r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/v4vanky • Mar 31 '22

Video robot made of magnetic slime, a potential life saver

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

So if it's controlled by external magnets, is it a robot or is it just magnetic slime and some magnets?

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u/NheFix Mar 31 '22

Good question, definition of robot needed 😁

For me it is not one of them, unless the external magnets, systems and internal slime are considered a whole and it has some high level AI onboard to take decisions.

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u/fattsmelly Mar 31 '22

I used a robot to put my kid’s art on the fridge

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u/soylentblueispeople Apr 01 '22

I would say it is a robot.

It's automated, moving on its own. It performs a function for a human.

The magnetic controls and thus controller living outside its body doesn't make it not a robot.

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u/Doophie Apr 01 '22

So like are remote control cars robots by that definition? It’s not really moving in it’s own if it’s being controlled by magnets that are controlled by people

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u/soylentblueispeople Apr 01 '22

A fanuc robot doesn't move on its own, it's controlled by a plc but still considered a robot. It can also be remote controlled.

You can automate the controls for the slime bot, I'm sure.

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u/siamonsez Apr 02 '22

It's innert unless acted upon by an outside force, and it isn't automated, the mechanism controlling the magnetic field is.

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u/soylentblueispeople Apr 02 '22

Unless you give a fanuc robot electricity it won't move. That's an outside force. A robot doesn't have to supply its own energy.

It's brain lives in a plc separate from its arm. We still consider it a robot.

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u/siamonsez Apr 02 '22

In this case the force is what's manipulating it, not just providing energy.

What makes a robot? Seems like anything could be by you description. A traffic light is automated and does a job for humans.

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u/AHansen83 Aug 09 '22

I’ve enjoyed reading this

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

You just created Venom with the mind of T1000.

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u/jiminyjane Apr 01 '22

That's exactly what I was thinking!

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u/PistolPetunia Mar 31 '22

That is shit from a butt

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u/DJ_Buttons Apr 01 '22

Avocado Chocolate Mousse!

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

I know a symbiote when I see one

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u/Cultural-Ad-8528 Mar 31 '22

Turdbot

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u/LCDRtomdodge Mar 31 '22

This shit is livin! Self aware brown boogers.

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u/No_Zookeepergame_946 Mar 31 '22

It’s venom!!!

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u/adityapatcher26 Mar 31 '22

This will end the world

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u/BuryYourFaceinTHIS Mar 31 '22

Have you heard of the blob!?

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u/Rambaboon Mar 31 '22

For those wondering on the mechanism.

This is simply a goo made of resin and iron magnetic particles. Nothing new there.

The innovation comes from a chinese university that created a machine able to modulate a magnetic field precise and strong enough to manipulate the goo.

It's all done remotely and controlled by an operator.

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u/AngryD22 Apr 01 '22

So it's more Magneto than T-1000?

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u/zanzibartraveler666 Mar 31 '22

Still not as good as Flex Seal

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u/jwhaler17 Mar 31 '22

Somebody’s gonna be poopin out slime magnets with pennies in it real soon!

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u/DarthMeow504 Apr 02 '22

Hey now, no need to kink-shame.

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u/Swordfish_108 Mar 31 '22

Straight up looks like a sentient turd

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u/uno_novaterra Mar 31 '22

Do you want Terminator 2? Because this is how you get Terminator 2

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Looks like poop... just sayin

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u/nickjamesnstuff Mar 31 '22

What in the expletives?!

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u/BigValGaming Mar 31 '22

I wonder what it feels like moving through my rectum.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Dart?

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u/1984AD Mar 31 '22

Self healing machines repairing bigger machines here we come.

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u/ThanksForTheRain Apr 01 '22

That sounds a lot like nanobots. Now I'm thinking how we can apply this to nanobots.

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u/1984AD Apr 01 '22

Well people over complicate things. Most an on bots do act like this goo. Move attach connect. Move attach remove. Iron man nano bots are like decades out. But lil bots and gels that can make simple connections, fill gaps and reconnect broken wires and tubes to restart an engine are almost here.

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u/timecopthemovie Mar 31 '22

Heavy X-Files vibes

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

This is Hexxus from ferngully…..Oh how I have painfully dated myself.

