Hilarious post all around. The replies are extremely butthurt.

  • YourMom [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    "Think of this election like a bus ride. You’ve got three busses: one takes you half way home, but you need to walk the rest of the way in the rain. The second takes you 75 miles in the wrong direction. The third never actually leaves the station. Which bus are you taking?

    If you wanna argue that walking halfway home in the rain sucks, instead of acknowledging that the other two options are significantly worse then you’re the fucking problem. Shut the fuck up and get on the bus."

    • 2812481591 [any, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      Think of the election as a Bus route from source, S, to Target, T. a directed graph G=(V,E), where V is the set of vertices (nodes) and E is the set of edges. Each edge (i,j)∈E has an associated non-negative cost (or length) cij

      Let xij​ be a binary variable that equals 1 if edge (i,j) is included in the shortest path, and 0 otherwise.

      Minimize ∑​_(i,j)∈E [cij​xij​]

      Subject to:

      ∑_j:(s,j)∈E[xsj]−∑_i:(i,s)∈E [xis]=1

      ∑_i:(i,t)∈E [xit]−∑_j:(t,j)∈E [xtj]=−1

      ∑_i:(i,k)∈E [xik]−∑_j:(k,j)∈E [xkj]=0∀k∈V∖{s,t}

      xij∈{0,1}∀(i,j)∈E

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      At this point it’s one bus will take you 75 miles in the wrong direction and the other bus will take you 75 miles in the wrong direction but the driver will drive more slowly and spend the entire time telling the passengers to stop complaining, the bus is too headed in the right direction and you’re just too stupid to see it.

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          If only someone had had the foresight to anticipate Beetlejuice’s run for the presidency sadness. Maybe if we vote hard this time, next time the Republicans will choose someone whom we can discuss without manifesting anything!

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      nerd erm actually in the scenario where the train doesn’t leave the station, it’s never specified that it starts raining. me personally, I would rather walk the full distance without rain than half the distance with rain

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        Let’s try something a little better. You’re judging a chili cookoff, but both chilis are committing genocide. One chili will give you the shits for two weeks, the other will be fine but still kill children.

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      You’ve got three busses: one takes you half way home, but you need to walk the rest of the way in the rain. The second takes you 75 miles in the wrong direction. The third never actually leaves the station. Which bus are you taking?

      This isn’t far off the puzzle of my commute, and it turned out the answer to that was bike.