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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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Source Page. Credit is to SMBC-Comics and even more credit to @aperson@beehaw.org who noticed it was missing and found the credit in this comment. Sorry about that and thanks, you're awesome aperson <3

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Probably my favorite Schwarzenegger film.

[–] SpaceCadet2000@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the plot of The Prestige, and to some extent of the survival horror game Soma.

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[–] jana@leminal.space 8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

But what's the difference really

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[–] fleabs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to get materials for the replicators to make things some way, don't you?

Replicator exist in this setting, which are seemingly capable of making everything from food to weapons, so presumably the original material isn't needed.

[–] HairHeel@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guess if he remembers the conversation he knows it’s not true. If he doesn’t remember the conversation, you get more amusement next time you tell him.

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[–] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you stepped through a time-travel portal, your conscience would effectively not exist between the original time and the time the portal leads to, yet no one would call you dead. If you could somehow install your mind into a new body, let's say you download it into a flashdrive and plug it into someone else's brain while your original body lays without a mind, people may call our body dead but not you. So when there is a continuity of self between the person who steps inot the teleporter and the person who steps out, I will never call that a death, that's silly.

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