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What is the most unnecessarily excessive thing you have ever done to accomplish something? (kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Famous example... a man spent $44b to push his memes.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wanted physical books out of something that was only available as PDFs. So instead of going the sensible route I bought a color laser printer, learnt how to bind books, bought tools and materials, made a simple book binding press and made my own books.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Sounds really sensible to me. What's the actual alternative in this case?

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