A place to share and discuss stories from The Onion, Clickhole, and other satire.
Great Satire Writing:
Shoutout to the web dev who made this page so it loads everything except the article content and shows massive white blocks of nothing instead.
The Onion is a satirical site, it’s a joke. There’s no article, the whole joke is the headline. It’s not a real news site.
I think sometimes there's no article, the whole joke is the headline, and the white square is the blocked ad. Or have I been bamboozled by incompetent coders the whole time?
That's what I thought at first but after the first "you may also like" there's a huge void of white that goes for two screens and then there's more links.
The page source is something to behold. I'm not sure if it's the worst thing I've ever seen or if they've reached a god tier level of parody.
I thought it was just me. IDK what they've got going on there.
Is there even an article or is it just the headline? Because I can't see anything but links
They have [only] killed less than 8! people
Give it enough time and this whole thing might even lead to 13! deaths
There have only been 20 civilian casualties in Gaza when you use Base 1000 math.
I'm not to proud to admit I don't know what base 1000 math is. Can you explain it to me as I'm also to lazy to Google it?
The base means how high you can count using only one digit. In base ten you have 0-9. In base one thousand, 0-999 are all represented as a single digit (you'd need a massive numerical system). Let's say that w is the number for 998, and x is the character for 999. You'd count 0, 1, 2, 3...w, x then the next number (one thousand) would be 10. 11 is one thousand and one and so on all the way to one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine which would be 1x, then two thousand would be 20.
The base is just how high you can count before you need a second digit. In base 2 you can only count 0 and 1 before you need another digit. That's why two is written "10" in base two.
Wow, thank you for taking the time to explain that in a way I am able to understand.
Base X means you can represent up to X with a single digit. “20” in base X is 2 * X. In base 10 what were used to, 20 is 2 * 10. In base 1000, “20” would be 2000
30 actually.
Is there no article?
Pretty sure this is what God meant by "thou shalt not kill"
Where's the article? I can only see a headline and a picture
You almost got me