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[-] SinkingLotus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".

No it doesn't. At most the world no longer has depth perception.

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

An individual, uneducated observer might not be able to tell them apart, but that doesn't mean there isn't a distinction.

One of the avengers movies dropped that line, and I feel like it's spread like wild fire since then, and it's just objectively not correct.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I understand much of the technology we use today isn't magic, but it may as well be with how much I understand about how it works.

I don't think you quite grasp what Arthur C Clarke was going for with this one.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I get what he was going for, I just think it was poorly executed.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

“This is the way”

[-] EsteemedRectangle@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

This “Do you listen to Weezer?” stuff is getting pretty old

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