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Swift knows something (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken's egg.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Until a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

See, I think of the egg as being possessed by the mother, so it would still be a chicken's egg to me, but it could simultaneously be a "something else" egg.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It would be a chicken's non-chicken egg

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Schroedinger's egg