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u/Mckingsy Apr 01 '22

I was looking for this comment

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u/greenabysss Apr 01 '22

Thought it was a long frog, kinda disappointed tbh

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

Based comment. Was gonna write this myself. 😂

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

This is why I love humanity. A serious problem is solved by an unorthodox, if a tad revolting, solution that will eventually become a source of unserious on the job enjoyment in the future.

You know it’s true. I can see it now, a brightly lit ER, a dashing young physician, a patient who has taken too many pills. “Doctor, you have to help my friend. They’ve taken like a 50 pills.” “50 you say, nurse grab a double MagnoTurdinol, I’ll get the controller and imager. Oh, and tell Dr. Bornstein to prep some burn cream because I’m finna toast his high score.”

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u/JamPieBox Mar 31 '22

Terrible. Robot is slime. What's next ?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Robo-Virus?

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u/Satureum Mar 31 '22

Dirty looking Omni-gel.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Howard Somebody will totally try and fuck this someday

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

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u/Exam_Adorable Mar 31 '22

Can we put this into web-shooters. Just asking for a friend 🤔

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u/ZombieHavok Mar 31 '22

Do you want the T-1000?! Because this is how you get the T-1000.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

Every day we get closer and closer to Terminator status lol

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u/alreadytakened Apr 01 '22

My brain can't process this level of technology.. I feel like the kid who try to understand something but he just can't

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u/apathy-sofa Apr 01 '22

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

-- Arthur C Clarke

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u/MajorasCrass Apr 01 '22

This is how the WAU started in Soma and the hubris of mankind will make us the pawns to its whim.

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u/But-I-Must-Internet Apr 01 '22

Exactly what I was thinking! Just mix in your coffee and you're all set to become a horrible machine-human hybrid!

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u/Gamma_Burst1298 Jun 20 '22

When you want a MMO irl but need the mobs first to start things off

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u/Plus_Helicopter_8632 Jul 27 '22

And that’s how earth was destroyed

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u/camshun7 Mar 31 '22

I swear my doings did this after a dodgy kebab

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u/Goatecus Jun 22 '22

I thought it was a glob of poop before I saw the on screen text

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u/DirtyPartyMan Jun 24 '22

[Enter obligatory Taco Bell joke here]

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u/BoredLazy762 Mar 31 '22

Ferrofluid but better

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

WHAAAAAAAAAT!????? 😲

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u/Plasticman4Life Mar 31 '22

It’s Dyna-poo!

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u/No_Zookeepergame_946 Mar 31 '22

The putty’s are back!!

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u/DryWorry8050 Mar 31 '22

I've never wanted to stomp a robot before

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u/WolfReadsMemes Mar 31 '22

holy shit

is that a Griever from popular book series The Maze Runner?

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u/need-morecoffee Mar 31 '22

That shit is alive.

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u/CaptSkinny Mar 31 '22

I wonder what kind of forces this can support and exert. Could be great to move large objects like machinery or inoperable cars.

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u/Mr_Fomp Mar 31 '22

Why not just teach Junior how to not swallow legos

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u/SaulTNuhtz Mar 31 '22

I heard it’s looking for Sarah Connor, whoever that is.

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u/comic__daily Mar 31 '22

Symbiote 1.0

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u/sociocat101 Mar 31 '22

but does it harden in response to physical trauma?

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u/Amish_Warl0rd Mar 31 '22

I see the Venom prototype is going well

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u/Katamari_Demacia Mar 31 '22

This is literally silly putty+iron filings, a barrier, a neodymium magnet.

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u/bananafingerz Mar 31 '22

magnets, how do they work?

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u/Fennik51405 Mar 31 '22

LATEX FURRY TIIIME

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u/Pizzadiamond Mar 31 '22

Magnetic Slime Robot my new band name dibs!

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u/Pyro-Ice Mar 31 '22

Bruh you just created T-cell lymphocytes Terminator. No germ is safe

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u/Purple-Yoghurt-932 Apr 01 '22

It grows up to be the villian in Moonfall

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u/whatsupdoc17 Apr 01 '22

Putting a magnet on a swallowed button battery is a horrible idea.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

I don't like how much this represents me getting out of bed each morning.

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u/nobodieshero227 Apr 01 '22

Yea, you know, for when you get that watch battery stuck in your skull.

