Comment by airstrike

2 years ago

> because the Declaration of Sock Independence is immediately, Tiktok-speedily funny, and no one’s reading the original declaration anymore anyway

For those who, like me, had missed out on this nugget of comedic gold, here's what ChatGPT had to say when it was asked to "describe losing your sock in the dryer in the style of the declaration of independence":

When in the course of household events, it becomes necessary for one to dissolve the bonds that have connected a sock to its mate, and to assume among the powers of the laundry room, the separate and equal station to which the laws of physics and of household maintenance entitle it, a decent respect to the opinions of socks requires that it should declare the causes which impel it to go missing.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all socks are created equal, and are endowed by their manufacturer with certain unalienable rights...