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psx_crab
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Posted: · edited   Subject: Shrinkflation Quote

3000 = I love you 3000 from End Game

19 = covid

Updated.

Based on this meme:

https://piefed.zip/c/programmer_humor@programming.dev/p/1936672/hard-times-indeed

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hOrni
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#2 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Even worse. Around 2006 it was Over 9000.

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psx_crab
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#3 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Even worse. Around 2006 it was Over 9000.

I knew i missed something.

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davidgro
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#4 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Forgot 23 (skiddoo)

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Guy Dudeman
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#5 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

I knew i missed something.

Yeah… maybe Y2K instead of 3000? And remove 19. Who says 19?

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Marty_TF
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#6 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Yeah… maybe Y2K instead of 3000? And remove 19. Who says 19?

some people tend to confuse it with the answer of what 9 + 10 is, which is 21 actually

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Guy Dudeman
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#7 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

some people tend to confuse it with the answer of what 9 + 10 is, which is 21 actually

Huh?

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Marty_TF
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#8 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIqc4MQNDKA

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Guy Dudeman
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#9 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIqc4MQNDKA

Ahh.

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DekSomBoon
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#10 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Yeah… maybe Y2K instead of 3000? And remove 19. Who says 19?

Yea 19 should be 21 instead

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evening_push579
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#11 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

How can you forget 1337?

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then_three_more
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#12 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

8008135

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whyNotSquirrel
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#13 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Yea 19 should be 21 instead

what's 21?

edit: oh, it's 10+9, the answer was in an other comment

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nosuchanon
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#14 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

You forgot 47. And 42.

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proti
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#15 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

2137
for the 2 people that will ask

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psx_crab
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#16 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

You forgot 47. And 42.

What are those two?

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nosuchanon
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#17 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

What are those two?

What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything? 42.

What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? 42.

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JoshCodes
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#18 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

What are those two?

42 is from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and is the meaning of life. Problem is no one knows what question to ask to get the answer. Anyway nerds in the know laugh at this number.

No idea about 47 unless they're talking the agent from the hitman games?

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dfyx
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#19 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

That’s so zero of you to say that

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pewgar_seemsimandroid
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#20 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

93?

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SubArcticTundra
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#21 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

It's missing 21 from the vine 'What's naaan plus teeeen?'

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OpenStars
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#22 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

8008135

Careful now, a brain can only get so stimulated before it explodes, creating quite the goey mess.

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OpenStars
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#23 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything? 42. What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? 42.

What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? 42.

No that's 6-7. Literally: multiplying 6x9=54, but 6x7=42.

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prole
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#24 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

This is bullshit because everyone knows that 24 is the highest number:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vYyS0L0uJ7A

Edit: better link. Idiot on YouTube cut out the punchline?

https://vimeo.com/1088306394

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idk (she/her)
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#25 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

8008135

dont forget the hexaxecimal 0xB16B00B5 (was in the linux kernel btw)

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idk (she/her)
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#26 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

2137 for the 2 people that will ask

poland mentioned!!!

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psx_crab
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#27 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? 42. No that's 6-7. Literally: multiplying 6x9=54, but 6x7=42.

Kids been telling us and we mocked them.

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then_three_more
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#28 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

42 is from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and is the meaning of life. Problem is no one knows what question to ask to get the answer. Anyway nerds in the know laugh at this number. No idea about 47 unless they're talking the agent from the hitman games?

Isn't 47 the number that pops up a lot on 90s star trek

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nosuchanon
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#29 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? 42. No that's 6-7. Literally: multiplying 6x9=54, but 6x7=42.

That’s the joke. The earth was blown up minutes before it could finish its calculations.

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Eheran
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#30 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

How can you forget 1337?

Coz he not 1337.

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MonkderVierte
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#31 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Where's 42? You can't just forget 42!

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Guy Dudeman
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#32 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

what's 21? edit: oh, it's 10+9, the answer was in an other comment

Yeah that is a meme I was unfamiliar with.

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qevlarr
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#33 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

37? 1312?

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Manjushri
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#34 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

That’s the joke. The earth was blown up minutes before it could finish its calculations.

Actually, the reason the question is wrong is that in later books...
::: spoiler spoiler
Ford and Arthur go back in time to prehistoric Earth with the people from the Golgafrincham B Ark. They wind up killing off all the native humans so everyone from Arthur Dent's Earth, Arthur included, are descended from all those Golgafrincham hairdressers, telephone sanitizers and middle-managers.
:::

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hansolo
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#35 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

In no universe is 67 farther up the chain than 69.

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OpenStars
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#36 Posted: · edited   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Kids been telling us and we mocked them.

They were wise beyond their years.

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jaaake
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#37 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

37? 1312?

37?! In a row?!

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nosuchanon
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#38 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Actually, the reason the question is wrong is that in later books... ::: spoiler spoiler Ford and Arthur go back in time to prehistoric Earth with the people from the Golgafrincham B Ark. They wind up killing off all the native humans so everyone from Arthur Dent's Earth, Arthur included, are descended from all those Golgafrincham hairdressers, telephone sanitizers and middle-managers. :::

Yes I remeber that part. I always though the golgafricians died off.

Maybe that’s why the numbers were wrong.

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moonshadow
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#39 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Boobies

Power level

????

Elite

Bush did it

Weed

Sexual reciprocity

Police radio code for a body

Private key for critical infrastructure

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Midnight Wolf
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#40 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Even worse. Around 2006 it was Over 9000.

WHAT 9000?!?

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ForeverComical
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#41 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

In no universe is 67 farther up the chain than 69.

Ok zoomer

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silasmariner
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#42 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

In no universe is 67 farther up the chain than 69.

And frankly 8008135 is top tier and trumps both

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zaphod
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#43 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Yes I remeber that part. I always though the golgafricians died off. Maybe that’s why the numbers were wrong.

I always though the golgafricians died off.

They did, they deported all the telephone sanitisers and then they died from some infection they caught from unsanitised telephones.

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hansolo
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#44 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Ok zoomer

Ok generational assumptionlottapus

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Manjushri
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#45 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

Yes I remeber that part. I always though the golgafricians died off. Maybe that’s why the numbers were wrong.

No, in the novel it's the neanderthals who are dying off. Arthur is trying to teach them scrabble to help them compete with the Golgafrinchams. Not sure how that was supposed to help the neanderthals, but good on him for trying to do something. Anyway, Ford points out that it's too late to help them. By coming to Earth at all, they screwed up the program. There was no way Earth would have given the right answer even if it wasn't destroyed by the Vogons when it was.

Earth was supposed to be the greatest supercomputer ever, but some of it's critical components were ripped out and replaced with middle-managers and telephone sanitizers. Ford supposes that that's why the answer and question don't match. Others have suggested that Arthur actually pulled the right question with the scrabble tiles and the mismatch between the two actually shows there is a fundamental flaw in the universe. The reason everything is so screwy is that the universe, at the most fundamental level, just doesn't make sense.

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JerkyChew
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#46 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

If you're going to use Alex Grey style artwork you should include "46 & 2".

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king_comrade
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#47 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

E

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PattyMcB
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#48 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

What happened to 34?!

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PattyMcB
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#49 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

37?! In a row?!

Hey! Get back here!

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psx_crab
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#50 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

What happened to 34?!

Run out of brain to expand

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psx_crab
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#51 Posted:   Subject: Re: Shrinkflation Quote Reply

In no universe is 67 farther up the chain than 69.

Nor all the number before it if you asked me.

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