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Snopes Rates Biden's Claim That 2+2=5 As 'Mostly True' |
2019-09-03 |
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐Joe Biden recently made a strange claim: that 2+2=5. He was ridiculed for his gaffe after making the statement while speaking at an elementary school. The kids all said, "Hey, dummy! The answer is 4, not 5!" But the crack squad of fact-checkers at Snopes quickly got to work on Biden's incredulous claim. Their findings? Biden's statement was actually "mostly true." "Sure, Biden got some key details wrong," said Bob Snopes, founder of Snopes. "But the central concept of what he was saying, that two numbers put together make another number, was completely accurate. Sometimes two and two make four. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. It is not easy to become sane." The website's 6,000-word defense/fact-check of Biden's claim further pointed out that 80% of the answer was correct, and it's only the one additional number that was a mixture of truth and falsehood. As the event neared its conclusion, Biden claimed there were five spotlights lighting up the stage even though there were clearly four. One bald man in the back shouted, "There are four lights!" but was dragged from the room for reeducation. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#9 Is that like 3 halves of pi? |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-09-03 19:16 |
#8 swksvolFF, no, actually I heard it over 50 years ago when I was a STEM major. |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-09-03 17:13 |
#7 how about this one you take a girl on a dinner date, your choice on the menu is $11.95 her choice is $10.95 you and her share a bottle of wine for $12.99 appetizer is $4.99 tax is $4.15 you want to impress her so tip is $10.00 so basically 11+10+12+4 = 45 |
Posted by: lord garth 2019-09-03 14:42 |
#6 Rambler, you have kids in Common Corp Math? I swear I've seen that problem. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-09-03 10:36 |
#5 Well, it is true for large values of 2 and small values of 5. For example, 2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8. Now, round both sides of the equation. 2 + 2 = 5 QED |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-09-03 10:15 |
#4 Go sting 'em, Bee! |
Posted by: Lex 2019-09-03 08:30 |
#3 Don't pick a fight with a man who |
Posted by: Lex 2019-09-03 08:29 |
#2 It's a grudge match between the Bee vs Snopes. It's on! The Bee is like Trump, ain't taking crap and ready to give as it receives. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-09-03 08:12 |
#1 The essence of the lib economic worldview... |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-09-03 06:06 |