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What am I being enslaved to do, though?
The same stuff we're already doing
It's a pretty sad place where believing that he's an aliens slave is more fulfilling than the reality that we're still just building pyramids for assholes.
Oh hey, I just figured out why religions exist.
I was thinking this sounds a lot like the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Calculating the question whose answer is "42".
Enrich billionaires