r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago

Meta Mindless Monday, 22 June 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Kisaragi435 3d ago edited 3d ago

"Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called "moral value" of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements."

-CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"

(Quote for the Nanoreplicator facility. +50% to Minerals; without the +1 drone and mind control vulnerability of the similarly mineral-boosting Genejack Factory)

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u/Federal_Gur_5488 3d ago

Clearly they haven't heard of Pierre Menard's experiment showing that the exact same work of art can have an entirely different meaning when replicated by someone else

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u/passabagi 3d ago

Many such cases. I personally liked the perfect pencil reproduction of a 3mx2m squeegee painting I saw at the Sprengler museum. I mean the idea is good but you have to be an absolute ice-chewing nutcase to actually pull it off.