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tankhughes commented on the word Needle in a Timestack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_in_a_Timestack This is the name of a 2021 sci-fi time travel movie. It breaks up the atomicity of this phrase, but it doesn't make it funny, or poignant, hay doesn't rhyme with time, it's not a before and after, and it doesn't expand the metaphor into anything more thought-provoking. It's just fucking stupid. A timestack is nothing. This phrase is nothing. Who approved this.
Apparently it's the name of the short story from 1985 that the movie is based on. It continues to be a bad name.
January 12, 2023