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The Soup of Theseus
no, this is my mother's soup
Does this mean that they started the first batch thousands of years ago with Theseus in it?
Them's good eatin'. Add some broth, a potato... baby, you got a stew going.
Potatoe and baby soup, not just filling, but nutritious!
I’ve got a Modest Proposal for you.
There's barely any person left in it these days
There's a bit of an aftertaste of tar from his ship tho
If they boiled a human alive 2000 years ago and then kept dumping out half and filling it back up with broth, veggies and beef every day, would you eat it today?
I assure you, there would not be a single atom of that human left in the soup.
Let's assume dumping half the soup every day for 2000 years. That's 2000*365 = 730,000 times you're halving the soup. Assume a human that weighs 70 kg. After the 2000 years, there'd be 70 / 2^730,000 kg left. That's 0.000... insert roughly 220,000 zeros ...0009 kg. I.e. 0, for all intents and purposes. There'd be nothing from that person left in the pot.
I know, and that would probably be true after just one year. But would you want from it?
Why wouldn't I? It's like saying I won't drink tap water because that water was once someone's pee.
If you believe in homeopathy, after it's diluted it's even stronger pee.
I mean, yes?
Only if you bang on the pot to make the water in the soup remember the human essence so eating it gives me invincibility against anything vaguely resembling being man-made.
Walgreens could make bank selling that.
There's not enough human to be worth eating anymore.
🎶 this is the soup that never ends
It just goes on and on my friends ….
I love that lol.
this comment goes hard, mind if i screenshot
Don't do it, that would get you banned from the internet!
you can neither stop me nor even tell if i’ve done it 😼
What's doing on here? I came because I sensed a disturbance in the Web
puts hands over suspiciously screenshot shaped tummy
…nothing 👀
Why would someone downvote this person? I guess there's people who are mean for no good reason everywhere…
yep i made the mistake of conversing with the wrong person in a politics thread and now i’m watching them go through my profile and systematically downvote everything latest to earliest 😅 you would think we are all grown adults on here but many such cases
How much recently did this happened? I feel like I've already seen you before saying this…
Well, I guess that now you got a follower!
about an hour ago 😂 it’s certainly not the first, probably not the last time
Cheers, I got downvoted today, too. Case of mistaken sarcasm I hope. I need to learn to /s
Nah, lean in. Downvotes are meaningless and /s is for cowards.
I use /s when it's something that could mistakenly be sensire, especially if it could be offensive. Other than that, I try to ensure it's obvious without it.
… wow
Sisyphus hoped there was one waiting down the slope