If you read it aloud it doesn't sound right, but from a mathematical perspective it's saying the number of steps per day should be less than 500, which I think is the intention of the writer, no?
It's a bit weird, but imo not wrong. 500 > steps/day or steps/day < 500 is the same. As long as the big end of the < or > is at the 500 it makes sense. It only doesn't make sense if you literally read 500 > steps/day as "five hundred greater than steps a day" instead of parsing it as math.
Only reason it's so jarring is the context has people parsing the whole list as language and they weren't expecting to have to abruptly parse a mathematical expression.
While it did use the greater-than symbol, it was arranged unconventionally. The way it's written is "500 is greater than steps per day," meaning don't walk too much, which fits with the rest of the author's theme.
Sure, I might have worded myself a bit clumsily. I meant using them in a conversational way. They’re trying to say “less than 500 steps,” which is very different from “500 is larger than steps per day” in tone.
My point was just that in normal speech and writing you would say “less than 500”, which would be written “< 500” if you insisted on using the mathematical sign.
This makes me think of a really neat business idea... DoorCook! Where your neighbor is your personal cook! You put in an order and a price range and any "neighbors" within the area can bid on the price.
We synergize our business by avoiding all those pesky regulations like food licenses and let your meal come directly from your loving neighbor.
One Chipotle bowl could be two of my meals, just to be fair. That's $12 there. Add a cheeseburger or nuggets on a cheap menu and we are talking about $20 per day. 20 * 30 = $600, so still a lot.
i'm sorry you weren't assigned your appropriate doodle at birth. But! You can make a handy one out of gak, some condoms, some rubber bands, and some nylons. I hear.
I despise cooking but now do it almost exclusively because I can fart together a better meal than the cold, mushy, expensive, incorrect much of the time takeout.
I gotta decline the challenge over this point. Everything else seems reasonable.
The first two seem too loosely defined. Does it count if I just log on to e621.net, select latest/popular and then close the window down? Or do I actually have to watch porn and masturbate to completion? Does daily alcohol count if I drink a Bud Light, or make myself a fancy cocktail? Or do I need to get blackout drunk?
Toughest for me would probably be 5-8 hours of uninterrupted gaming (I don't have the attention span for it anymore) and running on 5 hours or less of sleep.
Eating expensive. Buying alcohol. Delivery because of the low steps/day.
I’m too broke for this.
Though… Is a drop of alcohol sufficient? Is watching at porn for a second sufficient? Is running an idle game for 5h sufficient? Does cycling, crawling or a wheelchair count for steps?
It should be <500 or what they said. What they said is mathematically better but grammatically wonky, whereas what you said is 500 is less than steps per day.
Mentally healthy? Since we have 2 kids I rarely sleep 8 hours, 6 is the new norm, and it's definitely not helping mentally. I still try to get 8K steps daily, doing 500 or less would make me even more miserable.
That's the trick though, especially as you get older. The stuff that sounds like an awesome relaxing reset and will surely be nice at the time, is not always the activity that will actually leave you feeling better afterwards.
A frustrating example is being tired in the middle of the day on a weekend when I wanted to be productive in my hobbies & house work. If I take a nap, will that save me evening or ruin my evening?
There's a lot of trial and error, since we're all different.
a pizza which you have to put in a microwave or oven?
the 2nd one disqualifies sorry bro. let me tell you now why, if you have to use an oven aka go to your kitchen and use timer on your phone or whatever while you listen to shakira waiting for something to cook because oven cooking is not 5 minutes dont tell me otherwise and oh you have to TAKE OUT a clean dish that is suitable for the oven, and you'd even have to have had kitchen experience in first place to know which dish of your wife's silverware, who IS NOT around otherwise she wouldn't let you shove bugers in the oven like it was microwave without even removing the plastic wrappings, and once the fire is set ablaze and you luckly get to extinguish it somehow, your neighbor has called 911 already and is outside ringing your doorbell to tell you there is a fire smoke coming from your windows and asking if you were all safe like the concerned neighbor he is, then by the time firefighters arrive you just go 'Oh... fire..because of the brugers... the plastice?.. i thought it was the oven's bad then the fire started...omg'
People don't know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols
If you read it aloud it doesn't sound right, but from a mathematical perspective it's saying the number of steps per day should be less than 500, which I think is the intention of the writer, no?
