@doctypeppy That was funny as fuck lmao it’s hilarious that seeing “DON’T PLAY THE RIVOLI” tore apart their friendship but “PLAY THE RIVOLI” left everything unchanged
@gummytshirt@ironcrakka Unique serial numbers and human names both make sense as systems. What does not make sense is a system involving serial numbers which are not unique (which is what “R2D2” clearly is).
With 1 blue person, the guru tells them that there is a blue person. With 2 blue people, the guru tells them that everybody knows that there is a blue person. With 3, that everybody knows that everybody knows that there is a blue person. Etc
The fact that people still make fun of Rumsfeld for concisely explaining how rational decisionmakers should proceed is one of the great examples of bias making people looks like fools.
Agriculture is the worst “aliens did it” theory imaginable. I could’ve come up with agriculture bruh, we did not need an advanced civilization to show us
there *is* a vast, galaxy-spanning federation of alien worlds and races, and our role in it is that when this one little alien guy does especially well at his job, he gets to come here and fuck something up for us. it’s happened one time, and he introduced us to agriculture