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Am I insane? (lemmy.world)

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I am seriously thinking of commissioning a simple tungsten cube emblazoned with cuneiform style figures, set up on a stainless steel platform. For the legacy. For someone millions of years from now.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Parts of it remain indecipherable without the social context, however, as the writer explicitly assumes a mutual knowledge of some set of unspecified rules.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From the line "Never gonna run around and desert you" we can gather that when a relationship came to an end, the person ending the relationship would run around frantically and burn all possessions of their former partner, thus turning their property into a desert, or "deserting" them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I thought it meant sprinkling sugar on them and eating them as an after dinner treat