lunarloony @michael @fesshole Similarly, there are multiple interior mechanisms, including the engine, that contain multiple wheels.