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Me (13 years old at the time): Dad, Mom’s cheating on you. I saw her making out with this man.

Dad: Listen here, princess. The guy’s filthy rich, and when you have money, it’s normal to have a hot mistress like your mom.

Me: But aren’t you jealous?

Dad: laughs

I was flabbergasted, lmao.

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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Every post you make makes me wonder how the fuck you're still alive, my man

The strong sperm won lol

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Weird timeline...

I mean I wonder how humanity even survived coldwar...

Heard of Vasily Arkhipov? Stannislav Petrov? What if they weren't there. Someone else was in control?

We's be dead.

How the fuck does humanity even exist. Like dozens of "close calls" jesus christ.

My theory is there are 100s of timelines where humanity nuked itself. 100s of timelines where I was never born, or got kidnapped during that "running away" incident, or got murdered by my brother during a fight, or died of suicide.

Sometimes... I wonder if there's a "plan" for me... if "god" exists... maybe the universe doesn't let me die.

Like some pre-destination thing. Like how in time travel shows, someone tries to commit suicide but it fails because they are alive in the future so its impossible to die in the past. Like Steins;Gate with Okabe. Or like Final Destination where deaths have to happem in order...

it's "not my time to die" yet... so death doesn't let me die till its time.

Just a theory... 🤷‍♂️

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

My theory is there are 100s of timelines where humanity nuked itself. 100s of timelines where I was never born, or got kidnapped during that “running away” incident, or got murdered by my brother during a fight, or died of suicide.

From a quantum theory, wave function collapse perspective, that's as good a theory as any, and it's also one that that personally subscribe to.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Sounds fairly similar to the logic in the Fermi Paradox, IIRC 🤓🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Every post you make makes me wonder how the fuck you’re still alive, my man

Agreed. Seen a lot of his posts around, and Wong Ka Kui feels like an irreplaceable part of Lemmy