From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-12, D  wrote:   
      
   > People like to say "let's put our minds together", but what   
   > they usually don't realize (and it's due to what I'm about   
   > to say) is they have less than a whole mind, meaning their   
   > mind can be represented as a decimal number less than one,   
   > and since the "together" operation tends to be closer to   
   > multiplication than addition (a sort of Murphy's Law-ish   
   > consequence, you see...), the resulting product is always   
   > less than the starting multiplicands.... ;-)   
   >   
   > Oh wow! So you don't believe in 1 + 1 = 3 then? ;)   
      
   Want to. Did to my peril for decades. But - because of   
   said peril - don't.   
      
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