That’s a good point. Since it can still happen sometimes, we might as well give up and let it happen orders of magnitude more often.

That alien doesn’t even have a numeral for 4, so it wouldn’t have a word for it either. If it speaks English, uses base 4, and uses the same words we do for numbers, it would sound like this when counting rocks: “One, two, three, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, twenty…”. But when it says “twelve”, it means the same thing as when we say “six”.

I personally like our food regulations. Without them, going out to eat would be a game of diarrhea roulette.

The joke: In any base X, the Xth number is always the first number to require a second digit. Base 4 goes 1,2,3,10,11,12,13,20,21,etc. Base 7 goes 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,etc.

Taking cash is all you do? You don’t don’t make bagels? Are you thieves? Or do you mean to say you take cash in exchange for bagels?

The cop at the end of that scene just started shooting down the street!

The theme being you have 1 option and it’s a bad one.

Good analogy, as long as that candy jar is the only food available.