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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Beautiful. My favourite way to describe computers is “we convinced sand to think”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Or "we tricked rocks into thinking"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

More like we forced sand to think. Sand didn't want this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sand should be forced to suffer too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

sand is merely tiny rocks; they're one in the same. lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I mean this in the “humans shouldn’t be the only ones to suffer” way.