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Look, you get born, you keep your head down, and then you die. If you're lucky.

#fedi22

  • Wankhammer

    I think you know why.

  • Same as I think of actors who don't write their own films or plays.

    And to labor the point, also cooks who don't create their own recipes. Or football players who don't invent the rules of the game. Or fighter pilots who don't build their own jets. Or doctors who rely on "book learnin'" instead of figuring out how the human body works themselves.

  • I’m allowed to walk across the street without being arrested for ‘jay walking’.

  • War would be declared every morning before all the me's have had my coffee.

  • Doh! Good question. I leave it as an exercise for the reader.

  • We’ve gone past guillotine, past morgue, past burial… now we’re into illegal exhumation and vivisection humor territory.

  • This was absolutely on my 2025 bingo card along with plans for a new face on Mount Rushmore and a mountain, river, or national park being named after him.

  • No, no I can't.

  • I’M MADE OF MEAT!

  • Bold of you to assume I was born and didn’t appear fully-formed from the forehead of Zeus.

  • library of Babel

    Wouldn't the contents of the library also get reset every loop?

  • Surely this wouldn't work anyway since the pages would reset (ie to unwritten) at the beginning of the loop to the same state as on the first day. Otherwise, you could achieve the same thing just by writing a journal.

  • Depends entirely who's done the choosing and on what basis.

  • With great responsibility (hopefully) comes great power, as my auntie Ben used to say. I'd rock it.

  • It's-a you, Mario?

  • Because things will get better.

  • If you build it, they will porn.

  • The sound of an English country garden on a Sunday in summer.

    This is a composite of several sounds all of which must be quiet or distant enough to not be a distraction but which in conjunction are glorious:

    • childrens’ laughter just far away enough to not be bothersome
    • bees buzzing from flower to flower
    • a propeller-driven light aircraft from a nearby aerodrome (ideally this would be a vintage plane with a Merlin engine, gently warbling in the distance)
    • the sound of leather on willow, and the occasional call and muted cheer, from a cricket match on the village green
    • the gentle burble of a stream
    • church bells, far enough away that their individual peels almost blend into each other
    • the clink of ice as someone pours a perfect gin and tonic.