• edinbruh@feddit.it
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    1 day ago

    But even a genie can’t replace the water in milk with milk because it doesn’t make sense, so that cannot be the genie’s interpretation of the wish

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      1 day ago

      Have you never done a “replace all” in a word document?

      All of the water inside milk is now milk. All the stuff that wasn’t water that had already been in milk is now mixed in with the new milk. You have double milk. Mmilklk.

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        23 hours ago

        But by replacing the water part of the milk with milk you’ve replaced some of that water with water which isn’t replacing it with milk, and if you keep going you’ve replaced all water with butter which is not milk.