Yes that's the intention but they got the order wrong, it would make more sense if it was written as ateps/day < 500
It's so wrong it underflowed into somehow being right again.
Unusual? Sure. Mathematically? Right.
x>5 <=> 5>x 🤓
Can't tell if an Excel enthusiast or a palindrome aficionado. 🤔
Yes
People don't know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols
500 greater then steps per day
500 > steps_per_dayUnfortunately I don't think we have enough information to solve for
steps_per_day, though I assume it is also>= 0.So we can make an educated guess that
500 > steps_per_day >= 0Lmao
That’s if you interpret the text as being part of the equation
It’s correctly used in the text.
Number of steps < 500 is equivalent to 500 > number of steps.
I was thinking that. Seems to work to me, the wide end is the bigger number and 500 is more than your steps per day
It's a bit weird, but imo not wrong. 500 > steps/day or steps/day < 500 is the same. As long as the big end of the < or > is at the 500 it makes sense. It only doesn't make sense if you literally read 500 > steps/day as "five hundred greater than steps a day" instead of parsing it as math.
Only reason it's so jarring is the context has people parsing the whole list as language and they weren't expecting to have to abruptly parse a mathematical expression.
They where busy... walking?
such as yourself you mean?
Nope, it's wrong lol
Challenge? Bro this is just life
I do believe that is the joke.
500 greater than steps per day
Yeah so I did the math. 500 is supposed greater than your number of steps per day.
That actually makes sense
aka steps per day less than 500
I don't get why people have a problem with this
It’s to give your heart a reason to have a heart attack.
If you can’t get any better, the only way to go up the leaderboard is to incapacitate your opponents.
More than, 500 steps a day!? What do you think I am--active?
While it did use the greater-than symbol, it was arranged unconventionally. The way it's written is "500 is greater than steps per day," meaning don't walk too much, which fits with the rest of the author's theme.
That’s not how that works, though… It is 100 % what they meant, but not at all how you use greater than/less than signs in text.
You do......?
Let n be the number of steps
500 > n >= 0
For example
Sure, I might have worded myself a bit clumsily. I meant using them in a conversational way. They’re trying to say “less than 500 steps,” which is very different from “500 is larger than steps per day” in tone.
My point was just that in normal speech and writing you would say “less than 500”, which would be written “< 500” if you insisted on using the mathematical sign.
No. Steps/day is the unit. They used the symbol incorrectly
Was with you until no home cooked meals. Takeaways cost more than I spend on food for a week and I can make better food.
Make it buy a kg of every flavour of sausage at the butchers and eat them all over the month and the challenge works out a lot cheaper and tastier.
That's what makes it a challenge
Yeah but you'll also be eating sausage for every meal of every day for that entire month.
It's gonna fit right in with the alcohol
And?
This makes me think of a really neat business idea... DoorCook! Where your neighbor is your personal cook! You put in an order and a price range and any "neighbors" within the area can bid on the price.
We synergize our business by avoiding all those pesky regulations like food licenses and let your meal come directly from your loving neighbor.
Takeout every day? Your monthly food bills gotta be over 1k
One Chipotle bowl could be two of my meals, just to be fair. That's $12 there. Add a cheeseburger or nuggets on a cheap menu and we are talking about $20 per day. 20 * 30 = $600, so still a lot.
Maybe the old sizes, their servings are miniscule now. And the prices went the opposite direction.
Sometimes I'll get two chipotle bowls if I'm feeling especially peckish
We’re probably talking about dollar menus, gas station food and Cicis pizza buffet.
Does my $1.50 Costco hot dog and drink count as takeout?
Gourmet take out especially at that sweet $1.50!
Just don't eat 22 slices in 45 minutes.
Already 5.5/7. Woohoo And i am female... Doos that makes me male?
'Fraid so. Check your mailbox for the hardhat and a return label for the seatbelt cutter.
Funny, but I had a seatbelt cutter long before I realized I was a woman.
Wait a minute...
Seatbelt cutters kind of have a sixth sense about who they're supposed to be with and will seek out those in need.
No it just means you dobt get points. Think this is a treehouse situation.
Its fine. The girls only version can have drugs.
i'm sorry you weren't assigned your appropriate doodle at birth. But! You can make a handy one out of gak, some condoms, some rubber bands, and some nylons. I hear.
Yes, you officially lost he iron.
