Complemented Lattice Puns

I can't see how this theorem is true:

Let L be a distributive lattice with a top element and a bottom element. If an element of L has a complement, the complement is unique.

Look at this image of a distributive lattice (L is the power set of the set {1,2,3}). The element {2,3} has the complement {2} and the complement {3}, right? So the complement is not unique...

I want to thank BlueFishcake for the same reason as everyone else – it’s a treat to play in someone else’s sandbox, and he’s made one that’s really great!

Particular thanks go to XaphOs (The Piano Man) HollowShel (Cultural Exchange) and RandomTinkerer (City Slickers and Hayseeds) for their help, goodwill, craft, and encouragement. Without them, this story would stay in my head, and if you haven’t read their stories yet, I can’t encourage you enough.

Special thanks to XaphOs for use of his characters Ta'nu, Axia, and Olea. I couldn't have come up with better and would have been hard-pressed to find their equal. I’m grateful he let me add a bit to their stories.

Special thanks to HollowShel for being an amazing person to bounce ideas back and forth with! Seriously, a few talks have filled out whole chapters!

Finally, special thanks to RandomTinkerer. I’m not worthy!!!! (Over three exclamation points may be the sign of an unhinged mind, but I can’t express enough thanks)

Thank you all for reading, and for any and all comments.

Just One Drop

Chapter Five – Only You, Only I

While he seemed glum for the first few days after moving from his house to the hotel, Tom came out of himself and took to their work with a steadily increasing enjoyment that Miv’eire loved to see. Establishing morning lessons, the pair had taken to speaking Vatikre almost constantly to prepare him for a life on Shil and the demands of teaching.

True to his word, the first trip Tom planned had taken them to the far side of the planet on its Southern hemisphere, and after morning lessons the next four days were taken over by obtaining books and materials about the Aboriginal culture. Miv’eire poured over an incomprehensibly rich oral tradition of astonishing depth and age, to the point where it seemed like being assaulted with a firehose from the well of knowledge.

Their trip to Ayers Rock brought her wondrous vistas to capture for the Academy film collection, but it still seemed inconceivable for a Human culture to extend beyond the furthest recorded histories on Shil. “*There’s just no parallel, Tom! How can they have oral traditions going back 50,000 years!? There’s no record of anything like that in the known races. It just... it just doesn’t happen!*”

Tom thought it over as they loaded the last bags into the transport. *“*I don’t know how, but I know it is. Stories are being power for Humans. Our scientists checked. These stories are old in geologic time,

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Resting in Lady Vris’s bed-nest, Fred tried to take in all the things that had happened to him over the last couple of days. Between still feeling a bit weird over his bio-boosted body, Lady Vris jumping his bones, or how absolutely terrified he had been during the fight with the… iglit was it? It was a lot to reconcile with.

Still, Lady Vris had managed to break him out of his despair fugue and for that he was grateful. With his mind somewhat clear, he had also been able to better appreciate what the bio-booster apparently did:

Integrating and basically priming him for later medical treatment, it allowed for lost limbs to be regenerated. Another ‘boost’ effect was apparently also that his brain had been ‘shielded’ somehow, though Fred hadn’t quite been able to understand how. Basically, it was supposed to be some kind of safeguard against a fighter getting outright killed – it would instead put him into a coma somehow, or something similar.

On some level it made sense: If some big bear-crab mauled the crap out of a fighter, then it might be good to have a way to make sure that the loser could survive. If nothing else, then it told Fred that the Shining Ones running the games weren’t so heartless that they would let their pets and slaves die outright if they failed to win.

But none of that mattered, for at the moment Lady Vris was snuggling up to him and giving Fred some very serious bedroom eyes.

Later at lunch the two finally broached the quite awkward topic of how them having gotten intimate had changed things – also Fred had realized just how hungry he was, because he apparently hadn’t eaten for several days, not since before the fight with the iglit.

“It should go without saying that you cannot speak a word of the true nature of our relationship to anyone” Lady Vris noted calmly but firmly, putting her fork down.

Fred looked at his fork while chewing – and nodded. He had never really paid very much attention to the utensils he had been given during meals, but the forks that they used actually had bent bits, looking more like a clawed hand.

After swallowing, Fred shot Lady Vris a sly smirk: “And that’s different from our previous agreement how?”

Looking ever so slightly stumped, Lady Vris pondered Fred’s quip for several seconds: “I… guess it isn’t. Still, it makes it all the more important that you get properly prepared for the tournament”

“Yes, about that – isn’t it too late to sign me up now? We only had a few days?” Fred wondered, poking

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Nothing, he was gladiator.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

When I got home, they were still there.