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Jeez, I just saw that the US has bombed Iran and here I am arguing set theory with strangers on the Internet. Ugh. You can have the last word if you'd like. No disrespect and thanks for the conversation.

So when you write that "BONOBO is in both sets A and B," well, it's not present in set B.

This is a union joke (thank a union comedian!)

☝️ That was also a union joke, but a bad one.

In this case, you can make"bonobo" using elements from only set A, or using elements present in *either* set (union), but not elements present in both (intersection), which, again, are only b and o.

That wouldn't make sense for the joke, so it does seem like it is saying, "if you mix Bono and oboe, you get bonobo(e)," which is true when you take the union of the two, but not the intersection (since n is required for bonobo, but only present in one of the component sets).

This is a pretty silly argument to have, but, acknowledging that, if we assume 'elements of unordered sets,' you can spell "bonobo" using only elements in set A, so the bonobo image should just be the whole Bono circle. The overlap from set B would include the o and b, but not the e.

I'm not quite sure how the intersection (which includes only elements that are present in both sets) could include "bonobo" when set B (oboe) has no "n". B and O are the only elements present in both sets. They are not sufficient to spell "bonobo."

But... only the "o" is in *both* sets. ( Bon (o) boe )

Bonobo(e) is the union of the two, not the intersection.

A + B - (intersection of A and B) = Union

Bono + Oboe - o = Bonoboe

(Yes, yes, fun at parties, etc. etc.)

@nytdiff.bsky.social shows the way the changes developed (click through to the thread):

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Incidentally, Orwell described doublethink as, "to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them... to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed..."

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The best time to begin this work -- training on journalistic methods and ethics, learning open source investigative tools and techniques, asking people what happened to them and their families and writing it down -- was yesterday. The second best time is today.

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