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xkcd #3237: Husband and Wife

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Borat came out twenty years ago this year--closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today--but it honestly feels like it's been even longer, somehow.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3237/

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Randall Munroe loves to do these "x was closer to y than today" comparisons and while they're interesting they dont help with the existential thinking