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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • So i kinda went on a thought rabbit hole here

    1. I like jokes like this, in part because they only work in written form. Because if they were using base 10 they’d say “You’re a ten”, but base 2 would be “You’re a one zero” (or one oh)

    2. Wait, do people actually say “ten” when expressing two in binary? Do they actually say “one, ten, eleven, one hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and ten…”?

    3. Have I been expressing binary incorrectly?

    4. Am I overthinking this?

    5. Honestly though, my favorite written pun is “Religions are more interested in profits than prophets”

    Anyway, puns are fun. How do you say binary numbers?
















  • As a past victim of GBoard I will not pile on to OP for their glaring typo. Instead, here’s the quote from the Wikipedia article linked above

    Osama Khalid (أسامة خالد), a Saudi Arabian former administrator of the Arabic Wikipedia, was sentenced to five years imprisonment in September 2020 for “swaying public opinion” and “violating public morals” by making edits “critical about the persecution of political activists in the country.” Khalid’s sentence was increased to 32 years in September 2022 as part of a campaign to lengthen the sentences of political detainees, according to Democracy for the Arab World Now and SMEX, a Lebanese non-governmental organization.

    Ziyad al-Sofiani (زياد السفياني), also a former administrator of the Arabic Wikipedia, was likewise charged with “swaying public opinion” and “violating public morals” by making edits “critical about the persecution of political activists in the country.” He was sentenced in September 2020 to eight years in prison and was released in March 2025.