@rabbit-factory Getting More Data Because It Really Is An Amazing Question To Ask

@rabbit-factory getting more data because it really is an amazing question to ask

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Friendly reminder this Moon Landing Day that this website exists, where you can drop yourself at any point in the mission where the crew are awake and they'll probably be bantering with Houston.

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"Okay, and ... how many loops has it been?"

"Uh, I have no idea, I haven't really been counting, let me think for a second ... eight hundred years or so? So maybe in the region of ten thousand loops? That sounds about right."

"Holy shit. Holy shit. So you must have done everything. You must have seen everything. How many times have we had this conversation?"

"Just this once, actually."

"You must have read every book, you must speak every language, you must have seen the entire world."

"Look, I've gotta be honest with you, I actually got really comfortable in Pittsburgh. I go to the zoo on Mondays, Tuesday is rock climbing at the gym, and then I play a bunch of Civ 6."

"That ... you must be really good at it?"

"Oh, no, I have like a hundred thousand hours in the game and I'm still trash. It's fun though, which is the main thing."

"... it is?"

"I mean yeah, you have to enjoy life. I guess I could have learned a language or two, or picked up a skill, but ... eh."

"You've been in this loop for eight hundred years and you didn't pick up any skills?"

"Not really, no. I mean, let me think ... I went to piano practice a few times and wasn't really into it. I had a guitar for a bit, only got good enough to play Wonderwall."

"That is such a waste."

"See, I kind of understand that, and I know you well enough to know you'd say, like 'oh, I should go eat at every restaurant in the world, I should order every dish on every menu'. That's not me though. I like eating my Subway sandwiches. I like having a coffee with cream and sugar. Why change it up?"

"Variety? A sense of adventure?"

"Nah."

"Well then why are you talking to me now, revealing things after eight hundred years?"

"Oh, well, the Subway that I go to, the one next to my apartment, they always put a little too much mayo on my subs, and I can order without mayo, but I like a little mayo, so yeah, the sandwiches haven't really been quite exactly what I want. And you're good with people, so I figured maybe you could help me out? Like tell me what the right thing to say is?"

"..."

"If it's not too much trouble."

"You've been eating Subway sandwiches for eight hundred years and they've been putting too much mayo on."

"Yeah."

"..."

"Sorry."

"No, don't apologize, I'll help you out. Let's go."

I think about that post with the guy who said “as a Croatian I found a job inland processing uranium” and everybody was like “Croatia isn’t inland and it doesn’t produce uranium” and someone posted an article about the discovery of an illegal uranium refinery in the inland part of Croatia a year after the original reblog on a daily basis