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[โ€“] yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is transmet trending somewhere? I haven't seen it quoted or memed in years but now twice in two days.

[โ€“] leftzero@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not that I'm aware. Probably Baader-Meinhof.

To wit, coincidences are more noticeable than non-coincidences, and once you've noticed one it'll be much easier to notice others you might have missed.

I myself once spent about a week seeing Curta hand-held mechanical calculators everywhere. Books, magazines, blog posts, youtube... I wasn't complaining, of course, the Curta is an amazing piece of engineering, but still, it was a bit weird.