• FatVegan@leminal.space
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    13 hours ago

    That’s like Ali G saying he invented the PlayStation 2 because he thought about it when the playstation came out.

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      6 hours ago

      I was annoyed as a kid when I independently came up with the idea of a flying car then found out that the world beat me to it.

      • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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        25 minutes ago

        That happened to me a few years back, a friend just had his clutch fail in his car. I started thinking how to make a better way to transfer power from motor to wheels.

        Turns out I just reinvented the fluid coupling used in automatic transmissions…needless to say my idea wasn’t that impressive after that.