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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Notice how the headline implies there could be more.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Two gay men?

Could you imagine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

My god. Exponential growth.

Soon it'll be four gay men. Then Eight. Then Sixteen!

Damn you Rice on a Chessboard problem!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

First because no one has ever done it before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like they are trying to infer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nope just reading between the lines. That kinda speech is reserved for world records. It strikes me as unusual to use it this way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There’s no reason to use first.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That is literally the meaning of first. Nobody has done it before. It does not necessarily imply there will be a second

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago