The down voters and you should maybe reread my comment and the one I replied to… Sorry to burst your bubble.

It’s called selection bias…

I don’t know a single who would, including myself.

Not so difficult if you compete with a walking meme generator

Exactly, don’t let your laptop overheat!

Seriously… I just come from a lotr marathon in the cinema and now you meme this… 12h including the two breaks, I’m already paranoid enough…

And during the pandemic you got infected with fried eggs?

“Mama, when does Papa comes back?”, “sorry, that loser left is weeks ago”, “ey… I can still hear you!”

A colleague of mine just went to cern to “test some new stuff”… Now the gman shows up… I hope my colleague didn’t forget his crowbar

Indeed, particularly women in that industry are getting fucked.

I’m practically 40 and that guy looks older than my dad

OMG, saw your username after I wrote the comment xD

Marvelous

If you choose to believe so, I’m not gonna argue on that.

Therefore “more or less” ;) of course I didn’t make a study on it, just traveled a bunch of countries and only in thosei noticed it… Needing to add that this is not something that would jump in my eye first time I visit a county.

On a side note: in Germany, we use the -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 scheme, bit most of the times they write it more clear with: 1. OG (first upper floor), EG (ground floor), 1. UG (First lower floor). I think “upper” and “lower” is not a good translation, but I’m now to tired to think of someone better suiting

Let me Google that for you:

• early mentionetd of the concept of void in India Like 2k years ago*
• "In the 9th century, during the intellectual flourishing of the Islamic Golden Age, zero became fully integrated into mathematics. "*
• adoption to Europe around 12th century*

Yes ok, a couple more than a could, but definitively not an order of magnitude…

• https://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/origins-of-zero-a-fascinating-story-of-science-and-spirituality-across-civilisations/

More or less everybody except US and Russia has zero floor, counting in big office buildings is fun: 3,2,1,-1,-2, I know… The concept of a number zero is not that old (couple hundred years, don’t remember the details), but should be enough to update your language :-*

Yes

Yeah, I got a couple of review requests of papers in fields I had absolutely no clue about. After declining the fivth I felt the need to press accept and spent the next weeks trying to get into that topic and write at least something useful. That moment I learned were all those BS reviews come from, which I usually get for my papers XD

What I want to write versus what my phone wants to write…