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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3232/

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[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

In T2: Judgement Day, when Miles Dyson has to turn two keys simultaneously to open the vault to get the Terminator prototypes, they go

3-2-1-turn and then AFTER that, they turn. How many times would people have messed that up, learning such a weird pattern? That's totally unintuitive!

Judge it yourself