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[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 61 points 7 months ago

Imagine if hospitals used this logic with patients...

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 101 points 7 months ago

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

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 32 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

It doesn't work in the given scenario either

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 points 7 months ago

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

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 33 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.ca 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Theseus hates this one trick!

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 16 points 7 months ago

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

[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

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

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