• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Step 1. Have an idea

      Step 2. Google idea

      Step 3. Someone thought of it before you were born

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        Even worse if you think your idea is just the best darn thing to come along since sliced bread. And then Dr. 1995 comes along and lays out the whole thing in a footnote in a paper on a different topic.

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          5 months ago

          Which most likely is written in much more detail than you ever could do.

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        5 months ago

        Step 3 doesn’t need to be before you were born, just a seemingly long time ago. 1995 definitely wouldn’t be before the person in the picture was born.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      you have a genius giga brain blast moment, you feel like the most intelligent person on the world, and you immediately google it.

      Only to find that it’s been a thing for the last 50 years and nobody seems to care about it…