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Either David Mitchell is Slavoj Žižek putting on a funny accent or Slavoj Žižek is David Mitchell cosplaying English as you never will ever see them together because they are the same person.
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TheReturnOfPEB reddthat.com TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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Admiral Patrick dubvee.org ptz@dubvee.org
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I haven't had time to build out or promote the community, so there's only one post right now, but this would be perfect for !totallylookslike@dubvee.org if you had a side-by-side image.

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AbouBenAdhem lemmy.world AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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Are you referring to David Mitchell the comedian, or the author of Cloud Atlas?

Or are they both the same person, too?

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realitista lemmus.org realitista@lemmus.org
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Are you referring to David Mitchell the comedian, or the author of Cloud Atlas? Or are they both the same person, too?

Neither of them look remotely like Slavoj Zizek

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TheReturnOfPEB reddthat.com TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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Are you referring to David Mitchell the comedian, or the author of Cloud Atlas? Or are they both the same person, too?

The very successful comedian. They both use humor in the same way ... they take what someone asserts and then runs very far with the argument to prove how it is absurd.

It is not that they look alike ... it is one was rough-handled out of a communist state and the other has been anxietied from the hearth of a empire on life support and yet their humor uses the same structure.

Sorry just something that I actually thought of while in the shower

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humble_boatsman sh.itjust.works humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works
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Holy shit thanks for sharing. Was unaware of this great comedy and only tangentialy aware of Zizek

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kbal fedia.io kbal@fedia.io
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It seems like that would be a pretty good shower thought if I could make any sense of it at all. Profile says "prompt engineer." Did an LLM come up with it? Or is there something I don't know about David Mitchell and/or Slavoj Zizek?

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Bademantel lemmy.world Bademantel@lemmy.world
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That's more like a fever dream than a shower thought.

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Frostbeard lemmy.world Frostbeard@lemmy.world
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It seems like that would be a pretty good shower thought if I could make any sense of it at all. Profile says "prompt engineer." Did an LLM come up with it? Or is there something I don't know about David Mitchell and/or Slavoj Zizek?

The profile reads as satire to me

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Fuckfuckmyfuckingass lemmy.world Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
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Tangentially related; I saw a video of Slavoj where he was speaking his native Slovenian, and he didn't once nervously touch his nose. Seems to be a thing he only does in English, which is interesting.

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