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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4456521" data-attributes="member: 710">Ah, well, it is the ultimate off-topic thread. People just talk about what they like, sometimes creating a funny forth-and-back discussion, sometimes educating people on the scientific goals of the Hadron Collider, sometimes discussing campaign events. If no other thread sounds interesting or has any new posts, try to spin up a conversation on the hive. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />One might also call it a time-sink. It is possible that there is also a official definition of the Hivemind threads, but I suppose it has been written down on a piece of paper, filed away, then lost during a office move, found in garbage, accidentally burned, copied off by a time-traveller shortly after/before the incident, e-mailed to a anonymmous internet contact, been given voice by a speech synthesizer, recorded on a 120 min BASF cassette, played before a microphone and turned into a podcast, transcribed for horrendous cost, written down in plain text, translated by GoogleTranslate to French, translated to German with Babelfish, e-mailed to a professional translator, printed on a sheet of paper, the English translation written down by hand, made a analog photo, developed, snail-mailed to an anonymous mailbox, scanned in from a wooden table, OCRed, and then stored in a digital file somewhere at the end of the internet. This version might be incomplete or even entirely made up.</blockquote>

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