• @paddirn
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    8 months ago

    We’re really overdue for shutting this experiment down. I mean, what do they still want from us, Hamlet 2?

  • Jessica
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    378 months ago

    This is quite unfortunate. I was writing a poem the other day that was really cool and shit. So I shared my kickass poem with my best friend. She really liked it, and then said she was a big Star Wars fan too. Apparently, I had unwittingly written the opening text crawl thing for a movie called Star Wars Episode I. And yes, I checked to make sure that they wrote it first. I hate it when that happens!

    • Pharmacokinetics
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      Same. I once wrote about what it would be like in the future where humanity placed their differences aside and explored the stars. They encountered new worlds and new alien civilisations. They boldly went to places where no one went before.

      To my suprised this copy cat named Gene or whatever copied all my work 60 years ago and died without even apologizing. The nerve of some people.

      • Jessica
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        98 months ago

        Jesus. This is so much bigger than I had thought. People enchanting the spirits so that they can preemptively take credit for and profit from our work is a serious issue. We should form an action group. We could call ourselves People Against Dead Poets Society.

        • ivanafterall
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          Can we also add inventions? As a child, I independently came up with the idea of those little sun visor extenders to cover the part of the windshield that’s inexplicably not covered by the regular sun visor. Imagine my horror, years later, to find that some douchebag had stolen the idea way back in the 60’s or 70’s before I was even born.

      • ivanafterall
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        68 months ago

        I just wrote The Brothers Karamazov, has anyone else done that one, yet?

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          8 months ago

          Is that one of those really long depressing novels about alcoholic Russians hurting each other by a combination of being overally concerned with face saving and the need to be performative?

  • @School_Lunch
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    There is a combination of sounds that could perfectly describe advanced technology capable of ending world hunger and suffering. Verbal communication is like spells. All words have an effect on our mind and emotions, it’s just that most word’s effects are too small to notice. There could be some perfect combination of words that resonate with everyone and brings about world peace.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      228 months ago

      Are those words the lyrics to Argent’s God Gave Rock and Roll To You as covered by two idiots?

      • @MowFord
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        58 months ago

        Thought I recognized that as the plot to a movie

    • IninewCrow
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      58 months ago

      There are also combinations of sounds and words that completely counter the words that could end world hunger and suffering. They are in perfect balance with one another which is why nothing ever changes.

      Be careful with upsetting the balance … it may shift towards utopia for everyone, or complete chaos and destruction for everything.

      • @wreckedcarzz
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        18 months ago

        I’m for the chaos, who’s with me

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          28 months ago

          Most days yes. Civilization is way overrated. No student loans in man-eats-man rule or churches.

  • diprount_tomato
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    168 months ago

    The endless monkeys were the friends we made along the way

  • SuperDuper
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    128 months ago

    It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times? You stupid monkey!

  • @[email protected]
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    118 months ago

    Combinatorics can be surprising bc there are 10^178620 possible English works the length of Hamlet. That we have exhausted the span of possible works is extremely untrue.

    • @lugal
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      88 months ago

      The group that includes all monkeys and excludes apes is paraphyletic which is avoided in modern taxonomy. Either use it in a way that includes all simians or don’t use it at all. Either way, it’s a higher order than “family”