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[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 93 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

But Hamlet was written with intention.

The point in the expression is to underline how critical coincidences are, and how correlation is not causation. It's not that Hamlet is long and nigh impossible to "randomly" generate, but that at scale, seemingly impossible coincidences do actually happen.

[-] SonicDeathTaco@lemm.ee 28 points 4 weeks ago

It was also written by an ape, not a monkey.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 weeks ago
[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 10 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah in the same way that Québécois folks are Mainland frenchies

Technically we're all just really really really weird fish too

[-] oce@jlai.lu 12 points 4 weeks ago
[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

You're just an especially active proto-fungus!

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I’m not trying to correct you, but I would have said “a eukaryote,” and now I’m really curious about which is right. Does anyone know if there’s a resource to look this up?

[-] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 4 weeks ago

I think you're correct, in English it starts with "yoo".

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 4 weeks ago

I would definitely say “a euphemism,” but I don’t know if that’s actually correct or just my dialect. It could also be like history or herb, where either is acceptable.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 2 points 4 weeks ago

We’re honestly closer to the platonic ideal of a fish than some of the things people call fish.

See the best begind the scenes podcast I know of.

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