Lol Brokie
/s
Sedentary September sounds better
I've already started in Jerk-off July
Sad to hear you didn’t finish.
Finally a realistic challenge.
Just August? If I was organized enough to have a daily planner this is pretty much every page.
You can workout every day and still do all the other things. Good luck keeping a relationship though hah
But my home cooked meals slap!
I despise cooking but now do it almost exclusively because I can fart together a better meal than the cold, mushy, expensive, incorrect much of the time takeout.
I gotta decline the challenge over this point. Everything else seems reasonable.
Before you do that, better study this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysautonomia
Hmm...
Pussy
Completed it
I feel successful
That's called middle age. You're on!
The first two seem too loosely defined. Does it count if I just log on to e621.net, select latest/popular and then close the window down? Or do I actually have to watch porn and masturbate to completion? Does daily alcohol count if I drink a Bud Light, or make myself a fancy cocktail? Or do I need to get blackout drunk?
Toughest for me would probably be 5-8 hours of uninterrupted gaming (I don't have the attention span for it anymore) and running on 5 hours or less of sleep.
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Ew, no.
This is already my life, just more gaming
Eating expensive. Buying alcohol. Delivery because of the low steps/day.
I’m too broke for this.
Though… Is a drop of alcohol sufficient? Is watching at porn for a second sufficient? Is running an idle game for 5h sufficient? Does cycling, crawling or a wheelchair count for steps?
no, that's how you get around the limit
I wouldn’t last 24 hours.
I've been training for this my whole life
Shouldn't it be 500<?
It should be <500 or what they said. What they said is mathematically better but grammatically wonky, whereas what you said is 500 is less than steps per day.
Big number > small number < big number
I wasn't interpreting the text as being part of the equation so I got a different result
That doesn't sound very healthy physically. But mentally? Yes!
Mentally healthy? Since we have 2 kids I rarely sleep 8 hours, 6 is the new norm, and it's definitely not helping mentally. I still try to get 8K steps daily, doing 500 or less would make me even more miserable.
That's the trick though, especially as you get older. The stuff that sounds like an awesome relaxing reset and will surely be nice at the time, is not always the activity that will actually leave you feeling better afterwards.
A frustrating example is being tired in the middle of the day on a weekend when I wanted to be productive in my hobbies & house work. If I take a nap, will that save me evening or ruin my evening?
There's a lot of trial and error, since we're all different.
Does frozen pizza count as takeout?
a pizza which you have to put in a microwave or oven?
the 2nd one disqualifies sorry bro. let me tell you now why, if you have to use an oven aka go to your kitchen and use timer on your phone or whatever while you listen to shakira waiting for something to cook because oven cooking is not 5 minutes dont tell me otherwise and oh you have to TAKE OUT a clean dish that is suitable for the oven, and you'd even have to have had kitchen experience in first place to know which dish of your wife's silverware, who IS NOT around otherwise she wouldn't let you shove bugers in the oven like it was microwave without even removing the plastic wrappings, and once the fire is set ablaze and you luckly get to extinguish it somehow, your neighbor has called 911 already and is outside ringing your doorbell to tell you there is a fire smoke coming from your windows and asking if you were all safe like the concerned neighbor he is, then by the time firefighters arrive you just go 'Oh... fire..because of the brugers... the plastice?.. i thought it was the oven's bad then the fire started...omg'
If I did that 2 decades ago do I get credit?
No this is for 2025. You could still try and do the prestige challenge you unlocked back then:
Well I failed. No daily alcohol, rarely play games and my step count is clearly higher.
No, we shalln't.
You are not getting a random image from my phone gallery because I got rate limited
Let me help.
If I get paid, fuck yeah I'm on it!
I think the steps are the only challenge. Just going to the bathroom accrudes 1000 steps sometimes
they meant less than 500 steps a day
smh
Who writes it that way???
It’s read out "500 less than steps a day"
Favorite subject of them grammar not was.
500 greater than steps a day.
technically the symbol is parsed as "greater than". So syntactically they are not wrong, but we are not accustomed to reading it like that
I think <500 steps a day is meant here.
500> steps and <500 steps means the exact same thing though.
Yes thank you. However the comment above seems to imply the opposite.
Yes, that part is right, above comment doesn't know how to read 'greater than' symbols.
Yes that's what they wrote in the OP
I did that one day. Does it count?
Sounds miserable no thanks.
Men? Don't you mean boys?