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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by g6d3np81@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 28 points 1 year 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.

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Genius. Perfect answer.

[–] besbin@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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