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They're Made Out of Meat
- PlunderBunny 1mo agoI wonder why it has 'photomaxmix' just sitting at the end of the 11th paragraph?
- bstsb 1mo agoalternate link, as it seems the site is unresponsive: https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think... previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688678 (2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420111 (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737993 (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152131 (2014)
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- p2detar 1mo agoOne of my all-time favourites. The story as a short-film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg
- jtxt 1mo agoYes, excellent! I shared a different link, but yours seems to be more authoritative.
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- antisol 29d agoYeah, this gets posted regularly. Which is not a bad thing in itself, but the last time wasn't very long ago at all. Also, if you're going to post it, maybe link to the one posted on the author's website ( https://terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/ https://terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/ ), rather than some other worse site which is reproducing it without permission.
- jtxt 1mo agoThey made out of weights https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights