- 3 months
Same. It actually took me a second to get the joke, then I realized I was the joke
- 3 months
Guilty. I used the sum symbol for a fancy “E” riffling through my phone keyboards. I know there is a better ascii character.
edited later: corrected my intended font\unicode.
edit2: I highly recommend a f-droid app called UnicodePad for anyone in need of a proper character map application.
- 3 months
I was initially like, “really, under 2? Cheapass county can’t even cover kids under 10?”
My foolishness knows no bounds
3 monthsit’s just an error in font, I took a minute to find the real meaning of this ad 😬
- jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
I think it’s
8 11Which is in Roman numerals
VIII XIBut also works in arabic numerals
5 10 3 1 ———— 8 11Checkmate god and baby Jesus.
- 3 months
Until there’s a lowercase L, or you’re taking the absolute value of something …
- toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish3 months
I don’t really handwrite anything these days, but my brother always taught me to put a little upturned curve at the bottom of letters to differentiate them from similar-looking numbers.
- 3 months
At first I tough that that was a big ass kid for being under 2yo.
- AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
Took me a good while to read it as 11 so it is pretty confusing tbf
- 3 months
I think in order to see a major unified system font update, we are going to need two huge corporations battle each other in court.
A𝙸 vs. A1 steak sauce
🤖🥩
- qwestjest78@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
That kid is clearly not under 2 though. Should be that all kids ride free
- X@piefed.worldEnglish3 months
The fine print:
*Picture is for illustrative purposes only, and is not an accurate depiction of children under II years of age. Please ensure that your child(ren) meet(s) the eligibility requirements as shown. This transit system shall not be liable for the outcome of any child 11 years of age who use it.
- 3 months
Yep I couldn’t understand why they chose to use Roman notation. To be honest though 11 is a weird age cut off to have picked.
- 3 months
They probably decided on 10 or below, but it didn’t sound as catchy in the marketing
- 3 months
Binary for three. Two would be 1 0 which would then get confused with 10 which would actually take us full circle.
That’s why the changed it from 10 to 11 during testing, because people kept thinking it meant 2
- 3 months
Ⅱ<>I i L lHad to copy the character and paste i elsewhere to see that it was not two letters.
- 3 months
It’s an homophonic alliteration in binary.
Kids under three ride free.
