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I'm not addicted to rule. You are. why are you looking at me like that. Everything feels so unbalanced (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Reminds me of this Niven story where a human takes some pills that are supposed to teach aliens how to teleport, but since he can't teleport he just gets an amazing sense of direction and orientation: https://www.larryniven.net/?q=bibliographic-reference/fourth-profession-the

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

He wrote another one where an alien got drunk and wanted to have a conversation with a guy, but since the alien was out of "speaks alien language" pills instead he gave him a "messiah" pill, which happens to include the ability to speak all languages.