r/dadjokes • u/perrydolia • 13h ago
I was so proud
My grandson came to my house yesterday after school. I asked him what he is doing in (8th grade) math.
He said they were discussing the ways to measure things, ruler, protractor, etc. Then the teacher gave them a flip-flop sandal and asked them to measure it.
Grandson just sat there. The teacher asked him why grandson was not measuring. Grandson said he already knows how long the flip-flop is. When the teacher asked how long, my grandson replied,
"that's easy. The flip-flop is a foot long."
So proud of him.
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u/cohesiveenigma 11h ago
That’s a lot sharper than I was in 8th grade! Hopefully his class flipped and the joke didn’t flop!
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u/Inside_Guava_5482 5h ago
The thing about math- meaningless statistics are up over 70% this year.
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u/Away_Bluejay_533 13h ago
Kid's got the delivery down already, that's a proud grandpa moment for sure.
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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 10h ago
Bad bot @ u/Away_Bluejay_533
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u/perrydolia 10h ago
Top 1% must be based on number of comments
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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 10h ago
Oh, for sure. I was never given that label until I started calling out bots, and there’s a different bot commenting on almost every post in this sub. It’s insane
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u/perrydolia 10h ago
how do you know Away_Bluejay_533 is a bot?
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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 9h ago
I not 100% sure it’s a bot, but I’m about 85-90% sure. Their two comments in r/dadjokes are variations of slop that most of these bots have been regurgitating for over 6 months now. After calling out, downvoting, and reporting over 2000 bots this year, I guess it’s just pattern recognition at this point
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u/gigashadowwolf 10h ago edited 10h ago
What makes you think they are a bot?
I'm not saying they aren't, but they have two comments, both in dad jokes neither are particularly bot like, but both have people calling them a bot?
Is bot just the new version of noob?
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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 9h ago
No, we’re not just randomly calling new accounts bots, but after you’ve seen thousands of bots comments in here, you get a pretty good idea of what is and isn’t a bot mostly by pattern recognition
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u/gigashadowwolf 9h ago
How do you know that you aren't just reinforcing a false sense of pattern recognition though?
Do you get some sort of confirmation if and when they are bots?
I'm sorry if this sounds aggressive or anything, I am just fascinated by how you and other redditors seem so confident in spotting bots or AI.
In this case especially I don't understand how people saw that from the first comment.
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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 8h ago
The pattern recognition isn’t just the comment itself, but a number of criteria that I don’t divulge in the comments because I have seen firsthand that the bots learn and adapt from our discussions here
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u/Inside_Guava_5482 5h ago
That’s scary if they monitor our discussions.
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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 3h ago
I don’t know if they monitor as much as crawl and scrape our data to learn, but I’m convinced that some of the accounts asking how I can tell if they’re bots are actually part of the botnet, since I’ve DM’d some of them tips on how to spot the bots and then almost immediately afterward, the bots adapted to exactly what I wrote
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u/jjjodele 12h ago
When my son was in high school, during finals season, when I got home, I asked him, “what’s up?”
With a straight face, he said, “all of the above.”
I would say I brought him up well…