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[–] 26 points 5 months ago (1 child)

This just proves that once Charlie Brown finally got together with the Little Red-Haired Girl, he was already looking for his next conquest. He was more interested in the chase than the girl. Good grief!

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Hully gee?? Golly gee is the expression.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Wait, what exactly is "Occam's Razor"? I always thought it's just a silly name for a silly Terraria boss. lol

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    Occam's razor is a problem-solving principle credited to 14th-century philosopher William of Ockham, stating that among competing explanations with equal predictive power, the one requiring the fewest assumptions should be preferred. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or law of parsimony.

    TLDR: The simplest solution tends to be the correct solution.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    It's a heuristic that says 'most often the simplest solution is the best solution'. It's supposed to be used to shorten the path of finding a viable solution to a question or problem.

    Basically, you find the simplest possible solutions, the ones with the fewest variables to account for, and you test them. They usually take the least amount of time to test, and they usually yield a solution faster because of that.

    This heuristic is often misused by concluding that very simple answers are immediately correct without actually verifying. Its best application is for selecting possible solutions to test only.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The others have explained what it means so I'll explain the comic. The person upset is thinking "he must be thinking of other women" and the joke being "maybe he is, but he's still in bed with you, so probably not." so either they're right, and you ditch that person, or you're wrong, and trust that they do love you.

    It's like the old joke some men have "she's great, I love her, it's been 30 years, I just know she's gonna leave me any day now". Like no, goofus, she loves you warts and all, that's why youve been together 30 years.

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