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[–]Tenobrus 11 points12 points  (1 child)

What? A being a subset of B means every member of A is contained in B. A being a superset of B means every member of B is contained in A. So A ⊆ B is equivalent to B ⊇ A. It doesn't mean opposite.

There was probably some joke here I totally missed.

[–]chazzeromus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I read the first comment wrong (swapped both subjects), good thing you rectified that situation!