Non-murder solution:
Place and hold the apples precisely on top of one another. (Make sure your fingers are not in the way.) From one side of the apple tower, go horizontally exactly two thirds of the way to the other side. At that position, cut vertically through both apples from top to bottom. You now have two pieces that are two thirds of an apple each, and two pieces that are one third each. The kid you like best will receive the end slices without the apple core in it.
More realistically, disregard the stupid premise and make as many cuts as you need.
What I find particoularly annoying and interesting, is that most of those “silly/dumb” social network questions are engineered with at least 2, sometimes more layers, for the purpose of getting a reaction not really from the “dumb people” but also, possibly mostly, from the smartass that can’t help point out something they think they noticed, incongruity and the likes, unaware that those are there on purpose to bait them in.
This case is a lot more blatant, possibly fake, but the “controversial” interpretation of stabbing one of the children is not an afterthoughts of the sick mind of us memers terminally online, it’s probably the core reason the thing has been shared and worded that way.
I just hope my own reaction has not been 100% predicted.
With no snark intended I’m pretty sure thatsthejoke.jpg.
no. the meme was created to make you think of stabbing people, with engagement bait paired in. op adds the awkward puppet meme, as if it’s a novel idea, but thatsthejoke.xls
the above commenter is pointing out how this kind of engagement just falls for the engagement bait, and describes the type of person who would do so
Ah damn it’s one of those single-use knives.
If you have one guy draw the knife over a long surface and distance, the other two can use that one slicing motion to cut the apples any number of times.
ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!
ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!
Like shaving with an old razor blade.
Is 6% a cited estimate of the number of psychopaths in a population?
Only 6% solved the puzzle in the very obvious correct way.
Its the other 94% of people that are subconsciously fully distracted by the opportunity to do violence to see the clear solution that you should be worried about.
Yeah that’s what I was gonna say. I think 90% of people could solve this just fine but only 6% are solving it without thinking of stabbing a person to solve a non issue of non-existent scarcity.
I’m leaving room for 10% to starve to death or cut themselves with the knife by accident.
I will be the cpt obv
1/3 1/3
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2/3 2/3
Ok but like how do you know it’s 1/3 of the apple without any other tools.
What’s funny is that you’ve actually stumbled onto an entire problem that’s studied quite heavily. I remembered a Numberphile video about this. The problem is called “envy-free cake splitting”. It’s pretty straightforward. A split is envy-free if no one believes someone else got more than them. For three people this was figured out in 1960 and you can read about it here. It has been solved for N participants as well and you can read about the general problem here.
For two people, it’s obvious. One splits and one chooses. The first person is incentivized to make it even because they don’t know which they’ll get.
I was going to give a summary of the process for three people but it’s too much to explain succinctly. Just check the article I posted lol.
How is it obvious for two people, what if I have horrible manual dexterity and despite my best efforts, I slice the cake like 1/3 and 2/3, and the other person picks the bigger piece? I would very much envy the other piece
Then have them cut and you choose. Easy. Now they envy your piece and having better dexterity as well.
Insert Thanos balanced meme here.
