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by jancsika 1967 days ago
Reinterpretation of Godwin's law:

As a parody cryptocurrency's blockchain grows longer, the probability of it remaining a parody approaches 0.

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I can think of lots of things that started that way.

Like Science Fiction writers sitting around joking about starting a religion, then Hubbard goes off...

And cow clicker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker

I'm sure there are other great examples...

Ooh, I didn't know about Cow Clicker. Thanks, that looks like a great example of this.
Is there evidence Hubbard meant it as a joke at the beginning?
We might never know. Stuff happened long before most of us were born.

https://youtu.be/O9AGVARpqdk