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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

The best way to find something you've lost is to buy another one, then you'll find the original.

Antivaxxers are chaos cultists who want to share Grandfather Nurgle's gifts with humanity.

Sometimes my dead dogs visit me in my dreams. I know they're supposed to be dead in the dream and I give them lots of pets and belly rubs. Then I wake up feeling great. Yes I'm 99% sure it's a product of my unconscious mind but sometimes...

All animals have limited intelligence. Humans are animals, therefore humans have limited intelligence. Take a chimp or a dolphin and try to teach them calculus. Now imagine what realities lie beyond human understanding. There's a whole epistemological realm of the unknowable out there.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago

The best way to find something you’ve lost is to buy another one, then you’ll find the original.

Or lose yet another part of your [object], then the previous lost part will mysteriously be found again. That's kid-me with toys lol.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago

thats probably why we wont break out of post-fusion tech, if we even get there. let alone generating antimatter which is probably the next step after fusion, or FTL tech. in many franchises it always involve aliens help who surpassed that.