Comment on The Wisdom of Great People

dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  www.theguardian.com/science/…/spaceexploration

  He was “prolific.”

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sagan also wrote that pot enhanced his experience of food, particularly potatoes, as well as music and sex.

    I believe the kids today call this “based AF.”

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, baked AF.

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      • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “basked AF”?

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Po-ta-toes! Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.

      I would love to see Carl Sagan and Samwise Gamgee hanging out, smoking some of the Hobbit’s leaf and snacking on some potatoes.

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      • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think Rick Steves would fit in there, too.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        With Gandalf having a chuckle at his theories on cosmology.

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    • JayDee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I too find that music and sex improves the experience of potatoes.

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He was so baked, he called baked potatoes as potatoes

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• i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He loved baked beans, maybe?

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• xilliah@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It isn’t meant literally. It just means he comes off as mildly baked. I also have mildly baked syndrome and people constantly ask me for drugs, even though I barely touch coffee.

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