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Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by jrflowers on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @05:13AM (#46431585)
> We’re all in the same, but different, shit.

Can you elaborate on other cases where the words “different” and “same” are interchangeable?

Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by sethammons on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:29AM (#46432203)
It means that if you zoom out, things look more similar. Similar patterns, similar problems and solutions, but different components.

All the various shades of red are all red. All news is engagement bate (if it bleeds, it leads), but every piece of news is different. You are in a forest in region X and I am in a desert in region Y, both could be dealing with the same problem of keeping warm at night. It's all different, and yet still the same.

Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by jrflowers on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:52AM (#46442513)
I didn’t ask for an interpretation of the post, I asked for other times where anyone would use “same” and “different” interchangeably as words (in a sentence, presumably)

It kind of seems like the sentence I quoted was gibberish that’s short enough to seem vaguely profound. Unless somebody could give other examples of when those words are interchangeable (then obviously dogs is eggs), but as it stands it’s a duck pregnancy is optional type situation

Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by rnewme on Saturday January 03, 2026 @03:04PM (#46480971)
Lay off the brew.
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by jrflowers on Monday January 05, 2026 @02:22AM (#46496138)
This seems unnecessarily rude. If you have examples of when somebody would use the words “same” and “different” interchangeably in a sentence that are so obvious that it justifies being rude, the bigger dunk would be to post them
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by saaaaaam on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:52AM (#46432387)
I want a sandwich to eat. You want sushi. We are both hungry.
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by jrflowers on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:50AM (#46442507)
This is a good point. The words same and different are interchangeable if you do not use either word
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by MonkeyClub on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:18AM (#46432100)
"Same difference" /s
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by taneq on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @09:36PM (#46440704)
Same same, only different, but still same, but still different.
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? by pessimizer on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @12:25PM (#46435618)
It's the stupid law of averages.

You may be the victim right now, and I may be the perpetrator, but over time you'll sometimes be the perpetrator (what, do you think you're perfect?) and I'll sometimes be the victim (you don't think I suffer?), and over time it all averages out.

But just because you're the victim this time, you're getting all the sympathy. Is that fair?