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Thanks for telling me shapes exist! (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Alt text: a post on LinkedIn that says "yes 2d forms exist. They are called shapes". Then it proceeds to explain what shapes are.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know my Italian grandmother had health problems lately, but THIS is how I find out? Nonagon?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

-_-

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

What's that face for? That was comedic gold!

[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Probably an AI generated post. Either way, I hope this is not a tenured professor.

[–] Omgarm 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe satire? I really hope so at least.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Or some weird social experiment to see how people react to it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

What's that text on the bottom right? It may be to push an ad

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also randomly making words hashtags for no reason...

I'm sure #2D will be trending soon

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

#forms. we can do it!

#circle yay

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hate where he placed the octagon.

[–] fluxion 6 points 8 months ago

What an absolute menace

[–] EdibleFriend 24 points 8 months ago

I kept reading waiting for the metaphor

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Assistant Professor of what exactly?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Kindergarten.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Shapes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pedantry

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

*pedantometry

FTFY

[–] xantoxis 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hang on, WHAT'S THAT SECOND ONE

oh wait, it's a square, I remember this one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I learned it as a regular quadrilateral, we weren't fancy enough to use bespoke terms for things.

[–] reflectedodds 9 points 8 months ago

Reminds me of when you Google something and the answer is hidden in the middle of some article page.

Like you Google what shape is a stop sign and you get this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

irregular hexagon

[–] captainlezbian 6 points 8 months ago

Wait until they find out the deep personal relationship between triangles and circles

[–] yesman 3 points 8 months ago

It looks like this person is talking about Platonic Idealism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

A circle is a 1D object.
A disk is a 2D object.
The post is a failure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Uh… a circle is a 2D object and a disk is a 3D object

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nope. You need one parameter to characterize a circle. Circle dimension is the same as of line. Circle has zero thickness. Circle is 1D-sphere.

Similar to a normal sphere being a 2D surface of a 3D ball, a 1D circle is the edge of 2D disc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You know what's causing me physical pain? The fact the shapes aren't in order of no. of sides. Part of me thinks this post is a cry for help.