• Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    I was looking through some old vinyl in a store yesterday and found an album from the 50s or 60s called Songs Everybody Knows and I didn’t recognize a single song on the list.

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        17 days ago

        Very common mistake. In fact, the name Scrotuclese also appears several times in surviving records of a different culture that lived in the area at the same time, but in reference to a completely different cautionary tale.

  • Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    My experience reading ‘The third policemen’ by Flan O’Brien.

    Also it has a perfect description about how AI the

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    17 days ago

    Ah yes Borble the great and powerful. Alas the final story was a cautionary tale that still has relevancy today.

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      16 days ago

      It is impossible…for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as the sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

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    16 days ago

    A lot of religious symbolism in movies goes over my head ‘cause I was never that religious. Apparently the movie Men was rife with religious symbolism and I was just confused af throughout the whole thing.

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        15 days ago

        I have seen it and I did need to read a wiki of jokes on what it was referencing after seeing it. I thought the movie was just OK but appreciate its relevancy/the spirit of it.