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    11 days ago

    This whole argument seems to be constructed as a buildup to the strenuous pun about masons bricking stuff. Get it? Masons are bricklayers?

    Even if it’s an elaborate joke and not a psychiatric issue — man, it needs work.

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    hits blunt Cars on the highway are like data in a network. What if Earth is just a computer for aliens?

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      “The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day…”

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      For a computer or network to work, the data has to behave in a controlled predictable way.

      People don’t drive like that. Drivers would make for a terrible computer.

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    I don’t want to try it, but I’m curious about what this person is on.

    Ok I lied, I want to try a little

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    It’s kind of a cool premise for a fantasy setting or something like that, but believing this is true in real life should earn you a padded room

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    Any fantasy writers out there, just visit a mental institution for a day and you’ll never have writers block again.

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    The comment about castles getting “BRICKED” is almost clever wordplay. Too bad the author has no sense of irony.

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      Are you telling me you made out something of those single, unhinged phrases? You’re great haha And of course there will be videos coming out, to get some clicks and maybe money.