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[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Um actually you're wrong, what you're referencing is Poe's law,
Cunninghams law is "whoever smelt it, dealt it"

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought Cunningham's law had to do with over-intelligent pigs

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Nah, over-intelligent pigs is covered in "Animal Farm", a classic dystopian novel by ~~George Orwell~~Aldous Huxley shit sorry I accidentally misremembered it right.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought that was from the book 2001 based off the movie.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

No you're thinking of Rubik Kube's for which he invented the the Hoover Dam