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[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Imagine if hospitals used this logic with patients...

[–] [email protected] 100 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"We replaced so much of him that Cigna is arguing that he's no longer the individual they insured."

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Strange, though, how the same argument doesn't seem to work for past medical debt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It doesn't work in the given scenario either

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Put me in a ghost in the shell body right now god damn it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Bro just call the clock the Harrison clock, haecceity is transferable bro lol, just name things and treat them like the thing you named them after lol, it's not hard

[–] KingOfSleep 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

TIL

haec·ce·i·ty

noun

Philosophy

that property or quality of a thing by virtue of which it is unique or describable as “this (one).”.

the property of being a unique and individual thing.

"he has a paramount concern with haecceity, the thisness of things

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Theseus hates this one trick!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Or make a new clock and call it Harrison 2, and see if it can beat the original's record, like jeez

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Got curious and did some digging, found this video about their decision to stop the clock.