• @mods_are_assholes
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    158 months ago

    Exchange, as in a permanent trade.

    Not as in the ‘share contact info’ sense.

    Calls to her number would go to him after, and vice versa, confusing the people trying to get in touch with their friend.

      • @mods_are_assholes
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        38 months ago

        Only three times through the history of the universe, thankfully I am an immortal time traveler so it got pretty routine after the second Big Bang.

        Just one thing I gotta ask, why are you guys the only multiversal shard that killed Harambe?

    • @jg1i
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      48 months ago

      Wait, so how does this work? What number would I dial if I wanted to reach her?

      • jan teli
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        88 months ago

        Well, normally you would call her number, but she exchanged numbers with him, so you would call his number, except that his number is now her number and her number is now his number so you would actually call her number which was his number but is now her number because if you called her number that was her number it’d go to him. In conclusion, you would call her number.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      8 months ago

      But they could each setup call forwarding to each other’s exchanged phone numbers so they would receive the right phone calls.

      Edit: No, wait, hold on. That sounds like I just created an infinite loop.
      Call to A gets forwarded to B which is set to forward it to A which will forward it to B which then forwards it to A…
      I only have 2 phone numbers, so I can’t test it.

        • @TrickDacy
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          People who have to get shit done who also don’t have crippling social anxiety (or do have crippling anxiety, but who just power through it and get shit done)

      • @mods_are_assholes
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        -48 months ago

        We’ve had a century of new scientists and that’s what you fall back on?

          • @mods_are_assholes
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            Yeah one from the beginning of the 20th century, bruh

        • @captainlezbian
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          18 months ago

          We’ve left the era of the heroic scientist and entered the era of science as a collaborative effort. No shit et al doesn’t have the same ring to it though actually no it might be better

          So yeah I recommend saying no shit et al

          • @mods_are_assholes
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            So yeah I recommend saying no shit et al

            Fucking brilliant! I second it and it is legit the funniest thing I have heard all month.