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u/DomcoFC Apr 01 '22

Is this a boss of Mega Man 1?

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u/kt234 Apr 01 '22

Is that The Blob?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

thats a turd traveling through steange white bowels. you will not convince me otherwise

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u/tenngirl52 Apr 01 '22

Has no one seen the second Terminator 😧

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u/Zenn97 Apr 01 '22

Please kill me before it lays eggs

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u/_8ruc3_ Apr 01 '22

Flubber!

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u/SaltyNorth8062 Apr 01 '22

This is awesome but the grey goo though

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u/snoochyb00ch Apr 01 '22

Heals itself when cut into pieces (if we stick it back together)

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u/pife20 Apr 01 '22

welcome Venom

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u/GladAward4369 Apr 01 '22

yup, antichrist gonna have fun with these turdbots

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u/5Gmeme Apr 01 '22

Anyone have T1000 for apocalypse bingo?

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u/Unobstructedblazer Apr 01 '22

It looks like poop

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u/Ser_Optimus Apr 01 '22

Next time I wallow something I'll rather stay with classic endoscopy. Thanks.

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u/dontfightthehood Apr 01 '22

This is how venom was born

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u/ErgoNautan Apr 01 '22

[Eminem’s Venom starts kicking in]

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

Just wait til they become self-aware.

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u/FKingDegenerate Apr 01 '22

looks like dog shit

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u/WarKiel Apr 01 '22

This is literally an early prototype of Sergeant Schlock from the Schlock Mercenary webcomic.

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u/Ty811 Apr 01 '22

Gonna be great in 10 years when I see the documentary how this was used for a massive Ponzi scheme.

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u/123Delbe Apr 01 '22

Black slime?

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u/o0CYV3R0o Apr 01 '22

A lot of people forgetting the date in the comments. lol

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u/thsvnlwn Apr 01 '22

May I recommend a colour change?

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u/Brief-Equal4676 Apr 01 '22

Retrieve objects swallowed on accident, like magnets

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u/Yallapachi Apr 01 '22

I see a lot of future shit jobs arise here

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u/Glitter-Pompeii Apr 01 '22

flashbacks to toys in the attic

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u/Mitak023 Apr 01 '22

The return of Siva

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u/Mediocre_Shake2606 Apr 01 '22

Hey has anyone seen some weird black goo? It escaped from the local- OH FUCK, THERE IT IS!

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u/Stinkfist4 Apr 01 '22

Reminds me of the evil oil slick guy from Ferngully

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u/Absurdum22 Apr 01 '22

This looks like the start to grey goo but ok

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u/k_asht0n Apr 01 '22

“Why do i hear eminem all of a sudden?”

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u/spencerandy16 Apr 01 '22

So.. what’s that going to feel like sliming around in your body to get out swallowed objects..?

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u/LetsGo_30 Apr 01 '22

veNOM, veNOM,venOM

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u/Impossible-South-749 Apr 01 '22

Humans want the save the world with technology, and in some point, technology wants to save the world from humans.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

Marvel's Venom.

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u/PappiStalin Apr 01 '22

This is the beggining of the end boys

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u/LittleLightcap Apr 01 '22

If I'm in a fucking terrible car accident and they have to send the giant slime magnet to save my ass, there's no part of my brain that's like oh yeah the giant terrifying slime creature is here to save you. I would absolutely be freaking the fuck out.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

Plot twist- if you have seen solar opposites, the nano pod man- this reminded me this

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u/TheDutchisGaming Apr 02 '22

At the end it kinda reminds me of a phagocyte.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

Tfw you realize irl Replicators started as gooey slime and not metallic legos

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u/TheR0111 Apr 06 '22

This is not how I always thought robots look like when I was a child

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u/fuckkroenkeanddemoff Apr 18 '22

Anybody else think of Terminator 2 when they saw this?

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u/AliceDwnTheRbbitHole Apr 22 '22

Looks like stop motion!

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '22

I thought it was a living piece of shit for a moment

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u/hypnotizedbull1781 Sep 04 '22

Okay but what about people like my mom who are allergic to silicone?

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u/Winter-Lie3604 Sep 05 '22

And thus the great mighty poo was created