Prometheus

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• 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s fantastic and I’d use it if I thought more people would get it.

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, you’d have to explain it over and over again.

    New liver, same eagles.

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  • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ma use it anyway

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• art@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Okay, I’m too dumb to understand this.

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  • Hubi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In Greek mythology, Prometheus was punished for stealing the fire from the gods by being tied to a rock and having his liver eaten by an eagle, only to have it grow back overnight to be eaten again the next day. It’s essentially a never ending cycle of punishment (though he was rescued at some point in the story IIRC).

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    • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So OP is wary of being punished by stealing some new knowledge from the gods, just like ol’ Prometheus?

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    • volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But wouldn’t “old liver, new eagles” make more sense? Or at least the same? It’s still his liver (regrowing), and new birds feasting on it (because yesterday’s birds might be still digesting you know). Or metaphorically, there’s always new problems to make your life shit.

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  • wieson@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    New day, same problems

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same shit, different day.

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  • explodicle@local106.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Prometheus stole fire from the gods. As punishment, his liver will be torn out by eagles from now on.

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• Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those eagles must have gotten SOOO fat.

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  • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Na those fuckers had to fly all the way from Mount Olympus over to modern day Georgia. They were tired birds and needed the calories

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apparently there’s a Mount Olympus in Washington. Still quite a distance, but at least they avoid the commute over the Atlantic.

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• MagnyusG@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But what’s your contribution to mankind?

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  • GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I keep my office chair warm

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• LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Clever but a little pretentious

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• bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Username checks out

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• Ganbat@lemmyonline.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I spent so long trying to figure this out because for some reason I was remembering Prometheus having his eyes eaten by birds.

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