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Ibrahim Dagher's avatar

You should paywall this

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Muhammad Wang's avatar

Quick, someone get this guy $753,361!!!

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Muhammad Wang's avatar

*$753,646...

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MJR Schneider's avatar

Well I can’t say the title was clickbait if you really can’t say them lol

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Shane's avatar

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a ——- —- -

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Isaac Cohen's avatar

Title: "This title is clickbait"

Article: "Yeah, it really was."

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Luke Croft's avatar

It's true. We know many obvious and true things cannot be said.

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Joe's avatar

Genuinely, I can't put into words how much I

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Joe's avatar

I'm actually speechless that

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Alex C.'s avatar

It goes without saying that

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Sam Cole's avatar

You forgot about the "public service announcement" exception:

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

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Vikram V.'s avatar

I want a refund.

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Judas' Pharmakon's avatar

If this be satire

Then Hahahahahaha

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comex's avatar

Let X be the fully-expanded form of the statement “1 = 1 and 2 = 2 and 3 = 3 and 4 = 4 and […] and 9999999999 = 9999999999 and 10000000000 = 10000000000“. X is obviously true, but you can’t say X because you’d be dead before you finished speaking it. Censorship!

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Muhammad Wang's avatar

Write X as

1 = 1 and

2 = 2 and

3 = 3 and

[...]

9999999999 = 9999999999 and

10000000000 = 10000000000.

Fully expand each term into a sum of units:

1 = 1 and

1 + 1 = 1 +1 and

1 + 1 + 1 = 1 + 1 +1 and

[...]

1 + 1 + 1 + [...] +1 = 1 + 1 + 1 + [...] + 1 = 9999999999 and

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + [...] +1 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1+ [...] + 1 = 10000000000

Apply cancelations:

1 = 1 and

1 = 1 and

1 = 1 and

[...]

1 = 1 and

1 = 1

Remove redundant statements:

1=1

Yeah, I said it!!!

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comex's avatar

Or for a version with purely legal consequences, how about:

“I hereby threaten to kill you if you don’t give me a million dollars.”

If one says this seriously, then it is true (the speaker is in fact making a threat), and also illegal.

(You might object that the statement can still be made in contexts where it would be understood as a joke, but that objection could apply to almost any statement.)

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SirTophamHatt's avatar

Actually, whether you can get away with saying something as a joke without significant consequences is actually a pretty decent heuristic for whether or not that thing is subject to censorship in your society, i’d say. So that point is kind of self defeating.

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Alex Potts's avatar

While you can't say any of them, I couldn't agree more about how obvious they are.

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Dan Elton's avatar

Phew I thought you might get yourself in serious trouble here.

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